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

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caneingville said:
It’s bigger than ours, and our universities are very close in size.
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DTP said:
I don’t have an issue with the Georgia game. There were at least other options. I do have a problem with teams getting credit for getting ratings when there’s no other option. They could have put literally ANY ACC team in that game and the ratings would have still been fantastic because there was nothing to compete with it.
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I definitely see your point, but the only thing with this particular game is that they do deserve some credit because people tuned in to see GT upset FSU. If it was the expected blowout (FSU beating GT), the ratings would be lower.
 
caneingville said:
I definitely see your point, but the only thing with this particular game is that they do deserve some credit because people tuned in to see GT upset FSU. If it was the expected blowout (FSU beating GT), the ratings would be lower.
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It was the ONLY football game that night. People would have watched it regardless. Most people expected FSU to win. FSU was a 10.5 point favorite.
 
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DTP said:
It was the ONLY football game that night. People would have watched it regardless. Most people expected FSU to win. FSU was a 10.5 point favorite.
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Okay, but the Saturday night Labor Day weekend game in 2023 was Navy-Notre Dame, which also was the only game on, and averaged only 3.56 million viewers (almost 1.5 million fewer). That’s a substantial difference.

Even the equivalent ACC matchup on Labor Day weekend, the Monday night Clemson v. Duke game, where Duke upset Clemson, only hit 4.39 million.

GT deserves some credit.
 
Hold My Beer said:
LINK: NORTHWESTERN’S $850M STADIUM TO BE SMALLER, MORE PROFITABLE
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Well I stand corrected. I've always wondered what would happen if Stanford, Northwestern and Duke decided to put financial muscle behind football. I assumed booster and campus culture was too academic oriented to allow for it. Looks like I was wrong at least in the case of NU and boosters.

Now the question becomes, how accommodating are they going to be in admitting 105 playoff-caliber footballers into their elite academic institution? Because even an $850 Million stadium won't win games.
 
grover said:
Well I stand corrected. I've always wondered what would happen if Stanford, Northwestern and Duke decided to put financial muscle behind football. I assumed booster and campus culture was too academic oriented to allow for it. Looks like I was wrong at least in the case of NU and boosters.

Now the question becomes, how accommodating are they going to be in admitting 105 playoff-caliber footballers into their elite academic institution? Because even an $850 Million stadium won't win games.
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Yeah, probably not gonna turn into Bama, UGA, Me-Cheat-Again or Ohio Taint anytime soon.

But ...

Stanford did finish in the AP Top 12 six times in the 2010-16 seasons

Northwestern made it to the B1G title games in 2018 and '20 and ended up in the Top 25 four times from 2015 to 2020.

Duke is 26-13 the last three seasons with wins over us, Clemson, FSU and Virginia Tech (twice) and more or less cut a QB who threw for 3,000 yards and 26 TDs last fall to bring in a Tulane transfer reportedly getting $8M the next two years.

Vandy beat Alabama and Auburn, took Texas to the wire and won its bowl game in 2024. The $300M on-campus stadium renovation is scheduled to be finished this year. Like Duke, Vandy isn't half-assin' it anymore.

Really the only elite private school in FBS that hasn't made a concerted effort for football success is Rice
 
Does anyone know how much NIH grant money Miami receives yearly? The federal government provides $92 billion nationally with 412,000 jobs and we get a chunk. Trump and DOGE are coming for all that. I just saw Duke is having $580 million cut. Obviously, I am eyeing it for our medical research facilities, but also for our AAU status which ties to the B1G( future). Maybe their won't be a AAU anymore once they are done. I believe we get around $50 million in private funding.
 
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Cane30 said:
Does anyone know how much NIH grant money Miami receives yearly? The federal government provides $92 billion nationally with 412,000 jobs and we get a chunk. Trump and DOGE are coming for all that. I just saw Duke is having $580 million cut. Obviously, I am eyeing it for our medical research facilities, but also for our AAU status which ties to the B1G( future). Maybe their won't be a AAU anymore once they are done. I believe we get around $50 million in private funding.
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In 2023, $175 Million to Miller School of Medicine according to Google Gemini Deep Research Pro 1.5. Here is the link to the results and sources ----- > https://g.co/gemini/share/01e5e86dfa65
 
Peachycarnahan said:
In 2023, $175 Million to Miller School of Medicine according to Google Gemini Deep Research Pro 1.5. Here is the link to the results and sources ----- > https://g.co/gemini/share/01e5e86dfa65
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Thanks! That is a major hit and I guessing it has gone up since 23. I would assume terrible news for the 12 story Kenneth C Griffen Cancer Research Building opening. That probably makes up about 40% of our research funding. I would also assume that will be a hit on our AAU status which correlates to B1G realignment. To just be told that funding is cut off tomorrow is unbelievable. Devastating to these universities.
 
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Is there any chance the ACC is playing chicken with ESPN? Conference seems set to implode by 2030. Let’s say the Super league doesn’t form. ESPN seems to then be in a position to renegotiate to keep everyone happy or lose that programming. This especially so if two of the top 4 products move to the BIG. Just a thought.
 
JTKoval said:
Is there any chance the ACC is playing chicken with ESPN? Conference seems set to implode by 2030. Let’s say the Super league doesn’t form. ESPN seems to then be in a position to renegotiate to keep everyone happy or lose that programming. This especially so if two of the top 4 products move to the BIG. Just a thought.
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No. It’ll implode sooner than 2030. Super league is definitely happening. Pretty sure ACC has replacements in line. I doubt ESPN doesn’t make a new deal with ACC but we will see. ESPN is very aware of everything happening.
 
JTKoval said:
Is there any chance the ACC is playing chicken with ESPN? Conference seems set to implode by 2030. Let’s say the Super league doesn’t form. ESPN seems to then be in a position to renegotiate to keep everyone happy or lose that programming. This especially so if two of the top 4 products move to the BIG. Just a thought.
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If none of you are not seeing a direct correlation between these grant funds being cut and AAU status, a invite to the B1G, I don't know what to tell you. This puts us below AAU invite #'s. We will be well below FSU's research money #'s last year that hasn't gotten them a invite yet. Again, this is probably going to completely crush and end the AAU, all together, but until I know that, this is our key besides viewership to a invite. Former B1G commissioner Warren wanted to go up the West coast (completed) for teams and then down the East coast. The Bears hired him before he completed that mission. Now the viewership King commissioner Petitti took over. AAU membership and TV ratings, besides wanting in FL so bad are key. Unless they announce this administration has destroyed the AAU completely, I am overly concerned about our AAU status and a B1G invite.
 
Cane30 said:
If none of you are not seeing a direct correlation between these grant funds being cut and AAU status, an invite to the B1G, I don't know what to tell you. This puts us below AAU invite #'s. We will be well below FSU's research money #'s last year that hasn't gotten them an invite yet. Again, this is probably going to completely crush and end the AAU, all together, but until I know that, this is our key besides viewership to an invite. Former B1G commissioner Warren wanted to go up the West coast (completed) for teams and then down the East coast. The Bears hired him before he completed that mission. Now the viewership King commissioner Petitti took over. AAU membership and TV ratings, besides wanting in FL so bad are key. Unless they announce this administration has destroyed the AAU completely, I am overly concerned about our AAU status and a B1G invite.
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The betting odds are closer “super conferences” than there conferences we know today. AFC / NFC is the future maybe 50 teams in P2. Idk what happens to the rest
 
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