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

[Empirical Cane]

FSU is very close to getting AAU approval. They are ramping up research expenditures and currently reports are that FSU is working on acquiring a healthcare system in the north Florida region.

Clinics treating syphillis and herpes is hardly a "healthcare system"

 

[Empirical Cane]

This is Liberace gheyness.

 

[Felonious Monk]

So FSU’s buyout will be roughly $165 mil to leave for the 2026 season?
Who’s paying for that?

Connect the dots.

FSU is very close to getting AAU approval. They are ramping up research expenditures and currently reports are that FSU is working on acquiring a healthcare system in the north Florida region.

Clinics treating syphillis and herpes is hardly a "healthcare system"

The price for STD treatments in the area is about to go up. An additional $1 per shot should have that covered in no time.

 

[Tony4Canes]

Might as well try

 

[Hold My Beer]

I’d love to truly know the answer to this, but I don’t think anyone (on the internet) knows.

FSU fans think they are getting accepted to the AAU any day now anyway, but that it doesn’t matter anyway. And with what we all know about the networks’ influence, it may not. But it would be nice for the Big10 to definitively say one way or another if doesn’t matter, if it is something that is perhaps one of the factors that they take under consideration (which is my guess), but not an absolute requirement, or is a strict requirement for membership

Iowa president quoted in the Athletic last September:

“We have implicit criteria for who we want to be part of this conference,” Barbara Wilson said. “The academic excellence is really at the (forefront).”

Collaboration also is a key tenet for league institutions through the Big Ten Academic Alliance. It involves every facet of campus life.

“Most of the other conferences don’t have that collaboration at the academic level,” said Wilson, who became Iowa’s president in 2021 after serving as University of Illinois’ interim chancellor and executive vice president. “That’s something we don’t talk about as much as we probably should. We want the institutions to be as similar as possible because those groups wouldn’t be as helpful if we didn’t have those connections.”

TL/DR:

The ACC schools the B1G would want — and, more importantly, can actually get — are all AAU: Miami, ND, Cal and Stanford

 

[Hold My Beer]

Worst SEC coach of the 21st century.

Pruitt oughtta be suing mom and dad for his sub-50 IQ

 

[TheEye]

They said that LAST August.

 

[TheOGCane]

They said that LAST August.

YEAH.

We’ve recycled through:
UNC is the crown JEWEL
FSU and CLEMSON are dance psrtners
MIAMI and NOTRE DAME are dance pertners
MIAMI and FSU are dance partners
MIAMI is a shoe in bc of AAU status
MIAMI is puppet master behind the SCENES

Yet NOTHING changes. Everyone is STUCK till 2030

 

[atlCanesFan]

 

[JennStrawley’sBabyDaddy]

FSU is very close to getting AAU approval. They are ramping up research expenditures and currently reports are that FSU is working on acquiring a healthcare system in the north Florida region.

Are they working to reinstate the Oxi Highway?

 

[Angry Ibis]

YEAH.

We’ve recycled through:
UNC is the crown JEWEL
FSU and CLEMSON are dance psrtners
MIAMI and NOTRE DAME are dance pertners
MIAMI and FSU are dance partners
MIAMI is a shoe in bc of AAU status
MIAMI is puppet master behind the SCENES

Yet NOTHING changes. Everyone is STUCK till 2030

Agreed. And we were going with them in 2022...2023...2024

 

[Hoyacane1620]

Guaranteed there are more Michigan fans in the NY metro area than Rutgers fans.

The north shore of Long Island for sure. Westchester, too

 

[JD08]

Either this is a bad AI drawing or they're taking over an Amazon warehouse and asking patients to cross an 8 lane highway to get to the front door.

 

[Rickd]

The Big Mountain podcast last night was a "realignment update" in which they stated there is a lot of planning taking place regarding realignment even though there might not be a move in the next month or so ... but nobody knows the actual time lines that the conferences have ... a lot of it depends on the $$$ resources that the media partners can come up with to expedite the time lines from the 2030 to earlier dates:

-FSU is the prime focus of the B10 ... period. There is mutual interest ... however FSU is hoping there
are two conferences interested.

-UNC is all about the SEC ... mutual interest and the prime target of the SEC.

