No disagreement there, and the faster they get to the end game the better as far as I’m concerned. Maybe not getting the stay will be the kick in the pants for FSU to start negotiating in earnest. Always hard to tell though.
That's ... umm ... basically* extortion.
The issue purely is about the dollars, not the pathway to the championship. And no, it would lead to the dramatic weakening of the ACC, but so long as their deal with ESPN stays intact they're viable at least through the end of that deal. And they'd probably be better off breaking away from ABC/ESPN in 2026 anyway, as that deal has caused nothing but hardship. From there the issue is how much of the pie can you extract and can you compete in football with those revenues. Oh, and whether or not this Super League thing is real enough by then to really drop the hammer. It might be, or might not. People who say they know for sure are full of crap.
The same as what? At least the players are getting paid in broad daylight now. College football was never about purely amateur scholar/athletes, at least not at the highest levels.
Since players will be state employees, potential players are going to be able to look at salary structures and decide where they'll be paid the most. To that end for the players, that's fair. But while it's never been completely clean, there was always a thin veneer of institutional commitment - the thing that draws the fans. I know I have much less interest in college sports now that almost everyone's a mercenary and you no longer see teams and players grow over time. It's one year slices. I'm a long term Duke fan. Once upon a time, particularly in basketball, you could count on players staying four years and forming an identify with the team and the school. That era is gone and I'm not wishing for it to come back. Ain't gonna happen. What's left may be good for player development, but it bears almost no linkage to the mission, or increasingly to the identify, of the colleges. I, for one, am ready to see colleges get out of the major sports business. And I won't be at all surprised when a bunch of institutions decide it's not worth the headache, particularly if we start to see players' unions and salary expectations.
Just out of genuine curiosity, what makes you say that? I'm not in the know and never heard of any rumblings, so that's why I ask.
South Carolina, Georgia and probably Alabama want nothing to do with Clemson. FSU's problem is Florida. Ditto Miami ... but honestly, nobody really wants Miami. They routinely take out more money than they generate. And from the conference's poit of view none of those schools add anything to their television footprint and thus their revenues in the next contract.
That’s great and all but make no mistake, if ESPN wants FSU and Clemson in the SEC, it’s going to happen. Maybe this guy is right, they won’t take a penny less than they’re owed until 2027. After that, it’s posturing (and really it’s just posturing now), they’ll lose their TV sugar daddy in 2027. The GOR will be dead and buried and the other conferences will pick over the carcass, leaving what’s left in slightly better shape than the Sun Belt. And without a seat at the playoff, which ESPN also controls. As the tweet says, ESPN has all the leverage and the ACC has none.
Probably not me, that’s our anniversary weekend. I went to the last round in 2014. Unfortunately, Kaymer had turned it into a runaway, so we followed Mickelson around for a while. We also saw a couple of the women who were playing there the following week wandering around. They were inside the ropes and I wondered how they got there, then realized it was Christie Kerr and Michelle Wie among others. It was funny watching all the private jets flying over the course as the early finishers headed home.
