"Dumb and Dumbs**t?" He don't care, he'll post his Old Man bigoted ridiculousness in every thread he feels appropriate. I'm pretty sure the John Birch Society is waiting on his dues, but I'm also sure that the guy doesn't believe in checks run through banks and sent through the US Mail.... It's a dipsh!t quandry!
I had him in the "this is clearly a lost boomer" category up until that post. Now we in ignore list territory.
Have you ever heard of the point of diminishing returns? The Regional Markets are hurting because the cable value is diminishing. Rather then attracting subscribers, the cable content providers are being shed and customers are cutting the chord. If you think the trend is up. I don't know what to say.
None of that has anything to do with the NFL, which doesn't rely on cable value or regional markets. The vast majority of their games are on national TV and non-cable networks.
This should all go well… https://www.espn.com/college-sports...ing-accuses-fsu-breach-contract-seeks-damages
it’s hard to imagine how the ACC can settle given losing FSU would cause irreparable harm. They’re not replacing FSU with anyone close to their caliber. Also, you then have a breach of contract with ESPN who the ACC guaranteed on paper would have all of these teams. Texas and Ou left at the end of a media contract. Not in the middle of one. hard to see how this all plays out.
FSU leaving is inevitable, it’s just a matter of when and where. The question for the ACC is whether they settle, poach, and live to fight another day like the Big 12 or wait until the end and implode like the PAC. Agree it’s hard to see how it will all play out but the least likely scenario is the schools and the conference playing this all play out for the next 12 years IMO.
I think it's impossible to know what the landscape of college athletics will be in 2036. If I'm the ACC, I fight to keep FSU for the time they have them. For all they know, conferences won't even exist by 2036.
The ACC is adding Cal, Stanford and SMU to protect itself if FSU and other schools leave. This was done very hastily last year when rumors of FSU's intentions got very loud. I think they must maintain a minimum of 15 schools or ESPN can terminate their contract. So now the ACC can lose 3 schools and keep ESPN on the hook.
I can't imagine that contract is simply based on a flat number and doesn't have any contingencies or specifics about who those numbers are. As for the ACC, they have no incentive to settle that I can see. If they do, it opens up the floodgates for the rest of the breadwinners to leave and that just kills it outright. Even if the leftovers extract a **** load of money from the defectors, its cold comfort. No amount of money will save them from becoming irrelevant. The backfilling well has probably run dry.
