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

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USNAVYCANE said:
I’d be ok with Miami taking a half share or less for 5/7 years to join the B1G or sec right now
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You and me both...

Just have to figure out the best approach on GOR. There's really 3 choices...

1. Vote to abolish the entire conference and try to tie the non-existence of the conference to the NO-LONGER-ENFORCEABLE nature of the rights being sold to ESPN (i.e., how do you continue to enforce your ownership of broadcastt rights when there is no conference to schedule games?).

2. Challenge the NEVER-ENFORCEABLE nature of the GOR and/or the GOR extension of time. This is the solution that would take the most amount of time with the greatest amount of uncertainty, but it is clear and definitive and allows the conference to survive.

3. Work out a complicated NBA-style trade of rights, with either ESPN-only (ESPN allows some ACC teams to flip to the SEC, since ESPN owns broadcast rights to both conferences) or with a more-complicated sale/transfer of rights to the Fox/CBS/NBC Rebel Alliance (ACC-to-Big-10 schools).

Of course, there is always the pusillanimous @NorthernVirginiaCane approach, which is to cup your balls with one hand, cover your ****** with the other hand, wait around for 10 years to "see what happens", and hope nobody invades your mouth in the interim.
 
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Hold My Beer said:
I think the B1G is simply waiting to see how the ACC's vote for/against expansion goes. They can get Stanford and Cal for chicken feed because the ACC's offer is even weaker.

If the expansion vote fails, then the B1G waits out Oregon State and Washington State jumping to the MWC before adding Stanford and Cal (and thus avoiding even more blood on the hands for killing the Pac-12)

If the expansion vote passes, then the B1G may have to speed up its process of adding Stanford and Cal, perhaps even before OSU and WSU "officially" join the MWC.

This is basically the same deal where U-Dub and Oregon were holding out for Arizona (and ASU and Utah) to leave first and go to the Big 12 to where the Huskies and Ducks could say "but we had no choice" when they bailed on the Pac-12
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Pac 12 exits are looking like Bizarro eBay. The bidding just keeps getting lower...
 
SFbayCane said:
People think Im joking but Im not. People thinking UM is going to get an invitation to join the Big Ten or SEC are living in denial.

I said from the beginning that our best hope is to get into the Big XII and form a new rivalry with UCF. Now it appears that ship has sailed. Now Im leaning towards a new conference of schools like UM, Stanford, and a few others that want to be considered Ivy League level with slightly better sports programs.

We'll see. I truly hope that I'm wrong but it's just so very rare that I am. :beedog2:
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Nope and nope.

Miami will absolutely get an invitation from the Big 10.

And it really doesn't matter if the Big 12 had 24 schools, they would ABSOLUTELY take Miami. No "ships" have "sailed" on applying to our Big 12 "safety conference".
 
Shogungts said:
This is already happening
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Yes. The rich will continue to get richer.

Which is why Miami cannot afford to stay in the Poverty ACC for 12 more years just to "see what happens". Because we are scurrrred of the GOR. Which is "ironclad" and "IRREVOCABLE", or so some joke porsters have claimed.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Nope and nope.

Miami will absolutely get an invitation from the Big 10.

And it really doesn't matter if the Big 12 had 24 schools, they would ABSOLUTELY take Miami. No "ships" have "sailed" on applying to our Big 12 "safety conference".
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I wish I had your confidence on the matter.
 
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Wait until ACC leadership tries to sell the attractiveness of Fresno and Memphis as road game destinations next.

Who didn't love The First 48?! See you in Memphis (don't engage Ja Morant)!

Fresno? FresYES! It's better than Bakersfield!

Ugh.

 
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Tad Footeball said:
Wait until ACC leadership tries to sell the attractiveness of Fresno and Memphis as road game destinations next.

Who didn't love The First 48?! See you in Memphis (don't engage Ja Morant)!

Fresno? FresYES! It's better than Bakersfield!

Ugh.

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Does Oxford have a football team? What about Shanghai University? Let's get those international dollars (or pounds/yuan)!
 
Shogungts said:
They apparently have several donors with buku bucks that have agreed to cover the ~$200M they wouldn't receive...
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Welllll...I know they are talking about the money they would forego, but the ACTUAL sacrifice is the money they would lose from the AAC.

SMU needs to stop advertising the "lost money" that they never would have received without making this deal. The REAL hit to SMU is them walking away from the AAC money for 7 years. And THAT damage is only about $50M.
 
Tad Footeball said:
Wait until ACC leadership tries to sell the attractiveness of Fresno and Memphis as road game destinations next.

Who didn't love The First 48?! See you in Memphis (don't engage Ja Morant)!

Fresno? FresYES! It's better than Bakersfield!

Ugh.

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Hilarious that Memphis is ahead of Flagship Cal.
 
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JD08 said:
Doesn't the GOR go through 2036? That's 13 years, 14 if it covers the 2036 season.
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True. But @NorthernVirginiaCane has backed off of his 2036 claim, and now says we might only have to serve hard prison time until "the early 2030s".

But, yes, if anyone thinks Miami can survive FOURTEEN years of slow fiscal asphyxiation, then I don't know what else can be said...
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Pac 12 exits are looking like Bizarro eBay. The bidding just keeps getting lower...
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Looking back to last summer when the B1G shocked the world with the USC/UCLA maneuver, FOX has continuously one-upped ESPN along the way.
  • The B1G-ESPN media negotiations where FOX slickly was at the table as a B1G "adviser" during negotiations, then brings in both CBS and NBC for max exposure and to help pay the freight for the BIG's media rights
  • Keeping U-Dub and Oregon on the B1G hook to where ESPN (nor anybody else) would be able to close a deal because the Ducks and Huskies were gonna say no to the price tag because going to the Big Ten was the objective
  • This ACC/Stanford-Cal deal where Jim Phillips can only offer crumbs because he's trying to quell a mutiny. FOX can and will end those discussions at the appropriate time — and won't have to pay much to do it while pleasing the egghead presidents ("academic prestige!") and AD's trying to keep their jobs ("we can beat Cal and Stanford")
Once Stanford and Cal are in the B1G boat, it's basically down to the ESPN and FOX carving up the ACC.

FSU/Clemson ➡️ SEC
UNC/NCSU ➡️ SEC
CANES/Leprechauns ➡️ B1G
UVA/VT ➡️ SEC
KU/Mizzou ➡️ B1G
Duke/DT/WVU ➡️ SEC
done
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Nope and nope.

Miami will absolutely get an invitation from the Big 10.

And it really doesn't matter if the Big 12 had 24 schools, they would ABSOLUTELY take Miami. No "ships" have "sailed" on applying to our Big 12 "safety conference".
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I’ll bet my house Miami has a big ten offer subject to Miami and others sorting out GOR

It will happen
 
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