I think that’s a lot of wishful thinking. Our upgraded facilities are only playing catch up.
We've been hearing this forever. We just beat out Penn State, Alabama and Georgia for 11 recruits. We just got Ohio State's starting QB. Our facilities can't still be THAT bad.
Most likely landing place would be B12 or whatever it will be called. I don’t think even a quarter of those programs play lax so it’s basically irrelevant. It will come down to football and if you are a blue blood hoops brand like Kansas, Duke, UNC. That could have saved us at one point but not at current state.
Even if Fla. State leaves, and even if Clemson leaves, there are still a dozen teams left in the ACC. Why does the ACC have to completely go out of business? ESPN has a contract with the league for another 30 years, seemingly. The ACC has a network. The remaining teams might not be in the championship discussion for football, but were the teams of the Pac-12 or the Big 12, for the most part? No, they weren't. Those schools still have programs.
Eventually, cable is going to die, and streaming will take over. It won't be 10 years, if that. Then, how much will these teams make? You can't charge people separately for every single thing that they used to get in a bundle. Hard core fans will select certain packages in their core sports, but there will be many more losers than winners - just like for these 1,000 kids who entered the transfer portal. Not all of them are getting a lush NIL package.
Adding SMU, Cal, Stanford only pjsssssed off the “Shot callers” in the conference. Right now i think our best hope is to get a lifeline to the new B12 or if the SEC/B10 combine with their big brands and drop the Vandy, Northwestern, Rutgers of the league and break away from the NCAA and form a paid to play league.
The football teams have wanted disproportionate revenue sharing, which we know has killed conferences in the past. Uneven membership can't survive, because there is no power balance.
If a new ACC remained a "thing", which unlike the Pac 10, I think it will, because there aren't nearly enough landing spots for these teams, and we are still in the East Coast time zone, when programming is needed.
Is ESPN just going to give up on Saturday and Sunday college programming in the Noon EDT time slot, and let NBC and soccer control the airwaves until 2 PM or so, when the Big 10 and SEC games are shown?
Even then will Syracuse be willing to pay their football athletes with someone like Syverud as Chancellor? Doesn’t seem like something he would support. We’re in a tougher spot than most think.
We seem to have found money under the couch, for how we have been operating for the last 30 days or so. They just made a big bet; I don't see them folding so easily.
Who else is honestly going to get invited out of the ACC? 4 teams, tops - Clemson and maybe Florida State to the SEC, and maybe UNC and UVA to the Big 10. I just don't see anything more than that.
Notre Dame probably goes back to the Big 10. Will the SEC or Big 10 have to kick out schools to make television contracts work? Or will they become loose federations of 20+ teams? I think that will lose rivalries, which, as we have seen, erodes interest in the product.
An ACC could still have Syracuse, Boston College, Pitt, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Louisville, Va. Tech, NC State, Georgia Tech, Duke, Wake Forest, and maybe someone like Rutgers gets the boot from the Big 10. I wonder if Maryland might be in play, but probably not if the Big 10 went after UVA and UNC. That would kind of complete the checkerboard for them on the East Coast.
