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Stech

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Just to clarify, I said “if” we go to a Power 2. ESPN saying Va Tech call


SEC (Finebaum is an ESPN employee) right after taking Texas and Oklahoma and Jay Bilas (ESPN employee too) saying the ACC needs to merge with the SEC tells me that’s where they wanted to go.

However, the cat is out of the bag now and the three in the Alliance are going to guard this playoff expansion with their life. Not so much will it happen, because it will happen. The question is how many Conference Champions versus at large bids and when will it happen. Since it has to be unanimous now they could sit on this for 3-4 years. ESPN hates that, so now they are going around buying votes from conferences, including the B12. ESPN wants 7 of the 12 from the SEC and ND to get the ratings they need. They also need to get this done before it goes out to bid. Problem is everyone knows their end game, so it’s not going to be easy. Jim Phillips does not want his job to go away, but he has a conundrum with his deep ties to Notre Dame and some really angry ACC Presidents over how they worked with the SEC on the June proposal. There is a lot of trust that has to be rebuilt and that could take years or even a change at the President/Chancellor level.



[Post edited by Stech at 10/02/2021 10:36AM]

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Posted: 10/02/2021 at 10:36AM



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