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AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — He strolled around the place with a purpose, like a guy who knew something everyone else didn’t.
Like a guy who got what he wanted all along.
“We’re in a very good position right now,” Florida State athletic director Mike Alford said Wednesday during break in the annual ACC spring meetings. “Everything is moving forward.”
What a strange and eventually fruitful ride it has been.
Florida State was never headed to the Big Ten. Florida State was never negotiating with the Big Ten or having back-channel talks with the Big Ten.
No matter what some clown(s) on social media proclaimed.
That doesn’t mean FSU wouldn’t have crawled through broken glass for the 1,000 miles from Tallahassee to the Big Ten headquarters in Chicago, it just means the Big Ten wasn’t biting. Ever.
But Florida State was negotiating with the ACC, its home conference since 1991. The school did want a better deal, and did feel as though it brought more to the table than the ACC was giving.
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It did hire attorneys and threaten to leave the conference, and did play a negotiation game that ultimately left it with a clear, self-made path to financially running with the lead pack at the Big Ten and SEC.
Or as Alford says, “I tell all of our fans now, when you come to the game, be sure to leave your televisions on at home.”
Because those television ratings are not only the lasting takeaway from more than a year of public – and at times, ugly – negotiation with the ACC, they’re critical to Florida State’s…
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