MEGA Conference Realignment and lawsuits Megathread: Stories, Tales, Lies, and Exaggerations

[Empirical Cane]

You're welcome. Don't forget that you got there standing on the shoulders of giants.

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Porst of the Week.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

You're welcome. Don't forget that you got there standing on the shoulders of giants.

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Exactly.

This mo-fo is trying to repo this thread like it's Graceland...

 

[TheOGCane]

Exactly.

This mo-fo is trying to repo this thread like it's Graceland...

 

[Tony4Canes]

Not another year of this!!

 

[Rickd]

Not another year of this!!

Relying on ANYTHING that a Pac 12 president has to say is not smart. You know ... the guys who TURNED DOWN the $30M per year media offer because they wanted $50M ... which resulted in NO media deal and no conference.

 

[Empirical Cane]

Not another year of this!!

In early: ACC merging with PAC-2.

Taking all that PAC-2 **** you PAC-12 departees' bonus money and spreading to Miami et al.

Coral Gable getting B1G/SEC payouts.

Hecht havin' a **** orgy they fuccin so much.

Or something like that.

 

[canesupremacy]

Who said they were GOING to a conference??? Dude!! A comment had been made that there was no incentive for B10 programs to schedule games WITH ND ... well, they just did. Dude.

It is interesting but their campuses are under 2 hours away from each other.

 

[MumbleRap]

I mean...if some want to bury their head in the sand and ignore the gravity of the situation developing, that is their prerogative. I disagree with just about everything you've said. But you are helping us get to 1000!

You don’t have to agree. No one is making you

 

[3FW]

Football money will never bring Notre Dame into a conference. Lack of opportunity in the playoffs may, or lack of ability to schedule big games. Very unlikely to happen in the next few years.

 

[hurricaneman]

Football money will never bring Notre Dame into a conference. Lack of opportunity in the playoffs may, or lack of ability to schedule big games. Very unlikely to happen in the next few years.

So you're saying Notre Dame should start their own conference.

 

[mcnaire2004]

So you're saying Notre Dame should start their own conference.

I think he's saying Notre Dame is its own conference.

 

[USNAVYCANE]

 

[Empirical Cane]

My bad everyone....sorry...got confused on small phone...

My apologies...

I deserve all the rotten vegetables thrown my way

 

[Badbart43]

Yeah, I forgot to mention the Christmas light shows, as they are in the "offseason". But still valid. I would go to the one in Daytona every year, one of my brothers goes to the one in Charlotte, he only lives a few miles away.

The lights shows are neat....kid love the lights, Daddy gets to drive the SUV on a NASCAR track.

 

[Rickd]

God, Finebaum is an idiot. FSU is academically ranked higher than half of the B10 schools, tied with MN at #53.

 

[Ispyin]

SEC trying to get them in at negotiated discount lol

 

[BS85]

My bad everyone....sorry...got confused on small phone...

My apologies...

I deserve all the rotten vegetables thrown my way

 

[Rickd]

Believe it has been mentioned as subtext, but I believe it is important in the future realignment scenarios to be really aware of what VENU SPORTS brings to college football.

-Still pending regulatory approval ... but expected to launch this Fall with a start up package.
-Sports Streaming Service that is a joint venture of Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros Discovery
-Ownership:
ESPN 33.3%
FOX 33.3%
WBD 33.3%
-Venu Sports will offer the combined SPORTS PROGRAMS from the 3 joint venture partners on one streaming service, and will include
recording and split screen capabilities. Believe you will be able to have an SEC and Bog10 game on your screen at the same time.

Was reading in one thread some further commentary regarding the potential new ACC contract that "is supposedly close to being presented" stating:

-ESPN will be financing the exit of select schools.
-Schools might be headed to either SEC or Big 10 ... but ESPN will be broadcasting some Big 10 games as part of the deal.
-The new ACC contract / GOR will have an "escape hatch" that will enable the P2 to move schools FROM the ACC TO the P2
further down the road if so desired.

This new joint venture and joint programming changes the historic "competitive stance" of these sports broadcast companies and turns them into powerful allies. So to a degree ESPN isn't "losing" a valuable property if an ACC school heads to the Big 10, they are moving to another asset that ESPN is involved with.

Huge change in the way we look at the landscape.

 

[Empirical Cane]

God, Finebaum is an idiot. FSU is academically ranked higher than half of the B10 schools, tied with MN at #53.

Perhaps just so, however it seems current weak member (the majority actually of their rosters) of both B1G + SEC are exempt from all reality when discussing pros + cons of conference expansion.

This would be no different.

 

[TooColdToHold]

God, Finebaum is an idiot. FSU is academically ranked higher than half of the B10 schools, tied with MN at #53.

That may be the case, but FSU is a bad cultural fit with the Big Ten. They would be a fish out of water in that league. And AAU membership is still very important to a lot of the school presidents. They were not happy when Nebraska lost membership.