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Louisville to the ACC

Interesting info on L'Ville. From ESPN article...

Louisville also has managed to maintain one of the nation's top athletic budgets, despite receiving only $3.2 million annually from the Big East's current media rights deal. The Cardinals' current budget ranks higher than any current ACC member.

In 2011-12, the latest date available from the Office of Postsecondary Education's Equity in Athletics, Louisville had a budget of $84.4 million. The ACC's highest budget was Florida State ($81.4 million), while Maryland's budget was only $57.5 million.

The Cardinals' basketball program will fit in with the ACC's elite basketball programs. Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.

Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons. Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

Last year, Louisville averaged 21,503 fans, the nation's third-highest number behind only Syracuse and Kentucky. The city of Louisville also has had the nation's highest rated college basketball television market in each of the past 10 years.

Over the last six years, Louisville is the nation's only school that has reached both the men's and women's basketball Final Four, a BCS bowl game, the College World Series and the Men's Soccer College Cup.
 
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Consigliere said:
SniperCane said:
Bigtip said:
I want out of the ACC now now now
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And go where???? What exactly do we bring to the table in our current situation?
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We bring a lot more than the average team. Schools still get up and play us. People still love to watch and want us to be destroyed. I believe we get some of the highest TV viewership out of all the schools.

Now I am not concerned with this realignment BS, we will land on our feet.
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Exactly, people that keep saying Miami is irrelevant etc. need to stop looking at conference realignment from a won/loss perspective. Miami is a great get because of their name, period. Who do you think fans of say Indiana would be more interested in seeing Miami or Louisville regardless of the teams past records. That's what Miami brings to the table, viewers and butts in the seats which equals money.
 
Jonnyblaze said:
Interesting info on L'Ville. From ESPN article...

Louisville also has managed to maintain one of the nation's top athletic budgets, despite receiving only $3.2 million annually from the Big East's current media rights deal. The Cardinals' current budget ranks higher than any current ACC member.

In 2011-12, the latest date available from the Office of Postsecondary Education's Equity in Athletics, Louisville had a budget of $84.4 million. The ACC's highest budget was Florida State ($81.4 million), while Maryland's budget was only $57.5 million.

The Cardinals' basketball program will fit in with the ACC's elite basketball programs. Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.

Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons. Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

Last year, Louisville averaged 21,503 fans, the nation's third-highest number behind only Syracuse and Kentucky. The city of Louisville also has had the nation's highest rated college basketball television market in each of the past 10 years.

Over the last six years, Louisville is the nation's only school that has reached both the men's and women's basketball Final Four, a BCS bowl game, the College World Series and the Men's Soccer College Cup.
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That is interesting and ****, it must be nice to go from getting ~$3M from the Big East to ~$15M from the ACC; I didn't realize it was that big a gap.
 
Shogungts said:
Jonnyblaze said:
Interesting info on L'Ville. From ESPN article...

Louisville also has managed to maintain one of the nation's top athletic budgets, despite receiving only $3.2 million annually from the Big East's current media rights deal. The Cardinals' current budget ranks higher than any current ACC member.

In 2011-12, the latest date available from the Office of Postsecondary Education's Equity in Athletics, Louisville had a budget of $84.4 million. The ACC's highest budget was Florida State ($81.4 million), while Maryland's budget was only $57.5 million.

The Cardinals' basketball program will fit in with the ACC's elite basketball programs. Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.

Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons. Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

Last year, Louisville averaged 21,503 fans, the nation's third-highest number behind only Syracuse and Kentucky. The city of Louisville also has had the nation's highest rated college basketball television market in each of the past 10 years.

Over the last six years, Louisville is the nation's only school that has reached both the men's and women's basketball Final Four, a BCS bowl game, the College World Series and the Men's Soccer College Cup.
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That is interesting and ****, it must be nice to go from getting ~$3M from the Big East to ~$15M from the ACC; I didn't realize it was that big a gap.
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Our deal is more than $15 million per year I believe.
 
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Consigliere said:
SniperCane said:
Bigtip said:
I want out of the ACC now now now
Click to expand...

And go where???? What exactly do we bring to the table in our current situation?
Click to expand...

We bring a lot more than the average team. Schools still get up and play us. People still love to watch and want us to be destroyed. I believe we get some of the highest TV viewership out of all the schools.

