BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

At this point, just report it accurately.

Fox, NBC Tell Big 12 to Stay Out of the Way of Playoff Selection -- or else

 

The Metroplex.

Not sure I agree with needing it – and thank goodness Jim Phillips is not the blatant media market whore that John Swofford was – but it's obvious that the ACC is hoping the three schools will add the Metroplex and Bay Area markets and will take the peanuts offered. The ACC is offering a weak olive branch of reduced revenue.

That is, if at least one of NCSU, Chapel Hill, Clemson and Florida State will budge.

The new joke: The Pony Express ... Legend of the ACC ...

 

Random thought: How much do we trust ESPN when they report on rumors about outcomes that the company itself would have to approve and finance?

 

They'll expand Gerald Ford if anything. Over the last quarter century, the trend has been to move OUT of the big NFL stadium, with Houston, Minnesota, UCF, Tulane, TCU and now Northwestern opting to either stay on campus or move back on campus. And rumor has it Pitt is exploring moving out of Heinz Field when the lease expires in seven years.

 

My impression is that SMU is to DFW as Rutgers is to NYC: they're there, but not too many people really care. However it does provide rationalization that it "gets the conference in the market."

 

https://www.si.com/college/2023/08/24/acc-additions-stanford-cal-smu-progressing-vote-tv-deal


"The ACC stands to earn over $70 million in additional revenue from ESPN by adding the three schools, money that kicks in automatically due to pro-rata increases already agreed to in the network’s contract with the league, according to a person familiar with the figures. How that amount is distributed has been the main sticking point throughout, and the focus of much of the recent conversations.

Stanford and Cal would come in earning a reduced share of the ACC’s annual roughly $35-40 million average total distribution—perhaps as little as 25% initially, according to sources—escalating over multiple years, according to a source. SMU, according to sources, would forego their share of the media distribution portion of that pot for multiple years and essentially come into the league earning only from non-media rights distributions such as bowl distribution payouts, College Football Playoff distributions and NCAA tournament units. The money all three new entrants would be forfeiting would then go into a pool to be doled out as part of a so-called “success initiative” that will distribute payouts to all ACC schools based on teams’ performance in postseason play in revenue sports.

For Stanford and Cal, the move to the ACC would provide a suitable home for many of their high level Olympic sports. There was significant concern about the competition level in the American Athletic Conference and Mountain West. For the ACC, this could be viewed as less about adding Stanford and Cal as it is buying Clemson and Florida State, both of which have been saber rattling privately and publicly about how far behind they’ve fallen off their in-state peers in other leagues.

For ESPN, this lets the network add West Coast inventory in late-night East Coast time slots, which it lacked thanks to the dissolution of the Pac-12. Oregon and Washington went to the Big Ten, which has a media deal with Fox, NBC, and CBS. Utah, BYU, Arizona, Arizona State and Colorado’s Big 12 move would give ESPN some inventory, but they share rights with Fox. ESPN is the ACC’s sole media partner and operates the conference’s television network. "

 

So, the ACC could have been proactive and added teams last year, triggering more cash from the network and decided, "naaaaah."

Simply traded the Big East for a Baptist version of the Big East.

 

Northwestern has always played on-campus.

 

I should have phrased that better. I meant that Northwestern has drawn up plans to knock down Ryan Field and build a new one rather than relocate.

 

Could the Big 12 expand to 20 with the Pac-12 leftovers? This makes far more sense than Stanford, Cal, and SMU in the ACC, I’ll say that much. Just wonder what West Virginia, Cincinnati, and UCF would think about this new rapid move west.

Cal, Stanford exploring move to Big 12 Conference as possibility, source says

 

They'd think they were very happy to get into the conference, same as they do today.

 

Just rip the Band-Aid off already and break off P5 football. Never was in favor of it, but this latest game of musical chairs changed my mind.