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Yall are nuts if you think the ACC will go back to 8 games.
Sep 13, 2012, 9:49 AM
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The nine game schedule is a plus for 12 schools in the ACC. Outside of Clemson, FSU and GT, not one other ACC team has a yearly OOC rival that requires a home & away arrangement.
Under the nine game schedule, Clemson, FSU and GT will NEVER have more than seven home games on their schedule. In years with away trips to ND, that number drops to SIX.
Meanwhile, all the other schools in the league will have years they play up to EIGHT home games, and I bet you those schools will play ND in years they only play 4 ACC road games, meaning that even with a game at ND on the schedule, their home game total won't drop less than seven.
If ND is truly worth $1-$1.5M a year to every ACC school, then Clemson, FSU and GT will be using their extra $6-$9M to make up for a lost home game, while everyone else will be using their extra cash for whatever they please.
Regardless of whether Clemson or FSU were/are ever serious about leaving, at least it gave us the opportunity to throw our weight around when decisions were being made that negatively effected the football schools. With a $50M buyout, the only way anyone is leaving is either a messy messy legal divorce, or if the SEC picks us up and carries us out.
Either way, the threat is so severly diminished, that the rest of the ACC can do what they please and give Clemson a big middle finger.
ND got what they want, Swofford got what he wants, Barker gets the academics he wants, and Clemson athletics gets stuck holding the bag... again...
So continue with your great delusions that the addition of ND will steer the ACC football ship back toward the wants and needs of Clemson and FSU, IT AIN'T HAPPENING.
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Aside from a cool road trip every few years, and the
Sep 13, 2012, 9:59 AM
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"thrill" of playing the school that has the most storied history in college football, the real benefit of having ND as a partial member is based almost entirely on the possibility that they will become a full member at some point in the future, at which time having them would help when negotiating tv contracts.
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I just don't see it happening
Sep 13, 2012, 10:03 AM
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The only way ND becomes a full member of the ACC is if the ACC TV contract outweighs the benefit of being independent and the worth of any TV contract NBC can offer.
Otherwise, ND has a schedule that will command respect from the BCS Playoff if they finish with 10+ wins.
ND has 6 yearly rivals: Stanford, USC, Michigan, Mich St, Purdue, Navy. To join the ACC they'd have to cut that number in half.
With this new agreement with the ACC they get a rotation of ACC rivals and football powers, AND they get to keep their traditional rivals.
ND is the winner here, they get the eyeballs in the NE, they get to keep their national schedule, AND they get access to southeast recruiting.
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Re: I just don't see it happening
Sep 13, 2012, 10:05 AM
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If ND joins the ACC I would suspect the 16th member will be Navy....to offset their schedule and pamper them....
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As it stands right now, this was definitely a sweet deal for
Sep 13, 2012, 10:06 AM
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them. It remains to be seen how much the rest of the ACC benefits.
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You're forgetting ND. ND won't fully join into a 9 game
Sep 13, 2012, 10:10 AM
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schedule because they have too many sweet OOC matchups. And the power is shifting away from North Carolina now, with the heavy-hitters in the ACC now all being outside that state. ND won't tolerate the typical North Carolina garbage.
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Ambassador [6046]
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ND LOVES the Tobacco Road garbage, that's why they're here
Sep 13, 2012, 10:12 AM
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Tobacco Road basically extends to northern Indiana now, and Barker is working on getting a spur route paved to the upstate.
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