FSU Football: Michael Alford Is Done Playing Nice With The ACC
Update* Video of Alfords Comments! Reports out of a recent Board of Trustees stoke the flames of conference realignment and prove Florida State Football will not be shortchanged much longer.
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Matt Baker of the Tampa Bay Times broke this story today Friday the 24th of February. In a Twitter Thread…
Very interesting number considering the current payout for ACC Teams across the board is $36 million. An unequal revenue share based on that number would put FSU at about $77.14 million per year inline with the SEC and Big10 Teams.
Can’t agree more and folks in the know have been screaming and sweating over this discrepancy for years as the current GOR runs until 2036 an absurd and untenable amount of time to stay at this growing disadvantage.
Again solid math and common sense but the breaking news here is that 120 million dollar number as this is the first time I’ve seen or heard a legitimate dollar amount from someone like Florida State Ahletic Director Michael Alford on what the buyout would cost to jump ship. These words are not to be taken lightly given Alford’s influence coming directly from modernizing the Seminoles Booster organization prior to becoming the AD.
Back to the first points again and what I believe the motivation for these public facing comments coming out of this Seminole Board of Trustees meeting is. Unequal revenue sharing is a first step and is not up for debate if the ACC wants any shot at keeping FSU and their conference as they know it going forward.
President McCullough doubles down echoing his AD’s sentiment and compares the situation to an airplane crashing into a train wreck. It’s pretty hard for Tallahassee to make it any clearer to the Tobacco Road Country club that the free ride is over. This story is going to ratchet realignment and unequal distribution up to a hundred on a scale of ten and I expect much more to come of this in the proceeding days and weeks! Stay tuned right here at the Renegade Report and we will keep you up to date on all the most pertinent Florida State Football and recruiitng information out their and help you form your own opinions based on the facts of the matter!