ACC adds Cal, Stanford and SMU

GT flunkout said:
No butthurt. Just not buying the arguments. The Big 12 must be kicking themselves for not taking such a great deal, right?

But they are in, and with NIL and the ease of using $ to turn rosters, we will know soon enough.
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They are already on their way. They have a 5 star and roughly 15 4 stars on their current roster and that was before joining a P4 conference. T
 
GT flunkout said:
Who cares if they have a ton of Texas schools? This would have been the financial deal of the century for any conference. They aren't even asking anything in return apparently. Nothing lost and they get a bunch of built-in rivalries.

Nobody in TX gives a öööö about SMU is why, and now they will care even less when Syracuse and UVa and Pitt come to town. I get why we took them. They were the best of bad options. But whatever...it's all short-term anyway. The whole thing is going to be blown up in a short number of years.
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That depends. If they spend $30M per year on a coach (Deon, for example), they'll fill up their stadium and everyone will be talking about the football push they're making. Even ESPN.
 
SMU just beat Tulane convincingly. Not sure we want to be playing them in the Fenway Bowl :scared:
 
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GT flunkout said:
No butthurt. Just not buying the arguments. The Big 12 must be kicking themselves for not taking such a great deal, right?

But they are in, and with NIL and the ease of using $ to turn rosters, we will know soon enough.
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The GOR stays in effect as long as at least 15 teams are in the league, so the league added 3 more. They won't make serious money until the decision about whether the ACC will survive is determined.
 
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.
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