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businesslawyer said:
God, what a stupid process of non-lawyers with their theories of what the settlement means. The settlement means that neither side was anywhere near sure it would ultimately prevail. Period. simple.
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Maybe. Or they were instructed to settle.
 
Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV Aug 9
Big update: A reliable source at an ACC school tells me the conf is worried about private members being able to afford coming changes.

TheOneAndOnlyChicken ‏@1AndOnlyChicken 17h
@theDudeofWV Throughout realignment, we've seen just how "reliable" your sources have been. Still circle jerking with @TuxedoYoda?

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV 17h
@1AndOnlyChicken Ask around & you will find out I was accurate. It may have not happened but I was out front on what was happening.

TheOneAndOnlyChicken ‏@1AndOnlyChicken 10h
@theDudeofWV In what ******* world were you accurate!?

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV 9h
@1AndOnlyChicken I never lied to push traffic to one site or the other. My sources were accurate.

TheOneAndOnlyChicken ‏@1AndOnlyChicken 7h
@theDudeofWV I cry horse****.

Christopher Lambert‏@theDudeofWV 7h
@1AndOnlyChicken Before you do that how about trying Google?

Christopher Lambert‏@theDudeofWV 7h
@1AndOnlyChicken Derrick Brooks-FSU BoT member confirming FSU & B12 talks.

Christopher Lambert‏@theDudeofWV 6h
@1AndOnlyChicken I’m proud of my work on expansion. I was out in front of the national media.

Christopher Lambert‏@theDudeofWV 6h
@1AndOnlyChicken So is it possible I had the details right but the outcome didn’t work out?

Christopher Lambert @theDudeofWV · 5h
@1AndOnlyChicken I’ve heard that from day 1 when Chad Scott said I was delusion for thinking any ACC school would leave.

TheOneAndOnlyChicken ‏@1AndOnlyChicken 4h
@theDudeofWV The next time you're right will be the first time.

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV 4h
@1AndOnlyChicken And this is my final answer to you my friend: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SKxr2PJ06Y4…

Carey Murdock ‏@CareyWWLS 2h
Widely known Boren wanted Louisville in the conference. He wants Big 12 to be 12 again. Someday. He doesn't want a super conference though.

Christopher Lambert‏@theDudeofWV 2h
@CareyWWLS @LandThieves WVU campaigned hard for UL. Texas said no.


ME: Bravo! What can I say? Bravo! :D


Oh, and not to be outdone...

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 8h
@micjame There was interest from certain B1G AD's. FSU candidacy was never brought to B1G presidents. Only UMD-RUT-only those 2

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame I don't think any P5 schools leaves for another P5 conference for 5 years, although it could happen..but doubtful..

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame ....BTN President told the truth...the economics of the conference networks (Pac/BTN/SEC) will decide the next.....

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame ...expansion and when it happens. VT has become willing and viable.... and will be candidate 4-5 years out......

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame GT has given very little indication of willingness..KU is valuable but 15&16 will be East if Delany can make it happen

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame Big 10 still needs to diversify their assets/scheduling/time zones to gain more flexibility...so does SEC and Pac....

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame UCONN has moved up on the dance card. The state of Conn is all-in in making UCONN a research school in the B1G profile

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame UCONN will need a East Coast-Big Market-Football Brand-Demographic(recruiting)-Big Research school to be #15..for....

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame ....to become #16. Rutgers would not have become #14, w/o Maryland becoming #13. VT is a great combo for UCONN......

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame but more importantly Delany is building bridges to UCONN and VT...so if oppruntnity knocks Herbst & Sands will answer

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 5h
@micjame UCONN would bring its weakness but it does have strengths. UCONN would bring in valuable competitive content...

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 5h
@micjame . .to a ever growing BTN. Basketball in Mens and Womens...content to frozen Fridays in hockey. But most important..

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 5h
@micjame ...the stat of Conn has just showed their committment to thier university in expanding research expenditures....

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 5h
@micjame When a state does exactly what the state of CONN just did it changes the B1G metric for UCONN. ....Delany is talking..

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 5h
@micjame Herbst is listening. BIG STEP in uphill pathway to B1G invite



ME: He seems like the more milder, polite version. Certainly no moonshine. Yet doesn't understand that VT signing the GoR means that they can't really entertain offers until right towards the end of the contract.
 
btstimpy said:
That is precisely what I wanted. And the ACC has the winning hand. But the litigation by dragging on for 18 months and looking like it would drag for another 18 months starting to get in the way of other ACC plans. So they took 3/5 of the amount and moved on. Dr. Wallace Loh, who called the fee punitive, unenforceable, and illegal, looks a little silly paying 3/5 of it don't you think?
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To rational people, it isn't silly at all. He and just about anyone else thought $50 million was excessive. If Virginia was the one who wanted to leave, you apparently would have advised Dr. Sullivan to pay the $50 million instead of fighting it, a move that would have caused her to be fired, for real this time, for gross incompetence among other things such as sheer stupidity and insanity.

