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

[Wake_Cane]

Manny Navarro is cartoonishly wrong here. Miami views adding Cal and Stanford to the ACC as a solution to not getting enough media rights money?! Absurd. He needs to go fishing with his sources for additional details that would even make that pass the sniff test.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

If the ACC is going to add Stanford and Cal, they they should go ahead and add Oregon State and Wash St. Why? Cuts down on travel costs. Leave those 4 as the "western" pod and then thereby reducing the number of cross country trips the teams have to make. Especially for non revenue sports.

Yes, but that might not take into account that (APPARENTLY) at least Stanford and SMU are willing to join the ACC "for free" or for a very low revenue share (though Cal has bigger problems, due to a MAJOR need for cash to pay its stadium financing obligations).

I know this gets forgotten sometimes...

But the STARTING point for conversations is whether a school will be admitted as a full-share member. Once Washington and Oregon offer to join the Big 10 for half-shares or Stanford-SMU offer to join the ACC for free, all bets are off.

The mathematical reality is that, yes, TECHNICALLY Stanford and SMU could enrich the ACC by increasing BOTH the ESPN "total payout" and "average payout" (assuming they take zero). However, those factors will no longer be in play the NEXT TIME we negotiate a TV deal. So, yeah, just kicking our problems down the road a bit.

At this point, there is no "let's save a few bucks on travel costs" by adding Oregon State and Washington State. Let's just say the quiet part out loud. The only chance those two schools have of joining the ACC is if they come in for free.

 

[3FW]

Manny reading too literally. UM is All ACC and supports adding those three as long as the status quo stays in place. This scenario is not highly likely.

 

[JayCane20]

Manny reading too literally. UM is All ACC and supports adding those three as long as the status quo stays in place. This scenario is not highly likely.

He's an easy puppet.

He's also just pounding the table that this is a 6-7 win team because it's easier to spin more wins than expected by saying the young guys and transfers made huge improvement and growth versus saying its a 10 win team and trying to explain our shortcomings.

He knows nothing about anything. He wants the clout to say I told you so when things go badly or the unpopular opinion is reality. Hope he's proven wrong on both and people shred him for it.

 

[hoops156]

He's an easy puppet.

He's also just pounding the table that this is a 6-7 win team because it's easier to spin more wins than expected by saying the young guys and transfers made huge improvement and growth versus saying its a 10 win team and trying to explain our shortcomings.

He knows nothing about anything. He wants the clout to say I told you so when things go badly or the unpopular opinion is reality. Hope he's proven wrong on both and people shred him for it.

he may be right that it could be another 7 win season, but I think hes being cautious there given how miami always underperforms.

he already gets called a boot licker so to speak for making excuses for coaches.

regrading the conference stuff, he was told to put this messaging out there from UM. thats the info he got bc thats what UM wants out there.

 

[Cane6]

He's an easy puppet.

He's also just pounding the table that this is a 6-7 win team because it's easier to spin more wins than expected by saying the young guys and transfers made huge improvement and growth versus saying its a 10 win team and trying to explain our shortcomings.

He knows nothing about anything. He wants the clout to say I told you so when things go badly or the unpopular opinion is reality. Hope he's proven wrong on both and people shred him for it.

Fat Manny called the Miami administration a “**** show” when the New Mexico AD “turned down” Miami

He’s like Ron Burgandy reading whatever is on the teleprompter

 

[JayCane20]

Fat Manny called the Miami administration a “**** show” when the New Mexico AD “turned down” Miami

He’s like Ron Burgandy reading whatever is on the teleprompter

He loves to kick Miami when they're down and say told you so.

Never once does he say he was wrong. He's always right but then something extraordinary happened out of the blue that made him wrong... inexplicably.

 

[mcnaire2004]

I hate to continue to be negative but I think the ACC will be just fine.

 

[cf3000]

Fat Manny called the Miami administration a “**** show” when the New Mexico AD “turned down” Miami

He’s like Ron Burgandy reading whatever is on the teleprompter

 

[Hold My Beer]

Fat Manny called the Miami administration a “**** show” when the New Mexico AD “turned down” Miami

He’s like Ron Burgandy reading whatever is on the teleprompter

Or maybe Ron Jeremy

 

[Badbart43]

Why are you trying to put scotch tape on the Titanic?

Not me, I want us out....but my voice means diddly to those making the decisions

 

[TheOriginalCane]

I hate to continue to be negative but I think the ACC will be just fine.

If "just fine" means "making $25-40 million less PER YEAR than the Big 10 and the SEC schools", then, sure, you will be correct.

 

[dycane]

I hate to continue to be negative but I think the ACC will be just fine.

Don’t kid yourself, important voices in the room will inevitably take this position because, well, it’s UM.

 

[Tony4Canes]

So, what's everyone guess on what ACC does?? I have a feeling they will add Cal & Stanford at least.

 

[ben]

Manny Navarro is cartoonishly wrong here. Miami views adding Cal and Stanford to the ACC as a solution to not getting enough media rights money?! Absurd. He needs to go fishing with his sources for additional details that would even make that pass the sniff test.

Manny’s sources would never take him fishing. He would eat all the fish.

 

[caneworld]

So, what's everyone guess on what ACC does?? I have a feeling they will add Cal & Stanford at least.

Yes... all of this is a temporary fix

 

[Alex Del Piero]

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Donna Shalala got pegged

 

[Cajuncane]

Manny’s sources would never take him fishing. He would eat all the fish.

He’d eat all the bait first so there’d be no fish…

 

[BostonCanes47]

He's an easy puppet.

He's also just pounding the table that this is a 6-7 win team because it's easier to spin more wins than expected by saying the young guys and transfers made huge improvement and growth versus saying its a 10 win team and trying to explain our shortcomings.

He knows nothing about anything. He wants the clout to say I told you so when things go badly or the unpopular opinion is reality. Hope he's proven wrong on both and people shred him for it.

I don’t disageee with most of what you said but almost every media member I’ve read besides Phil Steele sees Miami winning 5 to 7 games this year.