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Just now, 'stache said:

OK, that makes some sense.

On another note, do Grants of Rights even matter anymore outside of locking the ACC in and causing shit for FSU and Clemson? BIG and SEC never needed them because nobody is leaving. Big 12's didn't exactly do much except when OU and Texas agreed to stay for an extra decade. Nor did it matter to the PAC which is now dead. Nobody in the Big 12 is a threat to leave anymore because BIG and SEC aren't interested and there is no alternative league (PAC is dead, ACC is on life support and making less). 

They matter, a lot, and everyone uses them and always have.   They've existed in this industry since radio broadcasts.    Usually they were rolling one year deals so that broadcasters knew they had exclusivity or that a team couldn't pull out at the last minute and go with someone else.   You have to give the rights to the game if you sell it, you can't sell it twice, that's basically what a GoR states.   So no matter what anyone on boards tell you, every conference had a GoR if they broadcast their games, even the old CFA had one.   What they didn't have was locked in multi-year ones.   Much like how banks give better rates to lower risk clients, having a locked in GoR gave you less risk, which meant you could get a better deal.   Stability sells.    As poaching started GoRs were required to keep things the same so broadcasters knew what they were buying.

Now, to clarify something else, the B1G and SEC DO have these multi-year GoRs now because of conference networks.    Matter a fact, BTN owns the rights to all the B1G's games and it is 60% owned by Fox.   Even though the Big Ten's contract is up for bid in 2030, their GoR with BTN extends out further.   What the SEC doesn't have is a penalty to leave the conference, that's a different thing.    Long term media rights agreements for the SEC Network with the Mouse includes an extended grant of rights.   You just can't make this massive investment without some protection.

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20 minutes ago, 'stache said:

OK, that makes some sense.

On another note, do Grants of Rights even matter anymore outside of locking the ACC in and causing shit for FSU and Clemson? BIG and SEC never needed them because nobody is leaving. Big 12's didn't exactly do much except when OU and Texas agreed to stay for an extra decade. Nor did it matter to the PAC which is now dead. Nobody in the Big 12 is a threat to leave anymore because BIG and SEC aren't interested and there is no alternative league (PAC is dead, ACC is on life support and making less). 

The GOR's don't last forever, they run in concordance with the current TV deal. So none of the PAC12 schools violated the GOR because it was due to expire. USC & UCLA's official exit coincides with the end of the PAC12 contract. OUT didn't violate the GOR either, the GOR was due to sunset on June 30th 2025. OUT agreed to pay an exit fee to leave early. GOR's do indeed have a lot of clout and so far nobody has gotten out of one, they all waited for them to sunset or they negotiated an exit fee.

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2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Makes sense, hadn’t realized they were broader than when they became popular during realignment.

Yeah they are used all over the media rights world, at their essence they say I'll give you money for your piece of creative work and I get to do something with it for you for that money.    The artist doesn't lose the ownership whatever work it is, they'll get it back at the end of the contract (be it publishing, recording, broadcasting, gallery, etc.) and they're paid for that aspect, so they're pretty standard for that use.

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52 minutes ago, 'stache said:

How long do Oregon and Washington get half shares? Surely they'll get full shares after a few years. I never understood how a short term discount makes sense. If they don't add long term I don't see how a short term deduction makes much sense. It feels more like taking a few extra bucks off the top short term due to their desperation.

 

49 minutes ago, Hurtlocker said:

Until the next media deal

Yep. Remember that the Big Ten’s new deal included USC/UCLA but not UO/UW. Their next deal in 2030 they’ll be able to roll in that new inventory and add in the new markets to their valuation. So yes it made sense to add them at a discount now when it will boost their future valuation and make up for the short term hit.

For FSU/Clemson, they likely bring value but the SEC/B1G aren’t really digging into their new valuations just yet (they need to see how they perform with their current makeup in the new CFP and baseline that to their past projections before diving into more future hypotheticals). Their TV partners are capped out so even adding them at a discount is going to be dilutive to the current members though it may be additive to the TV partners. I could see both the Big Ten and SEC running models with possible new members in the next go around 5 years down the road, but before then I’m not seeing the value for the conferences or their network partners as neither wants to be out more money.

