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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Money Matters Could Drive Florida State to the Big 12 (USA Today)
The Big 12 Conference has a lot of money. The Atlantic Coast Conference should be worried. And Florida State fans should not quickly dismiss the rumors. That is the simplest way to summarize a week spent in Kansas City. Start first with the obvious: The Big 12 has money right now that the ACC doesn’t…
The ACC’s Third Tier Rights, And Why They’re Killing the Conference (Forbes)
I wrote last week that the ACC is currently on its deathbed, largely because of the conference’s poorly renegotiated TV deal with ESPN. My claim provoked an impassioned reaction from commenters on both sides of the debate, and many readers offered detailed and thoughtful responses. But some of those comments also made it apparent that there is a fair amount of confusion regarding the details of the conference’s television rights…
Lies and ignorance continue to fuel the desires of those interested in seeing Florida State University and Clemson University leave the ACC for supposed greener pastures in the Big 12. Let’s investigate. LIE 1: Remember the comments which turned this rumor into a story? The chairman of the FSU board of trustees, Andy Haggard, bombed the ACC for allowing member institutions to retain possession of some men’s basketball games…
ACC Expansion: No Buyer’s Remorse (Athlon Sports)
Some might say it’s a darn good thing Pittsburgh and Syracuse cast their lots with the ACC last September, because if the conference had seen how the 2011 football season turned out for the schools, it might have had second thoughts by January. Big second thoughts…
Jacobs: Karma Catching Up With the ACC? (ACC Sports Journal)
Something is missing from the current discussion of potential conference realignments, this time with defections possibly at the expense of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The absent element is a sense of the moment’s rich irony. Usually it’s coaching changes, or the potential thereof, that send fans and media members into this sort of frenzy…
Another Year, Another Summer of Preseason Love for Florida State (CBS Sports)
I like to think that, many years ago, when some brilliant, overworked hack coined the phrase “on paper” to describe the gap between potential and reality, he had Florida State football in mind. A full decade after ceding their crown as perennial ACC overlords, the Seminoles are still pulling in first-rate recruiting classes…
Parasiliti: Terps’ Edsall Breaks Mold (Baltimore Sun)
Image is everything. That’s what they say … at least when they are selling cameras. But image is more than just a picture. It’s also a perspective. It’s a focus, even in camera land. And at times, it is even a stereotype. Certain words conjure up their own images — and stereotypes. Let’s take professions, for instance…
Mellencamp Wants a Chance to Rock with Blue Devils (The Herald-Sun)
Duke’s latest football pledge is a small town boy with Division I football dreams. His lineage put the emphasis on “Small Town.” Hud Mellencamp, the son of rock star John Mellencamp, has visited Duke, plans to enroll this summer and is interested in walking on to the Blue Devils football team, Duke spokesman Art Chase said Monday…
And today’s featured ACC football video:
Not sure what to make of the article on Edsall. He included this quote … “Edsall replaced Ralph Friedgen, a Maryland graduate who spent 10 years on the job before the school elected not to rehire him for the 2011 season.” That’s not accurate … it’s not that Maryland “elected not to rehire him” … he was fired. He still had a year left on his contract.
The USA Today article was painful to read. Inflammatory and misleading, but I guess that’s what passes for journalism nowadays.
Chadd Scott’s article was cool. There are definitely a vocal group that want to move FSU into the Big 12. Whether or not that constitutes a majority or is simply a vocal minority is another question.
I think given the choice, many fans of FSU would prefer to be in a healthy ACC vs. being in the Big 12, but can’t stomach that much of a disparity in revenue.
Fair point on FSU fans. I like Chadd Scott’s piece a lot because it points to the same problems harped on ad nauseum in both the USA Today and Forbes articles. The issue with the narrative is that it’s starting to boil over from just message boards and fan blogs over to the mainstream media. Problem is, a lot (but not all) of the information put out there is untrue. Between ill-informed administrators and outraged fans, we already had enough problems. But now, with casual fans being roped into the extreme opinions by Forbes and the like, I’m not sure the possibility of expansion is as far off as we’d like it to be.