The settlement was more than I hoped for, but it is $10 million more than the legally enforceable previous exit fee versus $20 million less than the punitive fee that was "passed" in violation of the ACC bylaws. Maryland obviously had the winning hand, and the ACC knew it.
 
Bullfeathers! Nobody had any "winning hand".

Any idiot (including myself)...predicted, long. long ago, exactly the outcome of a settlement that would have the ACC retaining all that it had already withheld....and forgoing the rest.

Since the ACC already held the money, Maryland could not better that without a protracted court battle. Nor could the ACC go after additional money without the same protracted court wars.

Such a settlement was almost ordained the moment that Maryland announced that they were leaving the ACC and the ACC started sequestering money.

Maryland paid a record amount of Exit fee...but still less than the whole...both sides declare a victory and march on...a successful settlement.
 
CoastAtlantic said:
Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV Aug 9
Big update: A reliable source at an ACC school tells me the conf is worried about private members being able to afford coming changes.

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 6h
@micjame but more importantly Delany is building bridges to UCONN and VT...so if oppruntnity knocks Herbst & Sands will answer
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The Commonwealth of Virginia spent a lot of political capital forcing the ACC to take VT instead of Pitt and/or Syracuse during the first round of expansion. I can’t picture the folks in Richmond supporting VT bailing for the B1G which may result in further fracturing of the ACC and possible damage to Virginia’s prized possession – UVA. Unless, of course, the ACC is already falling apart and, if that happens, UVA from an academic and sports profile, i.e. plays more than football, is a better fit for the B1G while VT is a better fit for the SEC (if VT joined the SEC today, it would be the 4th highest academic institution in the SEC according to US News: 1) #17 Vanderbilt, 2) #49 Florida, 3) #60 Georgia, 4) #59 Texas A&M and Virginia Tech) and it’s believed that the SEC has a strong interest in the DC TV market.
 
I agree that if the state of Virginia is smart, they would send one school to the B1G and one to the SEC, rather than leave one in limbo.

But if they tried to arrange that, the SEC would go to North Carolina schools, and the same dynamic might hold there -- the state of North Carolina might try to arrange UNC to one and NC State to the other. If so, both conferences would have two teams to expand with, and there would be major lawsuits. But UNC could pick its destination, and the B1G might be unwilling to take NC State if UNC chose the SEC. So UNC might be forced to the B1G in order to give NC State a home in the SEC.
 
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pj said:
I agree that if the state of Virginia is smart, they would send one school to the B1G and one to the SEC, rather than leave one in limbo.

But if they tried to arrange that, the SEC would go to North Carolina schools, and the same dynamic might hold there -- the state of North Carolina might try to arrange UNC to one and NC State to the other. If so, both conferences would have two teams to expand with, and there would be major lawsuits. But UNC could pick its destination, and the B1G might be unwilling to take NC State if UNC chose the SEC. So UNC might be forced to the B1G in order to give NC State a home in the SEC.
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With all the problem's UNC is dealing with now about the academic scandal I can't see the admins there wanting any association with the FB crazy SEC in this political atmosphere with $$ being pretty even though probably slightly skewed in the B1G's favor considering TV negotiations soon !?!
 
NickyNewark said:
With all the problem's UNC is dealing with now about the academic scandal I can't see the admins there wanting any association with the FB crazy SEC in this political atmosphere with being pretty even though probably slightly skewed in the B1G's favor considering TV negotiations soon !?!
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Oh Nicky, if only it were that simple. Academic scandals only impact UCONN and nobody else. That ol' centuries used, tried-and-true academic stronghold metric, the APR, hurt us in CR. The problem is that we didn't know that players from the 1900s could be applied towards any year's score that don't meet the minimum requirement. But don't worry, we made sure to enroll all of our former Huskies who attended the Jim Calhoun Charity Game on Friday in some Intro to Basketball 101 classes before they left Connecticut.

I'd be surprised if UNC is fined $10. The NCAA's rationale the first go-around was that it was fair since bogus classes were offered to the girls' lacrosse team as well as football/basketball players. Title IX at its finest, right? I'm sure the second go-around with McCants' testimony will be dismissed because the "tutors" who wrote papers for the athletes also wrote papers for any student who had $100 to offer. But make no mistake, UCONN will be watched like a hawk if our APR dips below the perfect 1000 score it got last season.
 
btstimpy said:
And the ACC has the winning hand. But the litigation by dragging on for 18 months and looking like it would drag for another 18 months starting to get in the way of other ACC plans.
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Those plans being the $700,000,000.00 annual bump that NBC was going to give the ACC (even though ESPN owns the rights) because Notre Dame wanted to help out? Those plans?
 
