As per usual, you are a wind-bag who has no idea what he's talking about.
Your wording shell game was cute, but nobody ever said anyone was leaving next year, or even the year after. Everyone knows that 2030-31 is the target season because that is when the SEC and Big 10 will be renegotiating their media rights deals, with the CFB Playoff negotiating it's rights shortly thereafter. The exit fee will also be down to only $75 million at that time.
Pay attention, here's the most important part: any team leaving the ACC retains their media rights under the settlement, as long as they pay the exit fee. There's even a nifty little "limited exit" option, where schools can leave for a single sport while remaining in the ACC for all other sports. Under that option, the exit fee immediately drops to $75 million. You don't even have to wait until 2030.
And no, the exit cost is not more than before the lawsuit. It's the same as it was before, $165 million, ...dropping around $18 million per year until bottoming out at $75 million. There is no additional GOR fee, just a single exit fee.
You are such a bull****ter.
Here is YOUR POST which I responded to. A post which uses the words "right about now", not "someday in the future".
There's no "wording shell game". That's what you did. For whatever reason, you thought that the LAWSUIT established some different set of rules for F$U. A "lowered exit fee", to quote your own post.
And you are WRONG about the ACC exit fee BEFORE the filing of F$U's lawsuit. The "Severe ACC Withdrawal Penalty" in 2023 was $130 million, as evidenced by F$U's statement in its legal filing:
The "realignment" thread is full of posts that I made documenting every step of this "exit fee" process. In short, it involved:
A. Pre-litigation exit fee of $130 M, plus what I believed (correctly) to be a speculative and unenforceable set of GOR damages that exceeded $400 million.
B. Post-litigation REMOVAL of the GOR.
C. Post-litigation INCREASE in the ACC exit fee from $130 M to $165 M.
D. EVENTUAL reduction of the exit fee.
I know that you're not going to admit this, but your glib and inaccurate posting involved Miami IMMEDIATELY availing itself of a non-existent preferential ACC exit fee accorded to F$U. All I said was that your post was not true, and was based on a misreading of headlines surrounding the legal settlement, rather than a full understanding of the amended ACC Constitution and By-Laws.
But, sure, keep trying to argue with me. Pay no attention to my dozens of posts in the Realignment thread that involve exit fees, GOR, and litigation. I'm just a "wind-bag who has no idea what he's talking about", right?
Bull****. I've been researching and commenting on these issues for years.
I'm sorry that you were wrong. I'm sorry that you posted what you posted. I'm sorry I had to correct your misstatements publicly.
But none of those things are my fault.
