Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - Jimbo Fisher Gives Ominous Warning On The ACC's Future | Josh Pate Calls ACC "Cooked"
Episode Date: May 20, 2024Former FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher has warned the ACC and Big 12 that they are becoming “glorified minor leagues” or mid-majors in the new college football landscape. Fisher, who won a national ch...ampionship at Florida State in 2013, discusses how difficult it will be for ACC programs to keep their top players for four years now that it is so easy for SEC and Big Ten schools to pluck their best players through the transfer portal. Meanwhile, 247Sports college football analyst Josh Pate says the ACC “feels cooked” after their awkward spring meetings and the lawsuits against the conference. Hosts Alex Donno and Kenton Gibbs discussed the factors that have led the ACC to this point and why they only have themselves to blame. Former commissioner Swofford put his conference in a difficult position with the previous TV deals, especially the deal with Raycom Sports. Donno and Gibbs discuss how non-power conferences will have a tough time paying out their share of the House vs. NCAA antitrust settlement.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Yahoo FinanceFor comprehensive financial news and analysis, visit the brand behind every great investor, YahooFinance.com.LinkedInThese days every new potential hire can feel like a high stakes wager for your small business. That’s why LinkedIn Jobs helps find the right people for your team, faster and for free. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/lockedoncollege. Terms and conditions apply.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply.FanDuelFanDuel, America’s Number One Sportsbook. Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning GUARANTEED That’s A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – with any winning FIVE DOLLAR BET! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. eBay MotorsFrom brakes to exhaust kits and beyond, eBay Motors has over 122 million parts to keep your ride-or-die alive. With all the parts you need at the prices you want, it’s easy to bring home that big win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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A former national championship head football coach in the ACC has offered an ominous warning about the league's future.
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CAA antitrust settlement, which a lot of the smaller leagues, even smaller than the
ACC are not very happy about the taxation that they are incurring from this.
We will talk about the factors that have led to the ACC being in jeopardy.
And someone who does say the conference is in jeopardy, Kenton, I want to start with this.
Former Texas A&M, but also former Florida state head coach Jimbo Fisher, won a national
championship with the Seminoles back in 2013.
He talked about the landscape of college football.
He was on Sirius XM radio late last week, and he was basically discussing the dominance and
the widening gap between the Power 2 or the SEC and the Big 10 and everyone else,
including the other schools that we call or the other leagues we call Power 4, which include
the ACC and the Big 12.
He says, here's what's happening.
All of your mid-majors and a lot of your mid-majors.
and a lot of your not mid-majors,
I'm going to say some of your ACC, Big 12, old Pac-12,
some of those leagues,
they're becoming glorified junior colleges, Fisher said.
And some of those teams used to battle for playoffs
and have great teams.
They took that three-star guy or that four-star guy
you missed out on, and they developed him
into a heck of a player and became a great player at their school.
Now, Kenton, here's one we can dissect, though,
because what Jimbo Fisher cited as a specific example
and how the landscape is changing.
Maybe he didn't pick the best specific player to use as the example,
but he's talking about with, you know, the not only, of course,
he's not even talking about the revenue gap from TV deals,
but he's talking about the new transfer rules, which are unlimited,
the new NIL situation where obviously the golden rule,
he who has the gold makes the rules.
And Jimbo, he used Patrick Mahomes as an example.
He played for Texas Tech for four years.
He said, how about Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech?
would he have ever stayed at Texas Tech?
Somebody would have come and got him, Fisher said.
You know what I'm saying?
And what's happening?
Your halves are out there saying, okay, I need a corner and I need a tackle and I need
a running back.
And they're going to these four-year schools and just selecting.
And those guys are really becoming glorified junior colleges, he says.
And it's a shame.
I mean, great college football programs that have won big in the past and have had
tremendously great players.
But that's what's changed, Jimbo Fisher said.
Your thoughts.
Jimbo, you're so interesting.
You're such an interesting guy,
but you use one of the worst examples possible for a lot of reasons.
Donnell, did you know that Pat Mahomes was somewhat of a celebrity before he went to college?
No.
His dad was a pitcher in an MLB,
and he was routinely on the field with his dad and, you know, doing things out there.
Why is that important, Donno?
The money isn't a factor for a guy who's already
who comes from a family where he's raised in one of the richest suburbs surrounding Dallas.
You get what I'm saying?
Like, he's not the one that's like the money now is the most important thing.
You know who might be that kind of way, though?
One from a city called, or one from a city that's known as the Steel City in Alabama,
that's not Bessemer.
