These 4 ACC schools could be REALLY entertained by SEC expansion | The Matt Barrie Show

On The Matt Barrie Show, Paul Finebaum and Matt Barrie react to teams in the ACC who would be entertained by SEC expansion.
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[McGrady]

"Miami is a football power." 🤣 The word you're looking for here is "was, " "was a football power."

[brianbabyak]

This seems like a couple guys trying to will some ACC teams into the SEC as opposed to the B1G.

[Alan.Endicott]

ESPN is cheerleading a move of ACC to SEC because they don't lose anything. Even Paul had to admit the B1G was a factor, but ESPN doesn't have those TV rights.

[marlonnicholson]

Creating the ACC network was all about ESPN being greedy controlling a conference so another network wouldn't get a piece and now a deal into the 2030s looks a little bad

[lazyakers]

It took Texas and OU a combined 100 million dollars to leave the Big 12 *one* year early. ACC schools who want to leave now would be leaving 12 years early. Their exit fees are going to be way higher than Texas and OU’s.

[RoadTo]

Keep in mind these conversations are only taking football programs into consideration. Several of those teams are basketball schools.

[eyesofthefox]

As a Dawg fan, I would accept Clemson, GT, FLST and The U. The rivalry potential would do big numbers since it would have bigger conference implications.

[petewilcox]

$EC looking fairly mortal this year. Georgia beating up mostly nobodies, with the exception of a rebuilding Auburn.

[rickstclair]

the sec is too big now, do not need more schools.

[pfpvilano]

The SEC is not going to add another Florida or South Carolina team anytime soon. Expansion into North Carolina and Virginia make the most sense. It's not about the football program per se. It's about revenue generation.

[a.barker]

Who is up for buying ESPN?

Saudi Arabia thats who.

They need a media platform. And they can start a Fox like news program.

[marcus]

I feel espn wants to destroy conferences that have nothing to do with espn. If the ACC had a deal with the SEC like espn does they would not comment or go to indef. But espn pretty much “talked” the sec in the cfp they wanted everyone to except the bs FSU should have been in.

[davidb]

Except given a choice, all 4 of those schools would rather join the B1G. SEC is just a football factory and some universities care about academics.

[CATownsend]

Now you will have players traveling cross country more often and further than previous years. I don'y know if that is a good thing. Right now, I say its not.
All this money to students is wrong. All this throwing away tradition is wrong. This distruction of conferences is just wrong. Who is to blame? ESPN. ESPN has also highjacked the entire Bowl season.

[roberthuxen]

In what universe would the SEC ask OLE MISS and Mississippi State to leave the SEC!!!

[RT-pbpp]

No.we have enough bad bottom feeders need no.more. fsu woul lose 5 a yr in sec

[richardmontjoy]

The conferences that are going cross country now need to rebrand themselves with a new name.

[StreakingTiger]

I'm still trying to understand why ESPN thinks the Big 10 is a super-conference. Clemson beat their best repeatedly, and only lost due to Clemson's OC not being there due to Covid. Do you clowns at ESPN even watch football? You do nothing but try and promote your agenda for the SEC. Destroying the ACC means that nobody beats your best teams in the SEC anymore. The ACC has the only teams that ever beat SEC teams (well, except UGA getting stomped when the ESPN wanted them in the playoff but good sense prevented it).

[rudeearl]

With Disney teetering on major financial troubles and looking to sell intellectual properties, I could imagine them selling off their ACC rights to an Amazon or Apple while keeping the SEC. If this happened AND if I were the ACC commissioner, I’d try my hardest to convince Notre Dame to join full time and get Penn State, Maryland, and West Virginia to leave their respective conferences and renegotiate a new contract that is on par with the SEC and Big 10. Keeping the current ACC in tact while adding those teams would make a spectacular conference. I know, it’s a reach but a bold move and it’s the only way I see the ACC surviving as a conference.

If this doesn’t work, and we’re going to “super conferences” anyway, ESPN and the SEC should do a partial merger with the ACC and the poach the eight best teams to: 1) make it easier for the ACC to insure they get the required 8 teams to vote to dissolve the conference to get out of the grant of rights. 2) lock up any new TV markets the SEC isn’t already in and block the Big 10 from infiltrating into tho fertile recruiting areas. 3) insure that the SEC maintains the absolute best teams or “product” to put on TV and increase revenue.
Adding 8 ACC teams get the SEC super conference to a neat and tidy 24 teams. This is what the Big 10 is shooting for and they’re doing coast to coast.

[joe_zeay]

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