And the winner is......Realignment!

[Plains&Lakes]

In term of dollars, the ACC/Maryland case is a draw. The ACC and Big 12 GORs were not really supported or challenged. The Big Ten legal team can take the Maryland battle out of their mindsets. Now they have more resources to think who the candidate schools are, with UConn an obvious bride-in-waiting.

If there is a school, by remote possibility in the ACC that thinks that $31 million isn't bad because they think that they can beat the GOR, then that school many now come out. If no ACC school is encouraged, the Big Ten may focus outside the ACC and waiting, on Missouri, Vanderbilt or Buffalo for possible consideration.

In short, it was no secret that the Big Ten wanted at least 2 ACC schools, or possibly one with UConn. If the ACC is now a totally uniformed, locked safe box, I expect exploratory overtures leaking out from schools that one might not have previously taken seriously.

 

[sportsart]

Thank goodness.

A new thread.

 

[Jimdish255]

The ACC gets to keep the entire process a secret and sets the bar at a minimum of 31mil. They win.

 

[CL82]

The ACC gets to keep the entire process a secret and sets the bar at a minimum of 31mil. They win.

Although there now is a template for future schools to follow to challenge the exit fee, which may well be effective in challenging the GOR as well.

 

[kyleslamb]

It's really very simple IMHO: if a conference continues to pay for the rights it's being granted by a departing member school as the idea of consideration behind contract law would stipulate, there will be no reason for a Grant of Rights to be challenged. A departing school would still be paid for media rights and a new league welcoming them could still justify their value by subtracting the media rights out of the league compensation, albeit at a discounted value. However, if the ACC or Big 12 attempts to withhold payment for a departing member, as they both threaten to do in the separate bylaws, that is when the Grant of Rights can be challenged and IMHO will be shot down. It's really the mere idea that a school would have to go through a long, drawn out legal fight that is would be more effective than the agreement itself.

 

[TerryD]

No potential exiting member of the ACC will ever be in a more favorable legal position than Maryland who:

1) Voted against the increased exit fee;

2) Exited the conference shortly after its no vote, and

3) Did not sign a GOR.....

....and it still had to go through a bitter, drawn out lawsuit... and it still paid over $31 million (plus its attorneys fees and costs).

 

[SAMCRO]

FSU is the one school who could challenge it, as they were the only other school to vote NO. Everyone else signed up for it.

 

[Dooley]

FSU and UCONN to the B1G would make a heck of a lot sense. B1G could add football power and recruiting while also adding hoops power and major markets for BTN. Year-round content for the network. Neither are continuous and neither are AAU though. But it would be a VERY strong move for the B1G and that would cripple the ACC.

 

[BoatShow]

FSU and UCONN to the B1G would make a heck of a lot sense. B1G could add football power and recruiting while also adding hoops power and major markets for BTN. Year-round content for the network. Neither are continuous and neither are AAU though. But it would be a VERY strong move for the B1G and that would cripple the ACC.

Would be too amazing.

 

[Mr Blueskin]

FSU and UCONN to the B1G would make a heck of a lot sense. B1G could add football power and recruiting while also adding hoops power and major markets for BTN. Year-round content for the network. Neither are continuous and neither are AAU though. But it would be a VERY strong move for the B1G and that would cripple the ACC.

New B1G motto would be, "win a national championship or 2 and you can join us" ...Nobody would say boo about UConn in that scenario.

 

[Fishy]

Bottom line - after all the talk, the ACC blinked and let Maryland take $21M off the table. They had a rule on the books and didn't think they could enforce it in full.

 

[Plains&Lakes]

FSU is the one school who could challenge it, as they were the only other school to vote NO. Everyone else signed up for it.

They are also supposedly the reason that the ACC GOR was not signed for months. Rumors were that Michigan and Wisconsin blocked their entry into the Big Ten.

 

[Fishy]

FSU is the one school who could challenge it, as they were the only other school to vote NO. Everyone else signed up for it.

Where is Florida State going to go?

The Big Ten supposedly said no and the SEC definitely said no.

FSU is where they are gonna be until the day that the P5 squeezes down towards the P4.

 

[billybud]

The SEC is the only conference that FSU contacted (not the B1G nor the Big 12)....and the FSU President went public that FSU did not make sense for a TV network if the SEC could gain new territory in expansion.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

The SEC is the only conference that FSU contacted (not the B1G nor the Big 12)....and the FSU President went public that FSU did not make sense for a TV network if the SEC could gain new territory in expansion.

Jesus Cristo, this unwelcome Free Shoe's blow hard is still spewing his BS.

 

[Plains&Lakes]

Bottom line - after all the talk, the ACC blinked and let Maryland take $21M off the table. They had a rule on the books and didn't think they could enforce it in full.

They like Texas, are far removed at their southern parts of the country from many schools in other conferences. It is hard to believe that if FSU or Texas were in the middle of Big Ten, Big 12 or SEC (Florida is already in the SEC) territory that they would not be a member of probably all of those conferences. Looking at it in this vein, how does FSU or Texas compare with Indiana, Vanderbilt or Iowa State? Conference biases aside, I think we can all agree that a school can have a geographical "raw deal." Growing UCF and USF also have something to think about.

 

[SAMCRO]

Where is Florida State going to go?

The Big Ten supposedly said no and the SEC definitely said no.

FSU is where they are gonna be until the day that the P5 squeezes down towards the P4.

They're not going any where. I'm just making the point that they were the only other ACC school with a similar case as UMd. They voted against the increased fee. That had too phage played a part in UMd having a leg to stand on. The rest of that league voted for the increase, which would make it much harder to get out of paying it. But now that UMd has asset the bar at $31M, who knows.

 

[SAMCRO]

Where's stimpy been? He assured us all that UMd would pay the full boat