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19 minutes ago, CustersDoctor said:

The GOR's don't last forever, they run in concordance with the current TV deal. So none of the PAC12 schools violated the GOR because it was due to expire. USC & UCLA's official exit coincides with the end of the PAC12 contract. OUT didn't violate the GOR either, the GOR was due to sunset on June 30th 2025. OUT agreed to pay an exit fee to leave early. GOR's do indeed have a lot of clout and so far nobody has gotten out of one, they all waited for them to sunset or they negotiated an exit fee.

I’m going to pistol whip the next person that uses “OUT”….

 

Also, we’ve gone over this before, Texas and Oklahoma didn’t pay an exit fee. They took the same payout as the remaining 8 Big12 schools their final year, and moving around a few OOC games for FOX, those were the only concessions.

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9 minutes ago, oSuJeff97 said:

That's not exactly fair.

He's at least responsible for getting the Big 12 into position to potentially benefit from this. I mean, just think about the perception of the Big 12 two years ago. Everyone just assumed that it was dead in the water when OU/Texas announced they were leaving. The consensus at the time was that the PAC and/or ACC would expand and take the best of the remaining programs* and the rest would be left for G5 death. (Just go back and look at this thread at the time for lots of examples, lol)

Instead, he kept the conference alive long enough to out-maneuver the PAC and essentially hasten its demise and allow him to add four new solid programs; now he's in a position to step on the ACC's throat as well. 

This turn of events would have been seen as WILDLY unlikely two years ago.

 

* I believe if Yormark was heading up either of those leagues, that's EXACTLY what they would have done instead of sitting on their hands only to get out-flanked and implode.

Yeah, this is spot on.  I get why a lot of people find Yormark annoying, but without him it's hard to see the Big 12 not only surviving, but helping to destroy a conference that nearly destroyed it more than once.

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2 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

I’m going to pistol whip the next person that uses “OUT”….

 

Also, we’ve gone over this before, Texas and Oklahoma didn’t pay an exit fee. They took the same payout as the remaining 8 Big12 schools their final year, and moving around a few OOC games for FOX, those were the only concessions.

There was an exit fee, each agreed to pay $50 million, and the deal was struck before the withholdings would have gone into effect. Annual distributions were around $40 million, so two years withholding would have been about $80 million per school, the agreement was for a reduced fee and for it to not be paid through withholding (hence they got their distribution the final year, I'm not sure when and how the exit fee is meant to be paid, I assume over time).

The deal was struck in February of 2023. The Big XII contract went through 2024-2025, so the two years of withholdings would have been for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The reduced fee was negotiated before it went into effect for all of the reasons deals get made, to avoid fights over the terms. The OOC game swap was to keep FOX happy, they were the biggest holdup on the early exit once the conference and OU/TX had worked out a deal in principal. ESPN was always on board.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/texas-oklahoma-leaving-big-12-early-joining-sec-in-2024-season-after-reaching-exit-agreement/

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20 minutes ago, 'stache said:

There was an exit fee, each agreed to pay $50 million, and the deal was struck before the withholdings would have gone into effect. Annual distributions were around $40 million, so two years withholding would have been about $80 million per school, the agreement was for a reduced fee and for it to not be paid through withholding (hence they got their distribution the final year, I'm not sure when and how the exit fee is meant to be paid, I assume over time).

The deal was struck in February of 2023. The Big XII contract went through 2024-2025, so the two years of withholdings would have been for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The reduced fee was negotiated before it went into effect for all of the reasons deals get made, to avoid fights over the terms. The OOC game swap was to keep FOX happy, they were the biggest holdup on the early exit once the conference and OU/TX had worked out a deal in principal. ESPN was always on board.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/texas-oklahoma-leaving-big-12-early-joining-sec-in-2024-season-after-reaching-exit-agreement/

https://sports.yahoo.com/texas-oklahoma-were-pay-big-135448646.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANbCGkzudUo-zqjyaKfduI7h2I6M34YfzgTYOlXCaffmEFRN8zD7SAihyvum9_xWVhTqcIvtFmGsy9WJSuIPHFf4LR4vJO2bXS3hxHDRBvpb62Y4WVvOpt80JYge76z8P7RyzAUj3DorPj84eoKdMzIAFiUwGilney11Cd93-HQ5

 

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The universities of Texas and Oklahoma, two of the most powerful brands in college sports, will leave the Big 12 Conference for the SEC in nine months but will suffer a much lesser financial impact from the move than the $160 million that was originally expected, the USA TODAY Network has learned.

