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  1. Do you really think the calls to hire RT would be lessoned if Beard he was having all this success while Beard was currently indefinitely suspended? There would still be the same articles, just with the added component of criticisms of Texas for not firing Beard. Not to mention the fact that Beard's lawyer would have been even more annoying saying that Texas was being unfair in suspending his entirely innocent client.
  2. I think it’s pretty clear from the letters between UT’s lawyers and Beard’s lawyer that it was not CDC’s decision on whether to fire Beard. I understand why Beard’s lawyer took the tone he did, but I think the lack of contrition and lack of any suggestion that Beard felt bad about the situation is what ultimately doomed his tenure. The Beard Ole Miss strategy is clearly to pretend that his Texas time never happened, but that would have been a lot harder for Texas to do.
  3. Oh good - now we get to argue about who everyone's two rivals should be. I'm assuming it will be OU and A&M for Texas.
  4. They got a lot more money and a network that they thought would pay out more in exchange for locking it in for so long. The deal would have been much lower if they had signed a shorter agreement.
  5. USC Michigan will pretty much always be big, but is tOSU UCLA really that big after the newness factor goes away? It will do numbers because all tOSU games do, but is it better than tOSU vs Wisconsin or Nebraska?
  6. Any idea how many players are opting out of the jersey sales and why?
  7. I do not follow Illinois basketball other than my dad, who went there for undergrad. He gets his news from places like espn.com and "watches" the games through a play by play app when he watches anything, so he's not exactly plugged into the program. However, he has seen enough articles about Underwood treating the players poorly that he seems to be a bit predisposed to be skeptical of Underwood.
  8. I think the biggest potential fly in the ointment is that Bennett already won a title at UVA. While that will not keep him in his job forever, it will buy him a hell of a lot of goodwill even if he goes through a few tough seasons.
  9. I can say that Illinois fans are getting tired of him pretty quickly.
  10. People always mention the idea of dissolving conferences, but they generally have a disinterested party clause that means that the other schools can declare another school disinterested if they are trying to leave and then they do not get to vote on whether to dissolve the conference. Even if you somehow got eight teams to want to dissolve the conference (and that alone seems pretty far-fetched), you'd somehow need to make sure the other schools did not suspect any of them were trying to leave, which would be difficult to do if they are calling for a vote on dissolution. Just for fun, let's say they can do it (or the ACC doesn't have a disinterested parties clause), who are the eight schools? Obviously (1) Clemson and (2) FSU. Then (3) UNC and (4) UVA seem like the most talked about. I guess after that it would be (5) Miami? Although that seems like it would only happen if FSU goes to the SEC and the Big Ten desperately wants into Florida. For the last three, maybe (6) VaTech, (7) NCState, and (8) Pitt?
  11. Six years times $14.5 mil /year = $87 mil, but I assume he was just rounding it.
  12. I do not see any way that any of those ACC schools are going to be motivated enough to even try to get out of their GOR for Big 12 money, even if it is a decent amount higher than ACC money. Personally, I doubt any of them are getting out of that GOR for at least a decade, but for them to even attempt it, it is going to have to be for a LOT more money (i.e., at least current SEC/Big Ten money).
  13. I do not think FSU could "force" a court ordered settlement, but they could certainly try to offer the ACC enough to let them leave. I doubt $17 million would do it, but they could offer the value they say they are worth to the ACC, which is 15% of the ACC contract. If they offered that, they might be able to get out of it.
  14. Eh - it just seems like particularly loud saber-rattling to me. For me, that video confirms the reason for going public like this, and that is to satiate the fanbase and make FSU and its administrators look like the good guys. Every comment is something like "Hell yeah! Tell them to call us Daddy!" or "We needed great leadership like this." In a decade, when everything is mostly changed, it may be harder to pull off, but it will work for a few years at least.
