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11-29-2012, 09:30 PM | #5506 |
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I don't care about BCS rankings. I care about finding the best team on the field. The SEC champion should play the champion from other conferences. Why should the 2nd place SEC team get a shot to beat the 1st place SEC team? That doesn't seem fair to the SEC conference champ to me. I'm not sure why it's a problem determining the best team in the country on the field.
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11-29-2012, 09:31 PM | #5507 |
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No, that's awesome. Send Arkansas and LSU to the big 12. That would solve this.
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11-29-2012, 09:34 PM | #5509 |
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Why would Arkansas and LSU want to move to an inferior conference?
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11-29-2012, 09:42 PM | #5510 | |
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11-29-2012, 10:35 PM | #5511 |
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Today for some reason, I keep reading, over and over again, GT to the Big 10 soon. Several boards, not even waiting to see if Maryland wins in court.
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11-29-2012, 10:37 PM | #5512 |
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The whole Conference champs only argument is BS. Look at College Basketball. The Conference tourney winners get auto bids over teams that they are clearly worse then.
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11-29-2012, 10:52 PM | #5513 | |
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The exit fee is supposed to compensate the conference, but at $50MM it is really a punitive penalty designed to punish. Maryland didn't even vote for the penalty, it was imposed on them and they received absolutely no benefit from that penalty. The problem is that the exit fee must, legally, be a good-faith attempt to compensate the conference. The exit fee is liquidated damages, which courts recognize, but it must be intended to compensate the conference, it can not be so ludicrously high that it was really intended as a punishment. The ACC will have to argue in court that Maryland leaving damaged them so badly, that $50MM is a reasonable rough estimate of their loss. Maryland will point out that the TV contract was not impacted and they replaced them with Louisville.
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Another reason why the exit fee is worse, is that its in place forever and even increases every year, next year it wouldn't be $52MM, it would be some higher number. The GOR expires in 13 years.
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11-29-2012, 11:36 PM | #5516 |
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It might be time for a new version of this thread.
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11-29-2012, 11:38 PM | #5517 |
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Perhaps with either the poop icon or "funny stuff" icon.
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11-29-2012, 11:51 PM | #5518 |
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I don't think the ACC has a GOR, thats why they can break up and the Big12 more than likely wont.
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11-30-2012, 08:07 AM | #5520 |
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I prefer to take polls and computers out of the whole thing myself but to each his own.
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