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Conference Expansion: Stanford, California and SMU Join the ACC

ACC has media rights locked down until 2036. No one is going anywhere.

Big 12 rights expire in 2025....thus the big boys are looking for greener pastures.
 
Whenever there is conference realignment, we get the same posts about how the ACC is going to crater, and WF will be left out in the game of musical chairs... FWIW, if the Big 12 craters, that only helps the ACC and all of the teams in the ACC in the fight for recruits and advertising dollars.
 
I said it on another thread somewhere, but I think ND joins full and we bring in WVa when the Big XII implodes. 4 four-team pods that rotate each season. Pod 1 GT, Clempsun, FSU, Miami. Pod 2 WF, Duke, NC State, UNC. Pod 3 UVa, VT, WVa, Pitt. Pod 4 Syracuse, BC, ND, Louisville. 8 game conference schedule still allows ND to play USC, BYU, Michigan, Stanford, etc. Since the pods rotate, they may scale back and only play a 7 game conference schedule. There are no "primary crossover" opponents at that point. Lots to work with there. Hope it pans out.

Switch Louisville and Pitt and I think you got it. ND/Pitt rivalry with two other former original Big East schools. Louisville/WVU can become a rivalry.
 
Whenever there is conference realignment, we get the same posts about how the ACC is going to crater, and WF will be left out in the game of musical chairs... FWIW, if the Big 12 craters, that only helps the ACC and all of the teams in the ACC in the fight for recruits and advertising dollars.

I'll take Kansas, please and thank you. ACC won't crater. We'll be 1 of the big 3 with the B10 and SEC, and those 3 will absorb the pickings from the B12. Trouble is we'll also probably get WVU. The real question is if the Pac10 will also absorb some of the pickings or whether they'll remain the weak sister vis-a-vis the big 3.
 
We're reaching the point where conferences won't be able to take any more teams. The four major conferences will "merge" and break away from the NCAA at 64 teams total.

If the SEC wants the NC market, ECU is there for the asking. They are a good fit for the SEC, a large football school with a rabid fanbase, and with SEC recruiting they could overshadow UNC and NCSU relatively quickly. Georgia and Florida won't like adding them because they are accustomed to poaching elite NC HS talent. But if the SEC wants a "destination state" in its TV package, then ECU is the good fit, easy addition.
 
We're reaching the point where conferences won't be able to take any more teams. The four major conferences will "merge" and break away from the NCAA at 64 teams total.

If the SEC wants the NC market, ECU is there for the asking. They are a good fit for the SEC, a large football school with a rabid fanbase, and with SEC recruiting they could overshadow UNC and NCSU relatively quickly. Georgia and Florida won't like adding them because they are accustomed to poaching elite NC HS talent. But if the SEC wants a "destination state" in its TV package, then ECU is the good fit, easy addition.

I can't tell if this is a serious post.
 
This round of conference re-alignment isn't about markets - too many people have cut the cord in recent years. Adding Texas and OU doesn't give the SEC a sudden influx of new cable subscribers, but it does give them two huge fanbases that are passionate about their teams enough to subscribe to streaming services so that they can keep watching them.

This is why the ACC should be worried about FSU and Clemson bolting - they bring much bigger fan bases that would be willing to drop $10 a month on a streaming service instead of a new city or state where they can strong-arm a cable provider into charging every customer $5 a month for the SEC Network.
 
Whenever there is conference realignment, we get the same posts about how the ACC is going to crater, and WF will be left out in the game of musical chairs... FWIW, if the Big 12 craters, that only helps the ACC and all of the teams in the ACC in the fight for recruits and advertising dollars.

No it doesn’t. The SEC is just getting stronger and the ACC isn’t. Wake isn’t competing with Texas Tech for recruits. Advertisers aren’t going to jump on the ACC football package because the Big XII is falling apart.

Texas/Oklahoma is a bigger game than any in the ACC. Texas/Oklahoma versus any team in the SEC is a bigger game than anything in the ACC.
 
