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MEGA Conference Realignment and lawsuits Megathread: Stories, Tales, Lies, and Exaggerations

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Empirical Cane said:
IF LOVING HIM IS WRONG, I DON'T WANNA BE RIGHT!

I know you are in TV media game...I had heard Tampa area was big for mid-westerners.

True?

Would seem USF makes an attractive beach head for a larger conference right??
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My friend, when I lived on the west coast of Florida, I was SHOCKED by how many "Michigan" and "Illini" and "Iowa" fans I would encounter, both wearing their gear and at "watch parties" at local sports bars. It's wild. You also see tremendous crowds for the bowl games held in Tampa and Orlando. Eye-opening.

I'm just pointing out...what we ONCE thought of USF, and what it might be (once the magical fairy dust of a P4 is sprinkled on them) are two completely different things. MASSIVE population (including all the way down to Fort Myers/Bonita/Naples, which means there are TWO television markets) and a lot of natural connections to the midwest (via I-75).

And the new on-campus stadium doesn't hurt.

Here's the truth: The UCF on-campus stadium is looking into whether they can pull Pop-Tarts/Cheez-Its Bowls away from the Citrus Bowl. If the USF stadium is able to pull bowl games away from the RayJay...you never know...

Given the move to 9-conference-game schedules, I would NOT be shocked if USF and Miami work out a way for Miami to play in the new stadium in 2027...right now, the "marquee opponent" is Louisville...

USF (I'm sure that USF would prefer to put Miami where FAMU currently sits):
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Miami (assuming we have 5 ACC home games in 2027):
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TheOriginalCane said:
The Big 12 (and personal hero of @Empirical Cane , Brett Yormark) are insane for not having ALREADY offeres a spot to USF.
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Yormark seems to wisely have followed an "incentivized" approach to expansion that I believe Sankey is using with ACC schools.

Paraphrasing here but something along the lines of SEC insinuating "first show us you are truly $eriou$ about competing at a high level in football and then we can "talk" about possible expansion opportunities we may have."

In other words, don't think we're going to bring you in half-assing it in football with an ACC-level budget and you can simply make up ground when you start depositing those bigger SEC media rights checks.

We see what we've done at Miami. What UNC has done. What Duke has done. What Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech are doing. And so on.

Smart strategy, imo, to make ACC schools level up for a potential move up to the SEC or (in USF's case) G5 schools do the same for Yormark and a promotion to the Big XII
 
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caneingville said:
I’ve been meaning to go myself. I’m at Avalon all the time because it’s only 15 minutes from my house, but I always end up getting Antico Pizza.

Come up and we’ll grab a burger together.
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First, I have to figure out where Avalon actually is...

But I'm game.

FYI, y'all....



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