Realignment: The ACC enters the Suck Zone

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  1. racer

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  2. Prospector

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    The Stanford Band v tOSU band is going to be watchable, one time tho
     
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  5. buy_dont_lease

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    Keep chopping
     
  6. Cornfed Buffalo

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  7. Prospector

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    many options? Seems weird to use hyperbole
     
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    More like the CU BLUFFalos!
     
  9. bwhit21

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    Wish this was true. We’re just incompetent.
     
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  10. Owsley

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    B12 is in a much better position than Pac/ACC. All they have to do is wait for the ND domino to fall, then they can (likely) cherry pick who they want from the west coast.

    ACC honestly seems to be in the worst position of all. Unless they agree to get ND as a full time member, they’re not only going to crumble as a conference, but individual schools also risk getting left behind in realignment. Not sure how hard UNC, Miami, Clemson, and FSU will push for an early exit, either.
     
  11. IV

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    Can the ACC not survive in its current state?
     
  12. Lawnole23

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    Very hard if they can. ESPN will need to be a partner in help blowing up the GOR.
     
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  13. Owsley

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    If its schools want to be forever poor, sure.
     
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  14. IV

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    Well they will always lack in moral fiber, so can they ever truly be rich?
     
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  15. Bo Pelinis

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    Sounds like the ACC is pushing for unequal revenue sharing to get the bigger brands to stay and that is a recipe for disaster
     
  16. IV

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    I would assume even more so in the NIL era
     
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  17. Mix

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    If you are one of the 8-10 schools unlikely to be poached then hold strong and take a huge payday instead of cutting yourself down for 10 years then get way less when they leave anyhow.
     
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  18. Fuck this

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    ACC is a bag of dicks and everyone in the conference is a fucking Idiot for signing that shit.

    Eat arbys
     
  19. DeToxRox

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    Gonna be hilarious when they pay Clemson for what Dabo has done today and then he ends up at Liberty and Clemson goes back to just being average.
     
  20. Deuce

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    The ACC not locking down Notre Dame when it bailed them out in 2020 is killing them right now.
     
  21. Thoros of Beer

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    We're the only reason that college football was played in 2020 and this is the thanks we get? Disgusting
     
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  22. Lawnole23

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    Correct it made no sense to allow them to be in the ACC for one season. Should have froze them out and forced their hand.
     
  23. Cornfed Buffalo

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    Yeah. Anyone expecting CU to handle this intelligently is going to be disappointed.
     
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  24. Thoros of Beer

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    We just wouldn't have played that season
     
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  25. repoocs

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    Yes, but like any conference, the ACC likes money and viewers. They got more of both in 2020 than ever. Hell, the ACCCG more than doubled the previous year's viewership.
     
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  26. Taques

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    the only question remains is whether bezos or tim apple will overpay for quality big 12 content with the new members
     
  27. HowdyHorns

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    Stay in PAC, join Big XII, go independent, shutter football program. That is a lot of options. Some may say many options.
     
  28. TC

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    Noles enjoyed the ACC plenty when it was "Florida State and the Little 8" and they won like 15 straight conference titles.

    Time to lay in that bed you made boys
     
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  29. VaxRule

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    Because they want to stall until they find out if they got off the waitlist at B1G or SEC headquarters.
     
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  30. Taques

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    why would the arizona schools be interested in waiting that one out for oregon when they could be earning 20 million more with the big 12
     
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  31. Cornfed Buffalo

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  32. VaxRule

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    “We’re not just stalling, we’re totally committed to the conference.”

    “OK”

    There’s a reason that the hot, dumb kids go to school in Arizona.
     
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    Many being from Jersey, so I understand the confusion
     
  34. Saul Shabazz

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    Don't Wanna!!
     
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  35. gowolverines8

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    Idk know why everyone keeps on assuming the sec will just take fsu, miami and clemson. SEC is already in those markets in a big way and i have doubts if any would add value. Also if i am an sec program i try to keep them out because they are direct competition in recruiting. Better off trying to limit their resources not help them.
     
  36. Owsley

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    I think we’d want Miami over FSU or Clemson, but we certainly don’t need any of them. UNC is the crown jewel of the ACC.
     
  37. AIOLICOCK

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    I agree. Only move that probably makes the SEC more money is UNC and Notre Dame
     
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  38. bwi2

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    If markets were more important than eyeballs, the Big 10 would have taken Cal or Stanford instead of UCLA.
     
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  39. gowolverines8

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    Agree those will be the schools b1g and sec battle for. More i think about it though, i think acc just becomes a league with some crazy unequal revenue sharing.
     
  40. Taques

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    i cant see miami, virginia, VT, NCSU, duke, etc increasing the per-school payout to either the sec or big ten at the current projected numbers, and maybe not even florida state or UNC tbh

    you’ve gotta bring in 100 million annually to 16 other schools, can anyone other than ND do that? we’ve already seen that oregon cant and they are a similar brand to clemson/fsu/unc
     
  41. gowolverines8

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    If i am fsu, clemson, miami, unc, i am demanding unequal revenue sharing or threatening to just break off and create our own league with 8-10 acc schools that has less mouths to feed.
     
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  42. Nostradumass

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    I don't see the SEC adding any more teams unless they're in North Carolina or Virginia. It's not like they need heavy hitters. It's TV markets the league wants. They took Texas A&M when they couldn't get Texas. They will take NCState if they can't get UNC or Duke, but obviously those are the big ones the league would want.
     
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  43. Owsley

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    We absolutely will not take NCSU unless that’s one of UNC’s demands.
     
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  44. HoosDaMan

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    UNC and UVA is the way to go. We all know it.
     
  45. dump

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    Yes we will
     
  46. Owsley

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    They are below the following schools on the pecking order: ND, UNC, UVA, Miami, Clemson, FSU, VT, maybe even Duke. They don’t bring anything to the table.
     
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  47. Prospector

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    VT had never been ranked #1
     
  48. dump

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    and what does Clemson/FSU/Miami bring? We already have the SC and FL markets
     
  49. Owsley

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    The ability to have legitimate programs in multiple sports.
     
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  50. Prospector

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    I don't know that 'markets ' in the traditional sense is going to drive the bus, streaming monetization of CFB will be as big a factor as cable
     
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