I can only guess that the Big 10 has to have some buyer's remorse when it comes to Maryland and Rutgers. Fans in NYC might tune in to or attend a Rutgers game if they are actually alums of the visiting team. Also Maryland and Rutgers have much larger enrollments than BC and I don't think BC is AAU.
You're blowing smoke and don't know what your are talking about. ND is ALREADY a full voting member of the ACC, and that status was granted to them based on the deal they negotiated when they agreed to 5 ACC football games per season along with all of their other sports. The ACC cannot arbitrarily decide to change that status. They signed the GOR just like Miami did and are bound under the same terms and conditions and also receive the same benefits.
Abolishing the ACC deal is part of what I meant by “getting it done”. Sorry it wasn’t clear.
It makes me all tingly inside thinking about being in a football conference with Norte Dame.
This is the correct answer & many people in this thread don’t realize it
No you are blowing smoke. If all the ACC schools decide to abolish the contract. That shyyt is null and void. They are not a member of the ACC in football terms. Those single game deals are no different than **** scheduling OOC. If they join as a football member that changes what the ACC can demand from ESPN. Keep blowing them though. And oh yeah then can arbitrarily decide to change the status by getting enough members to terminate the GOR. So unless it requires unanimity, you're talking ****.
Well said. I would only add to that the Big 10 is maximizing those eyeballs ALL day from noon Eastern kickoffs to potentially late games on the west coast...it's Big 10 all day Saturday and it's pretty remarkable for a conference that refused to play night games only a few years ago.
The ACC schools cannot "abolish that contract" or terminate the GOR. The ACC schools can vote to dissolve THE CONFERENCE, no conference the GOR goes away. If the conference remains the GOR remains until it expires, as per the contract, in 2036.
Whats the difference? Abolish, terminate, invalidate, repudiate, incinerate. Wtf u man be on? Dissolving the conference is abolishing the GOR. They can vote to dissolve the conference with an aim of forming a new conference with more teams and trying to strikea new TV Deal. That was my point. Which would force ND hand if they wanna be a part of the new set up, stay independent or join another conference. Everything i said in my first post. Smfh
They cannot do what you are stating. The ACC teams cannot abolish the ACC and "form a new conference". ESPN would be all over that with litigation to maintain the GOR. Abolish the conference ... and individually LEAVE the conference to JOIN other conferences ? Yes ... that is the plan.
