OT: Clemson found a way out of the ACC Grant of Rights?

Please let it be the SEC.

because this facilitates ND playing in Cali every year, and TX every other year.

Maybe, but I doubt it. If there was a clause in the GOR that killed it by adding more members, Clemson would have already known about it and wouldn't have voted against adding Cal, Stanford, and SMU.

This is all strikes me as more posturing to get the ACC to agree to uneven revenue distributions. FSU and Clemson already hinted they'd found a way out in early August, and nothing happened. Generally, realignment happens quietly. The only reason to be loud about it is if you're bluffing to gain leverage.

immense if unerring

Meh if mid?

dunno, using Chrome too, my friend. Always works for me, though sometimes it does take a hot second

I had that problem before. The problem turned out to be that I had the mgoblog extension installed. I disabled it and then I could embed. Not sure if you have this extension.

If this chaos has a positive it's that it is so chaotic and nonsensical it must inevitably lead to a more ordered and logical structure which is better constructed and regulated than this flaming trash heap tv networks insist on imposing upon the public.

Maybe in 20 years. Maybe two more full tv contract cycles must pass. But someday, these universities will have to decide they are the gatekeepers of college football, not the networks, and they will decide they must figure out how to order and regulate the sport and college athletics as a whole.

Media Markets don't matter. Just total eyeballs. Cable/linear TV is dead

There is a massive flaw in your otherwise pointed argument. That is, sports teams do not exist in financial competition with each other the way businesses do. Business inherently want to destroy their direct competitors and create a monopoly.

However, sports teams need each other to survive because they must have attractive opposition to sell their product.

Right now, the tv networks are driving this listless band of conferences who accept the narrative that this is a regular business and they are in a world hell-bent on monopoly.

However, like all major sports organizations here and abroad throughout recent history (industrial era forward) - we are merely in a formative stage where the for-profit college football regulatory structure is in embryo. The idea of conferences is dying as we move towards a greater league. When this process matures, the universities will realize this sport must organize through cooperation and that their competitions are not organized by the networks any more than the NFL is owned and operated by the very same networks. The universities will organize and create their own structure that is ultimately beneficial for all stakeholders - including the networks who will benefit from increased parity, regulation, and stability.

The formation of the NCAA more than 100 years ago, the MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the NHL and so many more leagues provides evidence to this process.

Therefore, the argument that some schools or conferences are not attractive and they must eat or be eaten is flawed not because this is not happening, but because this viewpoint is not ultimately productive or essential to the creation of the final product of a regulated game. It merely echoes network talking points.

However, even that is a philosophical point which may be countered by the suggestion that entities must suffer through chaos in order to induce the necessary motivation to seek cooperation of a regulated ecosystem for the benefit of all.