The End Of The ACC As We Know It Is In Sight (And I Feel Fine)

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The ACC reached a settlement in its suits with FSU and Clemson. While the ACC will last a bit longer in its current form, we can now say we can see the end from here.

"As a result of the settlement, the penalty to leave the conference has been significantly reduced. The grant of rights remains in place through 2036, but beginning next year, the exit fee will be $165 million. That fee then declines by $18 million per year, leveling at $75 million in 2030-31. Any team that pays the exit fee can leave with its media rights intact."

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This is obviously the end of the ACC in its current incarnation within a few years. And I'm guessing (hopeful?) Carolina will be on the first train that leaves the station.
 
If so, I will probably lose interest in UNC sports except for the occasional lookin. Kind of like how I'm a Rams fan. I don't really follow the NFL at all but I'll watch them when they are in the Super Bowl or conference championship game. I look at the standings from time to time and am pleased when the Rams are at the top, but here are the players on the team I can name: Stafford, Kupp, Puka, the RB what's his name Williams, Aaron Donald (now retired). They have that great rookie DE this past year. Don't recall his name.

Maybe the opinions of people like me don't matter here. Maybe we're too small in number, and anyway it's not as if I donate to the athletic department. But I can't be the only one who will lose interest in college sports if it becomes nothing more than a bad minor league.
 
If that happens, I will be excited for an OU game in Chapel Hill.
You realize how absurd that is, right? We played OU in the 89 tourney. Back when they in the Big 8 and we were in the ACC. The Big 8 made sense as a conference. The ACC made sense as a conference. If we are playing OU in a conference game, then conferences mean nothing. Why not just go to a single national league, if we're going to do this.

I mean, I'm not swiping at you at all. You're not making the decision, and I don't blame you for being excited. I'm just saying, why do they have to break everything just because football.
 
UNC will have no trouble rekindling rivalries with our former Southern Conference members if it joins the SEC. BIG would be more difficult as UNC has limited history with those schools.
 
You realize how absurd that is, right? We played OU in the 89 tourney. Back when they in the Big 8 and we were in the ACC. The Big 8 made sense as a conference. The ACC made sense as a conference. If we are playing OU in a conference game, then conferences mean nothing. Why not just go to a single national league, if we're going to do this.

I mean, I'm not swiping at you at all. You're not making the decision, and I don't blame you for being excited. I'm just saying, why do they have to break everything just because football.
i'm sure that's where things are headed eventually.

one mega @ 50 school conference with all of the schools with the most competitive ADs.
 
i'm sure that's where things are headed eventually.

one mega @ 50 school conference with all of the schools with the most competitive ADs.
My hope - and I think it's eventually realistic to happen - is that eventually football will break away from all other sports and we'll have 1-3 national football "conferences"/subdivisions in different tiers and all other sports will be able to return to smaller regional conferences. There will have to be some regulations/adjustments made so that the schools in the top tier of football don't essentially buy championships with their football money, but I think it will work best as a compromise agreement so that football can make as much money as possible while other sports minimize travel time/expenses and maximize rivalries.
 
My hope - and I think it's eventually realistic to happen - is that eventually football will break away from all other sports and we'll have 1-3 national football "conferences"/subdivisions in different tiers and all other sports will be able to return to smaller regional conferences. There will have to be some regulations/adjustments made so that the schools in the top tier of football don't essentially buy championships with their football money, but I think it will work best as a compromise agreement so that football can make as much money as possible while other sports minimize travel time/expenses and maximize rivalries.
I agree with this. I'd go a step further and spin off college football into a professional league. We can have all the same logos, history, stadiums, etc. Except that the players will be employees of UNC Football LLC.

That would also make life much easier for ADs, because football is responsible for so much of the Title IX complexity. Without football around, they won't have to add silly women's sports that nobody watches, or cancel men's sports.
 
B1G is a better institutional fit, and I think UNC would find more success there.
Institutional fit, yes. Everything else points to SEC. Maryland has failed to find success even though they are a geographical fit and aren't completely out of the institutional fit category. Everyone has their opinions but I'd much rather see both UTs, georgia, florida, lsu, etc. in CH than rutgers, iowa, and purdue.
 
My hope - and I think it's eventually realistic to happen - is that eventually football will break away from all other sports and we'll have 1-3 national football "conferences"/subdivisions in different tiers and all other sports will be able to return to smaller regional conferences. There will have to be some regulations/adjustments made so that the schools in the top tier of football don't essentially buy championships with their football money, but I think it will work best as a compromise agreement so that football can make as much money as possible while other sports minimize travel time/expenses and maximize rivalries.
That's what the original Power 5 should have done long ago. All joined together under one umbrella and have different regional divisions like the pros. They had 65 schools if you included Notre Dame. Would have been perfect for 8 regions. I guess it could still happen with the schools you have now in the Power 4, but some of those weren't in the original Power 5.

With that said, if that doesn't happen I hope UNC bolts for the SEC as soon as possible. I think it would actually make football and basketball better because they would generate more TV money and NIL money with SEC competition.
 
My hope - and I think it's eventually realistic to happen - is that eventually football will break away from all other sports and we'll have 1-3 national football "conferences"/subdivisions in different tiers and all other sports will be able to return to smaller regional conferences. There will have to be some regulations/adjustments made so that the schools in the top tier of football don't essentially buy championships with their football money, but I think it will work best as a compromise agreement so that football can make as much money as possible while other sports minimize travel time/expenses and maximize rivalries.
My hope is that the sec and big 10 get big
enough to then have to divide back into regional conferences. Like tech bros always reinventing the original idea, college does best as regional rivalries and they will get back to that i think
 
Institutional fit, yes. Everything else points to SEC. Maryland has failed to find success even though they are a geographical fit and aren't completely out of the institutional fit category. Everyone has their opinions but I'd much rather see both UTs, georgia, florida, lsu, etc. in CH than rutgers, iowa, and purdue.
Agreed. SEC expansion has been handled well. They’ve added flagship schools with growing enrollments in contiguous states and arguably, most of the added schools have been of a higher caliber than the SEC average (Texas, TAMU, & Mizzou are AAU members, Vandy and Florida are as well), so institutional fit wouldn’t actually be that bad.
Also, tailgating in SEC towns is going to be more enjoyable than most any B1G locale (I’ll stipulate that Ann Arbor and Madison are wicked awesome, though I’ve not tailgated there).
 
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I've said for a while that football should be separate from all other sports. Let football do whatever. Leave the conferences alone for everything else. Cal volleyball shouldn't be playing a Wednesday night game in Raleigh.
 
You realize how absurd that is, right? We played OU in the 89 tourney. Back when they in the Big 8 and we were in the ACC. The Big 8 made sense as a conference. The ACC made sense as a conference. If we are playing OU in a conference game, then conferences mean nothing. Why not just go to a single national league, if we're going to do this.

I mean, I'm not swiping at you at all. You're not making the decision, and I don't blame you for being excited. I'm just saying, why do they have to break everything just because football.
Did you have to bring up that game? ;-)
 
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