You’ve never been able to actually quantify or explain why losing your independence diminishes your program. It’s clutched tight and makes no sense, whatsoever.
With the way things are going their will only be 2 conferences SEC, and Big 10. The ACC can't survive through 2036. Swofford pretty much destroyed the conference with his incompetence.
Swofford had a choice, get more money in the short term or have a longer term GOR. He choose the latter which gives teams in the conference some time to maneuver and decide what they want.
Wrong.
In 2010 the ACC wasn't considered a power football conference. They were marginally stronger than the BE and clearly well behind the Big10, SEC, Big12 and the Pac10. What did he have to negotiate with, not much.
Do you just make stuff? Like this post isn’t anything more than your opinion to justify what you say.
ESPN has no incentive to give the ACC more money for nothing.
The ACC was always considered a basketball conference. Swofford did an excellent job keeping it from being raided growing it into a respected football conference. The ACC could easily have suffered the same fate as the Big12.
The Big XII was a merger itself.
Correct. Clemson and FSU were linked to the B12 but that wasn't going anywhere because neither school wanted to be in that situation.
He played the cards he had to play as good as anyone could have played them.
The only opportunity to increase the ESPN payout for the ACC would be to add a team. IMO, WVU is the only piece on the board, I mean Morgantown is basically in the DMV at this point with DC sprawl. I would think Clemson (and FSU) could push that forward. They would raise the level of football in the league.
DC has sprawled all the way out to the western Maryland panhandle. I don't want ND in the ACC. In fact any conference that adds ND will regret it because their mystic will quickly fade and their fans will go into hibernation.
WVU campus is 225 miles from Washington DC.
ND fans will NEVER go into hibernation. They are all over the world. You can go to China and say "Notre Dame" and they would know what you mean.
That's the thing that I disagree with fellow ND fans. I do not believe we would wither away just because we joined a conference. We're not PSU or Nebby, we have a different type of reach.
The ND administration has long made it known that if "pay for play" ever comes in, they wil not be a party to it and will go to the highest level division/subdivision/whatever it's called that does not have "pay to play". You can view this as a non-negotiable legacy of Father Hesburgh.
It depends on the conference. Even you have a degree of ND hubris. The simple fact is that because huge flagship/land grant state schools allied with like schools have a huge advantage in CFB, any conference defined by such schools will, without necessarily meaning to, level any smaller private school in terms of its football impact.
We're a long way from the 70's, but we still have some built-in advantages. I really do not see it as playing with fire. IF we entered the ACC it would be the most beneficial to maintaining what we have experienced the last 5-7 years. The Pac and the ACC are the conferences that best suit us currently. The ACC would be invested in lifting us up to maintain a blueblood positioning. The SEC and Big we would have to fight and invest massive money.
Your opening sentence tells a truth that few seem to know: the Big XII is not, and never was, the Big 8 that added 4 teams from the SWC. Nebraska persisted in seeing things that way, and that was key to what happened between Nebraska and Texas.
Lived in the DMV, personally knew multiple people who commuted WV to Baltimore area for work. Also knew many WVU alum in the DMV area. Nutty commute but yeah theres deff a good WV presence in the DMV
A presence is different than sayin WVU is part of the DMV.
