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FSU testing the waters?

Ispyin said:
That’s just the exit for you. It’s not the dollar amount to get out of the grant of rights. You still wouldn’t get any of that money until the gor expired basically
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That makes sense, because at $120M you walk away if you can.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
From The Athletic today:

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I continue to believe that the unequal distribution proposal works to obviously get more money but more importantly add to legal case for getting out of the GOR without having to surrender 13 years of media rights (if the conference refuses the proposal).

And if the proposal were to pass and some teams were then earning much less than before it would also work to make them more unhappy - which again is good for teams that already want to leave the GOR anyway. Even better if teams that were desired by the B12 (or SEC/B10 too of course) see that they would also significantly benefit from leaving early too...
 
It is highly unlikely ACC "weaker members" consider unequal revenue share for the "better programs" unless of course those "weaker members" agree to a model whereby the "better programs" are made whole and their is no gap for them wrt SEC/Big10 distribution outlays.

Think through that just a minute muppets* if you can.

Put ND🤮 aside for a moment...

"...The SEC announced earlier this year an average of $49.9 million per school distributed for the 2021-22 fiscal year. For the previous fiscal year, the ACC reported distributions between $35 million and $38.1 million, trailing the Big Ten as well with between $43.1 million to $49.1 million there..."

Let's just assume only 3** teams (FSU Clemson Miami) demand unequal shares...and let's look at a gap of only $10MM***. "Weaker members" are foregoing ~$2.7MM in cuck tribute payments. That sure is a lot of submissive BoTs out there with their own egomaniac billionaires to cajole and get to agree year after year. Would Miami's BoT agree to it? Would the CIS BoT members🤣🤣 agree to it?

If SEC/Big10 gap truly jumps to a purported $30MM year, those "weaker members" will surely, willfully, and gladly give up ~$8.1MM year. Of course they will. And there is still the reality of the wrench of ND🤮 and how that impacts media calculations as well...

It is difficult to see how the ACC survives...not impossible, but very difficult...


Oh, one last point. Desperate unequal revenue share leg humping obviously worked so well before****...

www.burntorangenation.com

Report: Big 12 considering extra revenue shares for Texas and Oklahoma

Exacerbating the conference’s power imbalance is not a particularly viable solution for its problems.
www.burntorangenation.com www.burntorangenation.com


*I know it's really hard, but try
**UNC, UVA, Pitt, Duke will absolutely take being left out like the little ******* they are...easy peasy🤣🤣🤣
***Projected to be larger in future
****Outright rejected when Texas threw a fit in 2016-ish.
 
Hurracanes said:
Big Sean Omg GIF
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My bad. You might have been the first to report that UM and Clemson were working together to GTFO of the ACC.
 
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I see it was just leaked by the media so I can share Big 12 is in desperate mode and trying to think outside the box to save their conference. They are approaching several big name programs aggressively. Miami is listening.

That being siad, I think it is too little, too late. I still think it will be SEC or Big 10.
 
Hurracanes said:
I see it was just leaked by the media so I can share Big 12 is in desperate mode and trying to think outside the box to save their conference. They are approaching several big name programs aggressively. Miami is listening.

That being siad, I think it is too little, too late. I still think it will be SEC or Big 10.
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What media? Can't see it anywhere.
 
Hurracanes said:
I see it was just leaked by the media so I can share Big 12 is in desperate mode and trying to think outside the box to save their conference. They are approaching several big name programs aggressively. Miami is listening.

That being siad, I think it is too little, too late. I still think it will be SEC or Big 10.
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Bottom line we need to win. Otherwise, our attraction for the Big 2 goes down significantly regardless of our media market. Hopefully we didn't wait too late to start caring about football again and investing in the product. I still don't see anyone from the ACC going anywhere for another 3-5 years. That GOR is going to be difficult to navigate.
 
TooColdToHold said:
My bad. You might have been the first to report that UM and Clemson were working together to GTFO of the ACC.
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Absolutely, @Hurracanes is another one who should be heavily credited, but I can also tell you that the Miami-Clemson buddy-system was reported almost immediately (and I'm one who has referred to it frequently).

Dan's protege got the Clemson job, and they are tightly connected. People were surprised when I told them not to focus on "F$U" as our buddy, but Clemson. Now it's becoming very clear.
 
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I have a friend who is a big FSU booster. He dropped some info a lunch yesterday. He says, that FSU has been in discussions with ESPN about transferring the school's media rights from the ACC contract to the SEC contract. He claims that would mean that FSU would only have to pay the ACC departure fee and not have a negative impact of the ACC's grant of rights deal. He also said that he believed that Clemson was also having the same discussions. Miami was not. I do not know if this is true, but he is connected to the FSU insiders.................
 
TpaBayFlyFisher said:
I have a friend who is a big FSU booster. He dropped some info a lunch yesterday. He says, that FSU has been in discussions with ESPN about transferring the school's media rights from the ACC contract to the SEC contract. He claims that would mean that FSU would only have to pay the ACC departure fee and not have a negative impact of the ACC's grant of rights deal. He also said that he believed that Clemson was also having the same discussions. Miami was not. I do not know if this is true, but he is connected to the FSU insiders.................
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Text to him: "That's because we are going B1G"
 
TpaBayFlyFisher said:
I guess the point is that ESPN controls the media rights for both the ACC and the SEC. A move to the B1G would require us to address the grant of rights agreement .
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Yes, if the ACC is still alive.

The point is that ESPN is getting the ACC for cheap right now, there is no way they are willing to renegotiate that deal (the exit of FSU and Clemson will force all parties to make a new deal: exits or entries, it works both ways) only to add two teams to an already crowded SEC.

Unless they are willing to contribute to the dissolution of the conference, which would be good for us too because we would be able to go wherever the **** we want (and we are wanted).
 
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