More: Tramel's ScissorTales: Which OU football father/son duo is the best in Sooners history? But it seems for sure that by 2036, the ACC’s disgruntled will have moved on. So I’m making no predictions on where the disgruntled will go. Florida State and Clemson are Florida State and Clemson any league would be interested. North Carolina State and Virginia Tech would bring new territory to the SEC.
Who knows what college athletics will look like in 2036? Who knows that college athletics will exist in 2036? Things are changing fast these days.īut if the ACC limps to a 2036 finish line, or even gets near that faraway date, odds are that the seven more powerful brands will be looking to leave.īreaking away to form their own conference is possible – that was the Big East story, when the traditional basketball brands split off, and the Mountain West Conference plot, when half the Western Athletic Conference schools broke away – but joining other leagues seems even more likely.Įverything could change by the 2030s, but North Carolina and Virginia are models of the Big Ten ideal, though a tad outside the geographic desire. To placate the ACC’s more powerful athletic departments, the league is looking for a compromise. "The reality is our conference is third in the country in distribution, and as we look at the projections, at least in this decade, we're going to continue to be there.”īut the ACC is expected to fall below the Big 12 in distributions, especially since the Big 12 likely will negotiate two new television contracts before the ACC’s come up for renewal. “These are schools that are under a lot of stress and a lot of pressures, and I understand that," Phillips said. More: Tramel's ScissorTales: Don't expect Houston's Kelvin Sampson to coach the Milwaukee Bucks
But early legal theories say dissolution isn’t likely, and schools have been studying the grant of rights for more than a decade, without finding a loophole.ĪCC commissioner Jim Phillips put on a happy face this week, saying the league members have said “we're all in this together." The latter could leave Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Duke and Wake Forest in the lurch. The ACC is relegated to a television payout that increasingly looks below market value and will grow comparatively worse.Ĭlearly, Florida State, Clemson and friends have looked into getting out of the grant of rights – which allows the conference to control a school’s broadcast contracts – as well as binding together to vote to dissolve the conference. Instead, the 20-year contract has become a ball and chain. Some hailed it as a bastion of strength and security. The ACC signed a 20-year(!) contract with ESPN in 2016, complete with each member giving its grant-of-rights to the conference. But the Southwest Conference died, and Big East football died, and the ACC seems doomed, done in by what it thought was its greatest strength. The Big 12 has stabilized, in a far-different collection of schools, and we’ll see on the Pac-12. We saw that with the Southwest Conference in the 1990s, with Big East football 15 years ago, with the Big 12 in the last dozen years, with the Pac-12 now. More: Tramel's ScissorTales: Bills trainer Denny Kellington delivers a winning speech at OSUīut when a conference loses its communal attitude, doom is almost certain. Those seven want a bigger piece of the ACC pie, and the concessions seem to be likely, with perhaps College Football Playoff money going directly to the schools involved instead of being split equitably among the conference members. Now they’ve been joined by North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Miami, North Carolina State and Virginia. The ACC is in turmoil as seven schools have aligned to bully the remaining seven into financial concessions.Ĭlemson and Florida State long have worried that the ACC payouts no longer are keeping up with the SEC (and Big Ten). The breakup of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2036. The Big 12 departures of Missouri, Nebraska, Texas A&M and Colorado the much-debated current fate of the Pac-12.īut here’s a realignment prediction that is far away and on solid ground.
Some conference realignment plays out over months, with rampant speculation. OU and Texas to the Southeastern Conference Southern Cal and UCLA to the Big Ten. Some conference realignment comes out of the blue.
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