Nope. What really got under Coach Vaught's skin was losing one of the Morris' boys, can't remember which who was one of the very best high school players to come out of Mississippi in a long time back in the 1950s to Dodd. To be fair, he was not too crazy about the Bear or General Neyland at Tennessee either.
I get what you are saying but this is not the "SOMETHING" you had in mind.
This is true! Dodd used to cherry pick Mississippi every year.
This idea that we are tied to the ACC for 14 years is just ludicrous. In 14 years the ACC may not even exist. Y’all just buy the company line that woe is me at GT. The absolute second the SEC asks any ACC to come over this conference is toast. I doubt the SEC will even exist in 14 years. It will be much bigger and they’ll change the name. But please keep telling me how we’ll never have a playoff system and the NL will never have the DH.
Yep, I agree. At the rate we are going we will (1) wither away as the ACC goes down -maybe in bball also or (2) go to 2nd level conference like App State or Liberty.
If the SEC goes to Miami and says “here’s a bunch of cash—join us”, maybe Miami goes. Then when Alabama plays at Miami, the ACC owns those broadcast rights. And so on through 2035. The ACC will own the video broadcast rights wherever Miami or any other current ACC members go.
You “just” need a lawyer and a judge to blow up the contract, and have that hold through appeals, and to not lose your shirt while this winds back and forth through courts.
I'm no lawyer (although I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express) but from what I glean we can do anything we like as long as we pay the price, but we're broke as it is and no one's going to loan us the money to pay it. No conference would touch us, but we could, theoretically, go independent tomorrow. Then the ACC would sue us for the $50 million buyout and get all of our media proceeds for the next fourteen years, if we were still playing football. We'd be in a financial hole we'd never recover from and if we were still playing football or ever did again, it would be in Division III.
The way I understand it, there’s no buyout anymore like there was when Maryland left. Instead, the ACC owns the video broadcast rights.
That was George Morris from Vicksburg, I believe. Dodd felt he was the best of all the players he coached. (Larry, the other Morris, was from Decatur.)
You “just” need a lawyer and a judge to blow up the contract, and have that hold through appeals, and to not lose your shirt while this winds back and forth through courts.
And that hasn’t happened yet through any of the other cases where a university left a conference. But, hey, someone’s gotta be first!
If a school in the ACC had the lawyers to pull that off, it would be Duke, or maybe UNC, but football is the program that is driving all this, and Duke doesn’t have THAT.
Sure—we can do it, though. We just need to tap into that great bench of lawyers we have.
Even worse. Bottom line is we're stuck hard and not going anywhere. Period.
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Be honest do you think the causal Tech fan has a higher chance of showing up if we play Kentucky or Florida compared to Duke or Virginia? You join the SEC or Big10 for the money and chance to grow the program rather then excepting mediocrity and trying to punch above your weight in the ACC. The same (0-12) argument could be made for how disappointing our basketball has been last 10 years for having to play in the ACC.
He probably was but Dodd had something like 21 All Americans of one kind or another so it is hard to say. Lothridge finished second in the Heisman balloting his senior year and there was the "young left hander" Kim King. Anyway, Vaught had plenty of reasons to hate Tech, not that it ever did him any good.
Well, he might have been smiling the day the 2 Billy's signed on from Gainesville High!
i’m seeing a range of numbers reported for SEC and ACC money distributed, but from what it looks like SEC schools got $55 mil this year and ACC got ~$35 mil. those numbers will continue to grow further and further apart.
Why would another conference want a team that only wins 3 games / season in football?
Power Five revenue analysis (updated): Pac-12 athletic departments facing two more years of lagging payouts
Each Pac-12 athletic department will receive at least $10 million less than its peers in the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and SEC.www.mercurynews.com
Flame me all you want, at Tech men/women you should look unbiased at the data. We are going to get killed in payouts. IMO our leadership should be actively seeking a move to the B1G. We should get UVA, UNC, Duke, and whoever else they want and make it happen. If not, we go solo and give the B1G a foothold in the heart of the SEC.
Full stop It would secure our future, being in the ACC is shaky ground. We are only going to be pushed futher and further behind. I think in the end, there will be the SEC and B1G.
that’s not gonna be that way forever. big 10 we offer a little bit in terms of geography. we also have to remember sports outside of football exist.