junglehusky
Molotov Cocktail of Ugliness
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In other words, #BegHarder!Let's just keep batting our eyes at them to look as pretty as possible as we look up from our position on our knees.
In other words, #BegHarder!Let's just keep batting our eyes at them to look as pretty as possible as we look up from our position on our knees.
We'd be tied for number one in championships in men's basketball, number one in women's basketball, and of course, last in hockey, but half of the B1G doesn't play hockey. To the B1G, those are really the only relevant championships. Problem is, we're not going to the B1G.
Upstater, one other possibility:
One of the objectors (FSU?) bolts before the $50mm departure fee can be enforced and the ACC has to add another member.
From what I understand FSU voted no to this (along with three other schools).The exit fee is already enacted. 3 times the operating costs, or around $50 million at the moment. There is no escaping it at this point.
From what I understand FSU voted no to this (along with three other schools).
As a precedent, in the summer of 2003, after the BE lost Miami & Va Tech, the conference voted immediately to increase exit fees. All voted yes with the exception of BC who abstained (not even as committed as a no vote). When BC left, they went to court over the increased exit fee the BE was attempting to impose and won.
Tell me, if FSU jumps in the very near future, how will their situation be different?
From what I have read the no votes came from FSU and Maryland... and no one else.
I don't know enough about the specifics of the BC court case. But the impression I have been given is that FSU would have a very hard time fighting this in court, and is highly unlikely to do so.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens next. The sheer number of people in Big 12 country who are now reporting that the poaching of FSU and Clemson is practically dead is definitely a big turn around from the last few months.
The fact that it was raised to $50 million speaks volumes. The ACC is training its guns on its own.
Mike Tirico on ESPN Sportsbeat on ESPN radio just now: "Look for UConn to be courted hard and pushed to join the ACC as the 16th"
Why does ESPN keep pushing it if they don't want it to happen?
It just doesn't make sense for them to go to 15 football playing members.