until their exposure re FSU, and Clemson, Miami, and UNC, by extension, is determined. FSU's lawsuit is non-frivolous, which the ACC well knows.

If it was truly non-frivolous, wouldn't Clemson and North Carolina already have joined or filed suits of their own?

Going from memory, but isn't the only real issue regarding the extension of the exercise date on the media option? Wouldn't the ACC still control the conference member media rights to negotiate a new media agreement even if ESPN opted to not exercise their option?

doing the work for them? Plus, not joining preserves their relationship with the ACC, such as it is.

IMO, FSU has a reasonable chance at having the court modify the GOR to 2026, which I would guess is their real hope.

Football drives these decisions.

If it wasn't, Kansas would have been on the first bus out of the B12, not stuck despite multiple rounds of realignment affecting the B12.

Even assuming basketball mattered, while I don't disagree that a B1G/SEC basketball tournament won't be some massive draw, the NCAA tournament would take an enormous financial hit if the B1G and SEC weren't in it.

However the other schools have no leverage in football. If the B1G and SEC entered in some alternate format where their champs played every year that would effectively relegate the rest of college football to a step above G5 status. The few remaining schools that are attractive to those two leagues would likely immediately bolt further cementing the leftovers in the ACC and B12 as second tier.

ND, the ACC, and the Big 12 will gladly place their elbows on the table.

Both have their own championship? In reality the Big 10/SEC would be division 1 and everyone else would be division 2. There is a zero percent chance that ND would be in division 2. ND will go where the money is.

Interesting

My point is that I don't think Big10/SEC will actually follow through and that they are bluffing. They'd lose too much money over the long run to split the sport up.

It looks like there's only two real options. Capitulate and take the shitty 14-team CFP deal the heavily favors the power 2, or dig in and draw the line somewhere reasonable.

What would you suggest? Going back in time and having someone other than Swarbrick in charge over the past 10 years while this deck was set is not an option at this point.

and then start the super league at the end of the CFP contract.

Givesyou time to get all the ducks in a row, and you can boot the IU/Vandy/Northwestern teams out and pick up the best of the remaining teams for a 32-40 team Super League, including ND.

Oh, and we'd be forced to take that or leave it, if we wanted to stay relevant, otherwise we may as well go Ivy League at that point (which some folks seem ok with).

I'm no fan of Swarbrick, but name me an active AD, school president, business executive, coach, or anyone anywhere working in the last twenty years that has shown the ability to get an entire industry to forego profit.