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<blockquote data-quote="SOWEGA Jacket" data-source="post: 882531" data-attributes="member: 4334"><p>What you said makes perfect sense in a normal world. College football is not the normal world. It’s been about 2 weeks since the USC/UCLA announcement was made public. So to say that no ACC team has challenged the GOR yet is some proof that they won’t is a little premature. </p><p></p><p>I understand a lot of what you posted but quite honestly I just disagree and believe we will see big changes over the next 5 years to the ACC and the playoff format. The SEC and BIG are run by business people looking at dollars only. Traditions, locations, and all that other stuff folks bring up mean nothing these days and aren’t even a factor (including other sports). Schools like Clemson, FSU, ND and others aren’t going to allow themselves to be left out especially if the big 2 form their own playoff. The money is just too great for these schools to pull a Dodd and sit on the sidelines for a decade and a half while every 5 and 4 star sign with the big 2. </p><p></p><p>And I don’t think you’ll ever see a school take on the GOR. I think you’ll see a block of schools negotiate with the ACC to be released from it with a settlement. That’s how real business gets done 99% of the time. Not every crime gets an episode of Law & Order and not every contract negotiation goes to court. I do believe the ACC will still exist in some form in 2036 but I don’t believe the ACC wants a hostage situation with 6-8 of its teams. That is a PR nightmare and would do more damage than just letting those schools go with a settlement.</p><p></p><p>But it will be fun to watch the soap opera play out. That’s why this sport has always been interesting to watch. Most of us remember the days of keeping track of who works at which newspaper because they were the ones who voted for the Natty. It’s all been a game. I remember as a kid living in Mobile, AL when a new big wig came on board the Press Register and everyone wanted to know if he was an Auburn guy or Bama guy because his vote was that important. Would the Auburn guy vote ND or OU over Bama. It was so stupid. Then we get the BCS computer formula and all the angst over teams running up scores to work the algorithm. Now, we are a 4 team hand picked by a committee of highly connected, wined and dined folks. Whose week is it to get the luxury box in Columbus, Athens, or Tuscaloosa? Thankfully, the money will finally get us all what we deserve which is a real playoff system where teams have to win more than 3 games a year to prove they are the best. And the big 2 will finally get us real games from week to week and we won’t have to spend weekends in October watching OU blast Pine Bluff, or Ohio State throttling Akron or Bama whipping MTSU.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SOWEGA Jacket, post: 882531, member: 4334"] What you said makes perfect sense in a normal world. College football is not the normal world. It’s been about 2 weeks since the USC/UCLA announcement was made public. So to say that no ACC team has challenged the GOR yet is some proof that they won’t is a little premature. I understand a lot of what you posted but quite honestly I just disagree and believe we will see big changes over the next 5 years to the ACC and the playoff format. The SEC and BIG are run by business people looking at dollars only. Traditions, locations, and all that other stuff folks bring up mean nothing these days and aren’t even a factor (including other sports). Schools like Clemson, FSU, ND and others aren’t going to allow themselves to be left out especially if the big 2 form their own playoff. The money is just too great for these schools to pull a Dodd and sit on the sidelines for a decade and a half while every 5 and 4 star sign with the big 2. And I don’t think you’ll ever see a school take on the GOR. I think you’ll see a block of schools negotiate with the ACC to be released from it with a settlement. That’s how real business gets done 99% of the time. Not every crime gets an episode of Law & Order and not every contract negotiation goes to court. I do believe the ACC will still exist in some form in 2036 but I don’t believe the ACC wants a hostage situation with 6-8 of its teams. That is a PR nightmare and would do more damage than just letting those schools go with a settlement. But it will be fun to watch the soap opera play out. That’s why this sport has always been interesting to watch. Most of us remember the days of keeping track of who works at which newspaper because they were the ones who voted for the Natty. It’s all been a game. I remember as a kid living in Mobile, AL when a new big wig came on board the Press Register and everyone wanted to know if he was an Auburn guy or Bama guy because his vote was that important. Would the Auburn guy vote ND or OU over Bama. It was so stupid. Then we get the BCS computer formula and all the angst over teams running up scores to work the algorithm. Now, we are a 4 team hand picked by a committee of highly connected, wined and dined folks. Whose week is it to get the luxury box in Columbus, Athens, or Tuscaloosa? Thankfully, the money will finally get us all what we deserve which is a real playoff system where teams have to win more than 3 games a year to prove they are the best. And the big 2 will finally get us real games from week to week and we won’t have to spend weekends in October watching OU blast Pine Bluff, or Ohio State throttling Akron or Bama whipping MTSU. [/QUOTE]
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