that sucks for the fans
At this point do they really have anything but crappy last minute solutions?
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Looks like it is the Pac-2 now. ESPN is reporting that Cal, Stanford, and SMU have been invited to join the ACC.
ACC adds Stanford, Cal, SMU beginning 2024-25
The ACC presidents and chancellors voted to add three schools -- Stanford, Cal and SMU -- beginning in the 2024-25 school year. It will bring the ACC to 18 members, with 17 playing football full time in the conference.www.espn.com
Where will Oregon State and Wash State land? I am betting either Mountain West or AAC.
What will be the next domino to fall? Will Notre Dame come to the B1G? Will Clemson, FSU, UNC, Miami, and others stay put or bolt for the SEC or B1G? It looks like the realignment chaos is still not over.
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We already experienced that whole ladder deal. #JFG It was gross.
I don't understand why the B1G didn't go all in on Stanford and Cal. 2 Great academic institutions with high level athletics. Plus keeping rivalries with the other PAC teams moving over. Makes no sense to me, but then again, all this shifting doesn't really make sense to me either.
I don't think it's so much about adding eyeballs (streaming undercut cable's power there), but you do want an area with a strong draw to keep those tv dollars rolling in. I don't know how many eyeballs Cal and Stanford actually get in the Bay Area. Add to that looking at strong football recruiting areas, you have to wonder if the southeast isn't looking a lot more attractive than NoCal.
I tend to agree. I understand that they don't bring much (any?) new money in, but at some point the price is so low it is worth it. The Big10 would effectively lock up the Pacific Coast for the future and remain the only real national conference. Once Stanford and Cal in are in the ACC, I am not so sure it will be so easy to pull them away. Unless the Big10 and SEC are able so overwhelm the rest of the conferences with the extra money they'll have for the next 5-7 years, this puts the ACC in a much stronger position when their deal expires.
Because those two programs are WAY dilutive. Which is why the ACC is paying them peanuts. And I think there are a lot of schools in the B1G that want to avoid setting the precedent of unequal shares.
Rumor has it Florida St, UNC, and Clemson wasn't happy about this...Looks like it is the Pac-2 now. ESPN is reporting that Cal, Stanford, and SMU have been invited to join the ACC.
ACC adds Stanford, Cal, SMU beginning 2024-25
The ACC presidents and chancellors voted to add three schools -- Stanford, Cal and SMU -- beginning in the 2024-25 school year. It will bring the ACC to 18 members, with 17 playing football full time in the conference.
Where will Oregon State and Wash State land? I am betting either Mountain West or AAC.
What will be the next domino to fall? Will Notre Dame come to the B1G? Will Clemson, FSU, UNC, Miami, and others stay put or bolt for the SEC or B1G? It looks like the realignment chaos is still not over.
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I have to wonder if the ACC is throwing Stanford a bone to keep ND happy so they have one of their traditional rivals in the conference.
Weak Georgia ending, but the rest of that is pure gold!
It was Notre Dame's suggestion (and to a smaller extent Cal)
yea