A guy like
that James kid.
And here's another fun fact about,
here's another fun fact about
the whole Pat Mahomes analogy
in this situation.
Pat Mahomes wasn't even seen as that good.
He was seen as a product of the
air raid offense who just put up
ridiculous numbers because in the
air raid offense, everybody puts up
ridiculous numbers. It's kind of the name
of the game. If you can't put up numbers
in the air raid offense,
you are not a quarterback son.
I don't know what to tell you.
You do not deserve that football in your hands at any point in time.
So with that in mind, let's talk about the idea that,
hey, these schools are just going to post players off
and whatever they need.
They'll just come to these.
Because I don't think he's wrong.
I mean, obviously, you know, you have valid reasons to pick apart the specific example.
But I just, I think he could have gone with better examples for that argument.
But I don't think he's wrong.
Well, here's why I do think he's wrong.
I will say this.
There are not a ton of players leaving these top tier ACC and Big 12 schools to go to the SEC and big team.
There's not a ton of them.
Are there going to be one-off examples?
Absolutely.
But you're also going to find one-off examples of guys leaving the SEC and going to Big 12 and the ACC.
Florida State got a handful of them.
And that's what I'm saying.
So I don't think that it's fair to say, hey, the pay gap is going to make all these guys leave one place and go to another.
Again, I will a thousand percent agree that the additional money is needed to get everybody to the ceiling.
But we're still headed towards the ceiling.
We're still headed towards the ceiling.
All of, again, football powerhouse guy here, anybody who knows anything about football in the Midwest,
cash tech is kind of a big deal.
And all of us, when we go to these different universities and see,
all the things they got.
I'm talking the smaller ones like Toledo and stuff.
We're like, wait, what?
They got a trainer?
They got an ice top.
They got all these things.
I am telling you, there's only a, there's a raw,
and I'm not saying the most of the ACC is there.
I'm absolutely agreeing that a lot of ACC teams,
they have a long way to go before they hit that ceiling.
However, if we're talking about, hey, 40 million a year,
50 million a year, 60 million a year,
that you're going to still top out to where it's,
like, all right, you're not, the facilities don't give you anything more than what you already
have. And so I think that this is a lot more complicated nuance than they have the money.
They get best player. You all leave left in dust because that's, that's, it's not seeming to be
the case. If the most money was the case, then we'd see Vanderbilt whooping the wheels off everybody
in the ACC. It's just not happening. Also, also here's the thing. And this is, I think this is the best way to
debunk anything that comes out of Jimbo Fisher's mouth. If money was the end-all be-all, why didn't
you win in Texas A&M? I mean, you think about it. I mean, Texas A&M was notorious for having
some of the biggest NIL pockets. I mean, probably top three in the entire country. And, you know,
being able to sign, you know, virtually any recruit that they wanted, virtually any transfer that they
wanted, how come Jimbo didn't do better? But that's, that's my exact point. It is not a one-to-one
put in dollar get winning.
It's not a one-to-one.
I know the people would like to believe that.
I know that that's probably how it's going to work on NCAA,
when that game comes out in a few months.
By the way, waiting on that,
one exciting day.
We may not have an episode on the 20th.
But here's what we should do for that episode.
Let's just stream ourselves playing the game.
And you'll probably kick my ass because I'm terrible at video games.
So let's just do that.
Let's do it.
No, no.
We need to have a collab, a dynasty.
Okay.
We need to rebuild Arkansas.
state into a powerhouse like the world has never seen. That's what we need to do. But in all
seriousness, you know, the reality is, again, the money matters. I'm not saying that the money
is irrelevant. I'm not saying, hey, all the money in the world is, you know, the difference between
a billion dollars and zero is nothing in terms of college sports. But what I'm saying is, once you get
to a the power four level, it all kind of, and even if you're saying the power two are going to
make a chasm between these schools. Okay, sure. But let's,
Last time I checked, who won the Pact 12 last year?
It was Washington, correct?
Washington.
Does Washington have the same type of money in for Silesis, Oregon?
No.
And yet they beat them not once, but twice.
Great point.
New Mexico State went over and beat Auburn.
Auburn, for Christ's sake.
What are we like, there's, again, it's not a dollar in, win-out type of deal.
I know that we would like to believe it works that way.
And I understand what the conference realignment and the way that things are shifting behind the money, we like to pretend that that's the case.
It's not unfortunately.
Or fortunately, rather.
Fortunately, that's not the case.
Well, it's not just Jimbo Fisher who's warning about an ACC demise.
