BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Let's suppose that sometime in the reasonably near future it becomes clear that the revenue streams SEC and B1G schools are counting on aren't sustainable, and the channeler(s) of those streams play their own games and wriggle out of their obligations. Man, wouldn't it suck to go through all of what FSU's gonna have to go through and then discover there's really not that much gold at the end of the rainbow?

 

I just hate what college football is doing to the rest of college athletics.

Now if the SEC schools were using their newfound wealth to restart wrestling programs, I'd be much less annoyed, as it is my favorite sport. But I know that ain't happening.

 

Exactly. Isn’t there a decent chance that the universe blows up while the FSU-ACC litigation is still in its infancy?

 

Better than a decent chance, I'd say.

 

Nebraska may be getting its ass kicked in the B1G --- all the way to the bank. Same with Arkansas in the SEC.

 

If in the end FSU is on equal footing with its peers, I assume that would be a preferable path than standing pat and hoping it all falls apart (i.e. resets) while falling further and further behind in the meantime.

There are reasons UNC and Clemson — among others I’m sure — are doing their own due diligence, too. FSU has not been alone in these concerns. They’ve just weighed the risk/reward for months and have decided this is worth the risk before the others have. Or because FSU can’t legally make these decisions outside of public view. Who knows what Clemson or UNC are doing behind the scenes.

 

Oh, sure. Sometimes standing pat is the riskiest move of all. And there's no doubt Clemson et al. are and long have been plotting similar moves.

 

Likely the same thing FSU is, and most of the ACC has in the past before concluding that it would be too costly to break the GOR. I just hate the prospect of another go round similar to watching the PAC go under. The conference members signed what turned out to be a bad deal, and not only are they not getting paid comparably but they're stuck in that bad contract for years. OTOH, they signed a contract, eyes wide open with the best legal advice they chose to pay for. Sucks to be them.

 

What is absolutely ridiculous with all of the money flying around is that the money is STILL going out faster than it comes in for 99 percent of the programs involved.

 

I don’t know if you’ve read much of the complaint, but one of the issues FSU is highlighting is that what the ACC says out loud does not match what the multimedia contract between ACC and ESPN shows (remember, the schools don’t sign this and they don’t see it, except in the SCIF at ACC HQ where they can’t take copies, pictures, or notes … the GOR gives the ACC the sole ability to negotiate and sign off on those terms).

If it’s true that ESPN has not extended their contract past 2027 (they have unilateral right to do this, at rates negotiated in 2013 no less!) while contending all ACC schools are locked in until 2036, that’s an interesting nugget to follow.

 

Definitely the biggest revelation of the suit.

 

Well, Alabama tore out the waterfall in the locker room. Fiscal conservatism in action.