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The ACC is Pretty Much Screwed

The lamenting over the money that the Big 10 and SEC schools haul in hasn't resulted in dominance in football and basketball from the Big 10. You think it would reflect in on the field or on the court success at some point, but no. The Big 10 has won ONE national title in either football or basketball since 2002 -- Ohio State football 2014. That is horrendous (during that same time frame the ACC has won 10 -- by six different schools), and teams from the Big 10 conference regularly disappoint in the football playoff and the NCAA Tourney. Wow, so, all of the Big 10 schools have a ton of cash and have essentially wasted it on a mediocre product. Congrats. What other benefits have those schools reaped from conference money? Certainly, don't see Indiana, Illlinois or Purdue as more attractive schools now.

Obviously, the SEC has dominated football, but even the scope of success is limited as yes, South Carolina, Missouri, Ole Miss, Miss State among every other school not named Bama and UGA may ride the SEC gravy train, but those schools aren't close to competing for national championship in either of the marquis sports, and again, none of those schools has raised their reputation as "it" places. All of that money certainly has not resulted in SEC being anything other than a top-heavy conference, with two dominant programs, and then everyone else churning through unsuccessful coaching hires. Again, how have the SEC rank and file schools improved themselves from all of that SEC cash? Just don't see lots of out of state kids climbing over themselves to go to Miss. State or Arkansas.

I get why ADs like Swarbrick wish that they had bigger budgets so they would have more money to waste on smoothie markers and putt-putt golf courses, but as "amazing" as the money has been, it doesn't seem like it has resulted in a better product overall, healthier competition within the conference or a rise in prominence of the schools that lose to Bama and UGA every year. Yes, Bama is an absolutely elite program, but they were elite long before there was an SEC Network, and the resulting cash. If the money was such a difference-maker, then the FBS playoff next year should look something like Tennessee v. Nebraska and Arkansas v. Penn State. It won't. It will be Bama, Clemson, tOSU and maybe UGA or a random team from the Big 12. tOSU will lose big in the semis, and Bama will beat Clemson in the final.

It’s hard to overpay the Jimbo Fishers of the world without those big TV contracts.
 
I had no idea Baylor was that religious. Maybe there's someone else to stick in their place under my idea.
 
No amount of money is going to remove the stain of Texas A and M dodging LOWF in a bowl game. SEC pussies.
 
That reads like a TV preacher saying he needs millions of dollars to buy a private jet so he can spread the gospel throughout the world.
 

That is absolutely depressing.

Day said the Buckeyes have been gathering information by talking to recruits and their families and getting a sense of what other schools might be discussing with NIL deals. He said he believes right now top-shelf quarterbacks require $2 million in NIL money. Major offensive tackles and edge rushers he said are about $1 million.

If you can’t match that, other teams might have a chance to pluck key players from your roster. Day told the assembled potential NIL donors that every player on the team could go in the transfer portal when this season ends, and then field calls from other schools who might be offering NIL deals. Players may feel they have to take that money to help their families.

Unless Ohio State can offer enough to keep them here.

“One phone call, and they’re out the door,” Day said. “We cannot let that happen at Ohio State. I’m not trying to sound the alarm, I’m just trying to be transparent about what we’re dealing with.”

To deal with it, Day set the bar at $13 million.
 
It’s almost like a salary cap that might introduce parity.
 
You'd have to think that something like a salary cap is where this ultimately needs to end up, right?

No way. The big schools just got another advantage. They’re not going to give it up so soon.
 
There's been an arms race in coach's salaries and facilities for ~30 years and no calls to rein it in for parity's sake. We've had 1-2 years of NIL and suddenly an arms race is a problem and we need a salary cap?
 
If this is a taste of what happens on SEC boards, the SEC is pretty much screwed as well.

Ha! SEC could pull out of all things BCS and have their own college football 8-team playoff culminating with a New Year’s title game and the rest of the so-called Alliance is screwed.
 
Nobody wants to see a repeat of the SEC regular season in an SEC play-off - especially after an SEC Championship game (would that stay or go?). Alabama could play Georgia (or LSU in prev years) in the regular season, SEC championship game, college play-off (current or their own). How many times do these teams have to play before it means something?

No championship is spared an asterisk if the SEC breaks off. Bama needs to play tOSU and Clemson for validity, and tOSU and Clemson needs to play Bama.
 
Ha! SEC could pull out of all things BCS and have their own college football 8-team playoff culminating with a New Year’s title game and the rest of the so-called Alliance is screwed.

SEC legitimacy depends on actually beating other teams. If they decide to secede, it could just turn into a regional conference.
 
Yeah, it'll just be like a Big South football tournament with games between Gardner Webb and NC A&T.
 
Ha! SEC could pull out of all things BCS and have their own college football 8-team playoff culminating with a New Year’s title game and the rest of the so-called Alliance is screwed.

And no one outside of the Southeast would give a shit.
 
I don't think a salary cap would pass constitutional scrutiny under these circumstances. The NFL doesn't have a cap on how much players can earn from their name/image/likeness.
 
I don't think a salary cap would pass constitutional scrutiny under these circumstances. The NFL doesn't have a cap on how much players can earn from their name/image/likeness.

But the NFL does have rules on circumventing the salary cap which would include NIL deals(i.e. Arthur Blank paying a Falcons player to be a Home Depot spokesman) and in a situation where there is collective bargaining with the players becoming employees, a system could be put in place to monitor and enforce pay for play coming from boosters or the school.
 
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