-Prediction .... the SEC pulls the trigger first with UNC ... no idea who might go with them ... possibly alone or with Clemson.
They state a lot of FSU fans want the SEC as well ... but they believe FSU ends up in the B10.

-If FSU does end up in the SEC then Miami "likely" is the next target for the B10. Miami might even be a potential travel partner
with FSU to the B10 ... but they did believe there are issues with Miami ... primarily the stadium issue.

For now it is all background noise.

 

[FL Cane]

The Big Mountain podcast last night was a "realignment update" in which they stated there is a lot of planning taking place regarding realignment even though there might not be a move in the next month or so ... but nobody knows the actual time lines that the conferences have ... a lot of it depends on the $$$ resources that the media partners can come up with to expedite the time lines from the 2030 to earlier dates:

-FSU is the prime focus of the B10 ... period. There is mutual interest ... however FSU is hoping there
are two conferences interested.

-UNC is all about the SEC ... mutual interest and the prime target of the SEC.

-Prediction .... the SEC pulls the trigger first with UNC ... no idea who might go with them ... possibly alone or with Clemson.
They state a lot of FSU fans want the SEC as well ... but they believe FSU ends up in the B10.

-If FSU does end up in the SEC then Miami "likely" is the next target for the B10. Miami might even be a potential travel partner
with FSU to the B10 ... but they did believe there are issues with Miami ... primarily the stadium issue.

For now it is all background noise.

Gonna disagree on one point there. Of the people I’ve talked to about this process, who I trust. neither has brought up our stadium situation as being a pressure point. I’m hesitant when I see that because that’s been a pretty recycled talking point over the years.

 

[Rickd]

Gonna disagree on one point there. Of the people I’ve talked to about this process, who I trust. neither has brought up our stadium situation as being a pressure point. I’m hesitant when I see that because that’s been a pretty recycled talking point over the years.

I agree ... and I was surprised that the Big Mountain guys thought it was an issue. They also didn't mention the massive UM Health System as being a natural fit with the "research oriented Big 10". They did however state "Miami will draw eyeballs to TV broadcasts with games against Big 10 opponents ... more so than with games vs BC etc". Miami just makes too much sense to the B10 to think they will not be part of it ... at some time.

 

[Angry Ibis]

I agree ... and I was surprised that the Big Mountain guys thought it was an issue. They also didn't mention the massive UM Health System as being a natural fit with the "research oriented Big 10". They did however state "Miami will draw eyeballs to TV broadcasts with games against Big 10 opponents ... more so than with games vs BC etc". Miami just makes too much sense to the B10 to think they will not be part of it ... at some time.

 

[flips]

Either this is a bad AI drawing or they're taking over an Amazon warehouse and asking patients to cross an 8 lane highway to get to the front door.

FSU need trauma center after last year not acute care

 

[Rellyrell]

The Big Mountain podcast last night was a "realignment update" in which they stated there is a lot of planning taking place regarding realignment even though there might not be a move in the next month or so ... but nobody knows the actual time lines that the conferences have ... a lot of it depends on the $$$ resources that the media partners can come up with to expedite the time lines from the 2030 to earlier dates:

-FSU is the prime focus of the B10 ... period. There is mutual interest ... however FSU is hoping there
are two conferences interested.

-UNC is all about the SEC ... mutual interest and the prime target of the SEC.

-Prediction .... the SEC pulls the trigger first with UNC ... no idea who might go with them ... possibly alone or with Clemson.
They state a lot of FSU fans want the SEC as well ... but they believe FSU ends up in the B10.

-If FSU does end up in the SEC then Miami "likely" is the next target for the B10. Miami might even be a potential travel partner
with FSU to the B10 ... but they did believe there are issues with Miami ... primarily the stadium issue.

For now it is all background noise.

So the same **** from last yr. Got it

 

[Canedude08]

Worst SEC coach of the 21st century.

Pruitt oughtta be suing mom and dad for his sub-50 IQ

Nah, Dooley was significantly worse. There's been some pretty bad coaches in the conference during that time, Dooley had limited success before he got the Tennessee job, and he was useless in practically every single way while at Tennessee. Didn't recruit, couldn't coach and was a dweeb to boot.