College Football

As a fan of Florida (alum) but also TCU (wife is an alum, plus we live in DFW), this has been an odd obsession for Yormark and one of relatively few yellow flags for a guy who's played the cards he was dealt very well. The flirtations with Gonzaga and Private Equity would be the other two that come to mind.

I get it, you want to be the basketball conference, but football pays the bills, and Connecticutters (Connecticuttians? Connecticuttites?) don't give a shit about college football. Nobody else is beating down their door, and basketball-first schools have already got the ACC on life-support. If you can't at least get to Arizona/Kansas level where the admin understands football, the fans sorta kinda care, and people really turn out and tune in when the team is decent, then it's no great loss if you take your tournament credits elsewhere.

Would much rather hold tight and see if FSU and Clemson manage to bust up the ACC, at which point Louisville and Syracuse become available, and Duke is a better get as well if they don't pull off a package deal with UNC somewhere. This is to say nothing of the football-first brands that would suddenly be in play. UConn is a luxury to tack on at the end of a major move, a toss-in to get an even number, not a core addition for their own sake. Shit, I think the Pac-2 is a better addition, and the optics of "saving" the refugees would be very positive.

Reading the article, it sounds like it would be non-football until 2031 at the earliest, and you piss off Fox while pleasing ESPN. Again, I'm left thinking, "why bother?" Just seems like a solution looking for a problem.