Re: What does this CU/FSU vote to end the lawsuit mean to Clemson? I've seen

tigermaniac® · 2025-03-03T17:29:22.409Z

$15 mil + or more possible to teams that succeed? I'm not sure how I feel about us dropping the lawsuit. Maybe it just delays the inevitable and gets us closer to a level playing field. I'd like to see the ACC/Big12 grow a pair and fight the SEC/B10 on the automatic playoff bids, etc. But then again the ACC usually folds and does what it is told to do.

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Mar 4, 2025, 7:36 AM

Without the lawsuit FSU and Clemson would have been stuck in ACC until 2036 with no realistic way out.

With this settlement:

1. They can get our by paying a greatly reduced amount and still keep their TV revenue. (The GOR will stop when they leave, not in 2036.) Instead of it costing 500+ million to get out, they can get out now for 200 million and in 2030 get out for less than 100 million.

2. From now until 2030 they should be receiving an additional 18-10 million more from ACC than they are now. This will not bring them to being equal with SEC teams, but it will help them stay competitive until they can get out and join either SEC or B1G.

3. 2030 is when B1G will negotiate a new TV deal. That is when they will be looking to expand. So, that is when FSU and Clemson will be in prime position to join SEC or B1G as that is when they will probably be looking to expansion.

Note: I have read several articles on the net, plus watched several youtube videos. (From websites similar to Tnet, which follow a specific team plus, plus websites which follow college football in general.) The three points above seem to be the general consensus from all of them. I'm not reporting them as fact. I haven't read the agreement and even if I had, I'm no attorney.

Based on all of the above, here is my speculation: Like all civil lawsuits, all parties have been negotiating behind the scenes. Neither side wanted this to go to trial. A compromise was reached. Looks to me like Clemson and FSU are the clear winners. They get more money while they are in the conference, a greatly reduced buyout when they leave, and no GOR with ACC or ESPN once they leave.

I think ACC and ESPN did not want discovery. ACC officials were setr to be deposed in Florida next week. When FL Supreme Court ruled the case could continue in Florida, ACC and ESPN agreed to the terms of the settlement.

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Is the playing field ever level? Attempting to create parity makes for lackluster entertainment and a system loaded with legal strife. All these systems to try to make things fair just created a bunch of fat cats. Is it seriously better than the system where boosters just douted on important players and greased the system they colve with cash? Do we really care if some football players can't even read? I mean this is where we are ending up anyway. We a right back where we started when the NCAA tried to make everything fair, except with a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo to pay for that they did not have back in the 1970's. In this current system the boys are not going to college to get edumacated. So why not just drop everything and let schools do what they do.

What does this CU/FSU vote to end the lawsuit mean to Clemson? I've seen