A very prominent national college football analyst referred to the ACC as, quote unquote, cooked.
We'll explain what he means.
and why the conference is in the place that it's in right now.
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We are locked on ACCC, Alex Dono and Kenton Gibbs.
Now, you know, Kenton, somebody that I really respect in the National College Football Media,
Josh Pate of CBS Sports and 24-7 sports.
She just seems like a really even-keeled guy.
No biases that I can identify.
Very informed.
Calls it like he sees it.
He referred to the ACC.
He said the ACC is cooked.
It just feels cooked, he said.
It feels like the stove is on.
It feels like everything's in the pan.
And you got to slide it in at this point.
It's not a good feeling for those of us who really just wish we could leave well enough alone.
There's a really good Tracy Lawrence song, he says, when Daddy was a strong man, never got released on the radio, but that's one of the lines in there.
I wish change would just leave well enough alone, he said.
If you've not paid attention to this stuff and all you do at all, and you think to yourself, I don't really care.
Just tell me when they kick the ball off.
I respect you, he says.
But, you know, he talks about the lawsuits and everything.
Just say, you know, coming out of those spring meetings.
that the ACC just feels cooked.
And I think he's speaking for the college football fan base at large, Kenton,
because that seems to be, we talked about this last Friday,
how the public perception of this league has never been lower.
So I'll ask you, does the ACC, do they only have themselves to blame?
Or was this just kind of a natural evolution of falling behind the Big Ten in SEC?
Yes, the ACC only has themselves to blame for Swofford.
The Swafford thing was what led us here.
without that domino falling in the way that it did we are not here for those of you who don't know for
those of you who are new hey cow stanford smu and friends welcome in let's give you a brief little history
this thing right so commissioner john swafford not going to say what university he graduated from
but just know their logo is a dirty foot so um he grabbed he was the ad at unccc and then he went
on to become the commissioner of the acc now when he was a commissioner at acc he was a commissioner at a cc
His son had a very, very high-ranking position over at Raycom.
Now, Raycom was not available or was not as good of a network,
as many other networks that they could have went and gotten for the ACC and for the ACC schools.
Yeah, it was like a tier three media rights, I think is what those were referred to.
Ding, ding, ding.
So instead of the ACC ending up tier one or even tier two, they ended up tier three.
Now, what happened as a result of the ACC becoming Tier 3?
Because there are just less possible viewers, period, because again,
Raycom was not ubiquitously available like a CBS, like an ABC, like an ESPN even,
which is behind a paywall and all that.
It wasn't as available as those things.
So what happens as a result of that?
The numbers plummet.
They are not good.
You do not see an increase in numbers.
Who, by the way, his son also graduated from the same club of dirty footers.
shall we say. Now, the numbers plummet. And so what happens? Going into the next deal,
they have to negotiate off of those numbers that were not great. And they had to find a new partner,
which again ended up being Tier 3 in Bally Sports, which somehow had blacked out games when it was like,
hey, I live by Carter Fenley Stadium. Why can I not watch the game on TV? Oh, it's blacked up.
So with that in mind, what ultimately ends up happening is the ACC is put the high
this terrible eight ball where they have to take whatever deal they can get because we all know
that advertisers and companies are not giving you money based off what you could do is based
off what you have done and what they had done with a tier three media rights deal was poop
garbage backward it was it was it was horrible so that's what the that's what got the locomotive
rolling in the way that we are today and whoopee congratulations this is where we end up at
Now, are we cooked?
I think this is the same type of doom and gloomerism that surrounded the Big 12 when Texas and Oklahoma left.
And I don't think that we're, you know, it's over, it's done for, it's all over but to shout him.
But this is not a good way to be.
It's legitimately not.
You know, like Jimbo said, although I disagree with the example he used and although I don't think that there's a one-to-one money situation,
what I do believe is if you're looking at the bottom schools, then catching up to your,
your conference is top schools. That is tough. That's tough to get over, even if those schools still
will have a problem getting the best players from different states and whatnot. Because again,
they're just not known as good football schools. It's tough. But I think this is a little bit
of that 2012 syndrome. The world is ending and I know about it before everybody else type in.
You know, you brought up the media dealings between Swofford Senior and Swofford Jr., who was a high-level
executive at Raycom and, you know, the potential shadiness behind that deal, because if you are,
if you are entrusted with cutting the media deals on behalf of all the members of your conference,
part of that fiduciary responsibility comes in looking for the best possible deal, not doing,
you know, a favor for a family member. So I think that, you know, how deep that rabbit hole goes
is something that we may find out when the discovery process and these court cases moves forward.
that could be one of those potential loopholes that might provide Florida State, Clemson,
with a way out of the grant of rights.
