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The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 12:54 AM
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John Swofford and his ACC GOR will be studied and discussed for years in business schools around the country. I think it will go down as a catastrophic error in sports management. Perhaps the biggest ever.
The SEC and the B1G control the high ground and they have a nearly impenetrable position. Nearly all of their schools have huge alumni bases, fabulously wealthy alumni and enormous endowments, i.e. millions of eyeballs - things that ESPN, Fox and CBS crave.
Clemson is clearly "better in football" right now than most of the SEC schools and most all of the B1G schools. But, as unfair as it might be, CU could go 15-0 and win more natty's, but with the ACC GOR they will still be much closer to Wake Forest in revenue than to Indiana. With the ACC GOR, Indiana could go 3-9, sit home at bowl time and still clear Clemson by $50M. That dollars gap will gradually grow, recruits will notice and many will follow the NIL and TV money. However perverse, many players would rather make coin at Indiana and Penn State rather than win a natty at CU.
Folks, the ACC GOR is a disaster. If any of our Clemson actives or alumni can get us out of this mess, they deserve a Nobel Prize.
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Re: The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 6:58 AM
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Yes, Swoofy and our wise leadership team signed a bad deal that negatively set the conference and teams backwards which would still affect future players - 5 years old as of today. I think incompetence of this magnitude could provide grounds to repeal the GOR. This was a massive goof with no foresight for the future.
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Re: The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 7:50 AM
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The thing about revenue is that athletic departments spend nearly every dime they bring in. Texas and Michigan spend in the neighborhood of $200 million annually and they don’t squirrel away very much for a rainy day. Purdue, Northwestern, Rutgers, etc. may bring in $50 million more than Clemson but it’s all spent and football is still mediocre year after year. Clemson spends about $120 million and doesn’t try to support a bunch of sports that detract from football (well atleast until the recent Lacrosse and Gymnastics additions).
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Re: The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 7:59 AM
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The GoR served a purpose when the circumstances looked like a raid of ACC schools was a real possibility. The bigger issue is the fact Swofford spent several years negotiating with ESPN on a dedicated linear tv network when the trade winds said streaming platforms would be the future. The schools stupidly signed off on a terrible media contract out to 2036. Meanwhile, just a few years later the streaming services like Apple and Amazon are building up their sports programming and creating competition for ESPN and Fox. If the contract with ESPN was set to expire in say 2027, the football schools would be in a way different position to bolt regardless of the existence of the GoR.
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Re: The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 8:05 AM
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I understand having something in place to keep the conference together. But the longevity of it is baffling. When the GOR was put in place there was plenty of evidence that College sports was heading in the direction were going. Schools like WF and Cuse are the ones that benefit from this because it keeps them in a conference riding the coattails of the bread winners. Clemson and a few others should of never agreed to it.
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Re: The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 8:34 AM
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Clemson signed the 2013 ACC GOR agreements. Clemson signed the 2016 GOR extension. Instead of blaming the GOR on someone else, Clemson should accept and acknowledge our own responsibility for the GOR. The devil did not make Clemson sign the GOR. Radakovich was responsible for both contracts.
Radakovich was the AD when Clemson promised to give the ACC all media revenue we generated to the league no matter what. Barker was President to the University when the 2013 contract was signed and Wilkins was Chairman of the Board of Trustees. When the GOR extension was signed Radakovich, Clements and McKissick.
Radakovich is the one constant in both the originial GOR and the extension, but two Presidents and two different BOTs are also responsible for the current situation.
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Re: The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 11:13 AM
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Our administration made a huge mistake signing this. Who ever thought this was good for Clemson should never be in any leadership role including the Boy Scouts. USC and UCLA never signed the one in the PAC 12 and were able to join the Big 10. This was an embarrassing decision
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Re: The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 11:46 AM
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I agree completely but I can’t see any court voiding a contract because one of the parties was stupid. Still idk why Clemson had to agree to it. It wasn’t like ACC would have kicked us out for not going along.
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That (NIL) is not even going to be the biggest recruiting
Jul 14, 2022, 11:48 AM
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hurdle.
Once the programs in the SEC and B1G can actually sell their conferences (without lying) as essentially a higher division of CFB than everyone else, the best players are going to want to play there. When the ACC is soon relegated to a role akin to the current G5, the majority of the big-time talent is going to want to play elsewhere.
And that's before you get into the money. Right now TV revenue cannot be converted to NIL money, so that is one area where things might not get appreciably worse than they already are for us, but that money will be converted into facilities and staff salaries. You might have a situation where Clemson can only afford to pay Dabo $10m / year, but any school in the SEC/B1G can offer him 20-30m. And that would probably be true right on the down the list of staff salaries from coordinators to position coaches to analysts.
Those are the areas where i really see the damage being done to our program if we can't get off this sinking ship.
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The GOR is bad but the TV deal they got with it is worse***
Jul 14, 2022, 12:15 PM
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I agree. If only we had done something different!***
Jul 14, 2022, 12:27 PM
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Re: The ACC GOR is one of the biggest blunders ever
Jul 14, 2022, 12:52 PM
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I’ve blundered my queen many of times. Any one of them can rival the GOR blunder.
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