Florida State is getting ready to leave the ACC; is suing the ACC over Grant of Rights and exit fees

[Admiral Ackbar]

Money is fukking up college football. I used to love it more than the NFL.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

They need to get rid of these conferences and start over. This is all about TV money.

Notre Dame has been independent for eons and has been fine.

Chip Kelly actually broke down how it should actually go.

 

[DonB90]

Florida State has been acting like it's the premier institution in the ACC

They will get steamrolled in the B10 or SEC

Bobby Bowden is no longer on the sidelines...if they need a history lesson, they should go back and see why he didn't want FSU to be in the SEC in the first place

Florida State vs. Big Ten overall record
ALL GAMES: (9-2) 81.8% : AVERAGE SCORE: 32.4 - - 18.5
BOWL GAMES: (4-1) 80.0% : AVERAGE SCORE: 31.2 - - 19.6


(N) 2016/12/30 Florida State 33 - Michigan 32 W !! Orange Bowl !!
(N) 2008/12/27 Florida State 42 - Wisconsin 13 W !! Champs Sports Bowl !!
(N) 2006/01/03 Florida State 23 - Penn State 26 L OT !! Orange Bowl !!
(N) 1998/01/01 Florida State 31 - Ohio State 14 W !! Sugar Bowl !!
(A) 1991/09/28 Florida State 51 - Michigan 31 W
(H) 1988/09/24 Florida State 30 - Michigan State 7 W
(A) 1987/09/26 Florida State 31 - Michigan State 3 W
(N) 1986/12/31 Florida State 27 - Indiana 13 W !! All American Bowl !!
(A) 1986/09/27 Florida State 18 - Michigan 20 L
(A) 1982/10/02 Florida State 34 - Ohio State 17 W
(A) 1981/10/03 Florida State 36 - Ohio State 27 W

mcubed.net : NCAA Football : Conference Series Records : Florida State vs. Big Ten

mcubed.net

 

[Rekkapryde]

They need to get rid of these conferences and start over. This is all about TV money.

Notre Dame has been independent for eons and has been fine.

Chip Kelly actually broke down how it should actually go.

100% agree

 

[shopthatwrecks]

SMU Lost.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid

 

[The_Sheff]

The bigger matter is that the ACC in totality is not a serious football conference, and FSU is primarily a football school, athletically. We no longer align with the majority of the conference in terms of sensibilities and expected remuneration. You even have the head of the CFP calling the ACC as “supposed P5.” At this time, the ACC does not benefit FSU athletically, so we’re leaving. Period. The GT’s (no shade), SMU’s, CALs, Wake Forrests of the world can stay in the ACC. It’s where they belong.

Bruh the ACC was a basketball conference when FSU joined it. There is no “we no longer align” angle because you snubbed the SEC specifically because you knew you could run through the ACC and set yourself up for National Championships.

Only now does FSU have a problem with that because being in a mediocre football conference now hurts them instead of helps.

GT left the SEC and turned down the BIG10 for the same reason. And now we stuck looking like fools.

 

[Big Boss]

Bruh the ACC was a basketball conference when FSU joined it. There is no “we no longer align” angle because you snubbed the SEC specifically because you knew you could run through the ACC and set yourself up for National Championships.

Only now does FSU have a problem with that because being in a mediocre football conference now hurts them instead of helps.

 

[KFBF]

If they're scared of Stanford they should just say so.

 

[klutch2381]

And you got also ran football schools like Wake Forrest vying to keep FSU in this conference . Of course we want to leave. The real football, as we know it in modernity, and as a consequence of realignment is being played in two conferences going forward. Wake needs to stay in their 30k stadium along with Duke. We have three championships (should have more). We have 3 Heisman winners (should have more: PW was robbed), and our last title wasn’t 30 years ago. We’re a serious football operation that has been ran like a mom and pop storefront for way too long. Y’all should hear our fans complaining now that FSU is modernizing and they can’t get 6 season tickets at midfield for a $1000 anymore. The price of the brick is going up for everyone!

Of course, I get it from a school like Wake. Daddy is leaving and now they’re facing abandonment issues. Tough break, bish! Like, damn near peer reviewed articles have shown FSU is reffed unfairly in the ACC. None of the ACC really advocated for us to be in the playoffs like how the Slytherin ass SEC folks got on code. They drew first blood.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Florida State vs. Big Ten overall record
ALL GAMES: (9-2) 81.8% : AVERAGE SCORE: 32.4 - - 18.5
BOWL GAMES: (4-1) 80.0% : AVERAGE SCORE: 31.2 - - 19.6


(N) 2016/12/30 Florida State 33 - Michigan 32 W !! Orange Bowl !!
(N) 2008/12/27 Florida State 42 - Wisconsin 13 W !! Champs Sports Bowl !!
(N) 2006/01/03 Florida State 23 - Penn State 26 L OT !! Orange Bowl !!
(N) 1998/01/01 Florida State 31 - Ohio State 14 W !! Sugar Bowl !!
(A) 1991/09/28 Florida State 51 - Michigan 31 W
(H) 1988/09/24 Florida State 30 - Michigan State 7 W
(A) 1987/09/26 Florida State 31 - Michigan State 3 W
(N) 1986/12/31 Florida State 27 - Indiana 13 W !! All American Bowl !!
(A) 1986/09/27 Florida State 18 - Michigan 20 L
(A) 1982/10/02 Florida State 34 - Ohio State 17 W
(A) 1981/10/03 Florida State 36 - Ohio State 27 W

mcubed.net : NCAA Football : Conference Series Records : Florida State vs. Big Ten

mcubed.net

 

[Rekkapryde]

None of the ACC really advocated for us to be in the playoffs like how the Slytherin ass SEC folks get on code. They drew first blood.

