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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 5119093, member: 622"] I agree on a moral basis, FSU should pay the ACC legal fees. However, I think the side with the moral upper hand usually has to give up something to bridge the gap in a relationship to move forward. Besides, the ACC will hold moral leverage over FSU if they do not crush FSU while forcing FSU to stay. If FSU continues its petulance under Alford, nobody will want FSU and they could get dumped for being more work than worth. All the while the remaining ACC schools look that much more palatable to the other conferences, should the ACC implode. (Recall that the B1G and SEC are not looking to destroy the ACC but will take a share if the ACC implodes a' la PAC 12) I think FSU will soon reason that they are not going anywhere soon. I think they dump Alford realizing he is only an ambulance chaser who is as shallow as a puddle in the road and les useful. Alford lacks business sense and cooperation necessary to get projects together, see them through completion, and work with others. The mind set of an ambulance chaser is completely different than a business manager or administrator or, dare I say, Athletic Director. If Alford is replaced with a true AD, then FSU can heal the breach and move forward. Unless FSU becomes world beaters on the scale of Sabban/Alabama, they will not move the needle much for the SEC or B1G.* Anyway, FSU has yet to realize that even if they win they lose. Alford is the big loser and they followed him wielding pebbles and butter knives into battle against fully mechanized modern armies of the ACC, ESPN, B1G, SEC, and Fox.** The Big 12 is hoping for table scraps but there will not be any. * Obviously, if the ACC implodes, either now or in 2036, both the SEC and B1G will take what they want. ** I included Fox because no one wants the GORs made public. It's not even in FSU's interest to do so as once the GOR is revealed and destroyed there are no GORs for FSU to join for protection and guaranteed payouts. [/QUOTE]

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