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Yep. I mean why spend all this money if you don't intend to compete. They'll have the mother of all NIL accounts !
They are in good shape NIL-wise. They aren't fooling around.
I don't think this will ultimately happen. I don't think these schools really care about travel, in all honesty. At the end of the day, if you're talking about a flight, doesn't really matter if that flight is from Miami to Dallas, or Miami to San Francisco. Majority of the cost is the flight to begin with. That extra mileage is just a side issue.
I'm assuming for non revenue sports they would meet in Dallas (or wherever), stay for several days and play several days back to back (tournament style)? Is that possible for girls soccer or tennis teams? Can a person/team play matches on 4 or 5 consecutive days?
The way I look at it, Texas and (especially) aTm must be queefbags of the 26th order in that case. aTm the worst, at least Texas and SMU have actually won something - I consider SMU the 1982 national champs. aTm's endowment is like 18M, they can't win shlt. They are just on the pathetic side.
Heathens, heathens I say. Shouldn't that money be spent serving the Lord? Methodist should revolt.
Inside SMU's pursuit of the Power Five — 'It's a couple hundred million dollars. I'm not losing sleep over it.'
SMU is headed for greener pastures in the ACC. How it all happened is a Texas-sized story filled with billionaires and big decisions.
Except their Diddy's and Grandiddy's actually accomplished something.
People were saying that when I played youth league soccer in the 80s…
$200M
That aTm endowment should end with a B. Also Texas’ endowment is even bigger. aTm and Texas get a piece of all oil produced in Tx I believe
Yep thx for that correction….meant to basically say aTm is easily the top, or at least I thought
17 that.
He's never denied it.
About $70M per year and they only have to share about $30M with Cal and Stanford. The rest they can split. Question is, what do Stanford, Cal and SMU get? Years of little to no revenue sharing, then when they can finally fully share in the revenues, the conference will be gutted.
You act as if the precedent wasn’t already there. SMU football has paid for their crimes and then some.
Well, first of all, I expect both of them will go to the B1G. Secondly, the ACC will survive, even if they lose 4-6 teams. They’ll still be P5 along with the Big 12.
To my knowledge, no school has ever relied solely on their donors/boosters to keep their program afloat so they can take zero money from their power conference for almost a decade in an effort to ‘buy’ their way in.
Booster and fan support is what makes a program. Why does any program get into any conference? Value. SMU has some.
If you are going to buy your way into a P5 why not the Big 12? A Whole lot easier to the playoffs.
Stanford in particular would have been better off just going independent for a few years. Then join the Big 10 if it opens up for them, or the Big 12 if it doesn't.
I believe that this move ultimately weakened the ACC and possibly spilled their doom. Once they have the money to buy their way out of the ACC several of those schools are going to hook up and head out.
Good question. And in the case of Stanford/Cal, you know they'd have gotten in. Probably just thought they were too cool.
