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

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FL Cane said:
I hope they do. It’s just that I’ve never seen them be serious about football. They have the ingredients to be a very good football school, they’ve just never cared to be.
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Ultimately, UVA has two choices:

Legitimately put forth the effort (i.e. $$$) to compete in football

or

Be relegated to a Tier 2 conference (e.g the Big XII or a G5-ish ACC reboot)

As you for sure know, the latter wouldn't be acceptable to UVA's big-money sports boosters — especially not when several of UVA's traditional rivals are paying or ultimately will pay the price to get to the SEC
 
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TheOGCane said:
Why are the PUNDITS talking about FSU, COEMSON, VIRGINIA AND UNC?

Why not US?
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Those schools are tied together because they're all on the SEC's shopping list. Skeptical that Miami is in the same spot

Once the ACC collapses and ND shakes loose, the Leprechauns and UM can go in tandem to the B1G
 
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Think these tweets are worth noting for a couple of reasons.

1. The specific importance of the Senate's support in getting legislative results SEC and B1G decision-makers prefer. That's a big part of why it's expedient for Sankey to take not only UNC and UVA but also NC State and VA Tech. He and Petitti need smooth sailing — as opposed to political headaches – in as many states as possible to keep the train moving forward.

2. Sankey having Saban help carry the water for the SEC's agenda is worth noting, imo. Saban is from West Virginia and his best friend since childhood is retired West Virginia governor and senator Joe Manchin, who has long pushed for the SEC to invite WVU. Won't be surprised at all if the Mountaineers land in the SEC at the back end of the next wave of expansion moves within the next 2-3 years
 
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TheOGCane said:
Why are the PUNDITS talking about FSU, COEMSON, VIRGINIA AND UNC?

Why not US?
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Obviously because Miami didn't get off its *** and sign onto the lawsuits against the ACC filed by FSU and Clemson.

Many would say those other schools are large state schools with larger student body sizes. 2 are flagship schools for their respective states and the other 2 have won NCs more recently than Miami.

But, it's really because Miami didn't jump into the lawsuits. Gotta be the lawsuits.

Steve Brule What GIF
 
TheOGCane said:
Why are the PUNDITS talking about FSU, COEMSON, VIRGINIA AND UNC?

Why not US?
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"Pundits" are writing articles to get clicks ... period ... at this point. You will notice it is "pundits" talking and not conference commissioners or ESPN (who is driving any activity that actually does take place).

They are talking about FSU / Clemson because they (and the rest of the ACC member schools) just received a major concession from the ACC with the settlement of the law suits ... and the accompanying definition of reasonable exit fees along with an actual fee schedule by season ... dropping to under $75M in 2030. There is talk of "other" schools such as UNC / Kansas due to the SEC "reportedly" having major interest in building the conference BB portfolio.

In virtually every discussion of "future realignment" Miami is generally mentioned ... as the #3 rated program in the conference from a "recent historical media evaluation" standpoint, behind FSU and Clemson. But for now it is all "pundit chatter" and nothing else ... until ESPN decides they are ready to pull the trigger. Once that happens then the B10 will respond in kind.
 
CaneinBroward said:
Many would say those other schools are large state schools with larger student body sizes. 2 are flagship schools for their respective states and the other 2 have won NCs more recently than Miami.
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UF and FSU both have more than 10k students combined from Broward, Dade and Palm Beach counties.

UM's total enrollment (grads and undergrads) is just under 20k with a little over one-third from the state of Florida.

Pretty sure the SEC would be aware of those numbers
 
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Hold My Beer said:
UF and FSU both have more than 10k students combined from Broward, Dade and Palm Beach counties.

UM's total enrollment (grads and undergrads) is just under 20k with a little over one-third from the state of Florida.

Pretty sure the SEC would be aware of those numbers
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Yes, but sorry, you missed my sarcasm to the other poster. That was my point as to why FSU, Clemson, UNC, and UVA are getting more mentions by pundits than Miami.
 
Didn't read all the back and forth. But anyone looking at just the student and alumni counts is missing the most important element of the television audience that drives revenues. Miami's national brand is still stronger than FSU's or UF's and we've sucked for 23 years. I guarantee our viewership will be higher now that we're finally becoming relevant again. Last season's viewership was:

6. Florida — 3.639M
18. Miami FL — 2.24M
25 Florida State — 1.64M

Now start winning 10 a year and put us in the SEC or BiG. How would those numbers change?
 
I’ve been watching some of the ACC tourney games today, and the atmosphere is absolutely dead. I remember going to the old Big East tournament games at MSG and the atmosphere was incredible. Conference realignment is not just affecting football, you can also see it on the hardwood. The acc seems so far behind in basketball
 
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grover said:
Didn't read all the back and forth. But anyone looking at just the student and alumni counts is missing the most important element of the television audience that drives revenues. Miami's national brand is still stronger than FSU's or UF's and we've sucked for 23 years. I guarantee our viewership will be higher now that we're finally becoming relevant again. Last season's viewership was:

6. Florida — 3.639M
18. Miami FL — 2.24M
25 Florida State — 1.64M

Now start winning 10 a year and put us in the SEC or BiG. How would those numbers change?
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I think Mario should start an OnlyFans to get subscription numbers up.
 
FL Cane said:
To give you an idea of how quickly conference realignment discussions can change, I was told something interesting by a person plugged into the SEC very recently. There is a Big 12 school that nobody has mentioned at all in conference realignment which the SEC is getting very interested in potentially adding. In their words, there's "momentum" for that potential addition when the opportunity arises.

Without saying too much, it is a school that doesn't make sense from a CFB viewpoint, but absolutely does from another major college sport viewpoint. The SEC doesn't want to just compete in CFB. They're looking for dominance in basketball and baseball too.
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Kansas has definitely been mentioned before just not as prominently, more when people guess if sec would go past 20
 
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