https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1697587204514521289
https://twitter.com/LukeDeCock/status/1697581716464906585
It seems most think it was state who flipped. which has those fans thinking they lost their bargaining chip to get to a bigger conference by pissing off chapel hill or the school believes they are stuck in the acc when its all said and done either way.
Knowing the Tarholes, THEY are probably the ones who secretly flipped the voteâŠthen publicly lied or misled
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How much will SMU pay to exit the AAC? Do we get a piece of that exit fee? Will the SMU exit fee be more than the $18 million UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati are paying? Will the ESPN TV deal money be divided any differently now with SMUâs exit?
Have read $10 million but not sure.
This SMU precedent is bad going forward, typically new members received a smaller percentage and then were made whole at the next contract. Thatâs the established way of doing things. If now you have to give up revenue for a better part of a decade to move up it will be extremely difficult to compete.
Also how long before those teams like Wake, Vandy, Northwestern start getting proportional shares? Or start getting voting revoked or restricted? People want to compare this to the NFL but itâs like the Cowboys getting a larger salary cap and more TV money due to their popularity. Actually I donât know why I mentioned salary cap because there wonât be one, nor roster limits for that matter the way things are currently constructed
This is not going to go well for the ACC, if they could have brought in Oregon and Washington as well to create a western division maybe it could have. This though will only hasten its demise.
clt say decock can f off
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$10 million seems extremely low. Theyâre required to give something like 27 months notice. They will end up only giving a 10 month notice which means the buyout fee will be negotiated up.
As a side note, if there is some sort of merger between the now PAC2 and AAC, Aresco and Luck have to figure out a way to keep the exit fees and tourney credits from both leagues. Not sure how easy or hard that is to do.
Stealing a discussion point from the AAC forum:
This is exactly the play. They are constantly looking for angles to get their way. Guaranty they are forming the basis of a legal claim for changed circumstances that make the original GOR âuntenableâ. Donât doubt it for a second.
Do you really think Arkansas fans ultimate goal is to go 7-5 and play in the Roofclaim.com Bowl? I donât believe these fans see much of a difference between going 4-8 and 7-5. Youâre making generalizations that these fans are content with mediocracy. They arenât. They want to be the next UGA.
Youâre also making generalizations that Saban is going to live forever and Alabama is always going to be on top. I think youâre really undervaluing OU, Texas, Oregon and USC potential.
But ultimately, I donât know how to say it any differently, thereâs no where for these presumed disgruntled fans to go but âdownâ. And most of what youâre saying is already happening. Using your logic, we (Charlotte) should have never tried for FBS because we would have had more wins in FCS. We should decline an invitation to the SEC because we would get more wins in CUSA.
Careful, youâre sounding like an App fan discussing the AAC, or when they were praising the virtues of FCS when we moved up before them. You know that we would jump to that conference in 2 seconds if given an invitation, same as App when they jumped to FBS.
I guess âbadâ is relative to who youâre talking about. Maybe bad for Charlotte. But for SMU, the end game was to get into the ACC, which they did.
I am in the camp of âreverse mergeâ with the PAC and AAC. But would it be a terrible idea to have a three way merger of AAC, PAC, and the MWC?
Iâm talking about for anyone, how many years of having a $30 million budget gap just due to TV will the boosters happily fund while theyâre getting drug? Theyâre not exactly killing it in the AAC. Taking us out of the equation how many universities can do this? Will all conferences require something obscene like this to join going forward?
Itâs a huge risk for all involved. Their mission was accomplished but at a massive cost. Weâll see how it turns out.
The American is no different especially if we take the PAC 2 and expand westward. I will support that or jumping to that leftovers ACC league in a second, but it would be out of a need to survive not my personal preference.
My personal preference would be to form a league with leftover regional ACC & SEC teams plus ECU and possibly even App if they could afford to actually support the rest of their athletics program.
A lot of name schools are going to be left out of this coming super league. Names like Duke, NCSU, Wake, VA Tech, Vandy, Maryland, and possibly even South Carolina.
At that time, letâs make a regional league with them, us, ECU, etc. An actual college sports league and not NFL lite. Thatâs what I would prefer.
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Let me take this in a different direction.
UNC CHeat spent about 2 years and somewhere between $12MM and $20MM to preserve the legacy they built via decades of absolute violation of the concept of âstudent athleteâ, admitting to outright cheating, to maintain their standing as a power player in the college sports world.
By comparison to what SMU is paying to buy their way in, they got off cheap.
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Thoughts.
The UNC Chapel Hill statement last night seems like sour grapes to me because they are not getting their way.
I doubt it has any bearing on future legal efforts to get out of the ACC because the additions were done on the level and voted on by the presidents and got the required majority.
They are just pissed that they are not running the league now.
The SMU situation is simply astounding. This has never happened before. They literally bought their way into the P5. All other G5 to P5 moves have been based on some logical assessment of success and potential. Are there any other schools that will attempt this? Is SMU going to regret it?
College sports in general.
Is this the summer that the undiagnosed cancer in college sports moved to level 3? What is the next step for the advance of the cancer? Because it has advanced quite a lot this summer.
Fast forward 20 years. Will college sports have experienced an operation to remove the tumor (the so called super league) and the rest of the body of college sports have started the healing process?