deacdixieboy
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Try it from this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ACC/commen...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
BTW these numbers also never take March Madness into account. Heather Dinich is the only one pointing this out. She claims that with March Madness the ACC (in most years…not this year) destroys the other conferences in revenue and actually gets pretty close to the top 2.
I think we all realize that unless something changes all the marketing deals and the paying of players will likely lead to the death of the ncaa and conferences will be left scrambling. The large power schools will form their own union and tourneys and everyone else will be left on the outside looking in. Wake and Vanderbilt etc. won’t be one of those teams involved. Large state schools with large donors and tv deals will be the only ones to move forward. Everyone else will be division 1 AA type schools.
I think we all realize that unless something changes all the marketing deals and the paying of players will likely lead to the death of the ncaa and conferences will be left scrambling. The large power schools will form their own union and tourneys and everyone else will be left on the outside looking in. Wake and Vanderbilt etc. won’t be one of those teams involved. Large state schools with large donors and tv deals will be the only ones to move forward. Everyone else will be division 1 AA type schools.
Capitalism marches on
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This has been a constant theme for at least 25 years. It started with conference expansion, and then, the talk re-started every time a team moved from one conference to another... This is the end of the song that will cause WF to lose out in the game of musical chairs. Never happened. Never has come close to happening. Then, the talk of WF missing out came up with the new transfer rules. Then, the same talk with the new NLI rules. Whenever there is change, lots of people think that WF is dropping to the Magnolia League.
During this time, WF Football has never been better. If there was a time when it looked like WF might be kicked to the curb, it would been form 1972 to 1978 when WF went 12-62 and won 10 ACC games over 7 seasons. Today, in this day and age, when people claim WF is in its last days of competing at a high level, the collective success of the WF athletic department has never been better. The vast majority of sports are among the most elite in the country. Further, donor largess has never been more obvious with facility upgrades across the board of all sports. Most importantly, the leadership positions is superior at all of the key positions (AD, FB HC, BB HC).
Finally, as we have seen during this agonizing Duke/UNC Final 4 week, UNC and Duke aren't leaving the ACC ever. They understand the tradition and the sport that unites their school, the alums, the donors. It's basketball. As much as I despise the fanbases at those schools, they are never leaving WF and State behind. The connections are too strong and enduring. Look at Maryland. They left the ACC for the Big 10 money grab. How has that worked out for them? The MD alums still pine for their ACC rivalries, there is massive donor apathy, the basketball program has gone from elite to irrelevant, and the football program will never be able to compete with Michigan, tOSU and Penn State. FWIW, it has also damaged MD's non-revenue sports like soccer. Yes, the MD athletic department has made more money, but the change was a mistake. The key ACC programs will not make that mistake.
So, here we go again, with the claims that the ACC is going to fall apart and WF is going to left to join Davidson and William & Mary in the Magnolia League, but it didn't happen as predicted 20 years ago, and it's not going to happen in the future.
This has been a constant theme for at least 25 years. It started with conference expansion, and then, the talk re-started every time a team moved from one conference to another... This is the end of the song that will cause WF to lose out in the game of musical chairs. Never happened. Never has come close to happening. Then, the talk of WF missing out came up with the new transfer rules. Then, the same talk with the new NLI rules. Whenever there is change, lots of people think that WF is dropping to the Magnolia League.
During this time, WF Football has never been better. If there was a time when it looked like WF might be kicked to the curb, it would been from 1972 to 1978 when WF went 12-62 and won 10 ACC games over 7 seasons. Today, in this day and age, when people claim WF is in its last days of competing at a high level, the collective success of the WF athletic department has never been better. The vast majority of sports are among the most elite in the country. Further, donor largess has never been more obvious with facility upgrades across the board of all sports. Most importantly, the leadership positions is superior at all of the key positions (AD, FB HC, BB HC).
Finally, as we have seen during this agonizing Duke/UNC Final 4 week, UNC and Duke aren't leaving the ACC ever. They understand the tradition and the sport that unites their school, the alums, the donors. It's basketball. As much as I despise the fanbases at those schools, they are never leaving WF and State behind. The connections are too strong and enduring. Look at Maryland. They left the ACC for the Big 10 money grab. How has that worked out for them? The MD alums still pine for their ACC rivalries, there is massive donor apathy, the basketball program has gone from elite to irrelevant, and the football program will never be able to compete with Michigan, tOSU and Penn State. FWIW, it has also damaged MD's non-revenue sports like soccer. Yes, the MD athletic department has made more money, but the change was a mistake. The key ACC programs will not make that mistake.
So, here we go again, with the claims that the ACC is going to fall apart and WF is going to left to join Davidson and William & Mary in the Magnolia League, but it didn't happen as predicted 20 years ago, and it's not going to happen in the future.
No matter how many NIL deals happen, the “Big Boys” still can only put 11 on the field and 5 on the court at a time. Lots of kids wanna play our games.