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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 954503" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>I don't think it will force stability until the end of the contract, but I do think it will force stability for at least another 7 years or so. The price is just far too steep to get out of the conference now. Getting out means having nothing to offer to a new conference, and no way to make media money as an independent. The ACC is locked in to ESPN and to each other for the near future.</p><p></p><p>I have no idea how the conversations with Oregon and Washington went, but I would think that the GOR is part of the reason that it took so long to do anything. ESPN doesn't want to pay a lot more, and Oregon and Washington were hoping for Big10 invites. If ESPN would have paid more, and the GOR length was reduced to the end of the new Big10 contracts, both of those schools would have been more likely to join. In that situation, I don't think the Big10 would have invited them since they would have had a chance to get them after this contract.</p><p></p><p>FSU is making a lot of noise right now, but they have zero leverage. If they had leverage, they would be using that behind the scenes instead of shouting nonsense to the public. They are trying to create a public perception that the ACC needs to take from other programs to give FSU more in order to survive. I see it as exactly the opposite. If the ACC is weak enough to give in to bogus demands from FSU, then it has no chance of surviving in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 954503, member: 2426"] I don't think it will force stability until the end of the contract, but I do think it will force stability for at least another 7 years or so. The price is just far too steep to get out of the conference now. Getting out means having nothing to offer to a new conference, and no way to make media money as an independent. The ACC is locked in to ESPN and to each other for the near future. I have no idea how the conversations with Oregon and Washington went, but I would think that the GOR is part of the reason that it took so long to do anything. ESPN doesn't want to pay a lot more, and Oregon and Washington were hoping for Big10 invites. If ESPN would have paid more, and the GOR length was reduced to the end of the new Big10 contracts, both of those schools would have been more likely to join. In that situation, I don't think the Big10 would have invited them since they would have had a chance to get them after this contract. FSU is making a lot of noise right now, but they have zero leverage. If they had leverage, they would be using that behind the scenes instead of shouting nonsense to the public. They are trying to create a public perception that the ACC needs to take from other programs to give FSU more in order to survive. I see it as exactly the opposite. If the ACC is weak enough to give in to bogus demands from FSU, then it has no chance of surviving in the future. [/QUOTE]
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