The Big 12 announced in February that Texas and Oklahoma will forgo $100 million from the conference under an agreement that is allowing the schools to leave a year earlier than initially required. In response to recent questions from the USA TODAY Network, the conference said more than $80 million of that is based on money the schools will not get in 2024-25, the year after the move. The rest is attributed to cuts in full revenue shares for 2023-24 that Texas, Oklahoma and the rest of the Big 12’s continuing members will be taking to finance payments promised to four schools that joined the conference this summer.

Texas and OU paid $0.

They got released a year early and thus did not get paid by the Big 12 around $80 million. If I quit my job under contract for making $50k/year a year earlier than expected, my employer doesn’t get a $50k dollar exit fee, they just don’t pay me for services not rendered. This whole $100 million dollar thing was PR bullshit that list of the media ate hook, line, and sinker.

 

The only concession UT/OU made to the Big 12 was to pay the new G5 schools a partial share a year early and by switching around a few OOC games for FOX.

The obvious reason for this was…

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The settlement left the athletics directors at some of the continuing Big 12 schools “kind of dumbfounded,” Kansas State athletics director Gene Taylor said. “We fought back as hard as we could,” but he said the conference’s lawyers advised them, Yormark and the schools’ presidents and chancellors that the bylaws were “not as rock-solid as everybody thought and we could be tied up on lawsuits forever.”

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On 7/12/2024 at 12:37 PM, gatormarc said:

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Its clear he failed to explain it to himself.  He put out the most ridiculous things.  It was clear he was regurgitating whatever stories people told him and didn't understand it at all.  He may have had reasonable sources, but that doesn't mean their information was reasonable.

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On 7/12/2024 at 3:45 PM, 'stache said:

So no link? Here's what I remember. The offer included aggy, I don't recall anything about a conference network. I also recall that KU had a pretty sweet tier 3 deal of their own.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6918208/texas-aggies-had-chance-partner-longhorn-network-deloss-dodds-says

Edit: To add that if the offer was spending a bunch of money to set up and own a conference network, like the PAC did, then it was a damned good decision not to do it. The LHN was a partnership with ESPN using primarily their resources, made far more sense with far less risk. 

Texas and Nebraska wanted a conference network back around 2007 when the Big 10 did it.  Everybody else voted no to the network and no to even funding a study.  Nebraska and Texas jointly funded a study themselves and both decided to start their own network.  Nebraska says they were even farther along than Texas when the Big 10 deal came along.

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6 hours ago, 'stache said:

Sounds like bs coach speak. FSU is definitely additive. If Clemson's run is over and isolated I can see them being borderline. But LOL at either conference (BIG especially) calling them "disruptive partners." The BIG literally just killed another conference and has poached from the other two over in recent years. That's disruptive as fuck. They did it for money which is understandable. FSU and Clemson want out because of money which should be understandable. It feels to me that they pissed ESPN off by questioning the bs contract they are locked into which pays them far less than everyone else for a much longer time. It's shady as shit that they had to sue to see the media contract to which they are bound. All they had to say was "we are not looking to add teams that are bound by other obligations." At this point I just don't see anything happening for a while. If ESPN is mad at them, they aren't paying them to move to any other conference including the Big 12.

Agree with you.  I mean Big 10 and SEC are fat and happy, but SEC certainly would take FSU.  If they were free, pretty likely Big 10 does too.  Note McMurphy's last line.  SEC guys says, yes, there is room for more in the logo.

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3 hours ago, nineliveslost said:
5 hours ago, Hurtlocker said:

What the SEC doesn't have is a penalty to leave the conference, that's a different thing. 

