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[LeFors4Ever]

ACC needs SMU to get in this year and we should all be cheering for the non big 2 throughout the playoffs. As evidenced by all the craziness in college football this year, I do think there is enough parity to make this year interesting. What we dont want is Oregon, OSU, Texas, and UGA in the final 4.
To some earlier points, money will continue to drive more success in the big 2, but they have not created much of a gap, yet, from what I can tell, especially in the Big 10. I think the SEC is still easily the best, but I just havent been overly impressed and would not put any of them as dominant as UGA and Bama have been in recent years.

The big fear is that when perception is created, the gap gets bigger.

What no one is thinking about is if Pizza Hut becomes the official Pizza of the SEC and Miller becomes the official Beer of the Big Ten. Or companies in the south like Coca-Cola, Chik Fil-A, etc. all do a SEC official partnership that gives money straight to NIL. The big sponsors don't do that now because it's not like a pro league and it's all spread out. But if the gap grows it will get too large even in NIL

Their TV money alone gives them resources to hire a staff way beyond ours. I mean it will be so hard for any ACC or Big 12 school to keep a coach unless they break the bank, but then if you pay big for a coach your budget for a staff gets smaller.

Like for example, Kentucky could hire a head coach that's worse than Brohm like a Stoops. But the problem is that they could hire position coaches and training staffs where they can double and triple the pay where their position coaches make more than our coordinators. They could have full analytic departments studying film and recruiting. It won't just be about having a better head coach any more, they could have pro football level organizations.

Right now the SEC gap is growing, look at the TV ratings on this chart. ABC is dominating the ratings every week with SEC games. That will mean less games for the ACC in major timeslots going forward. The less the public sees the ACC or Big 12 as legit then the lesser the brand value is. I know we hate them, but it's better for our league when Clemson, FSU, and Miami are all in the top 15. When those teams are good, that makes all their games matter and get bigger timeslots. Then everyone else benefits.

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[beantowncard]

The big fear is that when perception is created, the gap gets bigger.

What no one is thinking about is if Pizza Hut becomes the official Pizza of the SEC and Miller becomes the official Beer of the Big Ten. Or companies in the south like Coca-Cola, Chik Fil-A, etc. all do a SEC official partnership that gives money straight to NIL. The big sponsors don't do that now because it's not like a pro league and it's all spread out. But if the gap grows it will get too large even in NIL

Their TV money alone gives them resources to hire a staff way beyond ours. I mean it will be so hard for any ACC or Big 12 school to keep a coach unless they break the bank, but then if you pay big for a coach your budget for a staff gets smaller.

Like for example, Kentucky could hire a head coach that's worse than Brohm like a Stoops. But the problem is that they could hire position coaches and training staffs where they can double and triple the pay where their position coaches make more than our coordinators. They could have full analytic departments studying film and recruiting. It won't just be about having a better head coach any more, they could have pro football level organizations.

Right now the SEC gap is growing, look at the TV ratings on this chart. ABC is dominating the ratings every week with SEC games. That will mean less games for the ACC in major timeslots going forward. The less the public sees the ACC or Big 12 as legit then the lesser the brand value is. I know we hate them, but it's better for our league when Clemson, FSU, and Miami are all in the top 15. When those teams are good, that makes all their games matter and get bigger timeslots. Then everyone else benefits.

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I suspect there are more good coaches than there are big paying jobs. Money doesn’t always buy success….see Tucker, Mel.

 

[LeFors4Ever]

I suspect there are more good coaches than there are big paying jobs. Money doesn’t always buy success….see Tucker, Mel.

But more money for top assistants matters a lot more than 1 head coach in my opinion.

A bad head coach may not be able to call plays well, but they can go poach any OC they want. Like just say Brian Brohm was an elite playcaller hypothetically, Oklahoma or FSU could offer him $2 million to come call plays whereas we're paying him $700,000. We could go up more. Or we could want a young dynamic defensive position coach at a place like Georgia to move up, but Georgia could just pay that person more than we pay our coordinators.

Then talking about training staffs who can work on getting the players bigger and stronger. More Quality Control and Analysts to help with film, scouting, and other things. Like they could have a staff of analysts scouting recruits in the portal and looking at data to see who would be the best fit. Less work for the coach.

Yeah maybe a Michigan State can fail with Mel Tucker, but if he has more resources than us to build a stronger top to bottom program, then it wouldn't matter if Jeff was a better overall head coach. In today's game, 1 great head coach isn't going to be able to overcome all of the advantages these big programs will have where they really are treated like pro level organizations.