RE: Mike DeCourcy On FSU's Empty Threats
A few thoughts to ponder while discussing FSU’s AD blusters and blunders. Really, everything has been stated previously, this is more of a compilation for convenience.
- The GOR is more difficult to break than FSU expected/blustered. If it was easy, it would have been done before.
- All teams, conferences, and networks/streamers are watching the situation closely
- If FSU was successful in breaking the GOR, then all GORs are useless
- No conference has incentive to invite a team demanding an unequal share of revenue for the basic contract. Every conference needs bottom feeders to serve as wins for the big dogs. The price for easy wins is an equal share. Incentivizing teams for performance based on post season play is reasonable and performed in some fashion by all conferences.
- Assuming FSU can leave soon, the gaining conference will demand FSU take an equal share or less as a buy-in. FSU will have to immediately flip its posture on revenue disbursement, which is not likely for rabid mouthpieces, a.k.a. Useful idiots. These same mouthpieces are likely ousted a.s.a.p if they get their wish.
-FSU is not likely an SEC target, it lacks a new market, recruiting ground, or prestige. Though FSU has a legitimate fan base, it is regional and not national. Further, the primary markets covered by FSU are also covered by other SEC teams.
- FSU may have some draw to the B1G, but probably only if the B1G secures more east coast teams prior to or simultaneously.
- FSU is not going to the Big 12. The revenue is in parity to ACC revenue and the costs would be prohibitive even if there were no exit fee nor the GOR issue.
- Sure, back channels are a means of working around the tortious interference issue, but remember, schools willing to break ethics are likely to do so again. If a perceived better offer should materialize in 10-20-30 years, then the “partner” will have wandering eyes. The result is that no one can trust their “partners”. Further, FSU publicly offending their partners makes them less attractive to the gaining conferences, again, the character of your partners is important. Exhibited behaviors are likely to continue until the problem administrators are replaced.
-As noted, if FSU hates playing Pitt, BC and Syracuse in the late fall, they will hate Iowa, Wiscy, Minny, UM, MSU, PSU, tOSU, Rutgers, Indiana, Illinois, Purdue, Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, etc. And SU plays in a Dome, none of the B1G schools plays indoors in late October or November.
-FSU will be an also-ran in the SEC or the B1G. They have not dominated the ACC in many years, they will not dominate either conference anytime soon. Further, being the “new guy”, FSU would lack any influence in the conference. Plus, in the B1G, FSU would be a fish out of water in a northern conference, they would likely do well to wait for other eastern teams or southern teams to go with them.
Anyway, just a few thoughts to ponder. The same applies to most ACC schools. This is why the PAC really would have stayed together if they had a decent deal.
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