Now I am not concerned with this realignment BS, we will land on our feet.
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u got 50 mill?
 
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A good addition to the ACC, given the realistic options. I much prefer them to UConn and Cincy, and I'd rather have them than the WVU program the conference passed on last year. UL is solid in football, great in basketball, very good in many Olympic sports, and they both make sense geographically and give the ACC a market (albeit a relatively small one) in Kentucky. Their academics aren't great, but they've made a commitment to improve those, and their rankings have gone up, I believe. The ACC obviously believes they'll continue to improve and/or that one non-top 100 academic school won't bring down the reputation of the conference.

Honestly, I think we traded up with Maryland for Louisville.
 
Kinda saw this coming. The ACC is locking the hardcourt down. Footballwise? Just another road trip. Ain't no thang!
 
CaneSuger said:
Well I would rather have taken Navy. Our armed forces need the money.
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Navy would have to be as a football-only member, and even then, their football team would have a hard time being a successful program in a major conference. The only way I could see Navy to the ACC happening would be if it convinced Notre Dame to join as a full member.
 
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So, ACC is gonna be more elitist men's basketball conference in NCAA!
 
Jonnyblaze said:
Interesting info on L'Ville. From ESPN article...

Louisville also has managed to maintain one of the nation's top athletic budgets, despite receiving only $3.2 million annually from the Big East's current media rights deal. The Cardinals' current budget ranks higher than any current ACC member.

In 2011-12, the latest date available from the Office of Postsecondary Education's Equity in Athletics, Louisville had a budget of $84.4 million. The ACC's highest budget was Florida State ($81.4 million), while Maryland's budget was only $57.5 million.

The Cardinals' basketball program will fit in with the ACC's elite basketball programs. Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.

Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons. Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

Last year, Louisville averaged 21,503 fans, the nation's third-highest number behind only Syracuse and Kentucky. The city of Louisville also has had the nation's highest rated college basketball television market in each of the past 10 years.

Over the last six years, Louisville is the nation's only school that has reached both the men's and women's basketball Final Four, a BCS bowl game, the College World Series and the Men's Soccer College Cup.
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reading between the lines, I wonder if ESPN didn't flat out tell the ACC they will give us X in an immediate re-negotiation if we took L'ville. Many of the things that make UM attractive (ratings) are L'ville's strengths. That athletic budget is impressive.
 
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This is exactly the reason the ACC has an uphill battle in collecting that $50mm liquidated damages fee. 'Ville will probably bring in more money and provide more bargaining leverage for the ACC than MD. This is also why I argued that MD had no reason to push litigation, because eventually the ACC would replace it and make the damages argument much tougher for the ACC.
 
Put me in the column that prefers having Louisville in the ACC.


As well, ANYTHING the ACC can do to **** over UCONN is worthy of praise in my book.
 
LOL

Louisville was placed in the Atlantic div with FSU and Clem... have fun with that Charlie..

JC
 
bomb said:
Jonnyblaze said:
Interesting info on L'Ville. From ESPN article...

Louisville also has managed to maintain one of the nation's top athletic budgets, despite receiving only $3.2 million annually from the Big East's current media rights deal. The Cardinals' current budget ranks higher than any current ACC member.

In 2011-12, the latest date available from the Office of Postsecondary Education's Equity in Athletics, Louisville had a budget of $84.4 million. The ACC's highest budget was Florida State ($81.4 million), while Maryland's budget was only $57.5 million.

The Cardinals' basketball program will fit in with the ACC's elite basketball programs. Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.

Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons. Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

Last year, Louisville averaged 21,503 fans, the nation's third-highest number behind only Syracuse and Kentucky. The city of Louisville also has had the nation's highest rated college basketball television market in each of the past 10 years.

Over the last six years, Louisville is the nation's only school that has reached both the men's and women's basketball Final Four, a BCS bowl game, the College World Series and the Men's Soccer College Cup.
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reading between the lines, I wonder if ESPN didn't flat out tell the ACC they will give us X in an immediate re-negotiation if we took L'ville. Many of the things that make UM attractive (ratings) are L'ville's strengths. That athletic budget is impressive.
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This was also part of the article.

The addition of Louisville will not affect the ACC's new media-rights deal. When the ACC added Notre Dame in all sports except football in September, sources told ESPN the conference's media-rights deal was expected to increase to about $18 million annually per school.
 
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