BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

It already is, but the league doesn’t pay a dime to the NCAA.

 

Florida Attorney General wants ACC’s ESPN contracts amidst FSU lawsuit

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2024/01/04/fsu-football-acc-lawsuit-ashley-moody-espn/

 

There should be a class-action suit against FSU by those who bought Orange Bowl tickets expecting a competitive football game. They were defrauded. The 1919 Black Sox tried harder than FSU did.

 

Has any news site done a FOIA request for these contracts, especially a North Carolina news outlet, given the ACC Headquarters are in that state. I don't see how a public entity can not reveal those contracts.

 

If I'm reading this correctly, this policy may screw any G5 moving up (not that this seems likely to happen again), and may also affect the playoff payout to G5s who make the twelve team playoff. I suspect SMU will be suing.

Sources: CFP may withhold added revenue from SMU despite Power Five move

 

When private entities, such as the NCAA or a conference, do business with a public university, they will not provide copies to the university in order to avoid public records laws. They'll set up electronic portals that allow viewing, but not copying or downloading. And school representatives will be allowed to view physical copies at the league offices. The whole set up is to avoid the public university from ever having possession of the document. The shit is maddening.

 

Has this ever stood up in court? I worked for public entities and all our contracts were matters of public record because the city council had to vote on them. Given that a government entity I don't know if the claim of the private party to confidentiality would hold up.

 

If the end game from all this is a 18-team Super Conference, this may be what we're left with.

 

Those are the teams that are always on and in the best time slots. They get the over-the-air network games. Meanwhile, the likes of Illinois, Cal and Arkansas (to take three random schools) got Big 10 network at noon (sometimes), Pac-12 After Dark (sometimes) and ESPN at noon (sometimes). The schools in that graphic SHOULD draw half the total eyeballs. They had half the chances to do so.

 

The long tail LOL

 

I noticed they're using conference affiliation post-2023. The Pac 12 basically doesn't exist and the Big 12 sans Texas and Oklahoma is completely excluded from the top 18.

 

It’s like the argument that the Rose Bowl is awesome because it gets the best ratings. Well, no shit. It has zero competition. It’s on at dinner time on a holiday where most of the country is off from work and there are no other sports on. This year your options were the Rose Bowl, the news or reruns of Judge Judy.