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It’s just math. GT does not have kind of viewership that other schools with larger fan bases do. The data speaks for itself.

I disagree. He introduced Taurus as his example of what improvement looks like. So I looked at how much Taurus improved. It improved a lot. Applicable to the ACC? No. The ACC is third. “Improving” means increasing at someone else’s expense. The driver of virtually everything in CFB today is...

I did turnarounds for a living. While you can greatly improve prospects and profitability, it’s rare to become the market leader in a mature industry. So I disagree with you, plain and simple. As to Taurus, you introduced the example. Not me.

There's two different dynamics at work. Basketball took root in the Carolinas much like football did in the rest of the South. For decades, the ACC developed basketball and Bama, LSU, etc developed football. The problem is that football benefits from scale and barriers to entry whereas the...

There is an inverse relationship between attendance (and fanbase size) and urban schools. The more urban, the smaller the fanbase. That's NCAA statistics.

Mostly true. Small fanbases lead to niche viewership.

No, you put out a hypothetical that "it could happen". Sure, it could. Is it likely? No. In fact, I put the odds of it happening at zero. But I have no idea what your position is. You say it's possible but then immediately walked it back. So, what's the point? Do you think the ACC is going to...

"In 2020, 41% of all the revolvers sold in the US were Taurus brand revolvers and, in 2021, it is estimated that this market share has reached 61%. " Is it your premise that the ACC can achieve 61% of the CFB market? Good luck.

Warren Buffett: "When a great leader meets a poor business, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact." The ACC has had poor economics for decades.

You could put Greg Sankey in charge of the ACC and it wouldn’t change much. The simple fact is that the ACC, by comparison, doesn’t have the fanbase or institutional support that other conferences do. Until schools decide that athletics are important, there won’t be a lot of progress.

Not entirely true. When GT joined the ACC is was pretty much an 8 team basketball conference. It’s No 3 in P5 football, doubled in size, and added FSU and Miami with the expectation they would continue to win. Both collapsed. I’m not an ACC devotee, but to say they have done nothing isn’t...

Read forensicbuzz’s comment. He states there’s good, better, best in a conference, even Mississippi State, to use your example … is making bank by being an SEC member. And they have a helluva record in baseball,

Does it really matter? 80,000+ each week in attendance, millions in media …

Hard to say. The ACC is still considered one of the top conferences. It’s not the SunBelt. It’s not the Mountain. Its decent. The problem is they are No 3 and act like, No 3.

You were the one offended by it, not me.

If it makes you feel better, delete and insert any land grant university name. How about UGA? Florida? Feel better?

It won’t change. Rising up means someone else has to be displaced. There’s no mechanism for that. It’s 80/20. CFB is skewed, but it’s predictably skewed. It’s skewed towards schools with massive fan bases, viewership, donors, and ability to place athletes into the NFL. It’s equally skewed...

How does market size fit into that theory? The ACC can’t hype because the size of the fanbase is dramatically smaller. Look at merch sales. It’s overwhelmingly SEC and B1G. That’s never going to change.

My understanding is that the ESPN has already told the SEC there is no more money if they add more games … so that means new members = dilution. If so, can’t see that as a path. Clemson is well liked, FSU not. I wouldn’t be surprised if FSU gets stuck as an Indy. Pariah.

Again, if you follow what the SEC is doing, they have openly described how they intend to package content and bid it out to multiple partners … Fox, ESPN, CBS, etc. Each one will pay less, but the collective will be more. But first, they have to get marketable content … hence, realignment. I...