I will see if this is correct. Because I am a little ambiguous about the ACC idea of improving the college post -ball post season.
ACC committee member Jim Philips gained ideas at the College Football Play Off Management Committee meeting last weekend, but not exactly what is happening in a wide sports world.
In short, this idea is more games for more teams in ACC. A kind of mini tournament before the university football playoff begins.
Currently, I am not a worker lawyer, but I believe that adding games to more teams will change the uneasy conditions for income distribution starting in the 2025 season.
In the words of amateurs, you can’t add games to players without providing bigger slices of media profits pie. Again, I’m just a stupid writer, but it sounds like a start gun with a lawyer lined up to run for more money for players.
That’s not bad.
You have to give it to these administrators who operate it, they are trying to make money as much as possible, and the expected changes If you come on July 1, and your salary for play income, you will not be seriously influenced by $ 20 million.
This latest idea is the most interesting Whopper so far. Philips believes that ACC can do two things before the start of the 2026 season playoff int. Both have more games.
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1st: Regular Season ACC Champion automatically gains goodbye to playoffs, and the following two teams have one of the two predicted ACC play -in players.
Second: ACC has the last four types before the college football playoffs, and four teams will play a conference termament (original CFP setup) to determine the expected two automatic qualifying bids. 。
Both ideas can increase profits and thus increase the profits of players under the current profit distribution proposal, but the idea of playing more games in front of the playoff is what the representatives of the players can foresee. Not. In other words, someone is a lawyer somewhere.
Now, let’s do mathematics.
SMU, Miami, Kremson, and Sirakusu are the Top four teams of the 2024 ACC, in the ACC “Campaign Store” scenario, SMU played Sirakusu and Miami played Kremson. And the winners of these games will play for the league championship a week later.
Assuming that the highest ranked teams will win the first round of byes in CFP from 2026, ACC may not have one of the best four teams. There is no this season.
In other words, the ACC team plays 12 regular season games, and four ACC teams play 13. Two more ACC teams play 14 and CFP begins.
The ACC tournament champions do not receive the first round in the CFP and have to win four games to get Ohio’s nationwide title this season. In other words, players on the ACC championship team need to play 18 games in one season.
NFL plays 17 regular season games and most of the teams you have to play to get a super bowl. NFL players will receive 49 % of the $ 110 billion of media rights distribution contracts.
The entire university athlete pool is expected to receive about $ 20 million from July 1st, and if the university is unable to spend the amount, the increase in the next season will increase and increase.
Philips says that this “tournament” will start the last week of the regular season. In other words, the last week’s schedule means that you have to be flexible. Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Georgia do not become “flexible” by playing rival games against ACCs other than the last week of the regular season.
Therefore, this “tournament” needs to start a 12 -game regular season schedule. Therefore, 18 games for players.
Again, I’m just a stupid writer, but it will be a legal problem in the near future. Big problem.
And we all have seen how NCAA deals with major problems. Ignore them until the government is named in a lawsuit. The NCAA’s batting average in these lawsuits is terrible in short.
Therefore, in summary, ACC wants to add more games for more players. And absolutely, I don’t want the player to be treated as an employee. The player does not want to assemble the union, and does not want to negotiate a group.
You have to give credit to the university administrator. They are thinking outside the box to generate more profits.
The problem is that they are trapped in the box they created -and the only way to share more money.
MATT HAYES is a senior college college colleic football writer of USA TODAY SPORTS NETWORK. Follow him in X with @matThayescfb.