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Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

CoastAtlantic said:
It gets better...



So, basically, the PAC is now rolling the dice when they could have added years of certainty and a friendly relationship with Disney.
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Old Big East did the same thing and ESPN tanked the league. P5 about to become the P4?
 
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With football and men's basketball seemingly trending upward, why lock into this deal for 12 years? 12 years from now we'll be grossly underpaid again. Outside of the current bump in pay, I see nothing good about this deal.
 
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2Infinity said:
IF...and it's a big IF, Terzi's sources are right, then it's showing that the ACC has gone irrational and into panic mode. They will have left their core principles behind in choosing a new member. Instead they will be bowing to the threats of the football powers by bringing in the team that is hot NOW. Not two years ago....just today! If true, the sad part for them is that these very same football power schools are likely to switch conferences soon anyway, regardless of who is added now. Adding L'ville is NOT going to keep them in the ACC if the B12 or SEC come calling! This would be very short-sighted on Swofford's part! The negative for us is that, when something happens to someone, something that they never anticipated could possibly happen, like a charter member leaving their conference, then irrationality can surely set in.
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We're going to have to admit, it did work out for the ACC. Hope Clemson wins the next 2 or 3 championships.
 
It did work out for the ACC.

Long term stability, ACC network...sports success...

In 2012...the vultures were circling, the pundits had the conference on the death watch....
 
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The Viking said:
What would be different if they took UConn?
Clemson would still be kicking ass.
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If the ACC had added UConn in 2014, instead of Louisville...

The conference could have added additional National Champions from UConn:

2014 Field Hockey, 2017 Field Hockey
2015-16 Womens BB, and 2014-15 Women's BB

To the ACC National Champion list since 2014:

2015 Men's Cross Country
2016, 2018 football
2014 Men's soccer
2014 Women's soccer
2015, 2017 Men's basketball
2018 Women's basketball
2015 Baseball
2014 Women's Golf
2014, 2016 Men's Lacrosse
2014, 2016 Women's Lacrosse
2018 Softball
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Men's Tennis

What has been, in reality, a great over all sports conference has been judged almost entirely by success in two sports...football and men's basketball...weighted more by football.

And you get what you reward.
 


There are two CR questions tucked in the SM mailbag (one @ the beginning and one near the end...

>Hey Stewart: How far are we from another round of major conference realignment and what could it look like?

If there’s another big round of shuffling, it will likely come somewhere in the 2023-26 range. Several major TV contracts will come up for bid in short succession, starting with the Big Ten (2023), followed by the Pac-12 (2024), Big 12 (2025) and, perhaps most significantly, the College Football Playoff (2025). Don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Big Ten opted for shorter-than-usual six-year deals with ESPN and FOX in its last round of negotiations. Or that the Pac-12 recently turned down a tempting offer from ESPN to take over distribution for the long-struggling Pac-12 Networks that would have locked in its Tier 1 rights “well into the 2030s.” <<

The other:

>>San Diego State and Boise State were headed to the Big East at one point several years ago, then opted out to stick around in the Mountain West. If the offer came up again — this time to join the AAC — would the money be too hard to resist, even given the brutal travel? It seems like that league’s schedule is the best chance a Group of 5 team has to make the Playoff should they go undefeated.?

But there’s one big difference between 2012 and now. Back then, the Big East had BCS auto-qualifying status and expected to stay that way up until the BCS went away. The Big East had recently turned down a new ESPN deal that was worth more back then ($11 million per school) than the one the AAC just signed because it thought it could do even better (whoops). At the time, the two Western schools were prepared to buck geography because getting into an AQ conference seemed as essential then as Power 5 affiliation does now.

Without that carrot, I don’t see why either party would try to force that marriage again over a couple million dollars. Playoff contention will continue to be near-impossible from either G5 league, but getting that New Year’s Six berth as a Mountain West school is perfectly attainable.<<
 
Here's the thing about that last comment...
If the playoffs expand and the G5 get a slot, it is essentially a guarantee for the AAC, especially with Boise and BYU.

Does that not open the door for the AAC to reach out to Boise and BYU?

If that's the status quo moving forward, this league now with Boise and BYU and a 90% guarantee to get to the playoffs by winning the conference title every year, I'm pretty pumped. That would certainly boost recruiting...
 
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