Non-Key Tweets

[billybud]

Tell the young ladies on those teams to “man up”. Let me know how it goes.

Non responsive comment,

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Non responsive comment,

It is precisely responsive to a bunch of old men arguing that female athletes should just deal with the consequences of a conference alignment decision that was made with absolutely no regard for them.

 

[noeynox]

It is precisely responsive to a bunch of old men arguing that female athletes should just deal with the consequences of a conference alignment decision that was made with absolutely no regard for them.

Female college athletes have been told to man up and deal with male genitalia in their locker rooms. Traveling longer on planes would seem silly compared to that.

They could also curtail that by playing more regional games in conference and less cross country flight games.

 

[noeynox]

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Female college athletes have been told to man up and deal with male genitalia in their locker rooms. Traveling longer on planes would seem silly compared to that.

They could also curtail that by playing more regional games in conference and less cross country flight games.

Twofer:

Random TG attack and disrespecting women’s athletics.

Are you morons too stupid to realize that women are 60% of college students and the total number of college students is about to start shrinking? Are you geezers really arguing that schools should show a staggering disrespect for these athletes, and really all women, so a bunch of old men like you can feel like you taught them a lesson?

And it is a Title IX violation.

 

[noeynox]

 

[noeynox]

I love how we are so numb we just laugh at this stuff rather than get our hopes up.

 

[yuckformak]

Probably false but would be great. Once the acc implosion happens you can then add Pitt and Cuse.

 

[MKH2317]

It’s like we keep reading the same script over and over. We already know what happens

 

[superjohn]

If the non-revenue men's sports are doing the same it would be difficult to argue that this is unfair treatment of the women participating in the schools NCAA sponsored sports. It is about equal treatment,

Watch what Waylon does in this thread now...

 

[ZooCougar]

That’s Bait.

 

[Waquoit]

That’s Bait.

From a master

 

[noeynox]

Williams says the ACC has internet. Probably should be key.

 

[superjohn]

Williams says the ACC has internet. Probably should be key.

ACC has come a long way...

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Williams says the ACC has internet. Probably should be key.

For their sake I hope it's broadband but all things considered, dial-up would not surprise me.

 

[TRest]

I haven’t seen the east coast writer mentioned here. I know Swaim makes things up, but now he is bootstrapping his own fantasies.

 

[CL82]

Do we always have to be paired with schools like Gonzaga or SDSU?

 

[CL82]

I love how we are so numb we just laugh at this stuff rather than get our hopes up.

Well, we've been down so very damn long that it looks like up to me.

 

[Stinger92860]

Probably false but would be great. Once the acc implosion happens you can then add Pitt and Cuse.

F cuse and pitt

 

[uconnyankee]

Yes we’ve talked about this. It is possible to shift FSU and Clemson to the SEC. It is not possible to move them to the B1G because ESPN would never agree. But you have to believe that a network that is aggressively laying people off and cutting costs, wants to pay double for the content of two schools that it already owns. The only way I see that is if CBS steps up to pay more to the SEC. Even then ESPN would be devaluing the ACC, I don’t see that.

If FSU can come up with half a billion, ESPN would let them go. Hence the investment bank angle.

If the ACC gets .5B, does UConn get in at a half share for a few years?

 

[uconnyankee]

ACC has come a long way...

Are the issues around moving off prodigy and stepping up to AOL?

Really makes you think how flat footed Big East was to be caught off guard by ACC leadership.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Yes we’ve talked about this. It is possible to shift FSU and Clemson to the SEC. It is not possible to move them to the B1G because ESPN would never agree. But you have to believe that a network that is aggressively laying people off and cutting costs, wants to pay double for the content of two schools that it already owns. The only way I see that is if CBS steps up to pay more to the SEC. Even then ESPN would be devaluing the ACC, I don’t see that.

If FSU can come up with half a billion, ESPN would let them go. Hence the investment bank angle.

I work with investment banks quite a bit. If you give them a retainer, and it is unlikely that JP Morgan would fly down to Tallahassee for a wild goose chase like this without one, then they will set up a meeting or two for you. No private equity firm is going to fund an athletic department when basically everyone can see, as Trev Alberts pointed out, that the bundled TV revenue model is about to collapse. PE firms are desperate for deals, but they are not stupid.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Are the issues around moving off prodigy and stepping up to AOL?

Really makes you think how flat footed Big East was to be caught off guard by ACC leadership.

The Big East got stabbed in the back by BCU and Miami. They didn't get caught off guard by ACC leadership.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

After reading Trev Alberts' interview, we should be a hard pass on any offer to join the Big 12 that is not a full share or very close to it. Literally no one in the industry thinks these media deals are sustainable, so why would UConn leave a conference that works for us to join a far flung league of misfits and castoffs that will be scrounging for dollars by the end of the decade, unless we are getting paid to do it?

 

[Sea Goat]

At the time Swofford felt it was a brilliant move because a) it removed the fear of the ACC being raided by the big two and b) it put ND in a situation where it remaining independent in football was no longer a possibility, they would have to join the ACC in football.

He felt surviving long term (by not losing marquee schools) would be how the ACC would remain a power conference while the B-12 and P-12 would over time be decimated by the big two. He also believed that at some point ND will not be able to continue as a football independent and that would be a major prize for the ACC.

What he didn't foresee was that the media contract could become obsolete well before they hit the homestretch in the GOR term. The security of the GOR became a prison for the higher profile members once they saw what they viewed as far that lesser schools (UCF in FSU's eyes) being in position to make more from media revenue than they were making. They never anticipated the landscaped being altered to the level it was and I imagine they never had an inclusion in their contract to adjust to current market if at some future point the market changed sufficiently out of fear of the possibility that it could lead to the contract being negotiated down.

It can be said that the GOR is the ACC's Maginot Line.

Love the historical reference!..