I don't know for sure if that's enough of a loophole.
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
But elsewhere, with all these bad sentiments around the ACC Kenton,
we were talking about this a little bit off here before the show started.
The grant of rights, it's a double-edged sword, okay?
Because on the one hand, you know, the ACC had locked in a television,
deal through 2036 that probably seemed like a great deal at the time.
I don't think they anticipated how how much other TV deals would skyrocket.
They thought they were signing a fair market deal.
Now all of a sudden, you know, schools like Florida State and Clemson that feel like they
can do so much better are locked into a deal where there's a $40 million revenue gap
between these other schools, right?
So that that's the bad part of the grant of rights.
I guess, and you know, good is a relative term here.
this is good for the ACC.
The good part of it for the conference is that grant of rights,
it's probably the only thing that at least for now is holding the conference together, right?
Because schools would have probably found a way out earlier,
if not for that grant of rights.
Exactly, exactly.
As unfortunate as it is and as I hate to see like a situation that's held together
by somebody getting the raw end of a deal here.
But the reality is if one side didn't get a very raw end of a deal,
But the reality is this thing really would be cooked.
It would be over because if while I will say Jimmy Phillips is not very,
Jim Phillips is not very vocal.
He's not very like this, this charismatic, this like guy that you're like, oh man, this is a great.
One thing that he is is a good business decision maker.
He makes the decision that's right for the money.
And let me explain to you why this long grant of rights was right for the money for the
conference before the existence of the conference.
imagine if he only said, oh, the deal is through 2028, 2027, right?
And how much do these teams make from every year from the, from the deal here?
What is it?
$30 million or so, 35.
I think it's, it's in the 35 to 40 range, I believe.
Okay, let's say $40 million.
$40 million times for $160 million.
They would have to pay $160 million as their exit ticket, which is a lot more
stomachable, which is a lot more feasible than half a billion.
So with that in mind, you're looking at a very different situation where whether or not teams like it, you're, you know, as the old song goes, you got clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you because I can't pay a half a billion to get out.
So that's that, from that standpoint, the granted rights did do right by the ACC in terms of keeping everybody together for as long as possible, even if it's not the greatest financial.
benefit to all these universities. Right. I just think that there's this wide perception and I,
I tend, you know, nothing's black and white about the situation, but I do tend to agree that
ACC leadership, and you know, maybe I shouldn't lump Phillips into this because he came in. So
these problems already existed before Jim Phillips. He inherited a burning house. He inherited a burning
house. But so, you know, as to who set that house on fire, all these decisions really were made
in terms of self-preservation for conference leadership rather than the best for their member
institutions. And isn't that the entire point of this, Kent, or at least it should be.
Like, it should be your conference, your mission should be providing the best possible competitive
landscape for your member universities, not for Mr. Front Office guy or Mr. ACC commissioner
and his secretary and his staff. Like, you know, it feels like self-preservation for conference
leadership has taken the front seat versus actually providing the best experience for your members.
And I think that is an issue.
Oh, absolutely. I'm not going to lie and say, hey, that's the idea of keeping the ACC together,
period, is the ACC in existence is inherent good that needs to happen. I'm not going to lie and say
that, right? Right. With that being said, as long as the sun rises on the east and sets on the
west, you'll have people acting in their own self-interest. Like, that's,
it's just it's the way that this thing
the NCAA does it
especially in the current economic system
that we live under where it's like hey
whether you eat or you starve a lot of people
are going to do very unscrupulous things to eat
which is again what has us in this situation
in a lot of regards and what is like you said
that's what to me that's the biggest holdup
for the merger that I think should be inevitable
but for whatever reason it's just not a thing
again, there can only be one commissioner.
There can only be one executive assistance of the commissioner.
There can only be one chief financial officer.
There can only be one compliance officer.
And everybody's like, oh, well, I don't want to lose my job because of my job.
And it's like, dude, this is, y'all, both of you are going to end up 40 million behind these other conferences, both of you.
That is a fact of, that's just a matter of fact, okay?
There are no heavy hitters for one of you.
For the other one of you, your heavy hitters are suing.
to get out. I am telling you right now, you will never be able, no games that you all produce
will be able to keep up with the top games on the other side. How can you kind of close that gap,
bridge that gap just a little bit? Because right now, the gap is ever widening. So, you know,
it'd be beautiful for both sides to come together and find a way. But again, it's so far from even
the thought and sphere, because again, there's a lot of doom and gloomorism where people are not looking at
the objective fact of what he is,
and they're focusing on what could be at all.
