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Is the ACC in trouble?

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by 62gator, May 15, 2023.

  1. Wanne15

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    I’m so happy to
    i wouldn’t watch if the Tebow’s of tge world weren’t playing. Ivy League plays that football and hardly anyone is interested.
     
  2. your_perfect_enemy

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    I'm pretty sure the Big 10 just signed their new deal and the SEC's contract is up for renewal in a year or two, so ours will be increasing before long.
     
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  3. your_perfect_enemy

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    Even if you go to a lower division system how are you going to go back to before? The supreme court already ruled you can't ban athletes from making money off NIL
     
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  4. Crusher

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    Yep, SEC's will be renegotiated as soon as UTex and Okie join.
     
  5. CHFG8R

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    You just said yourself that everyone outside of the top 30-40 plays that football. In reality, it's probably everyone south of the top 20. So, which is it? Obviously, it hasn't stopped you from watching the Gators the last 3 years.

    So let the 30 or so scumbags go and become the NFL's minor league and the rest of us (which might even include programs like Texas, UNC, Penn State, etc.) will go back to the old way. Money chasers and jock sniffers have their option and the rest of us have college football back. Win/Win. . . except for the fact nobody would give a crap about the "premier" league and all the ratings, attendance would go back to the old college system for the same reasons (the jersey not the player) it was there in the first place.
     
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  6. CHFG8R

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    But they would have their option to chase money in the semi-pro scumbag league.
     
  7. Skink

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    I’m beginning to embrace this concept
     
  8. your_perfect_enemy

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    Yeah they could, but the "lower" or whatever you want to call still can't ban NIL.
     
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    They can't ban it, but they can make it what it was supposed to be. Name, Image, and Likeness (revenew from Jersey sales, etc...) not what it became (pay to play).
     
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  10. Wanne15

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    I understand why they
    wouldn’t want to split money evenly. It isn’t earned evenly. Teams that are never on tv shouldn’t be getting tv money. ERn it if they want it. Just takeing money and no effort to put a winning program on the field.
    every team you named would be in the top 30 or 40 teams. We haven’t been there the last couple years but we will be back and we are one of the teams spending that kind of money.
     
  11. Wanne15

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    The teams outside to top 30-40 aren’t paying as it is.
     
  12. your_perfect_enemy

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    Absolutely agree, For the life of me I don’t understand why, other than the ncaa needing to grow a pair, they don’t enforce it
     
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  13. Wanne15

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    They don’t have subpoena power so they basically need people to confess.
     
  14. samdingo

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    'Nole fan here but in some ways I kinda see it potentially sort of going back to something like this.

    Bigger conferences, yes, but also breaking them back down into smaller divisions with all the fat trimmed off.

    I know it sounds blasphemous but if the SEC went to say, 24 schools (I know, I know) by adding Oklahoma State, FSU, Miami, Clemson, UNC, UVA, NCSU and VPI for example you could go to four 6 team divisions that honestly kinda look like the old conferences with the dead weight cut off, for example...

    Texas, OU, Okie State, Arkansas, aTm, Missouri
    LSU, Bama, Ole Miss, Miss State, Auburn, Vanderbilt
    UF, UGA, Tennessee, Kentucky, UVA, VPI
    FSU, Clemson, South Carolina, UNC, NCSU, Miami

    Doesn't have to be those exact ones though the old SWC/Big 8 one fits nicely. Win your division and you're in the the de facto CFP more than likely. Lots of details to iron out but you get the picture.
     
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  15. samdingo

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    It's not really TV markets as much as it is quality game inventory and teams people want to watch playing in big games IMO.

    It's only a matter of time before we're all just paying ESPN or Disney or whatever $10 a month to watch directly and just cutting the cable companies out.
     
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    IMO it's just been kind of a coincidence that every school that kinda made sense for them just happened to be AAU.

    Note Notre Dame is not AAU and they'd take them in a New York minute. Prolly the same for FSU.
     
  17. Wanne15

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    I’m for quality games no doubt. Teams that are constantly left off the tv schedule are pretty close to worthless. I’ll watch the Michigan OSU game almost every year and I don’t like either and has zero to do with geography. Schedule better games if the want more eyes on the tv. We schedule 4-5 games a year that no one but gator fans care to watch. Fans watch good games and the elite players. The very little I watch the nfl anymore are games that have players I like to watch.
     
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  18. CHFG8R

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    Yeah, maybe you just target the institutions and make a rule where they can't engage in it whatsoever and if the kids want to go hock their own deals, have at it. Also, consider that most of "these guys" are going to go to the douche league. On the upside (for the douches), the douche league could allow for official payment by the univer. . . . er, semi-pro, NFL minor league team.
     
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  19. CHFG8R

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    Yes, but every team I named also gives a crap about academics and the overall reputation of the university and would most likely jump at a chance to return to the old system, or something similar to it.
     
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    Also, I'm assuming you're backing off that ridiculous Ivy League comment.