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David Glenn talks ACC v. Florida St and Clemson · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  All right, David, So you have always done a great job. You're
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  an attorney, You've been doing sports talk radio for decades in that part of
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  the world, highly you know, involved with the ACC in college athletics.
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  You've told us all about this grant of rights. You know, deal better
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  than anybody over the last several years with what's going on with the ACC in
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  Florida State and Clemson, and it looks like, I mean, it's you
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  know, there's this is a divorce that is just going to be nasty.
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  You just one of those you know, you talk about your friends while they're
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  going through a divorce. It is going to be bad. So with the
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  way the grant of rights is, and you've explained it before, where are
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  we at with this thing now? Yeah? I always remind people that there's
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  the legal aspect of a lawsuit, which of course makes common sense. Right,
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  How good do you think your legal arguments are? And some of Clemson's,
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  by the way, are a little bit different than some of Florida State.
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  Those are two separate lawsuits, and the ACC has filed two countersuits.
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  So there's four total lawsuits going on right now between the ACC and its own
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  membership. But I remind folks, because it's maybe not as much common sense,
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  that there's always a second layer to the stuff, and it's really strategic.
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  And I think part of Clemson's strategy in filing this more recent lawsuit is
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  attacking the ACC on more fronts because if there's four lawsuits to deal with,
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  that's more attorney fees for the ACC. That's one more reason for ACC officials
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  not anytime soon that down the road. I call it lawyer fatigued. I
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  am a loyal I get tired of paying loyals sometimes when the money is enough.
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  Right, So that's one possible incentive to settle. Let's double the number
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  of lawsuits that the ACC has to deal with. But again, as with
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  Florida State, some of these legal arguments are intriguing and could minimize that there's
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  not going to be a zero exit fee. I can promise with that some
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  laws of state and Clemson fans are delusional about some kind of magical side door
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  legal loophole that's going to make all this stuff go away. The real argument
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  is that you have to pay four hundred to five hundred million to league,
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  meaning between the exit fee and the value of your media rights or are you
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  going to negotiate a settlement down to who knows one hundred million to leave,
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  which is a lot of money, but it's very manageable. If you get
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  an invitation from a wealthier conference, you can make up that money in or
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  relatively short period of time. So it's hard to summarize, you know,
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  what the good legal arguments are in my opinion, or what the role you
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  wise ridiculous legal arguments are. But both the Seminoles and the Tigers have intriguing
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  legal arguments that if a judge agrees with them, that would give the acc
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  reason to be nervous and maybe reason to negotiate a settlement far less than the
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  four hundred or five hundred billion dollars that at least the continuence right and I'll
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  say will be the value of what those would either those two schools would either
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  be paying to leave or leaving behind in the form of their media rights all
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  the way from twenty thirty six Devid before we let you go, tell us
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  about Ncsportsnetwork dot com, what you guys got going on your new platform and
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  how people can find it. Yeah, thanks, Jake. That's the Grand
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  Ncsportsnetwork dot com. It's a huge part of what we do. Make
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  sure to check them out on the new website, check them out on x
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  as well at David Glenn Show. David, I appreciate your time, enjoy
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  the Sweet sixteen and the Elite eight, sir. We'll catch up and talk
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  to you soon. Right back at you, Jake, Always good to be
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