ACC about to blow up?

[mgsouthpaw]

could be good for big 12? I do believe sec doesn’t want them. They dont meaningly expand viewership becuase most of FL and S. carolina already watch the SEC.

Big 10 could be an option though.

also peak comedy for SMU.

 

[TopFrog]

A working holiday for BY ...

 

[froginmn]

could be good for big 12? I do believe sec doesn’t want them. They dont meaningly expand viewership becuase most of FL and S. carolina already watch the SEC.

Big 10 could be an option though.

also peak comedy for SMU.

That SMU guy who posted about P3 could get a big slap of irony...

 

[Limey Frog]

Wild prediction: putting it here on p. 1 of the thread to see how smart I look when the dust settles circa August 2026 and this thread has 138 pages.

FSU and Clemson to the Big Ten.
UNC, Virginia, NC State, and Notre Dame to the SEC.
Pitt, VT, Louisville, and Miami to the Big 12.

Three 20-member jumbo conferences form a 60-team subdivision of the NCAA for football rule-making only. Big 12 schools now have to figure out how to compete as the obvious little bro with half the money the others have (but we're pretty much there already).

 

[mgsouthpaw]

Wild prediction: putting it here on p. 1 of the thread to see how smart I look when the dust settles circa August 2026 and this thread has 138 pages.

FSU and Clemson to the Big Ten.
UNC, Virginia, NC State, and Notre Dame to the SEC.
Pitt, VT, Louisville, and Miami to the Big 12.

Three 20-member jumbo conferences form a 60-team subdivision of the NCAA for football rule-making only. Big 12 schools now have to figure out how to compete as the obvious little bro with half the money the others have (but we're pretty much there already).

Cal? stanford?

 

[y2kFrog]

Cal? stanford?

They barely made the cut last time and really only got chosen because the ACC needed to add more than just SMU to try and steady themselves (that didn't last long). They are going to be back to scrambling for a home if the ACC blows up.

 

[Limey Frog]

Cal? stanford?

Back in the Pac-16 with Oregon State, Wazzu, and all of the current MWC.

 

[Sweat Equity]

Here we go. FSU all-in.

'Left no choice': FSU suing ACC over exit fee

Florida State is suing the ACC over the league's grant of rights and $130 million withdrawal fee, becoming the first school to challenge a grant of rights in court.

www.espn.com

 

[TxFrog1999]

LOVE IT.

 

[Sweat Equity]

LOVE IT.

I cannot imagine outside counsel sanctioning those remarks by FSU unless there is enough triable fact for a strong case to be made (with or without other member institutions).

Indeed will be fun to watch!

 

[BrewingFrog]

Here we go. FSU all-in.

'Left no choice': FSU suing ACC over exit fee

Florida State is suing the ACC over the league's grant of rights and $130 million withdrawal fee, becoming the first school to challenge a grant of rights in court.

www.espn.com

"Reporting" by an interested party.

This has all the trappings of a proper Kabuki Dance, just without all the heavy make-up. Anywhere FSU would like to go is subject to the Networks increasing their payouts to the Conference in Question to pay for the deal. No move will be undertaken without their express consent and financial backing, thus the Networks are the guiding entity in each and every one of these dramas.

 

[Limey Frog]

Interesting that one of their arguments against the GOR still being binding on FSU is that they objected at adding SMU and Berkley-stan. That's exactly why I thought the ACC would be stupid to add them. That and now you have SMU in your conference.

 

[One Frog Nation]

Here we go. FSU all-in.

'Left no choice': FSU suing ACC over exit fee

Florida State is suing the ACC over the league's grant of rights and $130 million withdrawal fee, becoming the first school to challenge a grant of rights in court.

www.espn.com

and so it starts. again.

 

[BrewingFrog]

As always...

 

[Zubaz]

As always...

College Football is way more Centauri than Vorlon.

(Just wrapping this show up for the first time. Excellent stuff.)

 

[Opintel]

Oh, What Fun...


Tra La.

 

[82 Frog Fever]

This is bad. (or good if you like chaos)
For FSU to call an emergency BOR 3 days before Christmas, they’re deadly serious.

 

[Pure Purple]

If the ACC does begin to unravel....watch Smew's feeble scramble

to make chicken salad out of chicken (censor)....

 

[Limey Frog]

https://news.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/12.22.2023-Final-Complaint-4.pdf

Here's the filing, should anyone wish to read it.

Here's the best part:

"103. On August 4, 2023, the Big 12 added from the Pac-12 the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Utah, to become members of its athletic conference.
104. That left just four teams in the Pac-12...
105. Both the Big 12 and the Big Ten passed on all four of those remaining Pac-12 schools. It is widely believed that both conferences (and presumably the SEC) passed on California and Stanford based on their comparative lack of Tier I football media appeal.
106. The Big 12 has repeatedly passed over for membership a long-time football college school located in its home state of Texas, Southern Methodist University (“SMU”), even though the Big 12 recently invited three other members from SMU’s conference, the American Athletic Conference, which has never been considered a Power Five (soon to be Power Four) Conference....
116. The additions of Cal, Stanford and SMU were made over the strenuous objections of FLORIDA STATE and other ACC member institutions. The ACC also tapped SMU, which has never been a member of a Power Five (soon to be Power Four) Conference and which the Big 12 had been passing on for years.
117. Simply stated, rather than improve its football media profile, the ACC consciously chose to diminish it, along with undermining the ACC’s “strength of schedule” potential.

Lol, Ponies. Florida State is suing its conference for roughly $500M because being in a "power 3" league with SMU sucks so bad.

 

[bp4tcu]

Wild prediction: putting it here on p. 1 of the thread to see how smart I look when the dust settles circa August 2026 and this thread has 138 pages.

FSU and Clemson to the Big Ten.
UNC, Virginia, NC State, and Notre Dame to the SEC.
Pitt, VT, Louisville, and Miami to the Big 12.

Three 20-member jumbo conferences form a 60-team subdivision of the NCAA for football rule-making only. Big 12 schools now have to figure out how to compete as the obvious little bro with half the money the others have (but we're pretty much there already).

Notre Dame to the SEC? Ok guy. They’re a natural fit for the Big 10 and that’s been know for years.