BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

[Neutral Corner]

The question is "Who is going to want most of them?"

 

[dixiehack]

Raycom Sports, as noted above, has not disappeared. It still exists as a subsidiary of Gray Communications and still does production work.

 

[tapintoamerica]

FSU defamed Swofford with a malicious and highly improbable assertion: that he abrogated his responsibilities to 15 institutions in order to ensure his son had a job. This assumes he feared or had reason to fear that his son would have had trouble finding work again if Raycom folded.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Let's assume that it can be proven in court that John Swofford was a crook and the contracts with Raycom were sweetheart deals. The ACC schools were all victims equally, not just FSU and Clemson. More importantly Raycom has disappeared and there is no one with deep enough pockets to sue.

Raycom is still here. They are still flipping the rights to ACC games for profit and still not sharing a dime of it

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

FSU defamed Swofford with a malicious and highly improbable assertion: that he abrogated his responsibilities to 15 institutions in order to ensure his son had a job. This assumes he feared or had reason to fear that his son would have had trouble finding work again if Raycom folded.

It's funny. Forbes did more to accuse Swofford of shady business practices because of nepotism than FSU...in a story they wrote in 2012!

 

[HanSenSE]

Meanwhile out west.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Meanwhile out west.

Too much, too little, too late.

 

[DanOregon]

I'd love to see the Bee use "Sac Up" as a headline.

 

[tapintoamerica]

How has Sacramento State been able to offer anything in NIL cash? Do they have enthusiastic hedge fund bro alumni?

 

[Cosmo]

I'd expect it will pass. There's already precedent, when Liberty moved up as an independent in 2016.

 

[HanSenSE]

I imagine Sac State is looking ahead to the next round of conference roulette, when it's likely the Pac-? and Mountain West will be looking for members. The basketball team is moving into a new gym next season, on top of hiring Henry Bibby. One of his first signings was one of Shaq's kids. Football stadium seats 21,195 and has hosted, in addition to football, the Olympic track and field finals and was one of the better run franchised during the CFL's American expansion.
And, of course, more than 20K for a Phil Collins concert which will guarantee his obit will be A1 in the Sacramento Bee.

 

[Bubbler]

Apropos of nothing, read the first page of this thread. It's pretty funny in hindsight.