MEGA Conference Realignment and lawsuits Megathread(Its still personal)

[Tad Footeball]

Call me skeptical friend. Teams cant play in two time slots at once. Only die hard fans are gonna watch their team at 2300EST.

LOTS of bonus and match plays headed to the east coast from Barstool Sportsbook...errrr.....ESPNBets for those tilts.

Too bad in the Free State of Florida that we won't be able to indulge until roughly around the same time the GoR is slated to currently expire. Maybe we she get Condi to intervene.

 

[Shogungts]

Why do the Jags get the same media rights share as the Cowboys — and have been since they came in the league? Ain't that inequity?

I do think what may happen is schools who make the CFP will get an additional slice of the revenue that goes back to the conference pot, i.e "rewards for on-field success"

One other thing: There always will be fewer haves than have-nots. Where are Ohio State and Michigan and USC and Penn State gonna get the votes to redistribute the media rights money?

(Not trying to change your mind or go against your sources. Just having a discussion here )

This is already happening

 

[Handsome Squidbum]

 

[Shogungts]

SMU won't tolerate $0 forever. In addition, variable program costs for everyone increase just in travel alone.

7 years is supposedly what they have agreed to

 

[Empirical Cane]

7 years is supposedly what they have agreed to

JFC.

Cuck-o-mania

 

[TheOriginalCane]

I’d be ok with Miami taking a half share or less for 5/7 years to join the B1G or sec right now

You and me both...

Just have to figure out the best approach on GOR. There's really 3 choices...

1. Vote to abolish the entire conference and try to tie the non-existence of the conference to the NO-LONGER-ENFORCEABLE nature of the rights being sold to ESPN (i.e., how do you continue to enforce your ownership of broadcastt rights when there is no conference to schedule games?).

2. Challenge the NEVER-ENFORCEABLE nature of the GOR and/or the GOR extension of time. This is the solution that would take the most amount of time with the greatest amount of uncertainty, but it is clear and definitive and allows the conference to survive.

3. Work out a complicated NBA-style trade of rights, with either ESPN-only (ESPN allows some ACC teams to flip to the SEC, since ESPN owns broadcast rights to both conferences) or with a more-complicated sale/transfer of rights to the Fox/CBS/NBC Rebel Alliance (ACC-to-Big-10 schools).

Of course, there is always the pusillanimous @NorthernVirginiaCane approach, which is to cup your balls with one hand, cover your ****** with the other hand, wait around for 10 years to "see what happens", and hope nobody invades your mouth in the interim.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Not if they have to PAY $300M or some crazy buyout figure.

Also true.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

I mean if we didn’t have to pay that

Completely true.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

I think the B1G is simply waiting to see how the ACC's vote for/against expansion goes. They can get Stanford and Cal for chicken feed because the ACC's offer is even weaker.

If the expansion vote fails, then the B1G waits out Oregon State and Washington State jumping to the MWC before adding Stanford and Cal (and thus avoiding even more blood on the hands for killing the Pac-12)

If the expansion vote passes, then the B1G may have to speed up its process of adding Stanford and Cal, perhaps even before OSU and WSU "officially" join the MWC.

This is basically the same deal where U-Dub and Oregon were holding out for Arizona (and ASU and Utah) to leave first and go to the Big 12 to where the Huskies and Ducks could say "but we had no choice" when they bailed on the Pac-12

Pac 12 exits are looking like Bizarro eBay. The bidding just keeps getting lower...

 

[TheOriginalCane]

People think Im joking but Im not. People thinking UM is going to get an invitation to join the Big Ten or SEC are living in denial.

I said from the beginning that our best hope is to get into the Big XII and form a new rivalry with UCF. Now it appears that ship has sailed. Now Im leaning towards a new conference of schools like UM, Stanford, and a few others that want to be considered Ivy League level with slightly better sports programs.

We'll see. I truly hope that I'm wrong but it's just so very rare that I am.

Nope and nope.

Miami will absolutely get an invitation from the Big 10.

And it really doesn't matter if the Big 12 had 24 schools, they would ABSOLUTELY take Miami. No "ships" have "sailed" on applying to our Big 12 "safety conference".

 

[TheOriginalCane]

This is already happening

Yes. The rich will continue to get richer.

Which is why Miami cannot afford to stay in the Poverty ACC for 12 more years just to "see what happens". Because we are scurrrred of the GOR. Which is "ironclad" and "IRREVOCABLE", or so some joke porsters have claimed.

 

[SFbayCane]

Nope and nope.

Miami will absolutely get an invitation from the Big 10.

And it really doesn't matter if the Big 12 had 24 schools, they would ABSOLUTELY take Miami. No "ships" have "sailed" on applying to our Big 12 "safety conference".

I wish I had your confidence on the matter.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

I wish I had your confidence on the matter.

You don't have to have my confidence. The offer has been in place for a year.

 

[Shogungts]

JFC.

Cuck-o-mania

They apparently have several donors with buku bucks that have agreed to cover the ~$200M they wouldn't receive...

 

[Tad Footeball]

Wait until ACC leadership tries to sell the attractiveness of Fresno and Memphis as road game destinations next.

Who didn't love The First 48?! See you in Memphis (don't engage Ja Morant)!

Fresno? FresYES! It's better than Bakersfield!

Ugh.

 

[BostonCanes47]

Be really nice if Notre Dame would just join the ACC for football.

 

[Shogungts]

Wait until ACC leadership tries to sell the attractiveness of Fresno and Memphis as road game destinations next.

Who didn't love The First 48?! See you in Memphis (don't engage Ja Morant)!

Fresno? FresYES! It's better than Bakersfield!

Ugh.

Does Oxford have a football team? What about Shanghai University? Let's get those international dollars (or pounds/yuan)!

 

[TheOriginalCane]

They apparently have several donors with buku bucks that have agreed to cover the ~$200M they wouldn't receive...

Welllll...I know they are talking about the money they would forego, but the ACTUAL sacrifice is the money they would lose from the AAC.

SMU needs to stop advertising the "lost money" that they never would have received without making this deal. The REAL hit to SMU is them walking away from the AAC money for 7 years. And THAT damage is only about $50M.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Wait until ACC leadership tries to sell the attractiveness of Fresno and Memphis as road game destinations next.

Who didn't love The First 48?! See you in Memphis (don't engage Ja Morant)!

Fresno? FresYES! It's better than Bakersfield!

Ugh.

Hilarious that Memphis is ahead of Flagship Cal.

 

[JD08]

Of course, there is always the pusillanimous @NorthernVirginiaCane approach, which is to cup your balls with one hand, cover your ****** with the other hand, wait around for 10 years to "see what happens", and hope nobody invades your mouth in the interim.

Doesn't the GOR go through 2036? That's 13 years, 14 if it covers the 2036 season.