ACC, Florida State Clemson Siedlung has held everyone together

After all the overtur themes and listening, all the wasted millions in legal fees, we are now seeing the core of the situation.

The State Florida brought a knife to a weapon fight.

Wait, it did less than that. It brought the imagination of what could be. And Clemson followed.

If you are shocked by the latest turn in the state of ACC against Florida and Clemson, which are now in the Make -up phase of the program, you have clearly not followed yourself. Almost three months ago, Mike Alford, sports director of Florida State, said to USA Today Sports: “We never said we wanted to leave the accuser” – after his university, they spent months and millions of legal fees that do exactly that.

It was last summer when several people from the Big Ten USA Sports said that the league never had direct or indirect conversations with Florida State and was not interested in adding the seminols that the league considered a “bad partner”, who tried to break the ACC in search of green financial willows.

While we argue the advantages of Florida State and Clemson's reasons for trying to escape the ACC, and I agree to agree to some -there is no argument on the basis of the case.

Florida State and Clemson had no leverage.

Had. No. lever.

The great plan of the State Florida was to get out of the ACC and then become an attractive candidate for the big ten. Who among us does not want the Blue Blood Football program and the sudden mercenary for rent?

This is correct, the FSU and Clemson, to a lesser extent, because it was not publicly able to risk the A-rating media brand as part of a mood and hope.

Then further doubled.

Here we present Hernan Cortes that the famous Spanish Conquistador, who ordered in 1519 to burn his ships in Mexico after landing, to withdraw and motivate his crew to be successful in the new country.

The state of Florida burned the ships and knew that it had no back channel negotiations with the big ten or a appearance of a landing site if it was successful in his complaint against the ACC.

The Seminols knew everything, knew that it did not sign the IronClad Grant of Rights agreement with the ACC (in 2013), but twice (again in 2016). Knew it that ESPN would never go away from the ACC by 2036.

Florida State knew it knew that the ACC contained all cards – and by all cards I mean All cards – and not negotiated with a villain member.

It was only after it was clear last summer that the FSU had no landing site when it left the ACC and this capital investment was not the answer did the school arrive at the negotiating table with the ACC – burned ships that smoldered in the background.

FSU and Clemson have legitimal arguments in this fight. Without them there is no ACC football. Who would like to see Wake Forest and Syracuse for four quarters on a completely good Saturday afternoon?

Especially when Tennessee is against Florida in another network. Or Michigan against Penn State or Georgia against LSU or Ohio State against Southern California or another combination of second and big ten games that you can imagine.

ESPN pays for the state of Florida and Clemson football in the ACC media law contract and to a lesser extent Miami and as many emergency ladies games as can only be done. FSU and Clemson feel that the rest of the ACC deserve their brands, and that is a legitimate argument.

But Vanderbilt and the Mississippi schools deserve SEC Blue Bloods, and Purdue, Indiana and Rutgers (among other things) earn big ten Blue Bloods.

This is a partnership.

While football is the fuel, there are other advantages of the conference partnership (at the top of the list, the planning of any other sport) that have a critical value for an efficient engine.

If and until college football decides to break away from the rest of the college sport and become a quasi-professional league of 50-60 teams that can afford it, this is the conference service provider.

It is noteworthy that the ACC has agreed on an intake distribution model based on the television viewers – a large get for Florida State, Clemson, Miami and North Carolina.

The ACC didn't have to do anything. You have not broken the contract on your side, a contract that the State Florida signed twice after months, and millions of wrangling could not be broken.

The only incentive that the ACC had to complete with its headstrong schools was the protection of its brand. In the meantime, Florida State and Clemson had no landing site, even if each paid half a billion dollars of financial obligations to leave the ACC.

All three damage their brands with every argument in court, and only one had lever.

This is what happens when you bring imagination into a cannon steam.

Matt Hayes is the Senior National College Football Writer for USA Today Sports Network. Follow him on X @Matthayescfb.

ACC, Florida State Clemson Siedlung has held everyone together

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