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Val Ackerman on the future of college athletics & conference realignment

CL82 said:
It is always. I just gave you two reasons why reasons why.

Our discussion has probably gone as far as it can. I think we both understand where the other is coming from. By the way, as always, I appreciate you as a poster here for many reasons, but not in the least that you can have a conversation without name-calling. It's good to talk to an adult. Catch you after the game.
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Same here, my friend! Always appreciate you. As for the name calling...I save it for the 3 people who root for BC...
 
CL82 said:
Lol, no it's actually not like saying that at all. Broadcast partners are paying for content. One less football team means 6 less games to broadcast. "Cost" isn't the focal point to of the analysis, "revenue" is.
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I think you are purposely being obtuse. The ACC has 18 football members so there is no shortage of content. In fact the conference would be better off kicking out Wake because Wake costs the same as Florida State to the ACC. You want Pitt to play Wake Forest which isn't exactly a barn-burner that the networks make money on.

Revenue to the ACC and is also a cost to the ACC. If you were to classify the ACC income statement by university, I'm quite sure Florida State would be very profitable while Wake Forest is a big loss. You make it sound like all football programs are worth the same but of course Wake football is much less valuable than the other football programs.
 
UConnDan97 said:
Same here, my friend! Always appreciate you. As for the name calling...I save it for the 3 people who root for BC...
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I'll wager that there's only two, one uses two different handles.
 
UConnDan97 said:
What you are describing is not cherry picking. It's dissolving 2 conferences to make a 3rd. And doing so would require the individual members of each conference to all vote on their own dissolution. If a sizeable amount of teams are left out, then what is their incentive to vote against their own interests??

They wouldn't...
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It doesn’t really matter. If either Big 12 or ACC found value in raiding BE for BB it would have happened.

The ACC and Big East aren’t merging.
 
SU1968 said:
People forget that Temple was kicked out because it didn't meet NCAA's rolling requirement for 15,000 attendance. I'm not aware of any school being kicked out of any conference for performance.
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Didn’t realize it was enrollment. Thought it was poor performance and lack of competitiveness.
 
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uconnyankee said:
Didn’t realize it was enrollment. Thought it was poor performance and lack of competitiveness.
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Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. The 15,000 is for average attendance at football games over a three year period.
 
SU1968 said:
People forget that Temple was kicked out because it didn't meet NCAA's rolling requirement for 15,000 attendance. I'm not aware of any school being kicked out of any conference for performance.
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I believe the Big East members voted to kick Temple out because of performance and poor attendance. I don't think it had anything to do with the NCAA.

UConnDan97 said:
But you're mixing up 2 different things. There is the dismantling of a conference, which leads to cherry picking (eg, the PAC12 falling apart). And then there's a fully formed and viable conference kicking someone out. I don't think the latter has happened since the old Big East did it to Temple.

For an ACC - Big East merger to make sense, you would need to do the latter...
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I don't think anyone would be kicked out of a conference. The Big East and ACC membership could both vote to dissolve their conferences with the understanding that they all form a brand new conference with new bylaws. Put in place specific performance related bonuses and penalties. They schedule a formal meeting and somehow forget to give butler and bcu the secret handshake. That combined conference would be far superior to the Big XII and better than the Big Ten and SEC in basketball.
 
Kolumbo said:
I believe the Big East members voted to kick Temple out because of performance and poor attendance. I don't think it had anything to do with the NCAA.


I don't think anyone would be kicked out of a conference. The Big East and ACC membership could both vote to dissolve their conferences with the understanding that they all form a brand new conference with new bylaws. Put in place specific performance related bonuses and penalties. They schedule a formal meeting and somehow forget to give butler and bcu the secret handshake. That combined conference would be far superior to the Big XII and better than the Big Ten and SEC in basketball.
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I think BC should be kicked out
 
SU1968 said:
People forget that Temple was kicked out because it didn't meet NCAA's rolling requirement for 15,000 attendance. I'm not aware of any school being kicked out of any conference for performance.
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The Big East gave Temple an ultimatum regarding attendance, scheduling, facilities, etc. Temple responded by making absolutely no changes and the Big East booted them. Effectively, though, they were booted for performance.
Zissou said:
Why is there all of this disdain for Wake?
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Why not?
 
