A bombshell in college football! Are the SEC & BIG 10 working on a coup? pic.twitter.com/ryvGCKKC8G

— YouTube: The Monty Show (@TheMontyShow) February 24, 2025

We'll see.

That guy doesn't know how to pronounce substantive.

Agreed

Also do these leagues need to spend big to get big 12 / acc teams? Let them figure it out if they want to be part of the big leagues.

If it is inevitable, we may as well get it over with and move on.

This is from like 4 days ago. Has anyone confirmed yet that I heard of before I opened this thread?

So here's my one question that no one can seem to answer:

If half the teams in the Big 12 or ACC decide to leave for the super conference, then the conferences technically no longer exist.

So is there still a penalty?

I mean who do you pay and who is going to hold you accountable if over half the teams walk?

Conferences are bound by colleges and universities sticking together. If the majority walks, then it technically ceases to exist.

AGAZ03 said:

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So here's my one question that no one can seem to answer:

If half the teams in the Big 12 or ACC decide to leave for the super conference, then the conferences technically no longer exist.

So is there still a penalty?

I mean who do you pay and who is going to hold you accountable if over half the teams walk?

Conferences are bound by colleges and universities sticking together. If the majority walks, then it technically ceases to exist.

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This was the basic premise of the Saved By The Bell episode, Cut Day.

Nearly everyone bolted from Bayside High, but Preppy and Mama stuck around for different reasons.

It ended up with Slater and Mama going their sperate ways.

SEC + BIG 10 + BIG 12 + ACC = Aggies in the SWC Division

They will talk up regional rivalries as an innovation to the first college football super league.

Hank the Grifter said:

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We've been predicting this for years. It's all obvious.
Super leagues will form. Then eventually it's going to get too big/messy, interest will fade, a cooler heads will prevail and it'll all blow up and we'll be back to regional conferences.

As it should be.

The money is ruining sports at every level.
Travel baseball and volleyball teams for 9 year olds. What a joke/scam. Our culture needs to get its priorities back in order.

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Take the kids camping, fishing, hunting, hiking, dirt bike riding, boating, skiing, etc and forget about college athletics. They are dead

This is greatness.

AGAZ03 said:

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So here's my one question that no one can seem to answer:

If half the teams in the Big 12 or ACC decide to leave for the super conference, then the conferences technically no longer exist.

So is there still a penalty?

I mean who do you pay and who is going to hold you accountable if over half the teams walk?

Conferences are bound by colleges and universities sticking together. If the majority walks, then it technically ceases to exist.

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The number of teams needed to disband a conference rather than just absconding and triggering the liquidated damages/penalty clause will be contract/conference dependent.

The Pac-12 clearly met that threshold, and it helped significantly the media deal was up and hadn't been successfully renegotiated.

Even so the two teams left behind were variously bribed, have sued successfully to retain their ex-partners' former name, trashed their erstwhile mates on social media, and have been sleeping with local smaller conferences in various sports.

Speculation is that the ACC added the 3 have-nots, Stanford, Cal, and SMU, to make sure those eyeing greener pastures couldn't reach a similar threshold in the ACC (and that there'd be plenty of teams happy to be in the conference once anyone desirable leaves). The kickbacks of the new ESPN TV shares to the OG members were pretty nice too.

ESPN can now rest assured there will be sufficiently unattractive teams to other conferences such that the ACC will not disband even if some escape. The fact that ESPN said "even so" and exercised its option through 2036 just goes to show how terrible that deal was for the ACC.

No surprise. All the low hanging fruit is gone. They have to now do something different to rid themselves of the Vanderbilts and Northwesterns that leach off the big boys