ACC, PAC-12, and BIG alliance / conference realignment

[OrangeXtreme]

Five key questions that impact Syracuse with Stanford, California and SMU set to join the ACC

While the ACC has added three new members, there are still plenty of questions remaining.

www.syracuse.com

 

[Hoo's That]

SMU is about to level up big-time in the next 3-4 years. Look at what it did for Utah.

Same with TCU.

 

[MikeSU02]

Five key questions that impact Syracuse with Stanford, California and SMU set to join the ACC

While the ACC has added three new members, there are still plenty of questions remaining.

www.syracuse.com

Here are the only key questions and its in two parts:

1) Did SU have a 100% confirmed spot in the SEC or B1G if the ACC dissolved? If the answer is no, please proceed to question two.

2) How fast can you vote yes to expansion?

Everything else is less important by an order of magnitude.

 

[tep624]

Do nothing.

FSU and Clemson leave.

ACC drops below 15 teams, and ESPN voids the TV contract.

Worse move.

Yep. I’m don’t understand why this is so hard to comprehend.

You’d think some of these posters were trapped in the year 1995…

 

[djorange1989]

I can honestly say I’ve never watched an SMU athletic event, and didn’t even realize they were a power 5 school.

They’re here because of the Dallas market? Sounds like a southern Rutgers to me.

SMU has the potential to be good, so they aren’t Southern Rutgers

 

[PhatOrange]

All three will be gone way before then...

will they though? You might have to hope the Big10 wants a foot hold in South Carolina. I don't know why the SEC would since they area already there. They want to gain a couple of million more people? Upstate NY has as many people as the entire state of South Carolina.

FSU would be even less of a market for the SEC.

 

[tep624]

I guess. I feel like if you have, say, 6 teams out west you could split off divisions and only have a couple crossovers a year. I guess its functionally the same

Well you sure complain with the best of them FRANKIE. What is your alternative solution to this? The ACC dying on the vine in 2036?

 

[djorange1989]

Enraged???

Freudian slip

 

[djorange1989]

Well you sure complain with the best of them FRANKIE. What is your alternative solution to this? The ACC dying on the vine in 2036?

Yes then he could be happy with that misery

 

[MSOrange]

Thank goodness we have a game tomorrow

 

[tep624]

1. Temple was a Football Only member with no voting rights.

2. Temple only drew 10-15K attendance, well below the BE's minimum requirement.

Don’t interject facts into a good mindless rant…

 

[PhatOrange]

It would be great to boot out FSU and watch them whither away.

 

[djorange1989]

Yep. I’m don’t understand why this is so hard to comprehend.

You’d think some of these posters were trapped in the year 1995…

They are

 

[Hoo's That]

Where's that damn Picard make it so meme when you need it? Damn. Really I would 100 percent do that as punishment and they would be traveling west for the next decade.

Here you go.

 

[djorange1989]

It would be great to boot out FSU and watch them whither away.

Hey their continued excellence is what keeps the ACC alive. Continued apparently means one year in a row

 

[NYCCuse826]

It's not and the kids don't care.

Glad to know you can read minds.

SMU has the potential to be good, so they aren’t Southern Rutgers

Wasn't the same said about Rutgers? That kids would want to go there to compete against the best and they never had to leave home to do it? The only thing that happened was that their backyard got raided more. For SMU, it opens up Texas even more to the ACC. The same thing is on the table for SMU.

 

[Franz69]

I would root for the guards in "The Longest Yard" before I'd root for FSU, UNC and Clemson.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[PhatOrange]

Glad to know you can read minds.

I coached at the University of Colorado. Not one kid ever complained when when we had to hop flights and stay in hotels for games at BYU and San Diego etc. Not one. They loved it in fact. Sure a cross country flight is a bit longer but they're not going to care. They're kids.

 

[gbo]

Possibly. I'm sure the donor shakedown will be immense to cover the staggering cost. Have fun with that.

I don't think it will be but we will see.

 

[Scooch]

I don't think it will be but we will see.

Yeah I hardly care. I hope all the malcontents leave ASAP.

 

[djorange1989]

Glad to know you can read minds.

Wasn't the same said about Rutgers? That kids would want to go there to compete against the best and they never had to leave home to do it? The only thing that happened was that their backyard got raided more. For SMU, it opens up Texas even more to the ACC. The same thing is on the table for SMU.

Well if they suck, that gives us another win each time we play them. So win win!

 

[MikeSU02]

 

[MikeSU02]

Yeah I hardly care. I hope all the malcontents leave ASAP.

This is what I don't get. There is a path to leave. If you can, go right ahead.

SMU's alums just said they basically passed a hat around and got enough to cover almost a decade of no revenue from the ACC. Clemson and FSU are much more storied than SMU, so I'm assuming they can do the same with the early break and tv money to be covered... right? RIGHT?

No one is stopping them but themselves. They are doing the "hold me back" of sports fights that aren't really fights.

 

[Orangezoo]

Glad to know you can read minds.

Wasn't the same said about Rutgers? That kids would want to go there to compete against the best and they never had to leave home to do it? The only thing that happened was that their backyard got raided more. For SMU, it opens up Texas even more to the ACC. The same thing is on the table for SMU.

Curious what would you have done differently to avoid what happened to the Pac 12 with that current state of the ACC and knowing who wants out? Pay them what they want so they stay which would make the rest of the league basically subservient?