No it means that the above mentioned schools will be available at a fire sale price.
Do I get to use a press release to dunk on people? Is that how this works?
The issue with FSU is that albatross of a contract. How would you get out of it? FSU would be smart to shop around, but they are stuck. Maybe if enough teams start saber rattling that can bring "some" pressure on ND.
Their fans very much feel the squeeze. One of the more insecure fanbases among the elite football schools. Also, one of the more deserving programs of a seat at the big boy table when all is said and done. I want to be a fan of FSU, I have a place in the area and much of my wife’s family is there, but it is hard to like a program other than UConn. It is especially hard for me due to my connections to UF as well. Nothing would please me more than FSU helping UConn get into the ACC.
Attendance is complicated. Florida State, my alma mater, is the only school with a stadium capacity of more than 75 thousand that has less than 1 million instate people within a 100 mile radius. The stadium was way overbuilt (to more than 83 thousand) in the midst of Bowden's top four finish run. FSU administrators soon learned that coaxing fans off golf courses, beaches and boats near their homes some four to eight hours away is much easier when winning ten to twelve games is the expectation.
Its that GoR that is behind ESPN trying to send the remaining 8 into G5 purgatory.....ESPN is attempting to force the Big 12 dissolution to escape massive monetary obligations. It won't work, because none of the 8 would leave unless it was for a P5 conference. If, for instance, WVU does not get an ACC invitation then we don't even consider leaving the Big 12 until after 2025.....we will bleed them of either vast sums of cash, or we will bleed them of 4 precious years of their lives and slightly less massive sums of cash.
Now WVU might have to eventually bless the AAC with our presence but it won't happen prior to 2025.