  15. Cincinnati is pretty close to WVU. UCF is actually a bit further away from WVU than KU is.
  16. The obvious distinction between the FSU situation and every other school that has moved so far is the fact that there is 13 years left on a GOR. I am not sure why they are doing so much publicly, but I do not think it means anything vis-a-vis the other schools because the situation is so different. As others have said, it probably has something to do with embarrassing the ACC in order to get a more uneven share (whether through TV money, bowl money, etc.). It may also be to point the ire of the fanbase, etc. on the conference and not on FSU. "We are struggling because of the conference holding us back, not because of anything we have done wrong."
  17. Not to mention the fact that the SEC deal actually ends before the ACC deal, so unless this leads to the SEC and ESPN extending their agreement a decade before it ends (which is going to cost ESPN a fortune), those schools could actually join the Big Ten sooner in such a scenario, assuming ESPN is actually that concerned about that happening. I can't imagine that ESPN is sitting up at night worrying about which schools will be in which conference in 13 years after all of their current deals are over.
  18. I don't see why either ESPN or the ACC would want that. ESPN: I mean, I guess the reasoning would be to keep Florida State and Clemson in an SEC broadcasted conference. But they are already in an SEC broadcasted conference with an ESPN deal that is actually longer than the SEC's new deal by a couple of years. ACC: I see no benefit for them. Each school keeps getting the same amount of money they would get and their conference gets markedly worse. SEC: Unless ESPN is going to pay the conference even more money per school, I do not see how the SEC agrees to this either - which just makes ESPN agreeing to it even less likely. It seems like only FSU and Clemson win in this scenario.
  19. Again, the rights have already been granted. This is not an agreement to give FSU's TV rights to the ACC in the future; the rights are already given. That is the entire point of a Grant Of Rights vs. just a normal TV contract that the members would agree to. Sovereign immunity is the doctrine that a state cannot be sued without its consent, but the ACC does not need to sue FSU to get its TV rights, it owns them. Also, note that a North Carolina appeals court ruled against Maryland's motion to dismiss based on sovereign immunity when the ACC sued to enforce the termination clauses in the ACC agreement, before there was a grant of rights. I'm not sure why the result would be different here, even if we're just talking about the regular contract.
  20. If there is a breach of fiduciary responsibility (and that's really hard to prove), the claim would be against John Swofford and possibly others in charge at the time of the signing of the media contract. There is no way that getting out of the GOR is a remedy for such a claim.
  21. Whoopsie...
  22. I'm assuming the ACC is based in North Carolina, which would mean there is diversity of parties, so the lawsuit would definitely end up in Federal Court regardless. The purpose of a Grant of Rights is to avoid issues like sovereign immunity. Florida State already gave their TV rights to the ACC - they no longer have those rights. If FSU leaves the ACC and goes to another conference, the rights stay with the ACC and the ACC would be the ones with the rights to broadcast FSU home games. FSU would have to sue to try to get those rights back, which would make sovereign immunity mute, because they would be the ones bringing a lawsuit. Now in practice, who knows what would happen if FSU threw caution to the wind, left the ACC and joined another conference, and tried to broadcast the games through that conference's TV deal. My guess is it would never happen because that conference would not want to get involved in a dispute like that. This is the reason that the SEC was all 2025 is great until Texas negotiated their way out of the GOR a year early.
  23. This is my understanding as well. There is no way they are getting their next 13 years of TV rights back for $120 million:
  24. To be clear, the Grant of Rights grants FSU's TV rights to the ACC through the length of the contract: "That deal, per Steve Wiseman of The News and Observer, based out of Raleigh, North Carolina, 'irrevocably and exclusively grants to the conference during the term all rights necessary for the conference to perform the contractual obligations of the conference expressly set forth in the ESPN agreement.'” The point of a Grant of Rights as opposed to an agreement to provide rights in the future is that the ACC owns those rights. Thus, FSU would have to sue the ACC to get out of the contract, and if successful, ESPN would sue the ACC for failing to provide the rights promised. This is all theoretical because I cannot imagine it ever going this far.
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