Like I wrote previously, there is likely to be a negotiation that leaves the ACC with some money and lets the former ACC schools leave without litigation or fuss.wgdsr wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 5:17 pmexplain this to me like i'm a 2 year old. it's possible the sec could say eff it, we'll pay for 4 new teams and the other 14 teams will be good with that.DocBarrister wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 4:55 pm It’s inescapable that the next moves in conference realignment could potentially sink the ACC, or even strand Virginia and Virginia Tech without a viable home.
Could the ACC’s most attractive schools — Clemson, Florida State and possibly Miami — be targeted by one of the two emerging mega-conferences? Would snagging Duke and North Carolina for basketball cachet be an appealing move for another league?
The ACC has a grant-of-rights deal in place through the 2035-36 season that guarantees, essentially, that even if a school jumps ship for another league, its television revenue still goes to the ACC.
That could be enough to keep it afloat. But with the money involved in the SEC’s television contract — and the one the Big Ten is reportedly finalizing with Fox — that might be a drop in the bucket long-term, hardly a deterrent.
… Losing that money may now be viewed like the million dollar buyouts that were supposed to keep college coaches from jumping from program to program (they didn’t) or Major League Baseball’s luxury tax, which was supposed to drive parity (it didn’t).
https://richmond.com/sports/college/bar ... ed5b5.html
A dose of reality for the grant-of-rights fetishists around here.
I suspect UVA is looking for a safe harbor right about now.
DocBarrister
but the acc as of now until proven otherwise... gets all 4 of those teams' $$ for this mega deal. so those 4 teams get nothing on this proposed megadeal. how is that good for them? so they'll make $$ in 2037?
Could the ACC stand its ground and try to fully enforce its grant-of-rights clause? Sure, but that would be a stupid move and pretty much mean the end of the ACC.
There is already some discussion of North Carolina and Duke joining the B1G (primarily to strengthen the conference’s basketball offerings) while Clemson and FSU join the SEC.
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/U ... 89460694_1
I don’t see a viable future for the ACC without a merger of their own. Treating former teams like a$$holes won’t make such a merger easy.
Who knows how things will go? If I were the leadership of the ACC, Big12, and PAC12, I might suggest getting together, setting aside past differences, and figuring how they can put together a super conference of their own.
Frankly, I think it’s already too late for those three.
DocBarrister