After thinking about it a little longer, there is a lot of noise in the ACC which means that’s a big warning sign.
There are always warning signs before the eventual departure of schools.
What were the warning signs that OUT were leaving? Or USCLA? There were none last year.
FSU can scream and moan all they want. Lets say the SEC/BIG XII say we’re not interested. What’s FSU going to do? go Indy? AAC? MWC?
Also, 13 years is a long time. Clemson wandered around in the desert for a long time between their NC in 1981 and Dabo Sweeney. What happens in 2036 if they’re back in the desert? Since Bobby Bowden retired, FSU has been an average school overall.
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FOX would have saved money by paying Oregon in the Big 12 over B1G.
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ACC is going to implode next. It’s just a matter of the GOR expiring, but everyone knows that their conference is not stable.
The Big 12 is stable for now, but I think there’s a growing consensus that the best teams of the SEC/B1G will eventually leave and start their own conference.
It’ll be a conference of blue bloods and second-tier blue bloods. The parasites of the SEC/B1G such as Rutgers and Missouri won’t get invited to this new conference. It’s pretty certain that schools like Kansas or Oklahoma State could get invited to this future conference.
Therefore, it’ll be this giant conference with divisions and/or pods
They can’t leave though
You can’t just break a GOR. If you ask me, I really don’t think FSU will get out of it. The SEC/B1G aren’t going to get involved in that legal mess either.
FSU can bark all they want, but ultimately they agreed to sign the contract.
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Saw this on MSN, thought it might be of some interest.
One Pac-12 president wanted all but OSU and WSU to join the Big 12
I would love to see Pitt, Louisville, Virginia Tech and maybe a Suckacuse grovel to find a spot in the Big 12. It would be even more fun if it came down to WVU’s approval being needed to extend any of those invitations. LOL
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“40% of the school’s athletic revenue disappearing. (The school already faces a budget deficit of more than $11 million,”
Also $100 million + debt from football build out.
Perpetual stiffs New Mexico’s president is the lead in something needing forward thinking ?
https://twitter.com/MountainWest/status/1689298352624836608
See Page 7
CHAPTER 1—NAME AND PURPOSE
4. Dissolution
CHAPTER 2—MEMBERSHIP
3. Withdrawal
When realignment is all settled - lots of schools are going to get screwed because they’re investing in all these facilities based on TV money.
If the best teams of Power 2 conferences form their own conference, then it’s possible that the networks will pay them NFL-grade payouts which would leave less of a revenue pool for teams like UH who won’t get invited into this new elite conference.
Big 12 is stable for now, but that doesn’t mean things won’t change come 2030. I wouldn’t be surprised if the SEC starts going after schools like Oklahoma State and Kansas
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What Pac-12 leftovers can learn from the defunct Southwest Conference’s own forgotten four
As Duarte posted on X (Twitter):
https://twitter.com/Joseph_Duarte/status/1687614836681719809
I could be wrong but i think Oklahoma State and Kansas would need the SEC/B1G to expand well past 24 members per league to have a shot.
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Yea, investments come easy when you’re bathing in money earned by someone else.
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Should the NCAA take over the football championship?
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I’m with you on that one.
I don’t see either of them making the cut.
The B1G already said NO to Kansas when Kansas and Iowa State approached them.
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So with the uncertainty of the ACC why would any other team want to rope themselves into that contract and knowing the top teams are going to be poached.
SMU would to get into a Power Conference.
They would probably even pay their way
And seems like a pretty foolish move. Betting the ACC and college landscape will look very different in 5 years. Don’t see why the ACC would want it either.
SMU would probably take the deal, if offered, knowing that, if nothing else, it would get them into the P5 through 2036 (assuming the GOR holds up).
BUT…
I can’t imagine that SMU offers enough value to the ACC to where the ACC would actually invite them.
I could be wrong though. We’ll see.
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I just listened to 365 and the Iowa State AD said that if the PAC9 had signed a deal in the 11th hour, UConn would probably have been the 14th school in the Big 12.
