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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 621078, member: 3201"]
Agree.  One thing I am not concerned about is FSU's strength of schedule or ability to compete for national titles in the ACC.
 
My concern is primarily financial.  No, we're never going to catch the Floridas and Alabamas of the world revenue wise.  That's just the way it is.  We are a young program and a young university for football purposes.  But I do have a problem with the media contracts putting schools like Arkansas, South Carolina, etc to our level.
 
And in addition to media contracts, the poor state of ACC football hurts at the ticket office.  Winning would help that, but FSU fans probably live further from their stadium than any other major program with a stadium that size.  The home conference lineups that we've had just aren't getting folks to drive five hours each way and drop $700 on a weekend the way they need to.  Winning will help, as will the occasional Notre Dame games, as will better OOC scheduling.  But we also need the rest of the ACC to make meaningful matchups.
 
I think the ACC should absolutely be considering discussing Netflix and Amazon as outlets.  Neither of them are in sports at the moment, but they are dropping meaningful money on original programming.  At some point one of them is going to do it.  It would be a great move for Amazon, who is trying to catch/differentiate themselves from Netflix.
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