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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5279306, member: 173"]
The line in the article from the Big Ten saying they question if Florida State can be a strong partner is telling.  FSU is 51-47 since 2017.  They've NEVER invested in football at the same levels as SEC schools, they are a lot like Miami in that winning created a culture of winning that was able to overcome the facilities gap between them and schools like Alabama.  Once the winning slowed, recruits started comparing the schools to their peers - and the facilities gap led to a big dip in recruiting.  They don't have the bench of high value alumni to fund NIL to the level of the Alabamas and Ohio States, so now they're in an even bigger hole.

I think the vision was to get more TV revenue to spend on facilities while they tried to focus on playing catch-up on NIL - the TV revenue would just help on one of their two big issues.   But they look like a program whose best days are behind them, just like Miami.  They are two programs that became powers in the first big seismic shift in college football after the NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (1984), but that are likely to be drowned in this most recent seismic shift.  They can both be decent with occasionally great years going forward - they will never be what they once were though.
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