NickyNewark said:
With all the problem's UNC is dealing with now about the academic scandal I can't see the admins there wanting any association with the FB crazy SEC in this political atmosphere with being pretty even though probably slightly skewed in the B1G's favor considering TV negotiations soon !?!
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Hmmmm . . . The VT forum seems to think that NCST is really coming on in the research area. Much like VT has been, just a few years behind. Given a few years, they may have the metrics to be thought of in The Big10.

In all reality, does losing VT or NCST really hurt the prospects of an ACCN? They are secondary schools in overlapping markets. The ability to take on a new market might just help the process along. Add a team like Cincinnati and the potential for the Ohio market (not to mention the recruiting grounds for both football and basketball) could be a big addition to The ACC. I really don't think they will admit #15 until they find out what will become of their relationship with ND.

I am liking the thought of VT to go along with UConn in The Big10.
 
ACC's fine as long as UVA, UNC, Duke, Clemson, and FSU all stick together. They can backfill any other school that leaves
 
woomba said:
ACC's fine as long as UVA, UNC, Duke, Clemson, and FSU all stick together. They can backfill any other school that leaves
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I'm guessing they would want Ga Tech in that group also. Atlanta is a significant market, Georgia a major recruiting area in both football and basketball, and it shortens travel distance for everyone. Also academically prestigious.
 
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pj said:
I'm guessing they would want Ga Tech in that group also. Atlanta is a significant market, Georgia a major recruiting area in both football and basketball, and it shortens travel distance for everyone. Also academically prestigious.
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Yeah, you're probably right. I think GT's less important the other 5 when but there's not that many other Georgia based schools that would be suitable for expansion so it'll have to be up there.
 
Agreed if It was Pitt ,WV,Louisville,Cinn, who left the Big East ,there was hope
Cuse was the the Coup De Grace,as would UNC be for the ACC
 
Would UNC leave Duke?

Ohio State leave Michigan?

Alabama leave Auburn?

Blondie leave Dagwood?
 
UNC would not leave Duke.

Whatever conference wanted to take on UNC would not have to be asked twice to make extra room for Duke.
 
dayooper said:
Would VPI leave UVA?
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VPI would leave in a heartbeat (as long as it isn't a step down). UVA (at least the old UVA) would help them pack.
 
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UNC would leave Duke under the right circumstance. They could just build in at least one basketball game and one football game into their schedules each year. Hell, it would make the rivalry better.

That said, I think UNC is staying put for at least one more cycle of t.v. contracts.
 
billybud said:
Bullfeathers! Nobody had any "winning hand".

Any idiot (including myself)...predicted, long. long ago, exactly the outcome of a settlement that would have the ACC retaining all that it had already withheld....and forgoing the rest.

Since the ACC already held the money, Maryland could not better that without a protracted court battle. Nor could the ACC go after additional money without the same protracted court wars.

Such a settlement was almost ordained the moment that Maryland announced that they were leaving the ACC and the ACC started sequestering money.

Maryland paid a record amount of Exit fee...but still less than the whole...both sides declare a victory and march on...a successful settlement.
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Billy, bullfeathers or whatever you really meant to say. But I was responding to another poster who stated that the ACC had the winning hand, and did a simple $20 million versus $10 million analysis. Maybe neither side had the winning hand as you state. But if the ACC was able to extort, say $40 million, from Maryland, I would hope that Pres. Loh would continue to fight the gross injustice, otherwise you would see me suggesting that he was no longer up for president.
 
The ACC had the upper hand for keeping what had been withheld...

Maryland had the upper hand versus the ACC getting a full payout....

It was that way from the get go....and thus the outcome was very easy to predict....The ACC would hold out until they had all of the money withheld that they could withhold...and then it was a matter of shaking hands and making nice.
 
ArizonaKnight said:
Those plans being the $700,000,000.00 annual bump that NBC was going to give the ACC (even though ESPN owns the rights) because Notre Dame wanted to help out? Those plans?
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NBC has proposed it, but all indicators are that ESPN will be doing the channel. NBC will be providing Notre Dame Football content, so they will be paid for it. It won't be live ND home games, but classic games, coaches shows, interviews, etc. that these channels have. I don't know if it is $700 million, but the ACC has the most subscribers in its footprint of any conference, and ESPN knows how to leverage its channels and Disney's channels to get its channels carried. If it gets anywhere close to what the SECN got per subscriber, the ACC can make it up in volume.

