re: ACC Network DOA

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What if the ACC completely crumbles, and we take a school simply to prevent another conference from expanding their footprint?

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The SEC normally plays defense, not offense. It was the Big 10 who started the last round of expansion. It will be someone other than the SEC that starts the next round.

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Well I just can't explain. 20 years from now things will look totally different. Just like they did 20 years ago. It's a paradigm you can't comprehend right now.

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That is something I can completely see. In 20 years cable TV might be mostly dead as a business model, which means streaming services dominate. With a streaming service model footprint doesn't matter, having people who are dedicated enough to pay $20 or whatever a month matters. In that scenario a FSU is worth more than a NC State simply because it has more fans that are willing to pay that money.

So I can see a future where programs within the footprint have value. I cannot see a future where the SEC is the one pushing the new model. We will run the cable model down to the point where it is no longer competitive for revenues, and only move to a streaming model by the time some other conference figures it out and makes more money on it.

So any concept of being proactive today by adding a FSU is very anti-SEC. A FSU or Clemson or Texas will be added only if in the moment of SEC reaction that is the best move. Between now and the death of cable there isn't any reason to make those moves, so frick FSU and frick Texas until we get there.

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Footprint is crap you can spew all you want. Check out that ACC footprint and list a single advantage it has brought them. They are left with no identity, no marketable matchups and are the biggest who cares conference even within their members. That's not what we want, gtfo with this NC and VA shite.

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Oh you're certainly living in a fantasy.

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I sure am. In the 247 rankings we are yet again above OU and Texas for the 2016 cycle:

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Which isn't a shock, we have finished ahead of OU every full cycle since we have been in the SEC (2013, 2014, 2015).

Ho hum, another day at Texas's SEC flagship.

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There is a 0% chance FSU or Clemson are ever in the SEC

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That pisses me off because they can sleepwalk there way to 10-2 every year. They already steal from the state to keep their program alive so who gives a shite if they are solvent or not? They are never gonna rot on the vine like Miami simply because they have the state pols in their pockets.

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You've never known any different though.
Nor have you.

I have tasted the fruit, you have not.
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They need to stay poor.
Scurred.

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You nailed to genro.

Florida St. would be a great addition to the SEC and it scares tGators shitless.

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I sure am. In the 247 rankings we are yet again above OU and Texas for the 2016 cycle:

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Which isn't a shock, we have finished ahead of OU every full cycle since we have been in the SEC (2013, 2014, 2015).

Ho hum, another day at Texas's SEC flagship.

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Looks to me like you're in a freefall from your previous classes and about to get lapped by TCU. We'll finish strong like we do every year don't worry.

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That pisses me off because they can sleepwalk there way to 10-2 every year.

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I don't understand why more people here don't get this. Clemson and FSU don't want to be in the SEC. They have a free pass for one of them to get to the playoffs every year. The winner of their game doesn't have to play another half decent team in their entire conference. The last thing they want to do is to have to play 5 or 6 really hard games in conference a year rather than 1 hard game a year. Instead of both of them going 10-2 or better every year, they'd be 9-3 or 8-4 most years. Why would they want to do that?