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I have no idea where Clemson and FSU will end up. All I know is that they do not want to be in the ACC. They are a lost cause at this point. If they both both end up independent or in the sun belt like everyone here is predicting, that doesn't really matter to me honestly. They are gone either...

Pretend the GOR didn't exist. Why would any team want to be in the ACC over the Big 12 right now? Our two biggest football brands are suing the conference and have reportedly been in talks with the Big 12. They get to renegotiate their contract 5 years before we do. That have stability where as...

Honestly, why would anyone leave the B12 for the ACC right now?

Yes, it moves at a snails pace and will continue to. I wouldn't be surprised if more lawsuits are coming at some point as well. Millions of dollars will be paid to lawyers when it could be in the teams budgets. A dark cloud will stay over the conference the entire time while other conferences...

The same reason most things are settled. To avoid several years in court and to move on with their lives. I don't think FSU, Clemson, the ACC, and ESPN are going to want to fight this tooth and nail for several years. Especially when FSU, Clemson, and others are going to leave not too long after...

It will be settled long before discovery would start.

Its hard to accurately piece together ESPNs performance as Disney only gives tidbits here and there, but from reports that they have given about ESPN: Oct 2023: Disney reported that ESPN profits were down 20% for the first 9 months of the year and that they were looking for outside investors...

ESPN lowballed the PAC on their offer and the PAC idiotically responded by high balling. ESPN made no real play for them after that. They were open to getting them for a bargain bin price but they were showing no desire to diversify by making a big push for them just like they showed no real...

ESPN was heavily accused of tampering with the Big 12 when Texas and Oklahoma left. That was two years after ESPN signed a deal with them. ESPN made little attempt to rescue the Pac 12 when they could have. They chose to drop out of Big 10 media negotiations. They aren't making really any push...

Thacker lead a top 40 defense in 2022. Then the horses (mainly White, Thomas, and Eley) left the stable. He is probably better than his results this year but I don't think he was ever going to get the most out of average to below average talent. At UGA where talent is never an issue, he may be...

This assumes that ESPN even cares if the ACC implodes. Aside from FSU, Clemson, and Notre Dame away ACC games, the vast majority of other ACC content is stashed away on the ACC network or the CW. With ESPN expanding it's SEC inventory, and with expansion of new teams, and the possibility of a 9...

If the SEC goes to a 9 game schedule at some point then it will likely be 9 conference games, 1 FCS, 1 G7 game, 1 P2 game for most teams. They won't stop playing the ACC or the B12 for a while but it will be a second tier game and it won't be surprising if they move the games to earlier in the...

I don't doubt McMurphy's reporting at all. I just don't necessarily trust that what others are telling him is the absolute truth. We saw similar reporting from reputable sources that said the B1G wasn't interested in expanding any further after USC and UCLA announced. Then, they expanded anyways.

Not really a guarantee but yes, I believe that FSU and Clemson did not do this without some confidence that they could get into one of the P2 conferences if they managed to get out of the conference. I still stand by that. Doesn't mean they won't both end up in the Big 12 in a couple of years...

Four teams left the Big 12 mostly because of the actions of Texas. On top of demanding unequal revenue sharing, they tried to move to the Pac 10 with 5 other teams only to screw those teams at the last second and stay because they reached a deal with ESPN for the Longhorn Network. One of those...

FSU can't even hold a candle to how awful of a partner Texas was to the Big 12 and the SEC just welcomed them with open arms. It's all about money. Always has been.

Maybe. Maybe not. McMurphy has stated in other interviews that the SEC and B1G 100% do not want Clemson either. It may be true that they don't want either of them. It may also be true that they want leaks to say they are not interested in them for a variety of reasons. We will never know.

From an article by Dennis Dodd on August of 2022: I trust in the reporting by industry guys like Dodd and McMurphy, but I think sometimes they are used as well.

Without the UGA game pulling our average up significantly, we finish near the bottom of the conference.

I don't think FSU wants the SEC either from most accounts. Its B1G or B12 for them.