Syracuse, NY — Who is preparing for the hot reorganization summer?
Last week’s shocking announcement that USC and UCLA will join Big Ten in 2024 probably sighed a lot from your average Syracuse University sports fan.
Hey you. This is also not sh **.
We experienced it in the early 2000s when Syracuse was set up to attend Boston University and Miami at ACC before the plan exploded.
We experienced it again in 2011 when Syracuse and Pittsburgh actually jumped from the Big East to the ACC.
The college sports world seems ready for the next earthquake, with USC and UCLA leaving Pac-12 behind.
Fans of Syracuse are once again wondering where their beloved Orange program will land when the dust settles down.
The good news is the granting of ACC for rights trading locks for conference members by 2036. If the SEC tries to poach Clemson and North Carolina, for example, it will be a long and costly court battle that swells to eight digits. Exit fee.
The bad news is that rules, standards and norms are out of the window in college sports. The battle may be economically valuable in the long run for schools that want to leave ACC for more environmentally friendly meadows.
It doesn’t stop at USC and UCLA.
According to various reports on college football this weekend, several Pac-12 schools are trying to escape with the awakening of USC and UCLA.
The scenarios are endless.
It is inevitable that the Pac-12 will have to raid the Big 12 and other conferences in order to survive. Big 12 should also consider attacking Pac-12 (Arizona, Arizona, Utah, Colorado all make sense for Big 12).
Another scenario is when you need to integrate Big 12 and Pac-12 to form a super conference to ensure survival.
Both the Pac-12 and Big 12 media rights transactions will take place in 2024, only increasing urgency.
Meanwhile, ACC members, including Syracuse, are looking to widen income inequality for another 14 years as media rights contracts will not be renewed until 2036. ..
The SEC and Big Ten schools are now expecting $ 80 to $ 100 million in rights fees annually for the next iteration of their respective media transactions.
ACC’s current payments are $ 36 million per school and are projected to grow to “only” $ 60 million by the end of the decade. Recent work by athletics..
Clemson, North Carolina, Duke, Miami, Virginia Tech, and Virginia need to have more choices and could be the preferred targets for the SEC and Big Ten.
How does ACC catch up with Jones in college football? The feeling of sinking is that you can’t do that.
ACC is already playing in 3rd place after SEC and Big Ten. Power Five will soon be debilitated to Power Two … and everyone else.
Can ACC finally join Notre Dame Football and become its savior? Irish people are contractually obliged to participate in ACC if they lose their coveted independent status.
But again, we are here in the world of college sports on “Whose Line Is It Anyway”. There, the rules are created and the points are not important.
If Notre Dame Football attends a football conference, it will be a big ten.
Jim Phillips, ACC Commissioner, does not exactly stimulate confidence in deriving ACC from potential turmoil.
It was Phillips and Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff who did not follow recent plans. Expanded College Football Playoff to 12 teamsA big mistake.
Philips was also involved in the formation of The Alliance, an unlucky gentlemen’s agreement between Big Ten and Pac-12, designed to counter the transition to SEC in Texas and Oklahoma last year. did.
“It’s about trust,” Phillips said of last year’s move. “We looked at each other and agreed. We got lost if (the signed contract) was what was needed to accomplish a good deal.”
Seriously, Jim?
Phillips learns that there is no honor among thieves and needs to play a ruthless game to keep ACC at the big boy’s table.
Next is John Wild Hack of Syracuse AD. He must have had an interesting weekend pondering the next move on the phone, text and SU.
As a former high-level ESPN executive, Wildhack knows better than anyone else how this works and needs to stick to ACC’s position in the current media right, Thunder Dome.
If I need Syracuse, can I even get the life raft out of the ACC? Does Big Ten even want Syracuse?
Top Echelon of college football has about 35-40 programs. Syracuse isn’t close to one of them so far, and it hasn’t been so for some time.
Syracuse has entered a six-year winning season under the head coach of Dino Babers and has had the fewest ACC football wins since attending the 2014 conference (18).
What is the appeal of Syracuse joining Big Ten now?
basketball? history? Olympic competition? Access to the New York media market? Salted potatoes?
Wild hacks will have a harder time making Syracuse leap than some other schools on the list.
The fact is that Syracuse and Wild Hack can only do this in a hurry.
ACC doesn’t fall into itself right away, but sees SEC and Big Ten drifting farther and farther into the ocean like Wilson in volleyball floating from Chuck Noland.
College football sold its soul. No fan wants to support TV payments, market size, or “brand”.
They just want to tailgate, win rival games, listen to marching bands, and cherish the unique sensations that Saturday’s college football can offer.
It’s all disinfected and integrated in the name of the TV time slot.
Sure, it’s always been a “what you have and what you don’t have” system, but now the line between the two is bolder.
Good luck if you haven’t participated in the Big Ten or SEC.
I want someone to stroke my head and say, “Syracuse is okay.”
It may be the same as REM sang once, as college football is about to enter another serious fluid state.
“As we know, it’s the end of the world … and I’m fine.”
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