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Zissou said:
Well, the ACC that the Yard here covets. Wake gets big ACC money for competing in football.
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Schools are going to have to prove that they add value, whether by performance or tv market. I have nothing against Wake, I'm sure it's fine school with a proud tradition, but it adds nothing of value to the ACC.
 
uconnric said:
Schools are going to have to prove that they add value, whether by performance or tv market. I have nothing against Wake, I'm sure it's fine school with a proud tradition, but it adds nothing of value to the ACC.
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It’s more likely than not that the ACC does not kick out members.

It’s very very unlikely that the ACC kicks out Wake to add UConn.
 
Zissou said:
It’s more likely than not that the ACC does not kick out members.

It’s very very unlikely that the ACC kicks out Wake to add UConn.
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That is all correct. Irrelevant, but correct.

There is some talk about uneven revenue sharing amoung the ACC members to accomodate the likes of FSU, UNC, etc. That path will not end well for the likes of WF, BC, etc. At some point in a world where money matters most in terms of the ability to compete, there is no use continuing to try to compete.

My sense is a lot of people want to hold onto the notion that college athletics as it used to be. We're in a world of professional sport franchises with unfettered free agency. The vast majority of college athletic departments will not be able to compete in this world. I don't know what Vilanova has to support its hoops program, but unless there are some very deep pockets behind the scenes Nova has already seen it last natty. Same may very well be true for UCONN.

Time to smell the coffee.
 
uconndogs said:
That is all correct. Irrelevant, but correct.

There is some talk about uneven revenue sharing amoung the ACC members to accomodate the likes of FSU, UNC, etc. That path will not end well for the likes of WF, BC, etc. At some point in a world where money matters most in terms of the ability to compete, there is no use continuing to try to compete.

My sense is a lot of people want to hold onto the notion that college athletics as it used to be. We're in a world of professional sport franchises with unfettered free agency. The vast majority of college athletic departments will not be able to compete in this world. I don't know what Vilanova has to support its hoops program, but unless there are some very deep pockets behind the scenes Nova has already seen it last natty. Same may very well be true for UCONN.

Time to smell the coffee.
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Texas has done so well with all their revenue
 
uconndogs said:
That is all correct. Irrelevant, but correct.

There is some talk about uneven revenue sharing amoung the ACC members to accomodate the likes of FSU, UNC, etc. That path will not end well for the likes of WF, BC, etc. At some point in a world where money matters most in terms of the ability to compete, there is no use continuing to try to compete.

My sense is a lot of people want to hold onto the notion that college athletics as it used to be. We're in a world of professional sport franchises with unfettered free agency. The vast majority of college athletic departments will not be able to compete in this world. I don't know what Vilanova has to support its hoops program, but unless there are some very deep pockets behind the scenes Nova has already seen it last natty. Same may very well be true for UCONN.

Time to smell the coffee.
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There are some deep pockets, and a respectable endowment
 
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Zissou said:
There are some deep pockets, and a respectable endowment
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I doubt the endowment has anything to do with it. I also doubt that Villanova has access to the resources that schools in the Big and Sec do.
 
uconndogs said:
I doubt the endowment has anything to do with it. I also doubt that Villanova has access to the resources that schools in the Big and Sec do.
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Not true. Endowed funds are used for athletics.

“Kyle Neptune is the William B. Finneran Endowed Head Men's Basketball Coach at Villanova University.”

Big Ten and SEC of course have more resources.
 
Zissou said:
The hospitality and polite discourse
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I think what Fishy means is "why are you trying to discuss something on page 11 that was covered ad nauseum on pages 1 through 10??"
 
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UConnDan97 said:
I think what Fishy means is "why are you trying to discuss something on page 11 that was covered ad nauseum on pages 1 through 10??"
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So it can sink in for him. It takes a little longer.
 
Zissou said:
Not true. Endowed funds are used for athletics.

“Kyle Neptune is the William B. Finneran Endowed Head Men's Basketball Coach at Villanova University.”

Big Ten and SEC of course have more resources.
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Let us know when there are endowed funds to support attracting and retaining basketball talent. Goodness knows what the annual payroll will be to compete at the highest levels of college hoops, but I have to imagine its heading to $10-15 million annually, so someone is going to have to set aside $200-300 million so 18-20 year olds can play basketball. Seems like a core academic persuit to me.
 
Zissou said:
Not true. Endowed funds are used for athletics.

“Kyle Neptune is the William B. Finneran Endowed Head Men's Basketball Coach at Villanova University.”

Big Ten and SEC of course have more resources.
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The Finneran's must love how this is turning out.
 
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