This Week in the ACC - 1/6-1/12

In the nightcap (11PM ET start), Cal gets its first ACC win over UVA. I hope the ACC doesn't do that to us next year. The ACC really needs to make Stanford/Cal games a Th-Sat or Sat-M combo across the board. I know ACCN has reserved some of those spots for some WBB, but things have changed.
 
Phredd3 said:
i realize that most on the board don't care, but it might be worth interjecting here that, while the men don't play Thursday and Friday, the women most certainly do, and not just any game. The Duke women will be heading down Tobacco Road on Thursday to take on the Holes at 7:00pm. The game will be carried on ACCN, if you need a basketball fix on Thursday.

And GTHC, GTH!!
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Jim Sumner previews the game and his articles are always worth reading:

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Duke-UNC women tee it up Thursday evening

Can Duke pull off big road win?
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watched a few moments of VaTech at Stanford last night. Attendance shown as 3262 but I'm not sure they had half that, vast majority of courtside seats were empty. Mike Montgomery must be chuckling somewhere, apres moi le deluge.
 
budwom said:
watched a few moments of VaTech at Stanford last night. Attendance shown as 3262 but I'm not sure they had half that, vast majority of courtside seats were empty. Mike Montgomery must be chuckling somewhere, apres moi le deluge.
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And Stanford has been back in school since Monday so the "students are away on break" shtick doesn't work. The "we are used to playing conference games against schools in our time zone that we know a bit about and are now playing a random school from rural Virginia that we've barely heard of" (no offense to VA Tech) story might hold a bit more water. But they are getting more TV dollars so who cares!
 
CrazyNotCrazie said:
And Stanford has been back in school since Monday so the "students are away on break" shtick doesn't work. The "we are used to playing conference games against schools in our time zone that we know a bit about and are now playing a random school from rural Virginia that we've barely heard of" (no offense to VA Tech) story might hold a bit more water. But they are getting more TV dollars so who cares!
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Stanford is actually getting fewer TV dollars than they got last year, and for at least a couple of years to come. As the PAC12 was breaking down, Stanford had to accept only partial TV money to get into the ACC. I think the deal was something like 40% revenue for four years, or something? I can't recall the details. But it was definitely less than the PAC12 payouts they had been getting.
 
Phredd3 said:
Stanford is actually getting fewer TV dollars than they got last year, and for at least a couple of years to come. As the PAC12 was breaking down, Stanford had to accept only partial TV money to get into the ACC. I think the deal was something like 40% revenue for four years, or something? I can't recall the details. But it was definitely less than the PAC12 payouts they had been getting.
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Fair point. They needed a lifeline. They are less guilty of doing a money grab than many of the others.
 
budwom said:
watched a few moments of VaTech at Stanford last night. Attendance shown as 3262 but I'm not sure they had half that, vast majority of courtside seats were empty. Mike Montgomery must be chuckling somewhere, apres moi le deluge.
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Shouldn't that be le/la deluge?
 
ChillinDuke said:
FSU's next three games should tell us whether they are an NCAAT contender or not. They are currently #68 KP at 10-4 and 1-2. But they haven't won a game all season against a team in the top-100. Their best wins are #121 Temple and #125 (sigh) Syracuse. In conference, they lost to NC State (in OT) and L'Ville, and OOC they lost to Florida (by a fairly respectable 13) and at LSU (by 10, again respectable).

Coming up they're at Miami, at Clemson, and vs Pitt. They'll need at least two of those games to consider them as a potential tourney team.

The tourney teams from the ACC at the moment appear to be: Duke, Pitt, Clemson, and probably Louisville and UNC.

The only other realistic possibilities left are SMU, Wake, and maybe FSU - depending on these next 3 games. If they lose 2 of 3, FSU is likely out and we're down to a maximum of 7 NCAAT teams from the conference.

- Chillin
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FSU took care of Miami on the road, rather convincingly, and improved to #60 in the process. Beating Miami doesn't do them a ton of favors, but they couldn't afford to lose it.

They ain't dead yet. ACC has 8 teams alive for an NCAAT berth, as of now.

- Chillin
 
CrazyNotCrazie said:
Fair point. They needed a lifeline. They are less guilty of doing a money grab than many of the others.
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None of the teams that joined the ACC this year did so in a money grab. At least not in the near-term. As noted, Cal and Stanford took less money (30% for 7 years, then 70% and 75%) to join. And SMU took no TV money (for 9 years) to join.
 
CDu said:
None of the teams that joined the ACC this year did so in a money grab. At least not in the near-term. As noted, Cal and Stanford took less money (30% for 7 years, then 70% and 75%) to join. And SMU took no TV money (for 9 years) to join.
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And SMU is so altruistic that it earned the ACC $4 million for making the CFP
 
CDu said:
None of the teams that joined the ACC this year did so in a money grab. At least not in the near-term. As noted, Cal and Stanford took less money (30% for 7 years, then 70% and 75%) to join. And SMU took no TV money (for 9 years) to join.
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they did so in a kind of teeny tiny money grab since the PAC 12 fell apart, and their revenue was headed to zero....so they (as you indicate) get a greatly reduced share from the ACC which is better than nothing .
So many people have had a knee jerk response to the narrative that the ACC is going under that they don't see some of the benefits that have come with the three new teams....
 
Phredd3 said:
Stanford is actually getting fewer TV dollars than they got last year, and for at least a couple of years to come. As the PAC12 was breaking down, Stanford had to accept only partial TV money to get into the ACC. I think the deal was something like 40% revenue for four years, or something? I can't recall the details. But it was definitely less than the PAC12 payouts they had been getting.
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true, but the PAC 12 payouts are dead, so their new wee bit is better than nothing....
 
Indoor66 said:
I see that as not a money grab but a grab to a survival lifeline.
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Ask Oregon State and Washington State what they would do if the ACC offered them even a 10% membership stake.

SMU getting 0% for 9 years but then being a full member is the envy of every mid-major in the country.
 
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