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The entire Ivy League could decide to go FBS and join up with the Southern Ivies. Cash is King. It's not just the endowments, it's the billionaire and millionaire alumni who could finance the teams. That said, you'd still have to hire enough players who can and want to keep up with the academics.
 
What is ignored is that endowments come with strings attached...mostly academic oriented...endowed chairs, endowed scholarships...paying millions to high school athletes to play football is probably not within the boundries of the endowment.

University endowments support the teaching, research, and public service missions of the university. And charitable donations are the primary source. NIL's are business propostions and may not come under the IRS designation "charitable contribution".
 
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NowInStorrs said:
Not great news for the P12 but who else were they going to go after?
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They are likely just adding SDSU and SMU and going with an Amazon/ESPN TV package. The only other candidates were UNLV and Fresno State.
 
shizzle787 said:
They are likely just adding SDSU and SMU and going with an Amazon/ESPN TV package. The only other candidates were UNLV and Fresno State.
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How the Pac 12 has fallen. SMU? Probably the 7th or 8th best football school in Texas. From a media standpoint, SMU does not move the needle and they are going to help a conference that might have a significant portion of their media contract coming from streaming? If I were Arizona, Arizona State and Colorado, I would seriously consider asking to join the Big 12. Better football and basketball and probably a better media contract, at least most of the games not streaming.
 
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WestHartHusk said:
Shoot me. SMU and UCF are gonna be in “power conferences”? This is a bitter pill for the leftover PAC-12.
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Our president stated that she would accept an invite to a P5 Conference if one comes along, so I guess they are still monitoring the situation.
 
This is a desperate move by the PAC 12. They think they need more content to get to a better number for media rights.

They are going to lose the 4 corners schools to the Big 12.

I wouldn’t be so envious of SMU just yet. They are getting onto a sinking lifeboat. It’s just a nicer sinking lifeboat than the AAC.
 
It's getting interesting. Too bad we have to wait another year for these moves to take place. Another bitter year of USC/UCLA in the PAC 12 and OU/UT in the Big 12.
 
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I'm surprised the ACC has stood pat so far. Considering there was all that talk about the tv deal being undervalued and needing to expand to open up the contract, they should be all over West Virginia.

Not only is it a P5 school, but it is a geographical fit with a lot of history with current ACC members. Not to mention they have both Football and Basketball pedigree.

Getting them and us into the conferance should be enough to force ESPN to renegotiate a higher deal, and it shores up the huge northern gap in the conference.
 
How Sway?! said:
I'm surprised the ACC has stood pat so far. Considering there was all that talk about the tv deal being undervalued and needing to expand to open up the contract, they should be all over West Virginia.

Not only is it a P5 school, but it is a geographical fit with a lot of history with current ACC members. Not to mention they have both Football and Basketball pedigree.

Getting them and us into the conferance should be enough to force ESPN to renegotiate a higher deal, and it shores up the huge northern gap in the conference.
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Both sides in The TX/OU to The SEC Deal wanted it to happen, it was just about agreeing to terms. Nobody wants WVU to The ACC. Not the Big 12, because then they have to replace them. Not The ACC, as they have had 50+ years to take them and they’ve repeatedly said yeah we’re good. Finally not ESPN as they could not care less if the entire state of West Virginia got sucked into a black hole tomorrow.
 
How Sway?! said:
I'm surprised the ACC has stood pat so far. Considering there was all that talk about the tv deal being undervalued and needing to expand to open up the contract, they should be all over West Virginia.

Not only is it a P5 school, but it is a geographical fit with a lot of history with current ACC members. Not to mention they have both Football and Basketball pedigree.

Getting them and us into the conferance should be enough to force ESPN to renegotiate a higher deal, and it shores up the huge northern gap in the conference.
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Because ESPN doesn't want West Virginia in the ACC and West Virginia is happy in the Big 12. That's why their administration voted to sign the new Big 12 TV deal and ratify the new GORs back in November
 
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