(03-16-2024 07:39 AM)XLance Wrote: (03-16-2024 07:05 AM)PeteTheChop Wrote: (03-16-2024 01:17 AM)goofus Wrote: If FSU does the math, and decides to stay in the ACC
Not even Poor Jim Phillips believes that'll happen
It's possible, but not desirable.
If neither the SEC or B1G has given FSU a wink and a nod, the 'Noles would be foolish to withdraw from the ACC knowing their only stable destination might be the Big 12.
Perhaps FSU was hoping that either conference would secretly guarantee the 'Noles a loan like the B1G did with Maryland, IDK.
It's just not prudent for a State agency to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to get out of the ACC with no guarantee of return of principal.
Are we still rehashing this? FSU has numerous reasons for wanting to escape:
1. More $$ from P2 yearly distributions
2. Better Access to CFP by being in P2, no more winning the Conference and getting the stiffarm
3. More CFP $$, perhaps as much as $10m more
4. Huge shot in the arm for the FSU Boosters. We saw this at A&M, and FSU's boosters are certainly as involved and motivated as A&M's.
5. Guaranteed to not get left behind if there is a small breakaway
6. Seat at the Big Boy Table, ability to influence policy on the future of college athletics
7. Neither of the P2 would ever abandon a potential CFP school like Phillips did to FSU in 2023
Assuming the courts aren't supportive of their GoR challenge, $75m a year for 10 years is my guess of how high it needs to get for FSU to hesitate. Perhaps if they were leaning B1G they wouldn't go for it, I dunno, but that's the sort of gargantuan sum they'd need to be looking at to get them to think twice. More importantly for Phillips, that might convince Clemson and UNC to just decide to stick it out in the ACC until 2036.