If this happen which seems very unlikely there is no way ND would stay in the ACC. NBC would not like the football schedule. ACC would basically become a basketball league.
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.
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.
Unless the conference is dissolved.
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.
I don’t understand these reactions.
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.
That would be entirely up to ESPN to decide.
ESPN controls everything and continues to suck at the teat of the Connecticut taxpayers unabated.
Until ots about us moving to a P* conference, then it will be awesome.
Wouldn't be so bad if we were part of the plans and ended up IN a major conference. What makes it the worst is continually being left OUT of conference realignment.
The Dude is the Walter Cronkite of fake realignment reporters. His imaginary sources are rigorously vetted by all 765 of his personalities.
He gets more right than most.
I believe you are confusing him with someone else (maybe Flug?). This guy is one of the WVU fans who have been spreading a ridiculous amount of noise since ~2010.
Anyone on this board can do what he does. The Dude makes lukewarm predictions and backs them up with fake sources. When they don't come to fruition, he reminds everyone that these things are fluid. FWIW Flug is about the only guy who seems to have a real source, however he still makes a lot of assumptions based on the little bit of info he is given.
Flugaur has been saying for a while that FSU and Clemson are not on the Big 10's or SEC's radar now. They are looking for bigger fish.