I say we just tell them all to go to #### and go Independent

May 23, 2012, 4:46 PM

It's probably more en vogue now than ever. We can help cover our ACC exit fee by keeping four of their teams on our schedule each year and helping fill their stands when we play our away games there. Schedule Ga. Tech, FSU or Va. Tech plus a BC and Pitt or something. We would definitely get an annual game with an SEC school on top of USuC, plus WVU and another competitive FBS OOC school, a couple of easies like we do now for home fodder, plus BYU and Notre Dame. That's 7 home games and 5 away annually, with solid competition and an opportunity to spread the Clemson name far and wide.

Partner with Notre Dame in choosing a basketball league - the Big East would be attractive, and go the Conference USA route or something in Olympic sports.

We would get full media exposure for our away games, considering the level of competition and conference affiliations we'd be playing, and go the NBC / NBC Comcast route for home games. The other sports are a part of the partner leagues. Maybe we have to do a Home/Away with the basketball league school to make it even, though we'd be doing that with Notre Dame already.

Independence. In this day and age, it may work. The playoffs are not going to be conference champions only. The SEC and Big XII established that when they came up with their new game. It will be open to the best 4 teams regardless. Any team that takes care of business during the season is going to get a shot.

We'd miss out on the conference championship game, and thus forego an opportunity to lose, but also not helping climb with a win if it's coming down to the wire. Either way it's a wash.

This isn't 1971. It's 2012 and Al Gore's invented the internet now. It's a different age.

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coverage wasn't as available for independents for a lot of that stretch. Now anybody anywhere can watch most college football games in high def on their phones. Clemson could easily support itself today simply with the size and power of its fanbase tuning in like they do at today's prices.

Also our uniforms are fun and people remember them. There's a cuteness thing that works really well for us. That's why I don't cast too much dispersion on the NY Times study rating us at #10 in terms of fan base size. The paw says it all. People identify with it well and there's a lot of viewers out there watching us. We're strong as dirt. USuC was not. Theirs looks like dried blood and you can't draw the chicken easy. It's hardly a comparison.

I say we just tell them all to go to #### and go Independent

Since you're already in Cootlumbia, go over to Bull Street

Like a fox. Plan for five years, when the BCS deal will be

Re: I say we just tell them all to go to #### and go Independent

NBC / NBC Comcast would guarantee a 5-year contract. They'd

Actually... if Clemson did the math...

Winner Winner! Chicken dinner! Also consider the bonus

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How did that Independent stuff work out for the Coots!

The Coots didn't have NBC looking for more penetration into

It was also a different age back then media-wise. TV

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