I wish all pro sports used promotion/relegation.
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Iâve seen similar discussion of this point, but this was referenced by Eamonn Brennan:
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FSU and Clemson are solid noâs unless ND is in. UNC/NCST is functionally a bloc given the reporting. I donât see a whole lot of wiggle room to peel off one of them. I also think if push came to shove, youâd find another no amongst the soft yes positions.
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If FSU and Clemson voted no, wouldnât that imply that they intend to stay in the ACC this year. If they were leaving, they wouldnât care about Cal/Stan joining and would most likely vote with the majority.
I used to think promotion/relegation would be great in US sports, but watching what is happening in England makes it hard for me to believe it would be successful in the US. There are 6 Premier League teams in London and several years ago all the major West Midlands teams were in the Championship. Manchester/Liverpool area had 5âŠ
Our big population centers would suck up the teams and the small market teams would always be in the lower divisions. Travel could be ridiculous if, for example, there were 6 teams in the New England corridor and all the midwest teams were all in the second division. Can you imagine the East Coast bias with promotion relegation?
In an ideal world promotion/relegation would be awesome, but I think with a country with so much real estate as the US, it wouldnât be as ideal as most people think.
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They could feel they can get half to dissolve easier with fewer teams that would not vote to dissolve in short term
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I imagine Clemson and FSU are being obstinate just to establish negotiating leverage. Threatening to be an indefinite obstacle unless they get favorable release conditions sounds like a perfectly plausible tactic.
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I could also envision a scenario where agreeing to add schools either implies or explicitly requires reaffirming your commitment to the league. If you want to leave, why vote in favor of expanding?
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So is the prevailing sentiment there isnât much to be made of us being a âsoft yesâ while UNC was a no? Just a matter of not being forced to show our cards?
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I think adding two West Coast teams to the ATLANTIC Coast conference is insane. But the flip side is: If we donât add anyone, the conference will collapse within five years.
Either way, I donât care. I stopped caring about the ACC as a conference when we added all the Big East teams. Whatever made the ACC special disappeared a long time ago.
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Looks like it is unlikely that the ACC will see any defections by tomorrowâs deadline
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Yeah, if FSU actually had a plan they would have just executed it instead of spending all their time complaining to media for a solid week. Although I did enjoy seeing all the FSU posters elsewhere who thought the media statements were all carefully laid out steps in some grand master plan.
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They were bluffing the whole time. They never planned to leave, but were hoping to extract more money from the conference based on the threat to do so.
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Letâs take a look at the FSU Board of Trustees as they tried to break the GOR:
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Oooh, check out the Big 12. Really feeling themselves after their big expansion. Gonna party like itâs 2002:
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Thats some funny shit Haney. Maybe do an face band aid give away as well
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If the ACC cant counter Nelly Furtado/Timbaland for the Clemson FSU championship game, then we truly are a dead conference
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Maybe an old school rap battle playoff style to see who gets to do the BCS game
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I actually think the Big Ten will now have to sign Nelly Furtado, to keep up in the Nelly wars. SEC will be content to stay with what they have, and the ACC will be like, oh crud, we have to go get the woman who played Nelly on Little House on the Prairie.
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Get Nelly Korda and take the win ACC.
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