Cerebus

It would be up to the current conference members to decide how to distribute that. Maybe they take care of conference exit fees for the right members? Who knows.

Look the money THEY WANTED BEFORE ALL THIS wasn't there. And it looks like their path to B1G/SEC/ACC/B12 is dead. Their options are: Go indy, get zero conference tv money, get zero tourney access, get zero CFP access. Go to the MWC, get $4M/yr in tv money. Go to the AAC, get $8M/ye in tv money. Stay in the PAC, get some amount, more than $8M/yr in tv money, keep AAC tourney shares ($40M+ over next five years) Let me be blunt, if some combination of SMU, Memphis, NT, etc is worth $8M/yr, then some combination of the highest tv draws of those teams + the PAC4 is worth more.

John Canzano is reporting the PAC4 have $420 Million in money to distribute this year. Normally that would have gone to all members but they left and are no longer able to claim any of it. Any payout they need to make to Comcast, or a bowl game, they can easily make. Still seems to me the most viable path forward for the PAC4 is to just add some teams from the AAC and/or the MWC.

John Canzano is reporting the PAC4 have $420 Million in money to distribute this year. Normally that would have gone to all members but they left and are no longer able to claim any of it. Any payout they need to make to comcast, or a bowl game, they can easily make. Still seems to me the most viable path forward for the PAC4 is to just add some teams from the AAC and/or the MWC.

I am starting to think Jim Williams might be Mike Aresco's sock puppet account. Literally the only one talking up the AAC taking in the PAC4 and saying it is likely.

No, they want out of the ACC.

Looks like the 4 hold outs are the 4 schools that know they have a home in the P2 if the ACC dies. No way they want to strengthen the ACC while it's media deal is so far behind the P2.

No scrimmage, or even practice, this Saturday. I was wrong:

Why do you HATE AMERICA?!?

No idea if it's true or not. An AD flat out calling an article a lie is pretty interesting.

John David Wicker is SDSU's AD.

Not really sure how plugged in this account is, for example:

Because the ACC grant of rights is (reportedly) iron clad. The ACC Grant of Rights grants all TV income rights to the ACC conference until 2036. Teams can pay an exit fee and leave the conference before 2036, but the TV rights do not revert back to the team. Instead, the ACC retains the TV rights and revenue, until 2036. There are seven schools that would like to leave the ACC because they believe they can make more elsewhere, however there are seven that do not believe that and want to hold the ACC together. The ACC GOR is not public, however it pretty clear that the vote to dissolve the ACC or change the rights would require more than seven votes. Otherwise it would have already happened. Now the seven who want to leave, especially FSU, have been saber rattling about "forcing" thier way out of the ACC for years now. The ACC has not budged. FSU's latest gambit is to claim that since the GOR doesn't contain a "choice of law" clause, they should be able to use Florida law to claim sovereign immunity. If you remember the Mike Leach/Texas Tech lawsuit, TT used that law to absolve themselves of liability. Now I am not a lawyer, but according to some sports law reporting, that argument doesn't seem to hold a lot of water. TT/Leach was a Texas contract whose jurisdiction was the state courts. The multi-state ACC GOR is not, in federal courts Florida's sovereign immunity won't hold. If FSU could get it out they would be have left a lot sooner than now. They are stuck.

Look I am no PAC fan boy. If they survive his it is most likely bad news for us, because they will more than likely strip some members from the AAC. However, it's really hard to kill a conference. Whenever people were all over the internet crowing about the death of CUSA i said there was very little chance it would die, because: Being a D1 Multi Sport conference gives you access to NCAA tourney units. Being a D1 FBS conference gives you the above, and access to the CFP payout. In the case of the PAC, being a A5 conference gives you the above, and an extra CFP share, and NCAA student athlete compensation rule making/voting. That's tens of millions of dollars reasons a year why a modern conference won't die. CUSA is still alive, I expect the PAC will be as well in a few years. That's despite the fact we should all be praying that either 1) We are part of a new AAC/PAC teamup, or 2) the PAC drops dead so they can't steal any AAC teams.

Apple didn't pull the deal when OU/UW bolted. If AU still wanted to sign that deal they could have.

You can think they would have, I don't think they would have. The PAC presidents, who have a lot more information than you or I have, would still be in the PAC if they thought they could have made the money.

A whole lot of PAC presidents didn't think it was likely.

Exit fees and resignations are in the by laws. With enough votes they can change the rules to whatever they want.

The courts have neutered the NCAA. What exactly are they supposed to do? They try to stop any of this and the big schools will either beat them in court or go form a new governance model they completely run.

Sources: Cerebus is interested in adding Margot Robbie.

CAL is going to be in whatever conference helps them service the almost half a billion dollars in athletics debt they have.