Is FSU’s time in the ACC nearing an end? Realignment discussion, decision day for Charles Lester, and more

On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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On The Bench begins with 10 minutes of Chris Nee diving into his report on Noles247 about Florida State's exploration of leaving the ACC. He details the reasoning of the timing of his report, why he believe things are escalating when it comes to FSU/realignment, and the possible risks and factors involved if FSU were to indeed make a jump. We then transition into more context on the report, including a connecting of dots on why the Big Ten makes more sense than the SEC if anything is indeed imminent. And the final 30 minutes of the show are spent on takeaways from FSU's time at ACC Kickoff, our final thoughts on Charles Lester as he chooses between FSU, Colorado, and Alabama, and then some other important recruiting updates To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to On The Bench. I'm your host for this episode, Bread and Sonone. I'm joined by
0:18.3	the one, the only, Chris knee. Look at you, Chris. Drop and drop the scoop to get the board
0:24.0	all up in arms. I love it. And that's where we're going to start this episode out. There's
0:27.8	a lot of recruiting stuff to get to. Thoughts on ACC kickoffs, but I'm going to park the bus right
0:32.4	here. Christopher, let's talk about your report from yesterday about FSU and the potential of
0:37.7	its time in the ACC nearing an end, or at least that's something that is being explored very heavily
0:43.1	at this time. Yeah, it's something I've gone back and forth on kind of putting a comment, a stance
0:49.4	out there on for a while. Tuesday is really probably a pivot point that led to me ultimately
0:54.5	posting about it yesterday. I shared a note about FSU, the ACC relationship, future points.
1:00.4	Truthfully, a lot of it's not really shocking if you've been paying attention. I mean, you know,
1:04.4	dating back to February 24th, I believe it was during that Board of Trustees meeting.
1:08.9	Michael Alfred uttered a word. Something has to change about the financial picture.
1:13.0	With regards to FSU and the ACC, and well, let's be honest, here we are almost six months
1:17.4	removed from that. Very little to nothing has changed than the success initiative, which we
1:22.5	know very few details of it and certainly not going to make up the gaps that we're talking about.
1:27.1	So to get to the report that I shared yesterday, I said that essentially,
1:31.4	the grant of rights originally came around in 2013. It was amended in 2016. So we're talking about a
1:37.1	basically 10-year timeframe here with your original one. Anytime realignment has come up involving
1:42.2	FSU in that time, I've been largely dismissive of it because the grant of rights is such a pain in
1:47.9	the rear in a major legal hurdle. But at this point, I am not dismissive of it. I do believe that
1:53.4	FSU's wholeheartedly looking to try to get out of the ACC, again, not a shocking statement,
1:58.1	plenty of discussion about that in recent months. It's more that I think they are truly considering
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