Don't be too judgmental, SU had Buzz and Nancy, neither of whom had a real clue or vision for SU sports. Leadership can change and fix that problem. Not that I want BC to rise up.
The PAC12 got offers, they rejected the offers. As a whole, they were not the $50MM+ they demanded. Piecemeal with games in the east and central time zones (where the majority of fans are) they became more valuable but most are not worth the $50MM they demanded and are not getting it in their new conferences.
That'true, I'm just saying what the rest of the schools in the conference are thinking. To be fair to NC, they did fire Dazz to go with Hafley who they thought was going to be some young coaching savant. It was as ugly yesterday as the days of Grob were for the Orange, that's for sure.
Having 2 bad Chancellors in a row hurt Syracuse. We were lucky Bragman got State money for the Dome or we might not have a football team.
PAC12 saw B1G get that much money and PAC12 also saw PAC12 is better than B1G last season. So they demand the same amount of money.
Arrogance coupled with horrible leadership equals disaster.
He actually wrote this for his best friend/bodyguard who'd tragically passed away. Bret Michaels and Poison weren't exactly Lennon/McCartney and the Beatles, but this was a well written, very good song.
BT is boring play in both sports. And always overrated. ALWAYS. That's what huge money does: you can use to prop yourself up and get away with endless pretending.
Finebaum is and always has been a tool of the worst sort. The catch is that now he is a tool of ESPN as much as of the SEC, so when he gets nasty of snarky, he is expressing what the SEC wants expressed and ESPN is at least OK with being expressed.
So you aren't interested in where our future QBs come from?
thats not conf realignment, thats football breaking away from the NCAA and their own Olympic Sports.
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I agree the schools are greedy and causing much of the expansion nonsense. However, the networks could also be less greedy and have kept the conferences as they were had they wanted to and been less greedy. The networks make a lot of money, too.This Orlando Sentinel column by Mike Bianchi nails why college realignment is utter madness and administrators are chasing dollars they don’t need out of fear they’ll be left behind.
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It’s no secret why the ACC added this underwhelming trio; it’s because all three schools were willing to give up all or some of their TV revenue — money that the existing ACC teams will then be able to divide among themselves. In other words, the ACC added three desperate new members just so existing league teams could bleed them dry of their TV revenue.
It’s all part of the belief among college administrators that they need more and more and more money to compete with their rivals. As Florida AD Scott Stricklin told me recently about the mentality in today’s college football, “There’s nothing you won’t spend to get the best players and best people to come to your program.”
But if money is all that matters, then the Gators would beat FSU every single season because, well, the Gators have always had a significantly bigger athletic budget than the Seminoles. If money is all that matters, the Texas Longhorns — traditionally among the top two revenue producers in college athletics — would be competing for national titles most every season. The Longhorns, who have won more than eight games only once in the last nine years, bring in about $35 million more per year than Georgia, which has won back-to-back national titles.
Do athletic programs really need to make $250 million a year in revenue when $200 million or — gasp! — $150 million would suffice? As Bud Fox asked greedy billionaire Gordon Gekko in the classic movie Wall Street: “How much is enough? How many yachts can you water-ski behind?”
Florida State as more than enough money to compete for national championships. In the end, college football is about hiring a good coach, giving him decent resources, having a modicum of patience and letting him recruit and develop talent. That’s what’s the Seminoles did with Norvell, whose recruiting and work in the transfer portal has paid off handsomely.
ACC-poor FSU dominates LSU and all of its SEC money | Commentary
Breaking news: Athletic budgets, media rights deals and grant-of-rights agreements had nothing to do with FSU dominating LSU. The Seminoles have more than enough money to compete for a national cha…
The networks fund all of this. It should horrify people that ESPN and Fox were so outraged that the Pac told them they felt they were badly undervalued that the two networks decided to freeze out the pac, which set up the 108 year old conference of death.
While I agree with your sentiments, the fact remains both networks did make offers. Whether the offers were too low-balled and whether the PAC overestimated their value based on generated revenue/viewership both remain debatable as we will likely never see the data. Neither network nor the streamers believed the PAC to be worth the $50MM/team they demanded.
