Over the last 3 seasons FSU has had 29 players selected in the #NFLDraft (13 were selected in 1st 2 rounds)
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It's not going to happen, maybe more expense money but never uneven bowl distribution.Do the split and correct the bowl revenue distribution so you reward achievement and it will remedy itself.Click to expand...
Why? Why does the SEC have distribution based on contribution, but it is not appropriate for the ACC?It's not going to happen, maybe more expense money but never uneven bowl distribution.Click to expand...
I don't have any disagreement w/ what you say here, but w/ all due respect, that's not what we're talking about. At least I was never suggesting or asking why the ACC doesn't share general revenues unequally. I am talking about the bowl revenue. The SEC and Big 12 (not sure about the other 2) have bowl distribution formulas that contain greater amounts for the teams that make it to a NC and/or BCS/playoff bowls. The SEC isn't trying to monetize the value of Alabama for the purpose of bowl revenues, they just distribute ~$1million to them if they play in the NC game; etc. They would do the same for Vanderbilt if it ever made it. It is a recognition in the formula that earning a spot in a playoff and/or NC game should be rewarded as it brings in much more revenue than the team that goes to the Belk or Mobile Bowl or no bowl. The ACC could easily do this and not change their basic position on equal revenue distribution of other revenues. But the ACC not only pays out equal amounts (adjusted for expenses) to all; but they also send the same share to teams that don't got to a bowl to worse, teams that chose not to go because they are "self-imposing" sanctions on themselves for cheating in anticipation of what the NCAA will hand down later. Horseshot.Other conferences have tried to find ways to veer from shared revenue, but it always caused a problem. FSU is the most valuable asset in the ACC and as I understand it, Swofford has admitted as much to our booster board (a little late, but it still happened.)
If someone was to calculate FSU's real value to the ACC and then create a distribution plan that would force the conference to pay that amount - and then estimate how much FSU can make as an independent - I would suspect that the number would drop. There are conference interdependencies that benefit the value of FSU when the first calculation is made and I am not concluding that the first calculation is wrong - I am just stating that "being a part of the ACC" is included in that valuation and FSU is worth less as an indepenent than as a member of the conference - any conference.
And while this sounds I am defending the way the ACC handles its business, let me make a real point. If the first calculation I make consistently occurs each year (i.e., the value of FSU to the ACC is consistently and significantly larger than the average ACC member) then the conference can become unstable because of one of the two may be concluded:
1). While FSU cannot fully monetize its "conference member" value as an independent, it becomes a target of other conferences if there is any significant realignment - and - this becomes more of an issue as we approach the 2026 season when the GOR ends. I assure that FSU is worth a lot more now than even 2012 when the B12 may have been looking at us. Is 2026 too far away? Hmmm. I refer you to the excitement of the upcoming Georgia- UCLA home and away games. It's in 2026.
2). - or - The calculation of FSU's value to the average ACC member might be viewed as an indication that the average value is too low, i.e., the average value will go up if the ACC contracts away from certain members.
You can't always fool Mother Nature and you can't always stop the chaos caused by the free market system.
However, I believe that ACC leadership is well aware of these issues. That is how UL got in and why not taking WVU is viewed as a missed opportunity by many.Click to expand...
So the ACC membership will not even consider fairness or be willing to listen to the fact that others do it differently for good purpose? Now there is a ringing endorsement for why we are members. Even China has figured out that market incentives create more prosperous outcomes for all.Click to expand...
jamnolfin said: ↑Always appreciate a lesson on the real world. Having never had any experience in the real world, I like to drop by and get your insights on what its like in the real world. For those like me who live in the the unreal world, its nice to get confirmation that the ACC members refuse to consider any other formula, even though they use to use an unequal distribution model prior to 1992. I guess they all used to live with me in the the unreal world, but entered the real world when FSU joined the conference.No, wouldn't get the votes to even start a vote. Its so easy to just say things on the internet but there's a real world out there. Some of these schools watched the Big East implode for this very reason. Every AD is out looking for more money but I doubt thats a road they will ever travel.Click to expand...
And folks wonder how the ACC gets a reputation for arrogant condescension. Guess its just part of being in the real world.
You seem annoyed that I'm discussing unequal bowl revenue distribution. And you've gone from from predicting what the ACC will do to declaring that they will do nothing and that it is correct that they make no change and that anyone urging an opposite opinion is not of the real world, but throwing things against a message board that's not based on all the facts. Yet you say you don't have all the facts, so how can you possibly factually know that what I'm asking is just throwing crap against a wall? You don't know, but you're sure I couldn't know. I do know that an unequal distribution formula is used by the SEc and I haven't noticed their demise. Did I miss a headline or is that more insider knowledge? Raising the LHN in this context is at best disingenuous and at worse deliberate obfuscation. LHN has nothing directly to do w/ the Big 12 revenue distribution and I think you know that. Texas created it and its based on their brand power. ND does something similar w/ NBC and I don't see you pointing at them as destroyers of the ACC. In fact, if you could be just a little objective and remove yourself from your real world, you'd recognize that the ACC presently has unequal revenue distribution right now. Read the agreement w/ ND if you have doubts. The whole equal distribution is the only fair thing is completely dispelled by this fact.I would think uneven distribution aligns with arrogant condescension more than being equal partners. Maybe I'm wrong and you are right, I will own it if I'm wrong. We had this same conversation a few years ago didn't we? Im not trying to argue with you but I don't see it happening. I look at it the same as the Longhorn Network, giving a team in a conference a advantage over another. I believe the bowls belong to the conferences and not the 2 teams playing in them. I don't have the facts that all of the ADS and presidents do, the world they live in is the real world. Throwing things against a wall on a message board that's not based on having all of the facts is not the real world. I hope you are right but I don't see it.Click to expand...