JasonB wrote:Let's say FSU was somehow able to break the GOR through lawsuits and hundreds of millions of payments.
How excited are ESPN and FOX going to be to let them into a new conference, when those media contracts are protected by a GOR?
I don't think this is going anywhere.
It is going somewhere, but we cannot now know exactly where nor when it will arrive. CFB wealth and power are predicated upon having fans that buy tickets and watch games on TV. Programs at state flagship and/or land grant schools that have big time winning football history have those things at much higher rates than do other types of schools (Notre Dame, Southern Cal are the great exceptions). That means that FSU, the only large such school in the ACC, is a must for the ACC to get even the TV deal it has.
FSU people are usually quite short-sighted, but they are not stupid, which means they know their value to the ACC. In many cases, people with power around other ACC schools are stupid about all this in the way that basketball-first people invariably are stupid. That means there is always the possibility that certain FSU people engineer things to be public stunts bro try to make certain that the idiot basketball-first types with so much power over the ACC are forced to wake up and see the real world a bit. I hope that this is the case with FSU right now. If it is, they are going to making big demands behind the scenes. And if their demands are to take a big piece of of the TV money to distribute based on TV numbers per team, then I am all for that.
I've said for serval years now that these changes mean that either the ACC gets rid of Wake and BC, or the ACC will either get destroyed totally or else get demoted significantly. I still know that to be true. Those 2 are our bottom feeders in terms of football TV viewers. They move no needles. Nor is it possible for them to bring to the ACC anything of value that other ACC schools are not already bringing. And no other Major conference would ever have even a hint of almost interest in taking either. So they should be willing to redistribute TV money in any way that keeps the league at full strength.
I hope that this FSU stunt is about getting that done, because that could stabilize the ACC until close to 2036.