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Post by catamountalum04 on May 22, 2024 7:48:16 GMT -5
You think the ACC would do it ?
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on May 22, 2024 9:20:54 GMT -5
In a heartbeat they would do it. If it means keeping FSU, Clemson and Miami, they would do it. They really do not have to worry about UNC because of the new law that allows the NC BOG to OK any conference realignment of state schools. The BOG has no say if the ACC decides to kick Wake or Duke out. If the ACC does not do something like this, they will eventually not be Power 4 or they will not exist. Why not kick out the smaller brands? Better to cut off a finger than have the entire body die. College sports is all about money now anyway. Also Wake and Duke and those other schools mentioned should have never been in the ACC anyway.
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Post by catamountalum04 on May 22, 2024 9:40:17 GMT -5
Where do those schools go?
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Post by tarcat on May 22, 2024 10:57:55 GMT -5
If it will cost Clemson and/or Florida State a $130-$140 million exit fee to leave the conference, wonder if there's a penalty for the conference for kicking schools out?
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Post by tarcat on May 22, 2024 11:02:01 GMT -5
In a heartbeat they would do it. If it means keeping FSU, Clemson and Miami, they would do it. They really do not have to worry about UNC because of the new law that allows the NC BOG to OK any conference realignment of state schools. The BOG has no say if the ACC decides to kick Wake or Duke out. If the ACC does not do something like this, they will eventually not be Power 4 or they will not exist. Why not kick out the smaller brands? Better to cut off a finger than have the entire body die. College sports is all about money now anyway. Also Wake and Duke and those other schools mentioned should have never been in the ACC anyway. Wake and Duke should have never been in the ACC? I disagree. I miss the days when conferences were regional, fit a geographic footprint, and you could jump in the car for an away game with a conference rival. You can't do that when a conference ranges from Syracuse to the north and Miami to the south, with Notre Dame factored in for sports other than football, and now throw Stanford, California and SMU into the mix. It's like ACC now stand for All Coasts Conference. But, with all that said, I understand that the days of regional, geographic footprint conferences are long gone thanks to the all-mighty dollar. I don't have to like it.
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Post by catamountalum04 on May 22, 2024 21:00:24 GMT -5
this just gets odder and odder
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on May 23, 2024 13:30:15 GMT -5
this just gets odder and odder None of the State supported schools are leaving the ACC for any other conference. NC passed a law that basically says they have the final say in any State school changing conferences. That law was passed to keep NC State and UNC in the same conference. The state of NC could care less about which conference WCU, ECU, ASU, UNCC, etc. joins. Western could join the Communist Alliance Conference if there were one and the State of NC would not care. They do care very much where NC State and UNC play sports. They want them in the same conference always. The State of NC can’t control Duke or Wake Forest but they do not need to. No P4 conference wants Wake or Duke so they will always be in the same conference as State and Carolina. So all this talk about Carolina leaving the ACC and NC State staying in the ACC is just talk. Ain’t never going to happen and the folks at Carolina, the BOG and the NC legislature know that. It is funny to me that the folks at UNC think they are in control of their own destiny when it comes to which conference they will be in.
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