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

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USNAVYCANE said:
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Clemson wants to be paid to leave the ACC...

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Tony4Canes said:
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Something definitely will get done, but why do I get the feeling this will just begin a litany of lawsuits?

How does Title IX come into play? Will schools have to take football, men's basketball, and other revenue generating sports (i.e. women's basketball for some schools) and take them out of the athletic department since Title IX comes into play for entities that receive government funds?

Perhaps create private corporations that run the revenue sports and whose revenue streams come from tv money, sponsorship, and ticket sales - no tax-free donations anymore and the corporation would also be taxed like a regular company. Basically, the school would license its name and logo to the private corporation for use.
 
TheOGCane said:
There’s no CHANCE fsu goes B10 and we do too. Hope it’s not TRUE
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FSU still isn’t AAU accredited. People can say it’s a formality but the AAU members are generally very selective and I don’t think fsu meets the criteria. The AAU looked at both USF and FSU last year, but only extended an invite to USF. FSU has far more name recognition but it didn’t matter. UM got in because we have a huge biomedical research program. I don’t think FSU has anything comparable. My guess would still be FSU /Clemson to SEC , UNC and Miami to B1G ( or UM /ND)
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
It's a very complex calculus right now.

On one side, you have "well, we don't want to get 'too big' by conference and potentially dilute our time slots and revenue share" that leads to the idea of "conservative, slow growth" on the part of Big 10/SEC decision-makers.

On the other side, you have a desire for the networks (and scheduling etc.) to have some amount of certainty, and for all of the game-playing to be over, assuming the networks pony-up with the knowledge that they have secured "enough" of the best teams that there is no real "third-party conference" that will ever be able to reach an equal tier with the P2.

In the mix are issues of NCAA vs. stand-alone football governing body, paying the players as employees, and revenue-sharing, not to mention how/if NIL remains a thing once players are salaried. In short, you would think that if you are going to navigate THAT MUCH CHANGE, that you'd like to nail down the other issues as much as possible.

Particularly since it SEEMS TO BE that your P2 admission ticket is "are you committed to the proper spending/resources level", then I believe that some of the Sorting Hat issues will be self-selecting. For example, Miami will commit to spending what it takes, Boston College will not, etc.

Put another way, if the Big 10/SEC are going to become the NFC/AFC of college football, then you are probably looking at 20-22 teams each. And I would expect that streaming will be a way to get more "time slots" than what might be available on broadcast. I'd also expect 10-game conference schedules. If it was "only" 8 or 9 conference games, then I'd expect a chunk of the OOC to be cross-P2, and then the networks who own the Big 10 and SEC would be in a mutually-beneficial spot as it relates to OOC games.

Interesting times.

Everything depends on who, and how many, the Big 10 and SEC take. And a lot of THAT will probably depend on what the networks project they can pay under an expanded marketplace.
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I'm not certain all current members of SEC and B1G can sign up for the next era of big money football.

So does that cause a reshuffling of those conferences as well?

Do Vandy and Northwestern wholly abandon any pretense of admissions standard (as would Miami, UNC, UCLA, and UVA)?

Does Stanford try to join this big money league somehow?

The permutations are deliciousoso!
 
Empirical Cane said:
I'm not certain all current members of SEC and B1G can sign up for the next era of big money football.

So does that cause a reshuffling of those conferences as well?

Do Vandy and Northwestern wholly abandon any pretense of admissions standard (as would Miami, UNC, UCLA, and UVA)?

Does Stanford try to join this big money league somehow?

The permutations are deliciousoso!
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GT, Va Tech, Stanford, NW, Vandy, UVA are about to get relegated to this G5 playoff round league.

No one cares about "TV markets" anymore- no need for Rutgers, Maryland, or NW in the Big 10.
 
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Handsome Squidbum said:
FSU still isn’t AAU accredited. People can say it’s a formality but the AAU members are generally very selective and I don’t think fsu meets the criteria. The AAU looked at both USF and FSU last year, but only extended an invite to USF. FSU has far more name recognition but it didn’t matter. UM got in because we have a huge biomedical research program. I don’t think FSU has anything comparable. My guess would still be FSU /Clemson to SEC , UNC and Miami to B1G ( or UM /ND)
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FSU is very close to AAU. They have a very aggressive research expenditure program laid out and are implementing it, and it includes new medical research activities. I firmly believe that FSU does have a B10 invite, with full share. The only question is ... does ESPN step in finally and use their muscle to "usher" FSU to the SEC? @Genetics (yeah, I know, click bait generator ... but does have some actual contacts as well due to his job) stated on Warchant yesterday that he had visited two B10 schools (job related) and was discussing realignment ... the names that came up by the school reps were FSU, Clemson, UNC and UVA. Clemson is the one that is "AAU Challenged" and has had little B10 university president support ... but a lot of FOX media support due to viewership. I hope that ESPN overcomes the inertia of "remaining at 16" and grabs FSU and UNC along with Clemson. That would make Miami the Florida inroad for the B10. Will be interesting to see how this unfolds, and it is critical that Miami have a high profile season in 24.
 
Rickd said:
I firmly believe that FSU does have a B10 invite, with full share.
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How would FSU receiving a full share from Day One sit with U-Dub and Oregon, which are (reportedly) getting a half share until 2031? Would the other ACC schools you mentioned also get a full share right from the start as well? Seems like that might a uncomfortable situation to navigate for the commissioner
 
Rickd said:
That would make Miami the Florida inroad for the B10. Will be interesting to see how this unfolds, and it is critical that Miami have a high profile season in 24.
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Conference realignment at the SEC/B1G level isn't based on the outcome of one football season.

You don't think Sankey and Pettiti have already decided which directions they want to go with their respective expansions?

These moves happen in pairs: Texas+Oklahoma, USC+UCLA, Oregon+Washington.

In Miami's case, the sooner the ACC unravels and Notre Dame's "half-membership" becomes untenable, the better off the Canes will be
 
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