ACC adds Cal, Stanford and SMU

[THWG247]

I thought Stanford‘s mascot was a tree?

 

[savbandjacket]

Sportskeeda reported that under the terms of the ACC’s TV deal with ESPN, the network can renegotiate the deal if the membership falls under 15 . With Florida State looking to depart at any time, that posed a crisis for the ACC if ESPN insisted on a renegotiated the TV deal. Adding the (3)schools serves as a kind of insurance policy; it creates a cushion when Florida State and others who may want to exit.

The ACC also counts on the three new schools to bring in additional TV revenue, which can then be distributed to existing schools in an attempt to appease those who want more money. ESPN reports that California and Stanford will only receive 30% of the standard ACC payouts for some unspecified period of time, while SMU will apparently forgo all ACC TV revenues for nine years.

As inconvenient as the new geography is, there are some potential advantages — again, dealing with TV revenue. First, the ACC picks up two big markets, which puts its schools in front of potential recruits in Texas and California in a way they weren’t before. Second, this expands the ACC’s potential inventory of TV games that it can monetize. A start time of 9 p.m. EST for a November game in Blacksburg doesn’t really work but isn’t a problem if that game is in relatively balmy Berkeley instead.


Ultimately, though, the real advantage of this expansion is that it lessens the chance that the ACC will collapse, picked apart by scavengers from other conferences. If the ACC were to ever fall apart, some schools would have their pick of conferences and might actually be able to upgrade themselves in terms of TV revenue; others would not. ACC fans ought to love this expansion because it heads off, at least for now, the prospect of ACC Teams winding up in some lesser conference in the aftermath of an ACC apocalypse.

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Here's why the Atlantic Coast Conference is adding teams in California and Texas

The geography makes no sense, but Virginia Tech fans should embrace this expansion because one alternative is winding up in a lesser conference.

cardinalnews.org

When the schools that can leave do leave, the ACC is a lesser conference. The difference is that schools will be stuck in it.

 

[GTJay]

I thought Stanford‘s mascot was a tree?

They determined that was offensive to the tree-hugging climate alarmists.

 

[GTJay]

Tulane, USF, Memphis on deck

Best ACC Replacements for Florida State (& Clemson?)

In late December, Florida State officially sued the ACC over grant of rights and withdrawal fees, laying the groundwork for their exit from the conference. While many suspect this (and a potential …

cfbselect.com

Forward thinking—gotta wrap up the Gulf Coast and Mississippi River coastal markets :-)

 

[ClubSeats]

I thought Stanford‘s mascot was a tree?

I thought it was a red bird or a monk or something.

 

[BuzzinWreck78]

the cardinals have always had a spelling problem.
wasn't that tree deemed raciss?

 

[JJacket]

Cardinal. No "S"

 

[THWG247]

Cardinal. No "S"

Like a high ranking priest in the Catholic church?

 

[gtleviathan]

I thought Stanford‘s mascot was a tree?

Apparently their mascot is @Akinji07

 

[Uncle Mike]

Maybe take Tulane....

 

[clapper]

Like a high ranking priest in the Catholic church?

Like the color.

 

[THWG247]

Like the color.

Of the bird?

 

[GTRules]

I thought Stanford‘s mascot was a tree?

It’s a pedobear.

 

[MatatoGT]

I thought Stanford‘s mascot was a tree?

Technically, Stanford athletics has no mascot. They’re the Cardinal, as in the color, not the bird.
The student made tree is the mascot of the LSJUMB, the marching band.
To their credit, the Stanford band is a whole thing, they are their own brand of weird and sometimes offensive.

 

[gt7282c@prism]

the cardinals have always had a spelling problem.
wasn't that tree deemed raciss?

It’s supposed to be a sequoia, not the “strange fruit” bearing kind.

 

[Malone]

Technically, Stanford athletics has no mascot. They’re the Cardinal, as in the color, not the bird.
The student made tree is the mascot of the LSJUMB, the marching band.
To their credit, the Stanford band is a whole thing, they are their own brand of weird and sometimes offensive.

I’ve the seen the Stanford band many times in person over the years. Always entertaining.

 

[JJacket]

Those rich alums at Stanford, SMU, and Cal need to be calling in their markers and getting the ACC a new contract. You can't tell me a school with the volume of billionaires Stanford has produced and the number of lawyers they have produced can't work out a new contract. This isn't crappy FSU lawyers and hundred thousandaires.

 

[gtleviathan]

I’ve the seen the Stanford band many times in person over the years. Always entertaining.

When we played them in the Seattle Bowl, they had some dudes in the endzone playing frisbee during their performance. Our drum major at the time (who was a monster Ultimate frisbee player) ran in and intercepted it from them. They laughed about it and invited him and several other Tech band members to toss it with them for the rest of the performance. They're a fun group.

 

[JJacket]

When we played them in the Seattle Bowl, they had some dudes in the endzone playing frisbee during their performance. Our drum major at the time (who was a monster Ultimate frisbee player) ran in and intercepted it from them. They laughed about it and invited him and several other Tech band members to toss it with them for the rest of the performance. They're a fun group.