I thought they quietly did the after they added Texas OU?

SEC added an exit fee in early 2021 as a result of supplemental distributions related to COVID.

It's $30-45M depending on different factors.

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2 hours ago, 'stache said:

There was an exit fee, each agreed to pay $50 million, and the deal was struck before the withholdings would have gone into effect. Annual distributions were around $40 million, so two years withholding would have been about $80 million per school, the agreement was for a reduced fee and for it to not be paid through withholding (hence they got their distribution the final year, I'm not sure when and how the exit fee is meant to be paid, I assume over time).

The deal was struck in February of 2023. The Big XII contract went through 2024-2025, so the two years of withholdings would have been for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The reduced fee was negotiated before it went into effect for all of the reasons deals get made, to avoid fights over the terms. The OOC game swap was to keep FOX happy, they were the biggest holdup on the early exit once the conference and OU/TX had worked out a deal in principal. ESPN was always on board.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/texas-oklahoma-leaving-big-12-early-joining-sec-in-2024-season-after-reaching-exit-agreement/

Texas and Oklahoma paid nothing.  All those numbers were:  No TV distributions in 2024-5 when they were no longer members.  Reduction in 2023-4 just like the 8 remaining members to pay for the 4 new schools.

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Somebody was interested in 20 year attendance averages:

 

1 Michigan Big10 110,341
2 Ohio State Big10 104,742
3 Penn State Big10 104,323
4 Tennessee SEC 98,819
5 Alabama SEC 96,361
6 LSU SEC 95,290
7 Texas Big12 94,278
8 Georgia SEC 92,704
9 Texas A&M SEC 89,820
10 Florida SEC 88,250
11 Nebraska Big10 86,003
12 Auburn SEC 85,591
13 Oklahoma Big12 84,589
14 Clemson ACC 79,602
15 Notre Dame Ind 79,466
16 Wisconsin Big10 78,933
17 South Carolina SEC 77,996
18 Southern Cal Pac12 75,576
19 Florida State ACC 74,621
20 Michigan State Big10 72,710
21 Iowa Big10 68,631
22 Arkansas SEC 65,987
23 Washington Pac12 65,065
24 Virginia Tech ACC 63,661
25 UCLA Pac12 60,661
26 Kentucky SEC 60,244
27 BYU Big12 60,068
28 Missouri SEC 58,434
29 Mississippi SEC 57,124
30 Oregon Pac12 56,722
31 N Carolina State ACC 55,773
32 West Virginia Big12 55,540
33 Texas Tech Big12 54,473
34 Arizona State Pac12 53,941
35 Mississippi State SEC 53,041
36 Iowa State Big12 52,235
37 Oklahoma State Big12 51,794
38 North Carolina ACC 51,713
39 Purdue Big10 51,244
40 Miami, FL ACC 51,236
41 California Pac12 49,530
42 Kansas State Big12 49,348
43 Virginia ACC 48,224
44 Arizona Pac12 48,189
45 Minnesota Big10 47,414
46 Colorado Pac12 47,024
47 Georgia Tech ACC 46,435
48 Illinois Big10 46,355
49 Louisville ACC 45,825
50 Pittsburgh ACC 45,750
51 Utah Pac12 45,653
52 Maryland Big10 42,963
53 Rutgers Big10 42,445
54 Stanford Pac12 41,414
55 Baylor Big12 40,637
56 Indiana Big10 40,632
57 East Carolina American 40,093
58 TCU Big12 39,769
59 Oregon State Pac12 38,785
60 Kansas Big12 38,192
61 Syracuse ACC 37,308
62 South Florida American 37,196
63 Boston College ACC 36,907
64 UCF Big12 36,545
65 Fresno State MWC 34,537
66 Navy American 33,948
67 Boise State MWC 32,697
68 Air Force MWC 32,514
69 Northwestern Big10 32,219
70 Army Ind 32,037
71 Memphis American 31,861
72 Vanderbilt SEC 31,845
73 Cincinnati Big12 30,928
74 Connecticut Ind 30,749
75 San Diego State MWC 30,073
76 Washington State Pac12 29,930
77 Wake Forest ACC 29,415
78 Hawaii MWC 28,403
79 UTEP CUSA 27,709
80 Houston Big12 26,914
81 Appalachian St. SB 26,596
82 UTSA American 26,448
83 Southern Miss SB 26,385
84 Colorado State MWC 25,572
85 Marshall SB 25,019
86 Duke ACC 24,499
87 New Mexico MWC 23,857
88 Temple American 23,039
89 James Madison SB 22,054
90 Troy State SB 21,275
91 Tulane American 21,114
92 Toledo MAC 20,684
93 UAB American 20,503
94 SMU American 20,486
95 UNLV MWC 20,411
96 Tulsa American 20,264
97 Wyoming MWC 19,985
98 Louisiana-Lafayette SB 19,860
99 Arkansas State SB 19,713
100 Old Dominion SB 19,363
101 Nevada MWC 18,841
102 Rice American 18,829
103 Louisiana Tech CUSA 18,564
104 North Texas American 18,437
105 Ohio MAC 18,437
106 Liberty CUSA 18,100
107 Jacksonville St. CUSA 17,958
108 Georgia Southern SB 17,917
109 Utah State MWC 17,810
110 Texas State SB 17,768
111 Western Michigan MAC 17,707
112 South Alabama SB 16,712
113 MTSU CUSA 16,569
114 Central Michigan MAC 16,479
115 Western Kentucky CUSA 16,166
116 Miami, OH MAC 16,095
117 Northern Illinois MAC 15,959
118 Bowling Green MAC 15,725
119 Buffalo MAC 15,476
120 Louisiana-Monroe SB 15,413
121 New Mexico State CUSA 15,271
122 San Jose State MWC 15,142
123 Florida Atlantic American 15,051
124 Coastal Carolina SB 15,015
125 Georgia State SB 14,913
126 Akron MAC 14,009
127 Florida International CUSA 13,761
128 Idaho   13,071
129 UNC Charlotte American 13,023
130 Kent State MAC 12,731
131 Ball State MAC 11,955
132 Eastern Michigan MAC 11,932
133 Massachusetts IND 11,854
134 Sam Houston St. CUSA 7,018
135 Kennesaw St. Ind 6,304

