Does ACC $50m Exit Fee Deter Schools from Bolting?

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Pouchie29

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I think Clemson, Florida State, and VTech will bolt if offered to go to any of the major football conferences regardless of the 50mm, since I bet they can have this amount reduced in court.

Note: I think this article has a good point about "reasonable", which I'm sure is exaggerated for non-profit schools, which have a primary goal of educating first.

"Loh, a former dean of the University of Washington Law School who holds a law degree from Yale, said that he believes very strongly in freedom of contract, wherein people are free to enter into and exit from relationships, provided they pay a reasonable amount of damages for breaking out of the relationship. The definition of “reasonable,” Loh said, is up for legal bodies to decide, but should not be “a damage that is so punitive and so overwhelming that it deters people from entering an agreement” in the first place."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...83ff014-fe12-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_blog.html

Bottle line, the ACC is not a better football conference today (since they only increase the competition for the bottom feeders) than they were last year, but they just wasted 2 out of 4 spots (leaving out ND, since I don’t think they count or will they ever allow someone to profit off the “IRISH CULT”) to subpar football schools.
 
Actually "Pouchie" the bottom line is that  the ACC's expansion was never about football but was intended to recapture the crown as #1 college basketball conference.

The other hard cold fact is that anyone of the existing Big East schools would jump at the chance to bolt the Big (L)east and join the ACC if an invitation were offered.
 
Actually "Pouchie" the bottom line is that  the ACC's expansion was never about football but was intended to recapture the crown as #1 college basketball conference.

The other hard cold fact is that anyone of the existing Big East schools would jump at the chance to bolt the Big (L)east and join the ACC if an invitation were offered.
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All decisions in college have to do with football. That is where the real money is; basketball is just an ugly stepsister.
 
 OTIS, that is fine and I would not contest that other BE schools will not jump at joining the ACC. Question, if you Lose FSU, CLEMSON, and VTECH, who do you replace them? Keeping in mind they have to have a top 25 football program and be ranked in the top 50 Academically.

Furthermore, to me, the final version of the ACC will look more like the BE conference renamed! I think its only a matter of time, the ACC thinks they are winning the war, yet their still shooting blanks. The best chance they had was when the Big 12 was on the verge of failure, those days are over. Certainly the ACC is in better shape than the BE, but I guess its the diffence of placing 5 vs 6, who really cares.
 
 $50 million exit fees are for paranoid conferences that think there is a strong possibility of defection. What is funny is that that when Pitt sued to exit early and avoid excessive penalties, the ACC fans bent over backward to defend Pitt's decision..........but they, the ACC, needs to lock down the members with a $50 million extortion threat should they choose to affiliate with another conference.
There are only two schools I lost respect for in the latest Big East defections, Syracuse that sucks in football, and Notre Dame, that has been average in football but refuses to play a conference schedule in any league.
I will always root against them and never want to see their greedy asses in NYC playing SJ.
 
This was about Football first. More teams, playoffs, increased TV exposure and dollars on the Football end. Now the fact that it also improve their basketball was a big bonus to them.

The ACC had no choice really but to go after the Big East schools. Where else were they going to go? They were not going to get someone from the SEC, the Big 10 or any other major conference to bolt. So they went after the weakest link in the BCS Conference, the Big East whom they had already poached from before.

FSU and Clemson are not going anywhere unless the SEC gives them an invite. Va Tech, maybe.

$50M is big money and smart of the ACC to put in such a prohibitive cost.
 
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