Another example - FBS needs to restructure

[rcade]

55 minutes ago, SMU2006 said:

Good luck with the legal argument that the GoR, willingly and lawfully agreed to by every ACC member institution, is unenforceable.

The legal weaknesses of the grant of rights have been known for so long law review articles have been written about them. Here's one from the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law covering all the different mistakes made in the four-page contract.

https://www.troutman.com/a/web/344419/Wilhelm.pdf

[Arkstfan]

On 2/20/2024 at 1:58 PM, SMU2006 said:

Wrong again.  Congress is absolutely going to get involved here.  Grandstanding and poking their noses where it doesn't belong is what Congress does best.  

Congress or the IRS via letter ruling need to do the obvious. Donations to support professional sports or athletic organizations offering a mixture professional and amateur athletics are not charitable and should not be tax deductible. The Federal government shouldn’t forego $37,000 in revenue because the owner of a chain of cannabis dispensaries and used car lots loves the Sooners and gave them $100,000. 
 

Between 2005 and 2022 Oregon pulled in $969 million with taxpayers subsidizing at least $230 million of that via deductions. If they are separating and going pro much harder to keep a straight face arguing it should be deducted 

[Meangreen Fight]

On 2/21/2024 at 10:36 AM, SMU2006 said:

Good luck with the legal argument that the GoR, willingly and lawfully agreed to by every ACC member institution, is unenforceable. The legal precedent/argument is clearly on the side of the ACC.  They know it.  FSU knows.  Every other ACC institution knows it as well.

You are in complete an utter denial.  ESPN nor any other distributer is really interested in GOR other than a means to control cost on the rights to air game featuring brands that bring fans.  That isn't SMU or the lesser brands in any of the conferences.   All the schools thar were the last to get into a P4 lifeboat are in danger of being excluded when the big divide inevitably happens.  And it is inevitable unless a major ruling in pending court cases make an elite semi-pro CFB league unpalatable to media distributers and the big brands they want.

Edited March 5 by Meangreen Fight