 

 

 

 

     
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Florida State signed of their own free will and you don't get out of contracts because you don't think it's fair. It's understandable that the Big Ten and SEC aren't interested because if FSU will sue the ACC, they will sue the Big Ten and SEC and the last thing presidents want is to have ugly lawsuits that air out all the dirty laundry. As a secondary fan of an ACC school, FSU has acted terribly for a long time and that's why they were singled out. Any conference that has them as a member will regret it.

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17 minutes ago, bullet said:

Agree with you.  I mean Big 10 and SEC are fat and happy, but SEC certainly would take FSU.  If they were free, pretty likely Big 10 does too.  Note McMurphy's last line.  SEC guys says, yes, there is room for more in the logo.

It’s just not a good time. Contracts were just renewed and we’re in a bear market with streaming so people aren’t over spending at the moment.

The SEC would want this to drag out until 2028 or so and they can get data on how their 16 team setup is working, how the CFP is working, and how streaming is going to look as well.

At that time, if the ACC/FSU/Clemson settle I could see them making the move. I think FSU just sat on their hands too long. They are a big brand, but they aren’t one of the biggest brands like ND which everyone would bend over backwards for.

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NM... he's legit but he posted it as a joke. I guess he's a bit buttsore due to the other stuff going around today and wanted to stir things up.

Since you can't see full threads on Twitter anymore, it kinda falls flat.

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16 hours ago, gatormarc said:

SEC added an exit fee in early 2021 as a result of supplemental distributions related to COVID.

It's $30-45M depending on different factors.

Thanks for the update, I missed that one.   The pandemic is where the B1G made their changes to BTN too

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8 hours ago, gatormarc said:

NM... he's legit but he posted it as a joke. I guess he's a bit buttsore due to the other stuff going around today and wanted to stir things up.

Since you can't see full threads on Twitter anymore, it kinda falls flat.

