Unconquered

I go to work only to find this thing blownd up....awesome, hopefully this leads to something, however, I am skeptical.....

I'd really like it if OUTSIDERS quit telling us what was exceptable or not from our president, athletic director, boosters, board of trustees and so forth.

You guys are missing the main point.
"...misinformation about the provisions of the ACC contract..."

This is what we need clarification on.
I have read that the misinformation revolves around the 'third tier TV rights.'
What I have read is that basketball doesn't have 3rd tier rights either.

IF that is true, then a large part of Haggard's point is moot.

It doesn't change the essential point that we lose a significant potential for
additional football revenue with 3rd tier rights for football, but it does take away
the apparent biased nature of football vs basketball in the conference.

The need to look at other alternatives is still very real, but we really need to
Know the facts before we comment further.

Board of Trustee's and Boosters run University's not Presidents or Chancellors.

Does Barron have a career ending death wish? How dumb can you be to trash your own BOT in public.

I thinly the "misunderstanding" revolves around the fact that none of our football games fall to Tier 3... So all of our football potential is shared by the conference whereas in basketball UNC and Duke have about 15 games they can sell.

At the end of the day the NC BBall schools get ~$10 Million more per year than FSU.

So the ACC and Barron are playing a Semantic game when FSU is being disadvantaged again.

I'm not a lawyer and I haven't read the contract so I could be fuul of shit but that is my understanding thus far.

I agree that it looks like Amatuer Hour from our leadership...

SFNole

Crazy summer indeed. This came fast and hard out of seemingly nowhere. I mean we have been occupying ourselves every slow summer month these past couple of years with realignment talk, but this is the first time I feel like their is actually something behind it.

At first I was not really for it. Don't get me wrong, I hate being in the NC-centric/favoring ACC. But didn't feel like we fit in geographically or culturally with the Big 12. But comparing our 2012 schedule with a hypothetical Big 12 schedule...I am on board.

How long is Barron's term? I think he made a major mistake coming out against the BOT... Although some coordination between the BOT and President / AD would have been nice... Also, WTF is Spetman doing - he seems like a "lost dog" out there.

Both parties better get on the same page or we'll more worried about an internal power struggle before any conference moves - we have until August 15th to announce to all the ACC members we are leaving to play in Fall 2013.

The BOT and the Boosters took out the biggest icon ever at Flroida State - Bobby Bowden. Taking on Barron and Spetman will be a walk in the park.

So when the chair of the BOT says that the BOT trustee members are unanimously for seeing what the Big 12 has to offer, you don't believe?

Nobody has to be saying anything right now, yet Spetman, Haggard and Barron feel they're too important not to chime in, regardless of how dysfunctional it makes the university look.

The university needs to speak with one voice or with none at all.

Stunned? I wouldn't be. I'd be stunned if the BOT looked at the Big XII financials and decided NOT to leave. The only thing holding this up, IMO, is an actual invite from the Big XII.

West Va bolted from the Big East to the Big XII seemingly overnight and will actually be playing in the Big XII this season. Nebraska bolted to the Big Ten out of the blue. Texas A&M & Mizzou will be playing in the SEC this fall when this time last year those two schools were singing kumbaya over the new Big XII deals.

Things happen at a rapid pace these days. And the geography is not as awful as you think. Take a look at the Pac 12 or the Big Ten...there's some serious land between Nebraska and Penn State, between Arizona and Washington. We'd definitely be an outlier but it's certainly manageable, especially with WVU already there and perhaps Clemson joining us as well.

My thought - acc or big 12 needs to keep up with the sec. Having Florida state, vt, uc, and ul or nd will make big 12 just as competitive or equal. With all the love the sec gets because of it being the best conference sucks. I don't want to see another sec vs sec for the NC again because they have the best conference.