BrewingFrog
Was I supposed to type something here?
He posts during his spare time down at the Department Of The Bleeding Obvious...
ACC officially votes to add Cal, Stanford, SMU
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Pure Purple
KMA
The looming question remains how long will the ACC be content to
exist with this 'stopgap' configuration, before disposing of these recent
makeshift additions?
exist with this 'stopgap' configuration, before disposing of these recent
makeshift additions?
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4 Oaks Frog
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…and they are getting paid, unlike the my little ponies.
East Coast
Tier 1
Jerry will stop once he finds he is only selling 25 to 30K tickets for those games.
BrewingFrog
Was I supposed to type something here?
Oh, it's that sweet, sweet TV money he wants. Actual ticket sales are just gravy...
Sangria Wine
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Exactly right. We wouldn’t have taken all of those schools if we had been able to predict the opportunity to pick up PAC12 teams instead. BYU would have probably been the only definite pick up. Maybe Cindy just to give a more regional team to mate with West Virginia…maybe. I’d rather have Stanford than any of those 4, but I’m more interested in baseball than anything else.
Limey Frog
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There would have been no opportunity to add Pac schools had we not added the other four first. The Pac collapsed because Yormark took the last big TV deal out of the market. An eight member Big 12 wouldn't have got that deal; two or four of its members would have been picked off by the Pac. Maybe Kansas, probably not TCU. We should all be thanking BYU and Cincinnati for saving our program from a return to conference oblivion.
Rifframbahzoo20
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We better be planning to bring the rivalry back
froginaustin
Active Member
Disposing?
With the lone exception (that I can think of) of the old, dying, football Big East kicking out Temple, has any conference ever abandoned a member?
Maybe the breakup of the SWC? -- answering my own question? But that was "desirable" programs leaving; not "desirable" kicking out undesirable programs with the "desirable" motoring on in the old conference.
I suspect as long as there is a conference named Atlantic Coast Conference, Calford and SMUg will be in it. Where the Carolina schools, all 5 of them, and the Florida schools end up, I hesitate to guess.
Why?
The bloom will be off the ACC-West quicker than a rose in a Texas heatwave. If there's ever a bloom at all.
bmoney214
OUCH!!!
CFP: SMU revenue less than full Power 5 share
The College Football Playoff management committee unanimously agreed upon an undisclosed amount of money for incoming ACC member SMU that will go to the conference, but it's still less than the revenue the CFP typically distributes to Power 5 schools.
www.espn.com
scheissing smu lmao!!
HG73
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Whole key is that "undisclosed amount."CFP: SMU revenue less than full Power 5 share
The College Football Playoff management committee unanimously agreed upon an undisclosed amount of money for incoming ACC member SMU that will go to the conference, but it's still less than the revenue the CFP typically distributes to Power 5 schools.
scheissing smu lmao!!
Spike
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@steelfrog is right up the street. I bet he can't wait to go.
PurplFrawg
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Depends on the distance his ankle monitor allows him to travel.
Hemingway
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They play in Garland?
Horned Frog Country
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The original members of the MWC abandoned half of the 16 team WAC and formed a new conference. I would not be surprised if some members of the ACC did that just to keep Florida State and Clemson with the top 6 left. SMU will not be invited to be a part of a breakaway group.
Spike
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Godland sir!
Limey Frog
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The ACC's big problem is that the thing that made conferences originally make sense--geographic proximity and coherence--is no longer what makes them profitable. It's all about TV now, which calls for name brand matchups between good teams, and/or geographic spread across multiple time zones. A splinter conference of eight ACC members wouldn't fix that, it would only make the pie slices a little bigger for each member by cutting out the dead weight. They could join with half of the Big 12 members, perhaps, but at that point you'd be cutting the pie 16 ways again and switching BC and Syracuse for Colorado and TCU isn't going to get you into the realm of Big Ten money. If you're going to the trouble of killing the conference it's only worth it if you join the SEC or Big Ten.
I think most likely the biggest brands will just jump and go to law to stall on the financial penalties, gambling that in the wreckage the remaining members will fight each other for the last four-ish life raft spots in the Big 12 and dissolve the conference.
But these questions are less important than what the overarching governance structure of college football is going to be, anyway. SMU is probably screwed no matter what, but the Big 12 might be too at this rate.
Indeed. Some decent games coming up at new ford stadjium this year, including TCU