I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibilities

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16 hours ago, John80 said:

Florida State signed of their own free will and you don't get out of contracts because you don't think it's fair. It's understandable that the Big Ten and SEC aren't interested because if FSU will sue the ACC, they will sue the Big Ten and SEC and the last thing presidents want is to have ugly lawsuits that air out all the dirty laundry. As a secondary fan of an ACC school, FSU has acted terribly for a long time and that's why they were singled out. Any conference that has them as a member will regret it.

Pretty sure that's not the prevailing opinion around these parts.

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Basically, if the ACC stays together and it’s just Florida State and Clemson that get out they, alone, don’t bring enough money to pay for themselves, much less bring in any extra revenue for the existing membership. Nor do they justify pissing off their TV partners. The Big Ten just pushed FOX (CBS/NBC said no) for more money for Oregon and Washington and the SEC is trying to get ESPN to pony up for the 9th conference game. Timing is everything.

Now if FSU/Clemson leaving starts a mass exodus and UNC, UVA, Miami all decide the grass is greener as well, then that is a different story and it becomes a land grab akin to what just happened to the PAC12 with the 3 remaining power conferences picking up the best pieces and leaving the rest as a shell of its former self.

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On 7/11/2024 at 10:59 PM, msucolt45 said:

I really think that in about 6 years (2030) that there’s going to be a different league/conference of about 48-64 teams (football) that will be totally on their own, separate from the NCAA. They will dictate their own terms and $$$.

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I've said it will/should be the Super Best Friends Conference with 72 teams in 12 separate pods and the winners of the pods go to the playoffs. Pods will be geographic in nature and the out of pod games can rotate each year. And most of all just one TV contract for the 72 teams.

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Athletic's Mandel's Mailbag - 

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Hey Stewart: With the Big Ten and SEC both stating they have no interest in adding any more teams, where does that leave Florida State and Clemson, considering the current “scorched earth” approach they have taken towards the ACC? Would they even be interested in joining the Big 12? — Conor O., Houston

That’s the million dollar — er, $130 million dollar — question these days.

Before anything else can happen, FSU and Clemson have to resolve their lawsuits with the ACC. That could take years, if they go to trial, or months, if the sides reach a settlement.

Meanwhile, an important date is looming for the entire ACC: February 2025. That’s when ESPN has a “look-in” to decide whether it wants to continue with its ACC contract for another 10 years (2027-2036). Were things completely stable, it would be a no-brainer for the network to keep things as is, given the locked-in price, especially with the revenue it makes from the ACC Network. But if the network opts out … chaos in the streets.

In terms of the Big Ten and SEC — of course, they’re going to say, as commissioner Greg Sankey did at SEC media days this week, “Our focus is on our 16 members.” Expect something similar from the Big Ten’s Tony Petitti next week. Their focus is not on realignment, because there’s no one of value that’s realistically available. That could change in an instant if the ACC implodes.

The Big Ten in particular will likely do whatever Fox tells it to do, and it may well covet a powerhouse program that gets it into a hugely populous state. That seems a more viable option than the SEC, which already has schools in Florida and South Carolina and whose partner, ESPN, has no incentive to pay more money to show Florida State and Clemson than it does now.

The Big 12 presents an interesting, if less plausible, alternative. On the one hand, that conference makes no more than the ACC does now, so, what’s the point, right? But if Brett Yormark gets his wish and gets his presidents to sign off on a private equity deal, it may be able to pay Florida State and Clemson a lot more than they make now, even before negotiating a new TV deal. In that scenario, those schools might be able to make Big Ten/SEC money without having to play a Big Ten/SEC schedule.

I just find it hard to imagine those schools want to join a less-glamorous conference. Perhaps they could use an invite as leverage to gain more favorable terms from the ACC.

It seems we're following a little bit of last year's math though after USC left the Pac 12.   If the B12 makes the same as the ACC now, and FSU/Clemson are 40% of the ACC, how is the ACC as strong?

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18 hours ago, CustersDoctor said:

There was a click bait realignment article out today that heavily referenced Swaim. The article said this about him.

 

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Related to this?

 

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