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You’re right. Sometimes we have to realize both sides are wrong and not resort to rooting for the lesser evil. Just like when UGA plays Bama.

:LOL::LOL::LOL: Wow… you went out of your way to put a really rosy opposite extreme in my mouth! “Well meaning” and “watching from the outside…” far from it. ESPN and Fox have certainly been in lockstep through it all… and there is no doubt that the conferences and schools “shopped” all of...

The sequence is correct but the causation you’re citing is suspect at best. Yes, ESPN would pay the SEC more if they had OU / UT, but it was the SEC and those two schools that did it. As long as we’re speculating, UT butthurt that A&M had more Tv money might have been the biggest driver of...

I hope all of their concerns are very well founded… :D

That’s my feeling too; tried to make it in 3rd point. Clem and FSU won’t just slip out. Some others will also want out and everyone remaining will want $$$ for the reason you state… no TV windfall is coming for ACC remnants

It’s too bad… it would’ve been a far more impactful exposure of such racism, corruption and ineptitude if it resulted in setting an innocent man free. Examples like this aren’t progress.

I won’t speculate on the number, but I will confirm the percentage will be 100%

I don’t disagree with most of this post but with regard to the above… ESPN didn’t push PAC to take less only to turn around and give Big 12 “more.” The PAC insisted on a huge bump. ESPN said no, PAC said pound sand and B12 said to ESPN “we’ll take that offer.” Big 12 got pretty much exactly...

But… 1. We don’t know what the option actually is… we’re all speculating. 2. If ESPN does walk from the deal in ‘27, you still have to unwind the GOR 3. For Clem and FSU to leave, 16 others have to agree to it. I don’t see that… it’s going to take a bot load of money for some, others will want...

That’s the start of an interesting theory…

Hang on… Not sure who you’re responding to or what context I’m missing … Blaming 18-22 year olds for the demise of it may indeed be hot f’ing garbage, but being nostalgic for it is not. We’ve perverted the intent of so many things at this point, it’s sometime hard to tell who or what to object to.

Absolutely. The schools and the media recognized their interests aligned when it came to $$$, and everthing else has taken a back seat.

All true… and appropriate in the context of this discussion. Just sayin, Dr J maybe had a legit beef because he was an “ABA guy” and probably didn’t get the fanfare he deserved. Not that he was Bird or Magic, but he prob deserved more promotion than he got and his animosity was probably as much...

If you haven’t watched, you’re forgiven for this concern… but she isn’t a “celebrity” in the way I think you’re thinking. She’s not there for her looks or her personality or her social media presence… she’s a flat out player. She shoots as well as anyone (literally anyone) and I think the...

Don’t disagree… my point is that the only leverage the ACC has is the media value of its biggest brands. I think if I were the ACC and if ESPN really valued FSU and Clem that much, I would call their bluff. If ESPN kills it in ‘27, it’s likely ESPN loses those assets to Fox via the BiG. I just...

More so, why would the ACC agree to any of it? I know it’s the cool thing to do amongst the internet sages to point and laugh at the supposed impotence and ineptness of the ACC, but if ESPN wants FSU and Clem that badly, it would be a master stroke of stupidity for the ACC to say, “sure, we will...

People will call me a liar when they look at the box score, but a lot of those “3 foot misses” were aided by a tremendous amount of contact. He plays through a lot of it, but I think refs got worried about foul disparity… especially if clingan gets his 3rd with a lot of time left. Granted...