Florida State University’s board of trustees met and threw what amounts to a 5-year old temper tantrum

Florida State University’s board of trustees met and threw what amounts to a 5-year old temper tantrum about how the ACC will drastically change their revenue distribution model or else….

Or else, what?  

Where are you going?  How much are you willing to pay to get there?  

Drew Weatherford, a totally underwhelming QB at Florida State some 20 years ago is now a BOT member and said the following…

"It’s not a matter of if we leave, in my opinion. It’s a matter of how and when we leave."

Another BOT member wants an exit plan by 2025…..

Let’s add it up, folks.  $120m on exit….then every year you’re not here of the ACC TV deal, this league….our league….the one where we “only” distribute, like $35 million per year to each school….but this league would get your tv cash…

FSU can save the ACC, all by themselves.  That number is going to start at around $500 million…. Jim Phillips would take that through the drive thru personally.

So there’s that story…..and less than a week after the new Big Ten commissioner Tony Pettiti said his league wasn’t at all interested in expanding….that the only thing on their agenda was making it a smooth transition for USC and UCLA to make the switch next year….we hear that the B1G is absolutely looking at adding as many as four more schools from the west and growing to possibly 20 teams.  

Nothing says higher education quite like 20 teams in a league titled the Big Ten….

We have spent a great deal of mental energy worrying about players getting paid while they’re in college.  

• It will destroy the game

• It’s unfair to the players who don’t

• Can’t be used as a recruiting inducement

Looks to me like it’s the power brokers in the sport that need the guardrails.  No one ever seems to think about all of the damage that has been done all because of money.