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OT: New ACC Deal To Reward Clemson and FSU?

I haven't read the lawsuit, but I'd assume it did cost the ACC money as they could have sold it to someone else, and / or for a higher amount, yet it went to Raycom (otherwise, why would FSU put it in the lawsuit, and why was Swofford shitting his pants when the info became public)?

Furthermore, it's nepotism at its finest and wreaks of corruption, which, coming from that institution, is not the least bit surprising
It did not cost the ACC money. As I explained before in my previous post, back at that time ESPN was syndicating some of it's college football programming. They did that with other conferences, even including the SEC. It was a common practice back at that time.

With the syndication deals, ESPN had already paid the conferences for those rights. ESPN just resold them to a syndication outlet. Again, they did the exact same thing with the SEC at that time as well. Nobody lost any money on that. They were paid for those rights by ESPN. All ESPN did was just syndicate them.

If you're trying to claim that the ACC could have sold those rights that were syndicated to Raycom to someone else, no they cannot have. They already sold them to ESPN.

How many more years does Pike get a pass with no tournament?

I think if nothing next season he would need to go but at Rutgers we will celebrate the most mediocre things as grand accomplishments. (Like being in the Dayton play in game or winning the Pinstripe Bowl).

I don’t think anyone is celebrating be in the Dayton game.

Think it’s more the overall accomplishment of 3 straight ncaa appearances, top 25 wins, etc, that people are celebrating.

How many more years does Pike get a pass with no tournament?

I would imagine every coach in the country has a list of "shoulda, coulda, woulda" reasons for non-performance and missing key metrics (such as making the NCAA tournament) that they think are incredibly valid and "outsides just don't understand what we had to deal with".

Rutgers isn't as "different" as some make it out to be.
I would argue we've had pretty bad luck the last few years. That doesn't mean it's necessarily enough of an excuse. But I definitely think our luck has been worse than average.

Football Rutgers set to add JMU LBs coach as Co-Defensive Coordinator

Don’t hate him as linebackers coach but don’t understand the coordinator role. Goes against most of things Schiano said he was looking for in the role. No playcalling experience, no recruiting experience and only one year of true assistant coaching experience and not coming at a power conference level. Not sure why this takes 2+months.
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