RE: New bill filed could put ECU’s membership in American at risk
DUMBEST.
BILL.
EVER.
Way to go North Carolina. Play chicken over a Civil Rights issue using college athletics of all things. *snort*
For the record, if UNC and NC State DID leave over this, even the backwards-azz SEC would have problems taking them - the schools become radioactive politically. I mean, despite UNC having a squeaky-clean image right now and all.
And I would have to imagine the media rights deal would hold, which means that, to the best of my knowledge (and someone can correct me if I'm wrong) now that agreement was signed a year ago that means that those schools forfeit revenue for the next TWO DECADES. If the SEC did take them they would essentially be sending those schools' super-lucrative SEC checks straight to the ACC. What is SEC membership worth nowadays, $35,000,000/year or so? Now add the state of NC and Charlotte to the mix.
Hey ACC, how would you like to divide an additional, ohhhhhhhh, say $75,000,000 a year between your schools?
So the ACC could either stand pat at 12 schools or go after two more. Probably UConn and West Virginia, since the Big XII media rights deal only has about five years left on it's contract (somebody look it up and lemme know); all they have to do is wait out the remaining contract. I mean, I know the Mountaineers totally look forward to going to Ames and Lubbuck every year and all, but once they are done crying they will take consolation in the fact that they will rejoin Pitt, BC, Miami, Syracuse, Louisville and Va Tech to go along with schools like Clemson, Duke and FSU. How many seconds will it take for them to decide what to do? Three? Four?
So the ACC continues to hold the NC market - technically speaking - with Duke and Wake, adds the Connecticut and West Virginia markets, adds a better football team in West Virginia and the ONLY consistent money maker in women's basketball in UCONN, breaks up the NC political dynasty that has pissed everyone off for half a century, pads their wallets for twenty years, potentially sets up the SEC to be the bad guys on the national stage by DARING THEM to take the NC schools, and even possibly leads to the downfall of the Big XII by forcing that conference to AGAIN discuss having to find a new member (probably Houston, who will bring another mouth to feed but no new media markets).
Are you kidding me?
AREYOUFINGKIDDINGME?
DUMBEST.
BILL.
EVER.
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