J.B. TexasEx
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That's insane for them. Talk about long road trips to play a game.
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It's not a big deal for football, but it certainly is for other sports. Just ask WVU
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Right, should've specified. That sucks for the kids that don't play football and basketball.
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Their baseball teams are going to love playing in Columbus, Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, and Madison in March.
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Personally I really like the idea of a 16 team conference with a nine game schedule, having 3 permanent match ups and play all the other teams every other year.
Adding 2 teams with a similar schedule would require a 10 game conference schedule, which most coaches wouldn't like, not that they have all that much say.
The bigger problem is the ACC has a grant of rights agreement that runs through 2036, so it's hard to imagine any ACC teams making a move. So what high values teams does that leave? Maybe Oregon? Since they play in a 54,000 seat stadiuim, unless paired with Notre dame I don't think it works.
My guess is the B1G and the SEC will stand pat at 16 teams for the foreseeable future., unless Notre Dame wants in.
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The ACC has a long grant of rights that’s about to blow up in their faces. The SEC and Big 10 will be writing $100M+ checks to their members and the ACC, PAC 10, and Big 12 will be cashing $25M to $35M checks.
The ACCs grant of rights will be probably tested in court by a state school that asserts sovereign immunity. Unless there’s something in the contract that expressly bars that assertion. You’ll see the non Power 2 conference teams falling out of competitiveness on facilities, coaches, etc.
Clemson became a blue blood program and signed it away
I would think that TX and OU would have used all available legal avenues to get out of the grant of rights. Given that they didn't even try leads me to believe that they didn't see any hope and be extrapolation the ACC teams are stuck.
But Texas and Oklahoma had issues with in state schools Ok State and Tech, TCU and Baylor who had political clout. There isn't another team in the ACC in South Carolina so no in state political issues for Clemson. FSU and Miami both have options so no in-state political issues for them.
Another issue is the length of time for the contract. Clemson may want to go scorched earth because they're dead as a program if they don't get out of the ACC. Falling 12 years and a $1B behind the schools in the B10 and SEC is probably not something they can stomach.
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This will be full blown professional sports now. 2 mega conferences? Like the AFC And NFC? Free agency (portal), getting paid (NIL). Now you even have the pro travel involved. How is USC and UCLA playing MIchigan and Ohio St. any different than Rams and Chargers playing against Detroit and Cincinnati? Waiting for the day they tell us they won't be going to class anymore. We're living in a whole new world of College sports.
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Agree. I don't like the abandoning of traditional rivals. There is no geographical tie. Folks in PA won't like staying up until 1 am to see a game live, and vice-versa.
Sounds sexy, but looks like a big fat bag of issues coming.
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