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"I think" "at some point" "consider". Doesn't sound like FSU is leaving before the mid-August deadline. They're just trying to get the ACC to change revenue distributions so that they get a larger share.
 
ADORAZ said:
"I think" "at some point" "consider". Doesn't sound like FSU is leaving before the mid-August deadline. They're just trying to get the ACC to change revenue distributions so that they get a larger share.
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They also mentioned creating a 12-month exit strategy, so it could be an opening salvo for next August.
 
Not sure how FSU, Clemson or Miami gets out of their Grant of Rights with the ACC to leave. The deal every member signed is until 2036.

Lots of lawsuits will need to be filed to get out of that.

PAC12 and BIG12 both end when their current TV deals end in 2024 and 2025 making it easier for USC/UCLA/TEXAS/OK to all leave for the B10 and SEC.
 
logen said:
Is there really anyone left so naive as to be surprised? Or think there is ANY chance that this abject “greed grab” can be reversed? Or that there is one iota of desire by the “educators” making these decisions to do so?
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Bingo
 
fordham96 said:
Not sure how FSU, Clemson or Miami gets out of their Grant of Rights with the ACC to leave. The deal every member signed is until 2036.

Lots of lawsuits will need to be filed to get out of that.

PAC12 and BIG12 both end when their current TV deals end in 2024 and 2025 making it easier for USC/UCLA/TEXAS/OK to all leave for the B10 and SEC.
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The three things that could be a possibility are:
1) A majority of teams in ACC vote to dissolve the conference. It would require those teams all have landing spots that they perceive better than the ACC + worth the historical record saying they destroyed the conference. It would also likely not be as straightforward as it sounds and involve lawsuits anyway.

2) The three schools attempt to buy out their rights over an extended period of time. SEC/Big Ten will be making so much more money than the ACC (and I think both TV contracts expire before 2036?). So even if they get into the Big Ten at only half or 2/3rds shares for the current TV deal + get a promise of full revenue at the next TV deal in 2030, and pay down a $300 million buy-out over ten years, then this probably worth it since they will make a huge amount of money at the end of the current deal, be guaranteed a spot, and still make more money then they would otherwise.

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3) Just go to court and sue. On what grounds, no clue.
 
dk423 said:
1) A majority of teams in ACC vote to dissolve the conference. It would require those teams all have landing spots that they perceive better than the ACC + worth the historical record saying they destroyed the conference. It would also likely not be as straightforward as it sounds and involve lawsuits anyway.
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If conferences supersize, you'd think that UNC, Virginia, and Georgia Tech would get the call from the Big 10.

I think SEC would go after N.C. State and Va.Tech.

Clemson and FSU are assured of a soft landing spot.

ND doesn't really care if their conference dissolves. As much as fans might be opposed to it, they know they could park all non-football in the Big East with the snap of a finger.

That's eight right there. Duke basketball and academic prestige probably land them a Big 10 spot despite no football tradition whatsoever. Boston College could land there too.

Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville definitely Big 12 candidates. Miami could land with any of the new big three conferences.

I could see Wake landing in Big East for everything but football if it came to that, but likely land in the Big 12/soon to be the Big 24.

This totally sucks and I'd much rather see an ACC-Pac-12 merger, but instead I think we get three 24-team conferences.

Or at the very least, two 24-team conferences and a 20-teamer.

I truly don't know where UConn fits. Would the 20-teamer take them? Or would they take four Mountain West and AAC teams over them?
 
UCONN fits in well with us + Villanova + Georgetown as basketball-only invites to the Big 12 in the next realignment cycle once the conference takes in the ACC leftovers & decides to zag by going all-in on basketball. Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm music for the UCONN Boneyard message board once that happens.
 
dk423 said:
UCONN fits in well with us + Villanova + Georgetown as basketball-only invites to the Big 12 in the next realignment cycle once the conference takes in the ACC leftovers & decides to zag by going all-in on basketball. Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm music for the UCONN Boneyard message board once that happens.
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Big 12 schools do not want a basketball only component despite the push from their Commissione.
 
dk423 said:
UCONN fits in well with us + Villanova + Georgetown as basketball-only invites to the Big 12 in the next realignment cycle once the conference takes in the ACC leftovers & decides to zag by going all-in on basketball. Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm music for the UCONN Boneyard message board once that happens.
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This has a higher chance of happening than people think, especially with the Big Ten now showing they'll go at least 18-20 this cycle and probably end up around 22-24 once the ACC teams leave.
 
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