Looks like some are still drinking the kool aid
I am.
Looks like some are still drinking the kool aid
I wonder how many scandals will continue to rock the ACC? Louisvile and UNC are outright embarrassments. Syracuse and FSU always have a particular stench around them and let's face it: everytime Miami has been good in the ACC there has been the inevitable recruiting scandal to bring it back down. But hey, they have a great network and streaming experience to fall back on, right?
Realignment is mostly dead. In terms of outside schools getting in....there is only the barest, almost undetectable pulse.
The money that drove it has predictably dried up - predictably only because it fits with the trend of anything that can go wrong will go wrong for UConn. Conferences will struggle to monetize the schools they have, let alone additional schools.
We’re not going to the Big Ten. We’re not going to the Big 12. We’re not going to the Pac12. We’re not going to the SEC. If the Big 12 implodes and we end up with the leftovers, those schools will be joining us as G5 members, not elevating us to P5 status.
We have one potential landing spot and that is the ACC. Given that the ACC has almost no chance of losing any schools in the next 20 years, the only chance we have is if Notre Dame ever decides to join.
Notre Dame is not going to join the ACC.
Soooo....there you go.
PS: The BE.
Those teams are bound to the ACC until 2036 by the GOR agreement, so none of them are going anywhere.I still hold out hope that Clemson, Florida State, Virginia Tech, or Miami may want to look into the SEC, opening vacancies for us. The ACC is our most comfortable landing spot, but I am similarly concerned that we are where we are...for a long time to come.
Those teams are bound to the ACC until 2036 by the GOR agreement, so none of them are going anywhere.
I still hold out hope that Clemson, Florida State, Virginia Tech, or Miami may want to look into the SEC, opening vacancies for us. The ACC is our most comfortable landing spot, but I am similarly concerned that we are where we are...for a long time to come.
If the SEC wanted those schools, they’d already be in the SEC.
Florida State came right out and said they were turned down by the SEC, although their football coach seems to have just been promoted into the big league.
Realignment is mostly dead. In terms of outside schools getting in....there is only the barest, almost undetectable pulse.
The money that drove it has predictably dried up - predictably only because it fits with the trend of anything that can go wrong will go wrong for UConn. Conferences will struggle to monetize the schools they have, let alone additional schools.
We’re not going to the Big Ten. We’re not going to the Big 12. We’re not going to the Pac12. We’re not going to the SEC. If the Big 12 implodes and we end up with the leftovers, those schools will be joining us as G5 members, not elevating us to P5 status.
We have one potential landing spot and that is the ACC. Given that the ACC has almost no chance of losing any schools in the next 20 years, the only chance we have is if Notre Dame ever decides to join.
Notre Dame is not going to join the ACC.
Soooo....there you go.
We'll see if the guessing that the revenue dries up becomes accurate. The structure will certainly change, there will be some winners and losers (like in the previous shifts), but my guess is there will be plenty of cash flow for the winners.