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Florida State and the ACC are on a collision course to a massive divorce · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Maybe maybe he wins that. It's interesting what's going on if you been paying
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  attention what's going on the ACC, The ACC and Florida State obviously have been
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  suing each other, countersuing each other North Carolina and the State of Florida.
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  Andy Stables reports early today if the ACC is willing to negotiate with Florida State,
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  as its most recent court filing suggest could be now looking at the next
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  round of realignment, because now, basically it says but by saying quote it's
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  simply a commercial possible possibility that a school could buy back its meteorites, the
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  ACC's legal team seems to invite a negotiation. So it looks like now basically
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  what's going on is to get out of this. The ACC has said,
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  fine, look, you don't like us, we don't like you, buy
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  us out and you can leave kind of like a marriage, right, you
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  buy me out and you can go on your way. And that's looks like
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  where we're headed here. Well, they're they're wanting them to buy out at
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  this astronomical price, and if they don't like each other that much, the
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  ACC just, I mean, it's going to be a publicity nightmare. The
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  entire year because this is not going to go away. Yeah, just let
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  them go. Let Florida State go where they want to go, and then
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  go out and try to find somebody that would want to be there. It's
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  kind of like that as a coach, right, I mean, if you
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  have players that don't want to be in your program, instead of letting them
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  cause problems, just let them go. Yeah, sign their release. I
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  would figure that they will settle on a dollar amount somewhere. I mean,
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  because the ACC, they're sitting here on the Atlantic Coast Conference and they're looking
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  all the way to the West Coast and they say, Wow, we're one
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  bad move from being the pack two. Because if this happens, Florida State
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  gets away out and they leave, who's to say Clemsing isn't next. We
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  know that they're not happy. Miami could be after that, and then this
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  thing starts rolling again. I mean, the ACC would have some serious problems.
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  Where do you think they go? Like, I don't think it's the
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  SEC because I don't think that they believe that they can compete in that league.
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  Is it? The Big Ten? Is the next? Like Power Conference,
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  everybody's moving to the Big Ten. Then you have these big twelve schools
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  that are lingering out there that are really good. Is it going to end
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  up being two power conferences you think or you think it'll end up being three.
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  I think it's got a potential to be three. And you know,
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  that's what's interesting about the ACC is because all of these schools line up a
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  little differently with with conferences. And what I mean is this, for instance,
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  you take your academia schools, your North Carolina's, your Dukes, your
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  Wakes, and not all of these schools will probably get picked up. You
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  know, the big Big ten has a I think it's called the AAU American
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  something universities. It's American, but they really hang their hat on being affiliated
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  with this you know, academia institution. What this AAU. I'd have to
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  look it up and see. I remember reading about it. And those schools
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  are in that academic realm, so they may fit better in the Big ten.
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  But I don't know that the SEC goes unchecked. I mean, Sankie
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  has said, you know publicly, well, we're not really and expansion,
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  but we have plans for the future. I don't know if there's a mass
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  exodus out of the ACC that the Southeastern Conference doesn't grab somebody or two or
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  three, and the Big Twelve may as well, because Brett Yormark, the
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  commissioner of the Big Twelve, has done as good a job as anybody of
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  kind of fanning the flames, picking up teams as they go doing different things,
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  like last year the Big Twelve had their first Big Twelve Proda in Dallas.
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  They're doing a bowl game in Mexico. I mean, they're trying to
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  be creative. So it could be three conferences, that's what it could be.
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  Yeah, I think the SEC I don't think they can afford to add
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  too many more or else they're going to have to go back to divisions.
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  Otherwise schools are going to say, well, school A didn't have to play
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  School B, C and D, but we had to play E, F
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  and G. I just don't think that the schools are going to allow that
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  many more teams to be added to the SEC. If everybody is not going
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  to come pretty close to play in everyone, well you may have to get
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  to a situation where and all of that is fair for sure. A pod
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  system inside these you know, we talked about that at the beginning and then
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  they said, no, we're not doing pods. We're doing just one.
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  But if you get north of you know, now the big tens at eighteen,
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  you add two more, you're at twenty. You're going to have to
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  have some sort of a like you said, almost the divisions again, you're
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  gonna have to break it back up because of what you said I mean,
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  And we'll get off into this. You know, I was working through schedules
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  for the SEC this weekend, and not all schedules, and we know this
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  is never that way. Not all schedules are created equal. For instance,
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  I mean Florida's schedule in football this year. I don't know that Georgia would
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  want to play this schedule. I mean, it is awfully brutal. Whereas
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  you take for instance, Missouri Ole miss can sleep walk to six and oh,
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  not all schedules were created equal. Yeah, I mean, that's going
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  to be the complaint amongst a lot of schools and especially fans when they get
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  on message boards and all that they're going to be complaining about the strength the
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  schedule of their school compared to the strength the schedule of everybody else. And
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  then how do you determine who's the champion of the conference If you don't split
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  it up in east and west and have first place in the East, first
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  place in the West, or first place in the north first place in the
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  South play each other. It's gonna be tough to figure out a true champion.