BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Huge win for the Pac-2.

 

ESPN says they’ll vote on whether to challenge the Grant of Rights. That’ll have all the drama of a Soviet election. The real issue will be what the suit actually says when it is filed.
Speaking of which, will such litigation be in federal court because the league has HQ in NC? Diversity of jurisdiction, etc?

 

It’s 10 a.m. tomorrow. Everyone can watch it live. FSU trustees will decide to file suit to challenge GOR (this was expected to happen at the scheduled board meeting at the end of January, but the snub, backlash, and “so-called P-5 conference” have expedited things.

FSU gonna take the public bullets so Clemson and UNC can understand their options.

 

It still strikes me as odd that those 3 would be bed fellows. Or confederates in this case.

 

It's gonna' be hilarious when the next evolution of NFL-Lite is the Big Two leagues mandating expansion fees the same way NFL and NBA franchises have to pay. It makes sense when you think about it. You have 90 schools jockeying for position in a club of 36 members. Not all can get in, so why not bleed as much as you can out of the wannabes. It's not like anyone left provides any real equity from a television market or prestige standpoint. You already had Oregon and Washington take reduced television money to enter the Big 10 and SMU not take any to enter the ACC so what difference does it make.

"What's that? You want in the Big 10? Sweet, yeah no sweat. That'll be $250 million upfront."

From there it becomes Goodfellas.

"Oh you had a rich booster die? Fuck you. Pay me."

"Oh the price of oil is under $50 a barrel. Fuck you. Pay me."

"Oh you had to buyout a coach and hire another one. Fuck you. Pay me."

 

If you have an expansion model, what's to stop the Big Ten from expanding to 32? Fourteen schools ponying up $250m or more is a nice chunk of change for the existing 18 schools.

The model is too big to fail at this point, but it's on the brink because these leagues are so damn big. I'm still waiting for Rutgers to get the boot from the Big Ten. The dime a subscriber that the BTN gets from being on in New York City soon won't matter much with all the cord cutting.

 

'Left no choice': FSU suing ACC over exit fee

 

Tomorrow I'm going to Kelly Buick to sue over the terms I agreed to and signed off on when I bought my car.

 

If it actually does cost FSU $572m to buy out of the ACC, well... that amount is equal to 19 years of a $30m a year difference in funding, plus the attorney's fees.

 

Quite a temper tantrum FSU is throwing.

 

I’m not sure how it’s a temper tantrum. They’ve spent 18 months discussing and outlining the issues — and trying to work with the ACC on how to resolve or mitigate the issues plainly visible.

By virtue of Florida’s expansive government in the sunshine laws, any meetings and votes between trustees have to occur in view of the public. That’s the reason we know any of this, while Texas, OU and the like got to move in silence.

 

The lawsuit.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24235585/final-complaint-12212023.pdf