I wondered about Notre Dame and their ACC deal until I read a comment from their AD about feeling comfortable with the private school makeup in the ACC...I was astounded to hear that the ACC had more private universities than all of the other four P5 conferences together. It is tough for a private school to compete long term in football with a large public university. Miami, because of recruiting area, may be an exception but then again, Miami has never played in a ACC conference championship game.
No matter what conference you play in, you need games that people watch. No one wants to watch Wake vs Pitt or Indiana vs Rutgers. Networks want big match ups that turn the dial. BC vs FSU or Notre Dame does fine...but BC vs Cuse or Wake or Virginia does not.
There is less opportunity to have those big match up games when you have teams ranked outside the top 50 playing each other in division...
I think there is the same chance for FSU to be marginilized as there is for Michigan..
Over Florida's dead body.Ummm, FSU won't be marginalized, they will be playing in the SEC...
LOL... Michigan and FSU aren't on the same side of the board in NCAA Monopoly.
(just messin' with ya)
The SEC only sponsors 9 men's sports and 12 women's sports. There are only 11 sports total that all 14 schools compete in. It's easy to see why those schools spend so much money on football. They don't have as many hands taking $ out of the bank account.If you look at the top 7 SEC programs in revenue....you'll see that TV money is at 40% or even less of total athletic revenue.
The SEC programs could have a $20 million payout and still be rolling in the dough.
In 1991, I was lucky enough to travel to Michigan's Big House for the FSU-Michigan game. I was in awe of the 102,000 seat capacity stadium. FSU's 1991 capacity was a little over 60,000.
Michigan went undefeated in the Big Ten that year (Champs) and had a good team....so did we. Wide right at Miami killed us.
It was a good game for us....but before I traveled to Ohio State and Michigan...I had not been in stadiums seating 100,000. It was really an eye opener coming from the erector set....
The older traditional programs like Bama, Oklahoma, Texas, Michigan, Ohio State, Florida...will probably always have an up on a program that is younger than I am.
Older, established alumni families, more donations, boosters, etc. However, FSU will slowly get closer over time...last month the school announced a $100 million gift. That has always been the area for the "old money" colleges.
Well, this isn't really what it's about, though. Michigan as an AD is on a different plane than FSU, UConn, and almost all other departments out there. A few football NCs doesn't change that.True...FSU won two National championships since Michigan won a split decision NC with Nebraska.
Almost like a Fortune 500 Blue Chip vs a company doing a IPOWell, this isn't really what it's about, though. Michigan as an AD is on a different plane than FSU, UConn, and almost all other departments out there. A few football NCs doesn't change that.
Mmm. WVU loves to talk about the demise of the ACC. I don't see that here much, if at all. What I do see is the comment that the ACC and Big 12 are the two weak sisters of the P5. They are.Well others bring up the ACC and I discuss it from my unique perspective...and just perhaps UConn might have some kinship with a 1977 era FSU....kicking and fighting for recognition while coming off of 1-10, 3-8, and 5-6 seasons.
UConn aspires to join the big boys and so did FSU.
Besides. the demise of the ACC seems to be a reoccurring topic here and on Big 12 boards...and not on ACC boards...It is a UConn CR board thing.
That's just the sort of thinking that would ultimately minimize college football's appeal. You have to have potential upsets.If it does go to a P4 (and the champs play in a play off)...the Irish will finally have to go somewhere.
And, since the P4 Champs will already have survived a 16 team conference championship game, I could see a weaning of the non P4 from the playoff.
If you are talking ACC contraction without a network...with the performance of their teams on the football field and basketball court BC has to be in the immediate discussion to be one of the schools sent on their way.A day may come when we begin discussing reduced payouts or contraction. If the money reaches a ceiling or becomes less, will schools such as FSU support equal payments for Wake, etc.
As we all know too well, money and greed can make for interesting scenarios. We may see this soon in the B12 if the league agrees to give Texas more money per year to support a B12N.