re: Big Ten cancels 2020 Football season.

Yea and it will have to be a fit long term , not just to get through a Covid season

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That being said.. would love to pick up some ACC teams.. but I think the ACC is like us

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They are not going anywhere any time soon and no conference would want to pick them up long term due to money going back to their original conference. If an ACC team for example joined the SEC all money from their TV payout would go back to the ACC until 2036

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A prominent television executive told CBS Sports that the Big Ten's TV contract with the Big Ten Network, Fox and ESPN might preclude the Cornhuskers from becoming a "free agent" for the 2020 season.

Such a restriction would be similar to the grant of rights agreements in the Big 12 and ACC. Those grants bind schools' TV rights to a specific conference for a period of years. The ACC's grant of rights goes to 2036, while the Big 12's lasts until 2025.

If a school leaves before those dates, the conference from which it departs would own its TV rights. That has been more than enough to keep those teams in place.

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Not to mention the ACC has a 50 million buyout if a team decides to leave while under contract.

You think any ACC team would pay 50 million to leave and give up all their TV money for another 16 years? Not going to happen

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I’m just spitballing here but doesn’t the conference have a duty to uphold their end of the bargain? If they are not providing an avenue for a team to play when other conferences have, it would seem to me that the B1G has breached the contract. But I’m no lawyer and I certainly have a biased opinion on the subject. Still, I think a slick attorney could probably argue something along those lines.

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Maybe but as long as the conference can demonstrate health as a priority it will not matter, especially now that other P5 conference are postponing the season.

The legality of it will also be affected by language. Were the season postponed or canceled. A few months ago this was a big issue with Live Nation, Ticketmaster, and other ticket vendors for show and athletic events. They are not required to give a refund for events postponed only for cancelled.

So if season is postponed no breach of contract.

plus, the SEC will get to watch a few of the nfl games and see what happens with those teams. I hope the B10 and the Pac 12 keep up with the number of their athletes that get Covid, and the media will be as aggressive in reporting those cases, as the ones in the SEC (if they play).

Nebraska writers calling for an end to their marriage with the B10. They need to hook back up with the Tejas schools.

While I think it was a tad early to call it a day for the B10 and P12, the arguments as to why it won't happen have already been beaten to death.

(1) Schools don't want to face liability should something happen due to COVID. With other major conferences with premier endowment funds bigger than those of almost any in the SEC (USC, Michigan, Stanford,etc...) choosing not to pick up their sword and take the risk - I imagine it would be hard for a school like Alabama or Arkansas to sit in front of the school board and make a sane argument as to why it's worth it - especially when 60% of the revenue has evaporated by not having full stadiums.

(2) The NCAA, the school, and the love of amateurism: Point blank - if at anytime any SEC school sends kids home early due to COVID, and the players stay, it punctures a massive hole in the student-athlete amateurism shield. There is no union for players (they can't have one - they aren't pros). Even if every player on Alabama's team posted #WeWantToPlay, it has as much of an impact on the decision as me blowing at the sun, trying to reverse it's course.

I will take 1:1 bets on the SEC not playing, for any amount of money, with anyone here. It's just not going to happen.

The product itself would be a shell of what we love about college football anyways. No tailgates, no packed crowds, no Friday nights at the bars... it'll just be a consortium of mismatched teams playing each other in front of metal bleachers. College football isn't great because the games are good (SEC margin of victory last year was over 2 TDs). It's because the atmosphere is so fun. What you would see on TV would be a mortal disservice to what we all love about CFB.

We need to do everything we can to get that back in 2021.

Also, and credit Jeff Schultz of the AJC for bringing this up, there is another scary elephant in the room: Title IX.

If College Football is played, then you have to play women's sports this year equal to the 85 scholarships that football has - meaning: virtually all women's sports have to be played this calendar year.

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We've all been to Alabama - there isn't any competition for fun in the state outside these teenage kids playing ball on Saturdays in the fall.

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I'm impressed. You manage to be a condescending prick in all of your posts across various forums.

I think the fact that high schools cannot grant an extra year of eligibility to players is weighing pretty heavily in their decisions to go forward. Not allowing a borderline college prospect to play as a senior very likely will have an extremely chilling effect on his ability to earn college scholarships and the opportunities that come with them. Not saying it is right or wrong. Just that that is likely a big part of their thought process.

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We've all been to Alabama - there isn't any competition for fun in the state outside these teenage kids playing ball on Saturdays in the fal

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If this is what you think, it's clear you've actually never been to Alabama.