Victim mentality ain't gon work and you won't have support of member schools and the ACC office after you openly been crying about money and trying to leave for a couple of years now fam.

I'd be looking at you too.

 

[skyrunner1]

I don't think people give enough credit for how regionalism and rivalry and the shyt that has nothing to do with the actual game is what makes CFB feel like a more entertaining product than the NFL. This almost certain end where we just have a couple (or less) monolithic superleagues where it's FSU vs Alabama and Ohio State against USC jr every week sounds good, but that's just the NFL. There's no inherent juice for FSU vs Alabama like there is for FSU vs Miami or Ohio State vs Michigan. The game shines when it's big brand vs big brand AND they got some fukks to give before during and after the game ends. Who gives a shyt about Georgia vs Clemson after the game ends?

The ACC WILL collapse as a power 5 power if FSU succeeds here. Maybe it shouldn't have the status it does if it isn't getting its institutions to the same level as the SEC and the B10, but at some point, we gotta be real in that sometimes, the powers that are have to be asked to keep others alive for the sake of the sport. This is just mirroring capitalism now - you lose something of the human experience when you let the lil dude fail. There's no memories made shopping in Amazon, Walmart, Publix. That mom and pop store is who you remember.

FSU should do what FSU wants to do, and now has to do to survive with the way the TV Networks, SEC, B10, have played the game. But it's still going to fukk the game if they succeed. It's going to be SEC, B10, and lil dog B12 and ACC. Lil dog ACC is gonna have less juice than even the B12, because the Big 12 turned around and ate up alot of the little little dogs. It's capitalism and survival that kills anything in America

There is a TON of stuff unique to cfb that is about to die and/or has been underappreciated as part of the allure/tradition/entertainment package, I think the networks also underestimate how much peeling back the veil of amateurism will kill the interest for people who actually believe in the fake bs to begin with, it will be too much for them to realize that 18 yo will make more than they ever will and it was ALWAYS a money grab.

As far as FSU being the blame, LMAOO.. I HATE FSU and will laugh at them any chance I get but ACC been dead and they Died when they created "The Alliance" with the Big Ten and Pac 12 and while they were supposed to be on one accord the Big Ten was poaching Pac 12 members while negotiating a sick TV deal, COLD WORLD, but thats BIG BU$Ine$$.. FSU looks like bad guy because fans want to stay the same and hold on to nostalgia but that shyt been dead, I am actually shocked at the amount of guys who seem stuck in the past but you read the threads when pac 12 was already dead and brehs was in there saying the same thing, the ACC is ALREADY gone, this was done when the tv deals were MEGA millions apart, either you stay and you conference get pushed aside by bigger players or you bounce. WE LITERALLY JUST SAW IT HAPPEN and ya want FSU to stand pat. I laughed my ass off because they put EVERYTHING into THIS season and to get NOTHING was but that dont mean I cant see the writing on the wall.. Even in this very thread, you have people on one end saying they need to stay in ACC while also saying ACC is minor compared to others, WHY WOULD THEY STAY?

 

[Rekkapryde]

Bruh the ACC was a basketball conference when FSU joined it. There is no “we no longer align” angle because you snubbed the SEC specifically because you knew you could run through the ACC and set yourself up for National Championships.

Only now does FSU have a problem with that because being in a mediocre football conference now hurts them instead of helps.

GT left the SEC and turned down the BIG10 for the same reason. And now we stuck looking like fools.

Preach.

Granted if the conference does blow up, I know we got a B10 invite.


But if you wanna bounce, cut the check. And where you go? Dunno because all the cats today saying the SEC is like at the rumors of a pending invite.

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

The crazy thing about this is I'd violate you in real life.

I'd smack the f*ck outta you, on fo'em. Watch your mouth

 

[klutch2381]

Bruh the ACC was a basketball conference when FSU joined it. There is no “we no longer align” angle because you snubbed the SEC specifically because you knew you could run through the ACC and set yourself up for National Championships.

Only now does FSU have a problem with that because being in a mediocre football conference now hurts them instead of helps.

GT left the SEC and turned down the BIG10 for the same reason. And now we stuck looking like fools.

Yes, it was a basketball conference when we joined. We were independent before the ACC as were a lot of teams. Let me ask you a question: was conference alignment and affiliation what it is now in importance when we joined the ACC? Was it such a matter of gravitas that fans chanting the name of not the damn team, but instead their conference was a regular social occurrence? Did ESPN and other factions have a clear hard-on for other conferences and a clear anti-ACC agenda at that time? Was the monetary payout and distribution as unequal regarding conferences as it is now?

Y’all are looking at it in hindsight on some, “Oh, well. Should’ve joined the SEC in 1922.” No one knew this SEC shyt would ultimately became what it became in the early 90s. Y’all also gotta stop acting like FSU is or was ever afraid of tough competition. Bowden said a lot of things and at times he’d talk out of both sides of his mouth. One thing he did say, which has always been a FSU mantra is that we will play anyone, anywhere, at anytime. We not scared of no goddamn team or conference. That’s not the FSU way. For instance, let’s look at some random FSU schedules:

1983

1983 Florida State Seminoles Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com

1983 Florida State Seminoles Schedule and Results

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1986

1986 Florida State Seminoles Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com

1986 Florida State Seminoles Schedule and Results

www.sports-reference.com

1989

1989 Florida State Seminoles Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com

1989 Florida State Seminoles Schedule and Results

www.sports-reference.com

I started in 3 year increments before I was even born and just continued. We’ve BEEN playing a who’s who of college football and haven’t ran from no damn body. Look what I embody .

We still have a home and home with Texas and Bama upcoming, I believe. Now, what does a team with this kinda historical football cajones and operation have being colleagues with SMU, Wake Forest, Duke, etc., in the modern college football conference landscape? Zero!