Brent Key on conference realignment: "I am worried about Georgia Tech and the ACC"

College football has been shaken up by conference realignment

Author:
Jackson Caudell
Publish date:
Aug 7, 2023 9:22 PM EDT

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If you have been paying attention lately, conference realignment has been shaking up the sport of college football and forever changing college athletics.

Georgia Tech head coach Brent Key has not been one of those that has been paying attention.

Key spoke to the media after practice on Monday and one of the questions that he was asked was about conference realignment, specifically how he felt about where college football was heading and if it was good for the sport. This is what Key had to say in response:

"To be honest, Mike told me at lunch, seriously. He said you might get a question about conference realignment and I said, what is going on? I had no clue. I was as shocked as anybody when he told me at lunch today. I don't know, ask me on Saturday, I might have time to think about it by then. I have not thought about it one bit. I am worried about Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech, and the ACC and that is really all I care about right now."

Brent Key says he is worried about Georgia Tech and not conference realignment
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If things keep trending the way that they are, this is likely not the last question that Key is going to be getting on the subject.

Today, ESPN's Pete Thamel reported that the ACC is going to "vet and have exploratory discussions" to add Cal and Stanford to the conference. One call will be for the Presidents and Chancellors of each University and the other is for the athletic directors. Thamel also added that the situation is fluid for the four schools remaining in the Pac-12 and a "myriad of options" are being discussed with this being one of them.

The ACC has been in the headlines for conference realignment since Florida State held a board of trustees meeting last week and openly discussed their unhappiness with their current situation in the ACC.

Florida State President Richard McCullough made it seem like Florida State is looking for a way out of the ACC:

"FSU helps to drive value and will drive value for any partner, but we have spent a year trying to understand how we might fix the issue. There are no easy fixes to this challenge, but a group of us have spent literally a year. We've explored every possible option that you can imagine. The issue at hand is what can we do to allow ourselves to be competitive in football and get what I think is the revenue we deserve?"

"This continues to be a very difficult issue. There's a lot going on in the world of conference realignment. My current assessment of the situation after very deep analysis is I believe FSU will have to at some point consider very seriously leaving the ACC unless there were a radical change to the revenue distribution."

Things are changing rapidly in college athletics. These changes are certainly not done and it is anyone's guess what the end result might be.

Georgia Tech opens its season against Louisville on Sept. 1st at 7:30 on ESPN.

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