Hurtlocker

So...who has 60+ (in ascending) 60 to 69k (17)= WVU, Tech, Jackson St, Illinois, Louisville, Kentucky. Mississippi State, Purdue, Yale, Iowa State/Virginia (tied), Cal, BYU, UTSA, Ole Miss, Virginia Tech, Iowa 70-79k (8)= Washington, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan State, Wisconsin, USC, South Carolina, Florida State, 80-89k (5) = Notre Dame, Clemson, Oklahoma, Auburn, Florida 90-99k (3) = Nebraska, UCLA (hahahaha), UGA, 100k+ (8) = Bama, Texas, Tennessee, LSU, Aggy, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan 41 total, 3 are Jackson State/Yale/UTSA

We're getting the Bears involved in this now?

An easy way to fix this is the NFL way, black em out. If those seats are empty, no TV. I think about 35 schools would be left on TV.

I had some shit to do, did FSU and Clemson leave the ACC yesterday like MacGyver said they would?

I like this, I may use it to pick out my watching. It would be interesting to see who shows up on here a bunch, but there are some scratchers. I won't bring up the ones already mentioned, but Cal/Auburn over Colorado/Nebraska? Farmageddon over Michigan/Ohio State? Really? Mizzu/S.Car over Tennessee at Georgia? How bad is October 12th for Rutgers to make the list? How is UNC's only game to make it into the top ten of any given week, week one when they play fucking Minnesota? Their scheudle is kind of meh, and I can see if their instate against NCState on the 30th doesn't crack the rivalry weekend, but their game against FSU on 11/2 isn't better than Arizona at UCF?! The more I look at this, the more it made me go down the rabbit hole. I found his site:

Oh, I love that one. Though I hate all FCS scheduling.

So is Adam a Wildcat because WTF?

Not shocking. My point was more those two properties are the only two that have a seismic meter move and ND is likely twice that of FSU. If they stay in the ACC, then it will continue to be. If they go somewhere else the ACC will become the American.

Yeah even with all the twiter bs going on, I cannot imagine the B12 is looking anywhere but East, where, you know, the people are. They could have tried to add the Cali schools. They could have tried to add SMU. They could have tried to add the Beavers and Cougars. But, they didn't. So why now? I'm not sure any conference fell up any better than the B12 did in this last round, getting the Four Corners. Even if FSU/Clemson aren't on the table, someone from the ACC like NC State, VTech, Pitt, or Louisville will be, all of whom have a better location, fanbase, viewership, and brand than the Pac 2. With @TKthunder2 on this one, the Pac 2 are either the new kings of the mountain or the new backfill of whatever becomes of the ACC. Though, honestly, if the ACC does crumble, and you lose FSU/Miami/Clemson/ND/UVA/UNC/NCSt/VTech/UL/Pitt (ish) what is left to keep together? Where FSU/ND end up will dictate that answer. The rest is really who has an open chair they're willing to offer you.

And if the GoR goes to 2036, but the payment structure only goes until 2027, then it would be easy to state the GoR actually goes to 2027. I cannot believe the ACC would be dumb enough to not tie a grant of rights to an agreed upon revenue source for those rights for the entire term.

Admittedly, I have enjoyed their decades of irrelevancy.

The nice thing about the Philly stuff is it is all right around the same 5-6 block area, bell...check...liberty hall...check...betsy ross' house....check. Should work the same if you've done NYC, its not called the sixth burrow for nothing.

Ha! Its still like that, with Google.

I actually didn't see it, but now that I did...it is a good quip. That place is balls out man.

Happy Valley is a fuckin nightmare to get to. New Brunswick is actually pretty nice for Jersey, got a friend of the family who does crew there. Best bet is Newark and head south. My daughter's bestie goes to Northeastern too and if you don't want to jet back and forth you could stay in midtown and take the train up to Boston.

CBS: MWC interest may be waning

Disappointing sum, no, lots of people have been unhappy with their deal after signing them and still have to live out their contract. However, they could say that it only was bound until the length of the payment structure. This is only based off one report that there was no extension signed, which is super weird to be honest. Usually an extension means you've sold your rights for a term then at some point in that term, agreed to lengthen the term. However, the length was always the length. What it could also be and interpreted wrong is a "look in". These happen often in long deals and allow both parties to change the value if performance is better (they rarely use them to come down) than expected. They could have pre-negotiated triggers, something like "the ACC network is in 30m homes by 2025 then X happens". All these do though is change the payout, they don't change the length. Soooo.... (Most likely) If what they really have is a look in or two between now and 2036, then a GoR tied to the full length would make sense and would be pretty solid. (Less Likely) If what they did is actually make an agreement to 2027 with a premade extension to 2036 all parties would sign later, with a GoR signed through 2036, then someone could clearly argue that the GoR should only go until 2027 and I don't think they'd be wrong.

Yeah they could have already gone that route. They need eastern eyeballs.

Shittts. I think the only guaranteed are Samford and MSU. I'd put Miami/UCF/Kentucky at 50/50. 4.5 seems like a blessing.

Ha, well they could, but the moment they announce the ACC can withhold payments to cover any buyouts/fees/bartabs. So they want to be more sneaky than they're being, usually. Or richer. They're kind of being neither.

Maybe its not 2027...

Yeah this gets missed a lot. There are the agreements that bind you to the conference and there are the agreements that bind you to the media rights deal. They overlap, but they are not the same. The rumor mill piece that has me intrigued is this extension in 2027. IF this actually wasn't signed yet, then it does provide a hole in the grant of rights, as the conference partners would need to agree to it as they agree to the extension, like they would any term sheet. That would give FSU/Clemson an actual window should ESPN's extension numbers not improve to their liking. (Though where they would go to get what they want is a topic for at least another 300 pages) If the ACC signed a grant of rights through 2036, but a media rights deal through 2027, then I can see why the courts would allow this to continue because that would be a very non-standard use of a GoR, which are generally always tied directly to a payment sheet, that's their entire intent. ACC teams getting out by August 15th would be too soon. When the Texas/OU left, they announced leaving at the end of the media deal, they gave three years notice. When the Pac teams left, UCLA/USC announced they were leaving at the end of the current media deal, the others left because they had no deal so they were leaving when the current one ended. (The Pac had no conference agreement binding them together which was more than a little odd, all things considered). The ACC schools would need to do the same. Otherwise they'd leave and their rights would still belong to the ACC until whatever date that contract states and no one would take them until its final.