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Message: [QUOTE="atom58, post: 4774316, member: 5312"] They signed to get more $$$ and stability as the others did. This basically saved the ACC over the years. The gravy train from these cable TV conference channels will one day end. The last graph I saw showed the downward trend (over some past years) of not only cable TV but broadcast TV too! On the other hand, streaming has an upward trend. There may be some floor to this graph which is not zero but that floor will not likely support the conferences to the extent they previously had so they will have to look for $$$ elsewhere. I do not support FSU going to the SEC. I doubt they would be admitted as the SEC still remembers 1990 when they thought FSU would join and then it came out in the press that FSU was talking to the ACC so the SEC publicly removed FSU from consideration. Then ACC initially did not have the votes - Duke and UNC to my memory voted against it at first and there was a danger FSU was going nowhere. To this day, whenever FSU plays in any post season game with SEC referees the bias is obvious, years after they fact that we chose the ACC. One other reason is the famous SEC Bagman. They do exist - that SB Nation site had an interview with one. A friend of mine who was close to the boosters told me a leading running back prospect who signed with FSU told Bowden an SEC team had offered him $50 thousand - this was back in the 1980s. He wanted to play at FSU and later went to the NFL. FSU did not pay him to play. Let me add that this is not limited to the SEC. Suspicions are that several prominent teams in the Big10 and Pac12 are involved too - "keeping up with the Joneses". Someone at an ACC sports blog said he personally knew of one prominent Pac12 team when he lived out West providing $$$ and even drugs and prostitutes at player parties. I do not know this for a fact but believe it. Meanwhile the NCAA is apparently too afraid to do anything about it. That would leave only USG and well ... [/QUOTE]

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