AAC Departures

[E.T.]

13 minutes ago, bowman1 said:

Someone slapped Chuckles?

I was, but the wait was too long.

[Rocky Style]

13 minutes ago, TyBull said:

So USF has to wait until UT & OU announce their departure date so we will know our entrance into the Big 12?

Something like that.  I am hoping for an absolute ACC miracle.  I would like to see all those stadiums.  I don't give a rip about the B12.

[Triple B]

29 minutes ago, Brad said:

Cried or lied?

Crying while lying?

[Sk00b]

The flow of this thread is something else... Man, I can't imagine someone stopping in for the first time trying to follow this mess.  Good times had by all.

[Jim Johnson]

56 minutes ago, TyBull said:

So USF has to wait until UT & OU announce their departure date so we will know our entrance into the Big 12?

@bulloni posted this in a different thread.

 

[usf97]

It's the circle of life. Doesn't seem all that long ago that we were in a conference with UAB and Charlotte (UNCC).

[Triple B]

5 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

@bulloni posted this in a different thread.

 

So why are the AAC departures leaving next year then ......... not that there's anything wrong with getting those douchebags gone asap.

[bulloni]

4 hours ago, DontPushMe said:

I've been saying it for a year now. Shut the program down. 

 

We tried. We failed. No need to invest more into a sunk cost

Did we? We haven't had an indoor practice facility till now when Sun Belt level programs with a fraction the budget of us do.

We finally are getting our own stadium which almost every program serious about football has realized is worth the investment.

We are just now starting to take football as serious as we needed to if we wanted to compete at the highest level.

[puc86]

35 minutes ago, Triple B said:

So why are the AAC departures leaving next year then ......... not that there's anything wrong with getting those douchebags gone asap.

Because their buyout was negotiated cheaper than cost of defecting especially since it has an installment plan where as the B12 didn’t need the money more than they valued keeping Texas and OU the extra time. When the next tv contract is negotiated to be micro tips on a twitch live stream we will see the value of the supplemental money that paid off the dividends that got us so far ahead last time.

[UCF_rustbucket]

52 minutes ago, Triple B said:

So why are the AAC departures leaving next year then ......... not that there's anything wrong with getting those douchebags gone asap.

It's helpful to try to salvage what you can brand wise and have the new members coexist with the 2 bluebloods even for a season or 2. The Big 12 also has the GOR, which gives them leverage against OU/UT that Aresco didn't have against the departing teams. In order to leave, OU/UT at a minimum must forfeit 2 years of conference payout. That's just the regular exit fee. Then they also still would contractually owe the Big 12 their TV earnings through the 2024-25 athletic season. So if they did try to move for the 23-24 season, they'd have to pay the Big 12 all of their Big 12 money from 21-22 and 22-23, and on top of that the Big 12 would still hold their tv rights so those first 2 years of playing in the SEC would go right back to the Big 12 bank.