ND isn't helping out. They are part of the conference and know they can't create a Notre Dame Football only channel per the Longhorn Network experience even being a national brand. One sport at one school makes for less of a channel than all sports at one school like Texas. So which channel would they put the content? On the one with the rest of ND sports. Why hide their football content from their fans if the rest of ND is part of a channel. They value football independence. They don't have to join the football conference to use the channel. ESPN will already be showing ND football road games. There are classic ND vs Miami, ND vs FSU, ND vs Boston College, and ND vs Pitt games out there that could be used. I'm told that a lot of what the BTN shows are classic football games. What's wrong with ND games? Somebody would watch them.
 
MilliniumPrince said:
UNC would leave Duke under the right circumstance. They could just build in at least one basketball game and one football game into their schedules each year. Hell, it would make the rivalry better.

That said, I think UNC is staying put for at least one more cycle of t.v. contracts.
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I agree. The UNC v. Duke rivalry is built on basketball (and other sports, such as lax, to a lesser degree) and not football. Even with the emergence of super conferences (16+ teams) there will be enough room and flexibility in each team's basketball schedule to fit in a major out-of-conference rival, especially where there is a lot of money involved and travel costs are minimal. Football, which neither school is an historical power in, is where scheduling out-of-conference games becomes an issue. Thus, with the right offer, UNC bails to the B1G or the SEC.
 
btstimpy said:
NBC has proposed it, but all indicators are that ESPN will be doing the channel. NBC will be providing Notre Dame Football content, so they will be paid for it. It won't be live ND home games, but classic games, coaches shows, interviews, etc. that these channels have. I don't know if it is $700 million, but the ACC has the most subscribers in its footprint of any conference, and ESPN knows how to leverage its channels and Disney's channels to get its channels carried. If it gets anywhere close to what the SECN got per subscriber, the ACC can make it up in volume.

ND isn't helping out. They are part of the conference and know they can't create a Notre Dame Football only channel per the Longhorn Network experience even being a national brand. One sport at one school makes for less of a channel than all sports at one school like Texas. So which channel would they put the content? On the one with the rest of ND sports. Why hide their football content from their fans if the rest of ND is part of a channel. They value football independence. They don't have to join the football conference to use the channel. ESPN will already be showing ND football road games. There are classic ND vs Miami, ND vs FSU, ND vs Boston College, and ND vs Pitt games out there that could be used. I'm told that a lot of what the BTN shows are classic football games. What's wrong with ND games? Somebody would watch them.
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The footprint that gives BC credit for all of Massachusetts?

BC is widely despised in state. I am an alumni and i despise them. UMASS amherst alumni number in the hundreds of thousands and they despise BC. BU alumni are similarly numerous and they despise BC. Ditto Northeastern. And there are probably tens of thousands of UCONN alumni, or ( like me ) CT natives in state that despise BC. In fact, i would wager that the VAST majority of the sports watching population in MA hate BC. BC has a relatively small alumni base in state. The Everyman does not identify with them. The bandwagon UNC or Hurricane fans, plus the tiny alumni populations from all of the ACC schools combined, would not come close to offsetting the forces working against you here.

A cable company would be teasing a rattlesnake if they tried to bundle the ACCN on their basic tier.

If your hope in the ACC network lies in having symapthetic or even indifferent cities such as Boston - or states such as MA - looking the other way while their cable bill increases... well... good luck.
 
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BoatShow said:
They've only been in the same league about 10 years.
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But they have been in the same state for how long?

Virginia politics forced Virginia Tech into the ACC. Will it keep them there?
 
TerryD said:
But they have been in the same state for how long?

Virginia politics forced Virginia Tech into the ACC. Will it keep them there?
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The reason they pushed VPI to The ACC wasn't to keep them together, but to ensure VPI's place in major athletics. Going to a conference like The Big10 would keep them there. If I remember correctly, I think most of those politicians are gone now, but I could be wrong on that.
 
The fact that they were in the same state didn't mean a blessed thing for a century. It didn't even mean anything when expansion started in 2003.

If the SEC or Big Ten invite Virginia Tech, the money wins.
 
auggie22 said:
The footprint that gives BC credit for all of Massachusetts?

BC is widely despised in state. I am an alumni and i despise them. UMASS amherst alumni number in the hundreds of thousands and they despise BC. BU alumni are similarly numerous and they despise BC. Ditto Northeastern. And there are probably tens of thousands of UCONN alumni, or ( like me ) CT natives in state that despise BC. In fact, i would wager that the VAST majority of the sports watching population in MA hate BC. BC has a relatively small alumni base in state. The Everyman does not identify with them. The bandwagon UNC or Hurricane fans, plus the tiny alumni populations from all of the ACC schools combined, would not come close to offsetting the forces working against you here.

A cable company would be teasing a rattlesnake if they tried to bundle the ACCN on their basic tier.

If your hope in the ACC network lies in having symapthetic or even indifferent cities such as Boston - or states such as MA - looking the other way while their cable bill increases... well... good luck.
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http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2014/08/11/college-basketball-hate-map
 
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