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

[WoadBlue]

Thanks OX. AA basically stated what this board has surmised. There will be winners and losers on the money side. Teams will be fighting for time slots and exposure on the better networks, gives example of GATech owning the best ratings last fall based on Week Zero game with FSU, big Miami game, and the multiple overtime game with UGA. [Can SU be a player in the ratings war next fall w/Tennessee, Miami, Clemson, ND, UNC?] Teams can leave when they want (are offered a spot in the B1G or SEC), no one probably leaves right away but once the dust settles anything goes. The five years of stability can be cut short if the B1G or SEC make an offer, thus "stability" has no clear definition. Non-revenue sports may see cuts in team numbers to accommodate the expected ruling on NIL/Pay for play.

The reason that we have seen that Syracuse reptilian Greg Sankey talk about the SEC and BT playing a league wide series of OOC games vs only each other is so that they control all OOC money as well.

And that is a reason I have come to see the ACC needing to both expunge dead weight while also getting larger: so that the league will have much better numbers of larger state flagship and land grant schools abler to do better on TV than Wake etc. If necessary, the ACC then could play up top 10 league games.

My advice to everyone is to follow the Bobby Bowden plan that was necessary to the rise of FSU football. Bowden found that most of the top football band names at the time ewer not interested in playing FSU with a straight up Home-Away series. So at times FSU would get a 2 game series, with FSU's 'home' game being played at an off campus site, such as Orlando or Tampa or Miami or Jacksonville.

TV viewers are not going to avoid watching FSU play anybody because the FSU 'home game' is in Jacksonville rather than Tallahassee. TV viewers are not going to drop in number because Syracuse plays PSU or Mich ST at Giants stadium rather than in Syracuse.

I have been making that case on UNC boards for years. UNC needs to be willing to give up a true Home game for playing in say, Charlotte if that gets UNC a series against UGA or Tennessee or some other major name brand.

If I am Dook, for example, I am begging all SEC schools but Vandy and all BT schools but Northwestern and Rutgers to play a series in which the Dook 'home' game is at a neutral site.

Cal should try to get a 4 game series vs SC, with 2 games at the Coliseum, 1 in Berkeley, and the other Cal 'home' game at the Rose Bowl.

 

[longtimefan]

The reason that we have seen that Syracuse reptilian Greg Sankey talk about the SEC and BT playing a league wide series of OOC games vs only each other is so that they control all OOC money as well.

And that is a reason I have come to see the ACC needing to both expunge dead weight while also getting larger: so that the league will have much better numbers of larger state flagship and land grant schools abler to do better on TV than Wake etc. If necessary, the ACC then could play up top 10 league games.

My advice to everyone is to follow the Bobby Bowden plan that was necessary to the rise of FSU football. Bowden found that most of the top football band names at the time ewer not interested in playing FSU with a straight up Home-Away series. So at times FSU would get a 2 game series, with FSU's 'home' game being played at an off campus site, such as Orlando or Tampa or Miami or Jacksonville.

TV viewers are not going to avoid watching FSU play anybody because the FSU 'home game' is in Jacksonville rather than Tallahassee. TV viewers are not going to drop in number because Syracuse plays PSU or Mich ST at Giants stadium rather than in Syracuse.

I have been making that case on UNC boards for years. UNC needs to be willing to give up a true Home game for playing in say, Charlotte if that gets UNC a series against UGA or Tennessee or some other major name brand.

If I am Dook, for example, I am begging all SEC schools but Vandy and all BT schools but Northwestern and Rutgers to play a series in which the Dook 'home' game is at a neutral site.

Cal should try to get a 4 game series vs SC, with 2 games at the Coliseum, 1 in Berkeley, and the other Cal 'home' game at the Rose Bowl.

You need a Northeast geography lesson. Giants Stadium is not just down the road from the SU campus.