Half the ACC teams will never win a football or basketball ACC conference championship. Now you add Stanford those ACC schools won’t win an ACC championship in any sport. Stanford wins the Directors’ cup every year. They have 132 national championships.
It is not exactly a tough sell to recruit Olympic athletes to Stanford.
Way too many pro sports options in the Bay Area. In addition, most people go out and do stuff on weekends due to gorgeous weather vs. sitting at a football game. I am literally out every weekend playing tennis or Pickleball for example.
Agreed. It was like that even when I lived there in the late 90s. Stanford and Cal care about one game a year, when they play each other. They skew heavily international too 23% and 17%. At least they will always have the lateral game.
Yes, they're great in water polo. They suck in football and basketball, Cal sucks harder.
Unless there are more $$ on the table then UNC won't change it's no vote. So either ESPN/the ACC/ND come up with $$$, doesn't matter which
You forgot NC's in Field Hockey, W Tennis 21-22
If those schools aren't taking payment, whose getting the money?
They may be going through a rough patch but look up their win totals for the last 20 years.
If the money is evenly distributed then that is a no go. 3-5 million net revenue helps but is negated by more travel expenses.
Why isn’t Pepperdine P5?
Which is part of the appeal for Stanford. They don’t need the money, but they carecabout that stuff.
They don't have the academic of Stanford.
But damn. That's more travel expenses for everyone. ACC is an unhealthy conference if those are the mindsets.
Directors cup is BS. But, No question Stanford is a great AS department, but their football doesn’t draw. Cal is worse.