Josh Pate On FSU + Clemson + UNC Possibly Leaving ACC (Late Kick Cut)

the ACC is cooked it just feels cooked it feels like the stove's on it feels like everything's in the pan and you just got to slide it in at this point and it's not a good feeling for those of us who really just wish we could leave well enough alone there's a really good Tracy Lawrence song when Daddy was a strong man never got released on the radio but that's one of the lines in there I was changed would just leave well enough alone great song by the way if you're a country music fan when Daddy was a strong man you know what if you're just a fan of Music in general it's really good one um so no one wants to be there they had their spring meetings down at Amelia Island I've never gone to it in fact I don't think I've been to any of the spring meetings I'm always doing other stuff that time of year but the ACC had their spring meetings down there and I thought good friend of the program Ross Dinger over at Yahoo sports put it very well if you've not paid attention to this stuff at all and you you think to yourself I don't really care just tell me when they kick the ball off I respect you and I think this paragraph right here sums it up better than reading copious amounts of articles ever could listen to this you don't have to know anything about the situation to know this situation right here is not going to work quote this is Ross Dinger describing the ACC two of its most unruly children FSU and Clemson are causing disruption as they work to leave the family behind a half dozen of their siblings wish they had the resources and wherewithal to join them and then another group clinging to their morals and missions are content nestled quietly in their beds avoiding trouble at all costs an angry fist rap raised towards their misbehaving Brethren that essentially is the future of the conference oh just missed so uh what exactly is going to happen here you have FSU we hate it here you got Clemson we hate it here North Carolina apparently hates it here and they hated it all along as well so they're trying to get out I I will tell you this I don't think I shared this on the show I've had some strange sourcing on this I'm not calling myself a reporter or a journalist on this far from those things but I do have uh fairly good and really unique Insight based on some of the folks I'm able to talk to and a couple of them are legal Minds that are in the Weeds on this that don't know a thing about sports they don't care about sports and you want to know you know what you want to know what's fascinating and what will just make your head spin is being in the world I'm in and you're in cuz you're with this show you're you're watching right along with me you care about the stuff like I do imagine having a legal type who is intimately familiar with the going on but they don't care they couldn't even tell you who the head coach at Florida State is all they know is what's on the paper in front of them and all they know is when they go into this litigation or this arbitration or this board room like they know what's at stake but they really don't know what's at stake so a lot of you wonder this forget the legal ease a lot of you are wondering the same thing I'm wondering if Florida State were to get out and that's a chore but if they were to get out if Clemson were to get out if North Carolina were to get out where would they land because the existing schools in the SEC and the Big 10 they're not in any rush to move aside and to delude their share of that media rights deal to add three or four new members understandably so and the TV networks they don't necessarily want to pay anymore ESPN's got that SEC deal do they really want to pay possibly like a100 million more per year I don't think they do now I will say this they should but I don't think they want to delinger quoted a media type who was familiar with the negociations as saying quote there isn't as much in the market as there once was this caus the market to joke it's one thing I wholeheartedly disagree even with a lot of people inside our industry on college football is so undervalued because college football has been a disaster from an operational standpoint because no single Captain has had his Hands on the Wheel it's just a bunch of people going in a bunch of different directions well what that creates is it creates a very fragmented product now I love it when it's fragmented please don't misunderstand me I'm old school as it gets on this stuff I love the incongruent nature of college football I love that some conferences had eight teams and some of them had 12 teams and Notre Dame's not even in a conference I love all that stuff I love that it doesn't look like a a perfectly constructed puzzle where all the pieces fit perfectly but but we don't get to live in that world anymore so if we're moving to this new world I am telling you some of these folks can't get out of their own way and talking about what's worth what let me tell you what the market is the Market's a mess because College athletics have been a mess some of us have thrived in that mess I've loved it I've loved it um however college football is massively undervalued right now if you ever had someone who understood how to properly leverage and harness these and treat them as properties you know like like the NFL instead of you know institutions of Higher Learning which is apparently the the direction a lot of people want to take it you guys could reset the market forget about what's in the market as is you can reset the market let me give you one piece of advice though there's a little shark fin just offshore and it's Brett ymark the commissioner of the Big 12 and just a little word to the wise out there I don't know how wise the folks are we're talking to but just a little word to the wise don't let that guy get any traction don't won't let Brett ymark find his footing you better keep your foot on their neck now I am rooting for the alternative I am rooting for the Big 12 to continue to Against All Odds continue to rise they shouldn't even be alive right now you're looking at the Pack 12 saying where'd you guys go oh W the big 12's still here that's not the way that was supposed to go well they're here they're here and now if we if we go down this road a little bit further there's a corner there can't see around it but what if we get around that corner and the SEC does turn their nose up at those new additions and the Big 10 does turn their nose up and Brett ymark somehow some way finds the financial backing Maneuvers however he has to maneuver and all of a sudden a Miami or a North Carolina or a Clemson or a Florida state they're in the Big 12 it travel doesn't matter anymore West Virginia is a big 12 team who cares about travel anymore I'm just saying I think it would be very very Pennywise pound foolish to let that guy who who truth be told on equal footing could probably run circles around all of you it would be very very Pennywise pound foolish to let him get his feet and his conference get its feet under it I've never met Brett ymark in my life I'm not doing his bidding I'm just I'm stating what I think should be obvious but I'm not sure it's obvious [Music]