Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Again the ACC GOR is notoriously iron clad. They don’t need luck, they have an insanely good contract.
Travel on the years where pod 1 plays pod 4 would be brutal. Give me 2 divisions. Play 7 + 2 roating games in the other division. Division record and head to head first criteria for CCG selection to keep things even.
Left out schools' lawyers in court: "Here's the contract. Here are the communications between the defendants and conferences A, B and C violating this contract. Here's the damages our clients are seeking: $(# of defendants x media rights value per defendant x # of years left on the GOR)+($120m exit fee x # of defendants) + punitive damages."
Leaving schools lawyers: "We didn't like the contract we signed anymore and could get a better deal elsewhere."
Seems like they're not going to need much luck.
If schools are somehow able to negotiate buying their rights back from the GOR at the ACC's going rate ($17m per year), they'd have to drop over $200m. Thay'd come out ahead in year 5 in the B10, 6 in the SEC and, checks notes, year 14 in the B12. Throw in the $120m ACC buyout fee, and its years 7/10/22.
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Nah. Play the 3 in your pod + 6 rotating teams from outside the pod.
That way you'll play all the teams over a two year span, and visit every stadium within a 4 year span.
Seeing that a few connected UCLA folks are thinking Utah to Big 12 is a done deal.
And you'll have Big10 level of uneven schedules and you'll end up with **** teams in the CCG because they got an easy draw.
Do like an NFL schedule. 3 pod games, 3 games against the same place finishers of the pods from the previous year, and 3 more against a yearly rotation of the rest of another pod.
"Iron clad" you say. Any case law you can link to where a court has ruled on anything "GOR" related?
Get Utah so we can get out of our protected rivalry game with BYU and get Colorado instead!
Link to the contract? Also, we need to know what stipulates the dissolution of the ACC conference.
Not a lawyer but every single person involved in realignment mentions how iron clad the ACC contract is.
That's the problem - there's not a legal precedents on GORs specifically. Which means it's a gigantic gamble by the schools bringing the suit. Maybe they could get out of the contract for a relatively affordable price. Maybe the court would decide they owe a massive amount of money. Existing contract law would be mostly applicable, and it doesn't seem to favor the schools that want to leave.
Here's a good article that covers the GORs and the problems with various strategies with trying to break them, including dissolving the conference:
All sides have top-notch lawyers looking into this, and with the amount of money involved, if there was a plausible legal strategy someone would've given it a try.
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Honestly, the days of even schedules died with the elimination of the round robin.
Now the priority should be playing everyone as often as possible while still protecting traditional rivalries.
It's the model both the SEC and Big 10 are moving to. It'd be no fun going a decade without playing at UCF, or Cinci, or Provo for example. And it could to some extent effect recruiting in Ohio or Florida if you can't guarantee visit to Cinci/UCF at some point in a player's career. It could also hurt if we missed out on exposure to those crucial area by not visiting for a decade.
I guess we all have different preferences, maybe I'm too old school, but playing everybody every two years would definitely be the way I'd go.
Either one you get road basketball games where altitude is an issue. Boulder is 800 feet higher but both high enough that it's a bit of a tangible thing.
I felt like some of our best teams struggled against bad CU teams. In football harder to compare because we usually just weren't as good as CU back then.
That's fair. I just think it's an easier road trip for the team and fans (plus a decent alumni base already in the area), not as hard of a place to play and we actually have some history.