Florida State Wants Out of ACC, but SMU Doesn't Care

There is one thing Mustangs fans will miss if Seminoles bail out of contract

DALLAS — With the news last week Florida State is filing miles of lawsuits to get out of the ACC, if SMU fans even noticed, it really didn't matter. Most figure they can take their clown college somewhere else. No, seriously, they actually have that connected with the school. You can look it up.

The Mustangs haven't even gotten to the league, yet, so they don't have much other than a mile curiosity. Everything in the lawsuit has nothing to do with SMU or even the financial part since they aren't getting any of the media rights for a few years. Besides, they showed earlier this month they can compete in basketball, downing the Seminoles in Tallahassee.

About the only way this gets interesting for SMU is if the ACC loses the lawsuit or other schools jump on a board in a mass exodus similar to what the Pac 12. If nothing else, when things involving college athletics makes it to a courtroom these days, all bets are off here. Even if there is a court-ordered payout, it will be appealed so much, sooner or later somebody's going to get tired of paying lawyers.

If there's not an organized plot underway to basically overthrow the NCAA and break away to form their own organization. Even if it's just football-only or throw basketball in there, too. Leave the conferences to handle their own sports, which would be of interest to SMU.

In the world of college athletics where everything is changing constantly these days, don't think we're done. Probably by a longshot. The Mustangs are just glad to get to a big-boy conference.

All of the hollering now is about a four-team college football playoff that's going to 12 teams next year. No sense in worrying about a hypothetical that's already resolved.

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