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If you read the FSU fan news, that is a "public shot at FSU". https://www.tomahawknation.com/florida-state-football-fsu-seminoles-college-cfb-acc-norvell-team-roster-schedule-game/2024/7/23/24204305/acc-media-days-jim-phillips-lawsuit-espn-realignment-latest-charlotte-college-clemson-playoff...

GT was 10-2 in 2014.

So a member institution saying that the former conference commissioner was a crook, that their institution is worth more than the rest of the conference combined, and that they were "duped" into signing a contract for a failing conference is normal business. But a commissioner saying that such...

You think the clube seats are empty because they are too expensive? They were usually sold out until the end of CPJ's time, and then tickets everywhere tanked under TFG. They are empty because too many people with tickets there either don't go to lesser games, or they stay in the...

That also does not take into account that the Big10 and SEC are now under new media contracts. Their payout schedule is significantly more in the next few years than just a percentage increase per year. The Big10 is on track to be around $100 million per school per year by 2030. The new...

What he said could be taken many ways. He answered much like a politician. "progress on one component of the contract" could mean discussions that ESPN is not going to opt-out of the ACC. It could mean discussions that ESPN is not going to opt-out of the ACCN. It could mean that they are...

I am not arguing just to argue. As simply as I can put it: The ACC members have already received considerable consideration in exchange for the GOR If the contract requires that the consideration for the contract to be equal to or greater than the terms of the ESPN Agreement, then it will be...

What if we signed a 10 year lease on a property with 8 years of guaranteed rent payments, but the 9th and 10th years were specified in the lease to be based on a metric of how much money my business makes per year. If my business makes much less than we projected, then the lease payments in...

How many hundreds of millions of consideration have already been paid to the ACC members? It is not a considerless contract. FSU entered into the contract in 2013 and has received considerable consideration since entering into the agreement. The contract won't be invalid from a consideration...

You are correct that statement is in there. I am not a lawyer, but from what I understand, the standard "consideration" clause is usually not very effective. Simply stating that there is "consideration" doesn't actually mean that there was. In the case of the GOR, the ACC members, including...

I know that because I have read the GOR. It does not guarantee any money. It does reference the ESPN Agreement (all capitalized in the GOR), but it doesn't guarantee anything out of the Agreement. However, it makes no promises from that agreement. It only specifies which "rights" are being...

The ACC GOR does not guarantee ANY amount of money. It only combines the rights of all of the schools so that the conference can negotiate those rights to a media company. The David Hale article you linked to discussed why conferences did that. I think he said the Big10 started it. There is...

In forums, Twitter, YouTube, etc. many people are making claims based on nothing more than their idea of how things should be. The GOR was made public long before December 2023. The extension wasn't public, at least that I saw, before that time frame. The extension basically only extends the...

Before A&M and Missouri joined the SEC, there were SEC fanboys saying that TX and OK would be lucky to win six games a year if they had to play an "SEC schedule". They said it is so hard that bowl teams from the SEC are equivalent to conference champions from any other league. The first season...

Are you sure about that? (championships) The Big12 will likely get one representative in the playoffs. The SEC will likely get 3-4 representatives in the playoffs. A Big12 team will need a VERY good story to make the playoffs if they don't win the conference championship. An SEC team will...

The problem with arguing with FSU fans is that facts don't matter. If FSU fans believe that the ACCN is losing money, then they will believe that it is losing money. Even if you show them the actual books of the ACCN they will believe that the ACCN is losing money. FSU fans are like flat...

My post was in response to someone asking what would happen if FSU blocked ESPN from having access to broadcast the games.

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

What gets me is when people describe such diatribes on Twitter or Youtube as "the latest news on expansion". Either I am simply a curmudgeon, or the public understanding of the difference between "news" and -- "gossip", "rumor", "bluster", etc has been completely lost.

Do you understand what the ROI is for large PE funding of college athletics? For example, it was reported that FSU was seeking $500 million in PE funds in order to buy their way out of the ACC. PE investors require large returns on their investments and usually want large returns, plus a near...