No it doesn’t. The SEC is just getting stronger and the ACC isn’t. Wake isn’t competing with Texas Tech for recruits. Advertisers aren’t going to jump on the ACC football package because the Big XII is falling apart.

Texas/Oklahoma is a bigger game than any in the ACC. Texas/Oklahoma versus any team in the SEC is a bigger game than anything in the ACC.

No, it just makes the SEC rank and file teams even less relevant. UGA fans may be watching a replay of SEC CG a lot longer than the 12 years it took UGA to win that one.
 
We're reaching the point where conferences won't be able to take any more teams. The four major conferences will "merge" and break away from the NCAA at 64 teams total.

If the SEC wants the NC market, ECU is there for the asking. They are a good fit for the SEC, a large football school with a rabid fanbase, and with SEC recruiting they could overshadow UNC and NCSU relatively quickly. Georgia and Florida won't like adding them because they are accustomed to poaching elite NC HS talent. But if the SEC wants a "destination state" in its TV package, then ECU is the good fit, easy addition.

This is a quality troll post right? Should they go after Coastal too? App? JMU?
 
No it doesn’t. The SEC is just getting stronger and the ACC isn’t. Wake isn’t competing with Texas Tech for recruits. Advertisers aren’t going to jump on the ACC football package because the Big XII is falling apart.

Texas/Oklahoma is a bigger game than any in the ACC. Texas/Oklahoma versus any team in the SEC is a bigger game than anything in the ACC.

Well, that last sentence just isn't true. I'm sure people will be riveted by the occasional OU/Vandy or Texas/UK matchups compared to say, Clemson/Miami.
 
No, it just makes the SEC rank and file teams even less relevant. UGA fans may be watching a replay of SEC CG a lot longer than the 12 years it took UGA to win that one.

Wrong. You couldn’t be more wrong.

What do you even mean by rank and file ? Are Tennessee and Auburn rank and file teams ? If you’re a colle football fan are you going to watch Texas v Tennessee or UNC-CH v. Louisville ?
 
this shit is so lame. I know it's going to happen, and I know why. but a Texas-Bama game every year is dumb. What's the point of having a CFP if all these asshole teams except Ohio State are already in the SEC (assuming Clemson eventually joins, too).
 
Wrong. You couldn’t be more wrong.

What do you even mean by rank and file ? Are Tennessee and Auburn rank and file teams ? If you’re a colle football fan are you going to watch Texas v Tennessee or UNC-CH v. Louisville ?

It depends how good these teams are. Lamar Jackson quality Louisville vs. Sam Howell UNC? Taking that game every time. Those two SEC programs you picked have been comically bad compared to their history as of late.
 
it's the same shit as the European Super League that was rightfully pilloried. But Americans suck so greed will win out.
 
Wrong. You couldn’t be more wrong.

What do you even mean by rank and file ? Are Tennessee and Auburn rank and file teams ? If you’re a colle football fan are you going to watch Texas v Tennessee or UNC-CH v. Louisville ?

Did you include Tennessee by accident? They are the definition of a rank and file team. When was the last time watching a Tennessee football game was appointment viewing? The last time that TN played a full schedule they lost to GA State. GA State. Maybe rank and file is too generous for the Vols.
 
It depends how good these teams are. Lamar Jackson quality Louisville vs. Sam Howell UNC? Taking that game every time. Those two SEC programs you picked have been comically bad compared to their history as of late.

But not for the casual football fan. They are going to look at the names of the teams and it doesn't matter how bad Tennessee and Auburn have been. They are still bigger football names than Louisville or UNC.
 
But not for the casual football fan. They are going to look at the names of the teams and it doesn't matter how bad Tennessee and Auburn have been. They are still bigger football names than Louisville or UNC.

Don't see that with Tennessee their brand has plummeted. Can't the remember the last time the Vols played a relevant football game. They try to hype the Bama/TN game, and then, Bama drills them every year (along with every other quality team on TN's schedule). In 2016, Lamar Jackson won the Heisman, watching him was a big deal that year. In 2016, the TN QB was Josh Dobbs can't remember a thing Dobbs did except for a win against an SEC rank file team, UGA.
 
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