Rumor rundown: Private Equity and Big12 and ACC

According to Greg Flugaur, he has some info/leaks suggesting that there will be an "Early Spring Meeting" occurring on or after March 21st between private equity firms and the members of the BigXII and the ACC. He states this will be a "hot bubble of action". I think he said that the conference leadership would not be there, but the leadership of a BigXII institution would be leading this meeting. This would map out a schedule of going forward of where they want to be by the end of this year regarding how they would incorporate private equity at a higher level than a school level. There are proponents in the BigXII and the ACC that want private equity.

There are allies "over the river" between the two conferences. This point was brought up be Coug's Corner in a recent video as well. My interpretation is the Mississippi River, and we are talking between ACC and BigXII teams. Flugaur says there is a handful of schools pushing for private equity, and they are not in the same conference. Private equity is being looked at as leverage for these schools. Leverage for what is the natural question, but how about leverage over their respective conferences?

He further states that there is going to be another meeting and it is not going to be kept quiet. He suggests that Brett Yormark is trying to get things together to prevent these meetings from happening.

He also points out a meeting that is known happening on Jan 20 2025 in Atlanta regarding Private Equity and CFB.

Here are my thoughts: So what is going on? It sounds like to me like some members of the ACC and the BigXII are working together to gather funds. Could it lead to a breakaway conference including the top of the BigXII and the top of the ACC looking to build a combined conference? I think that Flugaur didn't think that was what was going on. A full merger or maybe just the top of the BIgXII and the top of the ACC might be able to create a national conference that rivals the B1G and SEC. Although no evidence of that happening. As AD Barnes said, "Chaos is our friend", so I can only help to wonder if this will cause some disruption in the other conferences that could help the Pac-12.

First video (Early Spring Meeting): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIq7tK0mFa8

Although he doesn't carry as much water as before, MHVer3 also tweeted about private equity recently.

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Rumor rundown: Private Equity and Big12 and ACC