Well, if the ACC falls apart,
I love Drake told a debt.
That's my brother from another mother,
but he keeps claiming all these ACC teams,
like, oh, Pitt, this is what you look like in the Big 12?
Come on, though.
Come on, it's not happening any time soon.
It's not happening any time soon.
As much as everybody keeps screaming,
that you and I sound like Utah fans last year
or whatever the case may be,
the reality is the PAC 12 had a TV deal that was done.
That year, literally.
That year, everybody knew this TV deal is done.
They want to get something new done, but they have nothing done that year.
It is 2024.
Until 2025 at earliest, at earliest, there's going to be a continuation here.
And again, for everybody saying, well, the ESPN just won't, ESPN just won't renew.
ESPN is winning the deal.
Why would a side that's winning the deal give that deal up?
Like, what?
Are we okay?
True.
Are the neurons neurony?
If you had living brain cells, they would die of loneliness.
We need to help you out here and explain that again, ESPN is whooping the wheels off the
ACC.
This isn't a situation where they're like, we got to offload this immediately.
We're losing too much money on this deal.
So objectively speaking, again, I think that the ACC needs to go to the Big 12 and say,
hey, the ACC's got us wrecked over the coals.
Let's get together.
Let's work this thing out.
But again, like you said, people are acting in their own self-interest, not self-interest
to their conference and their players.
Well, speaking of which, acting at self-interest, the NCAA is pissing off the non-power-for
conferences with the tax bill that's about to come due for this House versus NCAA settlement.
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So this is about to get finalized, Kenton, this House v. NCAA settlement.
So the NCAA's national office, this is per ESPN, the NCAA's national office would foot the bill for a $2.7 billion payout for past damages over the course of the next 10 years.
Now, you could say, oh, how gracious of the NCAA to foot that bill.
Well, here's how they're getting most of that money, Kenton.
the NCAA could split up an expected $1.6 billion that would come from reductions in NCAA distribution.
Sources told ESPN, the remaining $1.1 billion is expected to come from NCAA reserves.
So they're only out of their war chest, they're only really paying one.
That's a lot of money, I know, but they're only paying $1.1.2.7 billion from that.
of that 1.6 billion, nearly 60% is expected to come from leagues outside the power conferences
that are named in the House lawsuit. The other 40% will come from the power conferences.
For example, the cost annually for the Big East is expected at between 5.4 million and 6.6 million over the
next decade, according to a source familiar with the memo. And we did have strongly worded comments
from the Big East Commissioner about how unhappy that they are with the NC.
basically acting unilaterally and the other non-power conferences are getting screwed.
And they're not even going to have like the revenue sharing money to pay out their athletes after this.
So the non-power four, I mean, good luck surviving all this.
My God.
I thought that this was going to be a net game for everybody except the power four.
Or I'm sorry, the power four were going to be the only ones to see that that game out of this,
but it's even worse than I thought.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
that bill is that tax bill is going to hurt some pockets it's going to hurt some pockets
it's going to hurt some souls because i'll tell you what a lot of these universities were
already running in the red in terms of of their athletic departments their athletic departments
were being subsidized by the state which they should be because a lot of these are public
universities but still this is oh man how do you even make up this chasm for schools that are
already in the red how do you make this up and how do you kind of clear this and
And, you know, if you're paying the tax on this thing, you should also get some of the kickbacks on the back end of it.
That's unfortunate.
But for ACC's purposes in particular, I'm interested to see how this plays out from school to school because every school is in a very different situation.
And I'm very intrigued to see how this plays out.
My final thought on this is the NCAA has $1.1 billion laying around in their coffers.
Apparently.
What's going on in Indianapolis?
we need to have some conversations because what?
Well, I mean, they, you know, that's probably all the, all the fines and stuff that they've handed out in like past recruiting violation.
And the stuff they can no longer enforce, like they can't really enforce recruiting violations anymore.
That's probably all that, all that old money that they had laying around.
But this is, yeah, this is rough.
We'll talk more later this week about how this is specifically.
going to affect the ACC. But if you're, you know, if you're one of those non-power conferences,
especially the ones that don't have football, because there's a lot of those that don't have
football, you're really screwed. But we'll get to do it more throughout the week. He's Kenton Gibbs
from Lockdown Wolfpack. I am Alex Dono from Lockdowne Canes. Thank you so much for making Lockedon
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