I personally kind of like VTech, no real reason why though. I’m with this thought. While Utah would be a good football add, they have only been in a power conference for what 12 years so seeing them lose that would be kind of interesting, albeit a bit cruel. I don’t love the Colorado and AZ adds but they are traditional big conference schools with some history of success, though not recent success in football. I would love to get AZ signed up and then pick up a couple of ACC teams like you mention here.
NC and Duke would be interesting and closer to UCF. Louisville and VTech or Pitt probably make the most sense and are more likely. We should have picked up Louisville before they joined the ACC but we were too slow on the trigger.
Hang on Chief…….money is the root of all of it. Never, ever have I said otherwise. You said it’s killing the sport……& that is nowhere close to what’s happening. College football just got much, more entertaining on a weekly/game by game basis. It’s separating the haves from the have nots, which can be disturbing to some. But it’s not going to make the game of college lose popularity in any way, shape or form. I haven’t “spun” anything. It’s just facts brotha
Oregon & Washington are in better spots today as a result of the move. The Big 12, once it gets Utah & the Zona schools, will be in a better spot. How in the world do you see those as somehow negatively impacting the popularity of College Football?!?!
The ACC deal doesn’t end until 2036……if you’re planning on holding out now and selling yourself as a Conf short for 13yrs while holding out for…….Pitt/Louisville/NCSt…….good luck to you with that
So “if” Clemson and FSU jump ship next, the Big 12 looks like the orange dots with the black dots being possible targets. Who do you want or think we should get? I say make the conference 20 teams in this hypothetical scenario.
So if Clemson and FSU pay to leave early, do the rest of the teams just wait it out and keep getting paid through 2036? Or do Fox and ESPN come back to renegotiate?
Man that’s above my pay grade to say for sure. I’d guess it works just the same as the OU/TX exit did. There would an exit fee, but that many years would come with a pretty hefty price tag. OU/TX had 3 years left…….this one has 13.
I could agree with this is at least for the short term, all this realignment is creating a lot of new match up’s which for me at least is intriguing. Not sure if it all stays the same once the new wears off, guess we will see.
It certainly has. Case in point Purdue makes more in a season than Florida State. I guess it’s all that tradition and fan base that’s separating the haves from the have nots.
