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  1. I’m firmly against our fanbases’ culture of pooping where we sleep like that. The AAC is an underrated conference in basketball, and would be a three big league this year if they had collectively done a better job with ooc scheduling. The NET would be 15 spots higher for almost everyone in the conference. More importantly it’s still the best football conference available to us right now and it needs to stay that way. There is nothing to be gained by degrading it when it’s already in a vulnerable state after just getting raided. The mwc is strengthening with former p5’s joining them and they have a basketball advantage, somehow.
  2. All the teams they’ve played were in regionals last season.
  3. Doesn’t there need to be a builder before we can really determine the cost? $340m seems arbitrary.
  4. KJ is a very good qb, that Arkansas offensive situation was atrocious this year, not surprised he left. I don’t think his addition has any bearing on Timmy as he was their backup qb. I actually like Timmy’s game and think he could start on a lot of teams, I’d bring him back as qb2-that’s solid.
  5. The Big 12 is going to have multiple teams in the playoffs each year, don’t be silly. Even in a down season this year with a bunch of new g5 call ups they finished only slightly behind the Big 10 in the Massey composite rankings and would’ve had two teams. That’s a quality/deep league that’s getting better with the PAC additions. I’m not trying to be a naysayer but I think it’s important to be realistic.
  6. I appreciate the thoughtful response, I’m afraid there’s just too much wishful thinking to come to the conclusions you have though. You don’t know the acc will earn more than the Big12 over the next decade. The Big 12 currently gets more and they will be able to go to market (again) by the time the supposed inflection point is reached where the ACC was scheduled to earn more.”; this isn’t ’in ‘32-33’’, they will be back in negotiations in 2029-30. The Big 12 has shown the ability to secure a lucrative deal in tough economic times already, something only two other conferences have done. Further, they have put multiple schools into the playoff since they negotiated that deal which not only gives them even more money ‘than scheduled’ but also gives them credibility to the tv partners for another raise they most assuredly will get. Let’s not forget that since you brought up the acc ‘growing revenue’ by adding the dregs of two zombie conferences that the Big 12 actually added viably positive revenue generators in new markets as well, far more so than the acc did. Let’s now tackle the elephant in the room: basketball. They’ve already cemented themselves as the runaway best conference there and are looking to break off into its own package deal, they’re already playing in Mexico. They are going to get paid. They’re probably going to be playing international exhibitions and getting paid for it. They are so much more forward thinking that it’s borderline irresponsible to assume the acc will be better off. Multiple schools in the acc will want that action beyond those that join the sec/big 10. I concede your point the GOR may not open as easily with the three new additions. I’m not sure that’ll matter in another 7ish years though. I’m certainly not confident like you are.
  7. The simple answer is money. In multiple ways, not just getting more money moving to X conference. There’s consolidation happening and fewer partners willing to buy. There’s a lot of fat to trim in the acc, more than the pac had. I don’t think there’s going to be a crap ton of playoff spots imo. The acc is probably going to be a one bid league most years, even with Clemson and FSU still members. The other three leagues are going to take 10/12 of the spots every year while the acc, mwc, and aac fight each other for the other two spots. This is until they renegotiate the playoff structure again.
  8. You’re saying schools like Louisville and VT would rather stay in an acc without Clemson, fsu, unc, and Virginia than go to a better conference that gets paid more money? We literally just saw this happen to a historically stronger conference than the acc, what’s driving you to think a different outcome will result from the same situation? The moment the GOR opens up the only OG acc schools left will be the ones the other three conferences don’t pick up. I won’t venture to guess who goes where at this point but we now who will be left behind. The big 12 absolutely is a part of the equation.
  9. It feels like semantics either way to me. Focusing on the invites (3) years ago is like taking issue with the final nail in the coffin and ignoring us digging our own grave, putting said coffin in, and getting in it. The point was valid.
  10. It absolutely is supportable. The process didn’t begin when the XII ultimately offered membership-the vetting was in 2015/16, nearly 9 years ago and only a short time after our peak performance. A quicker or more efficient rebuild or better maintenance in the early/mid ‘10s and we’re in.
  11. I saw penn state and Wisconsin there. Large stadiums like that are a sight to behold in their own right. There wasn’t a lot of culture or energy outside of the students at my games. They also cooked their attendance, like everywhere else lol. Tailgaiting left a lot to me desired but I did have a good time at the actual games. I already mentioned it but if you want to see a gameday experience try a Tennessee home game, it stands out in every aspect, even against schools like Tennessee tech.
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