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OhioCatFan
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Posted: 3/11/2026 2:38 PM
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After reading this, I do not see any confusion in where the money comes from. What a painful read for a Bobcat.

Why do I get the impression our administration has no plan. Fiami has smarter people once again. We can't just sit by and watch the paint dry (unless we use it to touch up the Convo and the outfield wall at Wren).
We don't have a few rich alumni suddenly deciding to give millions. I don't think that exactly equates to "No Plan" from the administration. You can complain, which probably won't accomplish much, or write a check or live with it
That's not the way this usually happens. With rare exception, it takes years of what development folks call "cultivation" to bring a big pocket donor to the point that he or she decides to make that "transformative" gift to an area of special interest whether that be an academic area or athletics or a split between both. It appears that Miami has been doing a better job of cultivating than we have in the last few decades. To channel my former student, Chuck Landon, that's UNACCEPTABLE!
That is obviously true to some extent. But if there exists an alum that is suddenly willing to make $20M donation in the first place that is earmarked for athletics is a completely different thing. This is not something to place most of the blame internally.


It's true to a large extent. The alumnus or alumna who wakes up one morning, calls the development office, and says, I've got a cool $20 million that's burning a hole in my pocket that I'd like to donate to the School of Engineering or the football program is, indeed, the rare exception to the rule. It does happen, but it is exceedingly rare. I would expect that someone in the development office at That School in Oxford has been cultivating these donors for years, if not decades.
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Posted: 3/11/2026 6:39 PM
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Good for them capitalizing on all the good things happening with their two main sources of revenue. This can only make the league better as a whole.

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr they're making themselves look good for a possible move to another conference, in which case I can't blame them for that either. Ohio needs to be doing the same.
There was an article stating a humongous inflation of TV exposure as revenue.

They are positioning for an ACC bid in 2030. The problem is that when FSU and Clemson can leave the conference won't be much better than the MAC with more travel minus Sac St.
Why would the ACC care about a school in the cornfields of (almost) Indiana? They bring no media value. (Except for a single fluke isolated basketball season) If the ACC didn't want WVU which is in the backyard of sports media stronghold Pittsburgh, there would be no interest in fiami. You remember the Big Ten adding Rutgers? Because New Jersey is a population center, thus a media center. Not because anybody in Columbus or Ann Arbor get excited about a game against Rutgers.
You apparently have never been to State College, PA, or Blacksburg, VA, to name just a few Big Time programs in out-of-the-way locations.
I am sure you are aware that both VA Tech and PSU are state land grant schools so that gives them a presence in every county due to extension agents.
Both schools have a state wide following. Realistically Ohio State has the largest following in the state and Miami is just another MAC school to most of the public.

If the ACC would lose a few teams, my guess is that they would go after WVU; UCF and UC.The ACC should work a deal with the B12 and trade their California members and SMU for UC; WVU and UCF. That way neither conference would have to take a G5 program and that would improve travel for the membership.

A P5 conference doesn't need a G5 program with a 24,000 seat football football stadium and no media market. A school like Miami doesn't bring anything to the table in terms money. Remember the B12 said no to Memphis and it's $250 Million offer. Memphis > Miami.
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Posted: 3/11/2026 6:58 PM
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OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
Good for them capitalizing on all the good things happening with their two main sources of revenue. This can only make the league better as a whole.

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr they're making themselves look good for a possible move to another conference, in which case I can't blame them for that either. Ohio needs to be doing the same.
There was an article stating a humongous inflation of TV exposure as revenue.

They are positioning for an ACC bid in 2030. The problem is that when FSU and Clemson can leave the conference won't be much better than the MAC with more travel minus Sac St.
Why would the ACC care about a school in the cornfields of (almost) Indiana? They bring no media value. (Except for a single fluke isolated basketball season) If the ACC didn't want WVU which is in the backyard of sports media stronghold Pittsburgh, there would be no interest in fiami. You remember the Big Ten adding Rutgers? Because New Jersey is a population center, thus a media center. Not because anybody in Columbus or Ann Arbor get excited about a game against Rutgers.
You apparently have never been to State College, PA, or Blacksburg, VA, to name just a few Big Time programs in out-of-the-way locations.
Or Clemson, SC with a population of around 18,000 as of last census.
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Posted: 3/11/2026 8:14 PM
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Flat Tire wrote:expand_more
Good for them capitalizing on all the good things happening with their two main sources of revenue. This can only make the league better as a whole.

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr they're making themselves look good for a possible move to another conference, in which case I can't blame them for that either. Ohio needs to be doing the same.
There was an article stating a humongous inflation of TV exposure as revenue.

They are positioning for an ACC bid in 2030. The problem is that when FSU and Clemson can leave the conference won't be much better than the MAC with more travel minus Sac St.
Why would the ACC care about a school in the cornfields of (almost) Indiana? They bring no media value. (Except for a single fluke isolated basketball season) If the ACC didn't want WVU which is in the backyard of sports media stronghold Pittsburgh, there would be no interest in fiami. You remember the Big Ten adding Rutgers? Because New Jersey is a population center, thus a media center. Not because anybody in Columbus or Ann Arbor get excited about a game against Rutgers.
You apparently have never been to State College, PA, or Blacksburg, VA, to name just a few Big Time programs in out-of-the-way locations.
I am sure you are aware that both VA Tech and PSU are state land grant schools so that gives them a presence in every county due to extension agents.
Both schools have a state wide following. Realistically Ohio State has the largest following in the state and Miami is just another MAC school to most of the public.

If the ACC would lose a few teams, my guess is that they would go after WVU; UCF and UC.The ACC should work a deal with the B12 and trade their California members and SMU for UC; WVU and UCF. That way neither conference would have to take a G5 program and that would improve travel for the membership.

A P5 conference doesn't need a G5 program with a 24,000 seat football football stadium and no media market. A school like Miami doesn't bring anything to the table in terms money. Remember the B12 said no to Memphis and it's $250 Million offer. Memphis > Miami.
Go back to the 1950s and VPI, as it was called then, had a very small following, and most of that in the Blacksburg area. Its following has grown exponentially since the 1960s and '70s. If you have winning teams that take down the big dogs you become relevant no matter where you are located.
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