The football season takes precedence.Why end of summer or mid September? Is it expected if the ACC falls apart then it would take before then and we are basically the back up (again...)?
The football season takes precedence.Why end of summer or mid September? Is it expected if the ACC falls apart then it would take before then and we are basically the back up (again...)?
It's been said for years now but people need to show up. Tickets are cheap as can be. What's better than tailgating in New England on a crisp October morning?This football season is critically important. We really need the football team to show multiple seasons of competence before Hurley moves on.
Tailgating in New England on a crisp October morning where you still have a mathematical shot at a bowl game?What's better than tailgating in New England on a crisp October morning?
I'll one up you, tailgating in New England on a crisp October morning at 6-0 and ranked in the top 25. Just support the team.Tailgating in New England on a crisp October morning where you still have a mathematical shot at a bowl game?
Lol, don't ask questions if you don't want to know the answer.I'll one up you, tailgating in New England on a crisp October morning at 6-0 and ranked in the top 25. Just support the team.
It actually says “at least 4 to join Clemson and FSU in the B12”. Basically, that would kill the ACC.If the Big 12 get FSU, Clemson and (name any two ACC schools) in the next 12 months I will delete my account.
So all the schools that separated themselves from the football schools around a decade ago are just going to vote to add football schools back to the conference?Time for UConn to push Val to go on the offensive and start reaching out to beef up the Big East when the crap hits the fan and show them they can either join the conference that has half of the last 10 NCAA championships in basketball, or they can stay in the ACC with whatever G5 teams they backfill with that has no pull in football or basketball. Would make Big East football a thing again.
We've been waiting for a decade for someone to throw a life line to us.. screw it. Time to build it ourselves.
Times have changed in the last decade. We just saw the new media deal isn't going to solve the budget deficit we deal with every year. If it brings more money to the conference, why would the basketball only schools complain? They don't have to do anything except keep doing the same thing they've been doing.. concentrate on basketball. "You're gonna pay me more money and I don't have to do anything?" If we could get former Big East basketball members back in Cuse, Pitt or BC and make a pitch to get someone like Duke added to the basketball side of things, why would you turn that down? Maybe our new media partners would be receptive to kicking in more funding with the addition of a slate of football games and gives those schools a path to the playoff that don't involve having to try and beat FSU, Clemson, Michigan or Alabama every year. Have the discussion and see what their appetite is. If the numbers don't work, then they don't work and you bury the idea.So all the schools that separated themselves from the football schools around a decade ago are just going to vote to add football schools back to the conference?
Wouldn’t those schools have to pay at least $900 million in exit fees and GOR buyout? Those remaining schools are going to be flush with cash to put a group together.It actually says “at least 4 to join Clemson and FSU in the B12”. Basically, that would kill the ACC.
Unless the conference is dissolved.Wouldn’t those schools have to pay at least $900 million in exit fees and GOR buyout? Those remaining schools are going to be flush with cash to put a group together.
If I am FSU or Clemson, I would work to dissolve the conference by getting 8 or 9 ACC schools into the B12. I would not sign a long term GOR, but would try to get into the SEC or the B1G within a few years while being in the B12. This is assuming the payout would be decent with existing media partners if the B12 add 8 or 9 ACC teams.Unless the conference is dissolved.
If the Big 12 get FSU, Clemson and (name any two ACC schools) in the next 12 months I will delete my account.
It actually says “at least 4 to join Clemson and FSU in the B12”. Basically, that would kill the ACC.
I don’t understand these reactions.Assuming it's true (which it's not), what four teams would join the B12 with FSU and Clemson. Doubting UNC, Notre Dame, or UVA who would wait for B1G/SEC. Pitt, VA Tech, Louisville, and Miami? I also don't see the 24 team conferences that many people are envisioning. I think 20 is going to be the sweet spot, possibly 22.
I think that ship sailed when the PAC 12 imploded and the Big 12 went to 16 with the Corner 4. Similarly though, FSU and Clemson could work to dissolve the ACC and have all the members create a new ACC without the GOR. That would have been easier before Calford came on board, and you'd have to have BCU, Wake etc buy in, and I'm sure they wouldn't. Some would then be free to leave if the P2 came calling and the remnants would have to finally accept that they will be in a lesser ACC.If I am FSU or Clemson, I would work to dissolve the conference by getting 8 or 9 ACC schools into the B12. I would not sign a long term GOR, but would try to get into the SEC or the B1G within a few years while being in the B12. This is assuming the payout would be decent with existing media partners if the B12 add 8 or 9 ACC teams.
That would be my plan to save hundreds of millions of dollars in exit fees.
That would be entirely up to ESPN to decide.If I am FSU or Clemson, I would work to dissolve the conference by getting 8 or 9 ACC schools into the B12. I would not sign a long term GOR, but would try to get into the SEC or the B1G within a few years while being in the B12. This is assuming the payout would be decent with existing media partners if the B12 add
That would be my plan to save hundreds of millions of dollars in exit fees.
ESPN controls everything and continues to suck at the teat of the Connecticut taxpayers unabated.It isn’t what the conferences want. It is what the networks want.