While FSU and Clemson are openly and actively forming an escape plan, other schools may now join their cause as revenue dips in comparison to the SEC and Big Ten.
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Maybe this is still the best move going forward.
Get the 8 highest media value teams and dissolve the ACC.
Zero exit or GOR fees.
Then the 8 remaining teams (FSU, Clemson, Miami, UNC, UVA/VT, Louisville, GT) make their own media negotiations with the states of, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina/NCState, Kentucky, and Virginia. That's a pretty good portfolio of states and a pretty strong conference from top to bottom with major media markets. You dump all the teams that drag the value down like Syracuse, wake forest, Boston college, duke etc. Could probably increase the annual media payout by at least 50%.
"There is another landing spot for FSU and Clemson: a new, restructured ACC — a similar plan discussed among seven schools last spring.
The idea back then: 8-10 schools vote to break away from the league, end the grant of rights with a majority decision and reform with a TV deal that is just as valuable but with fewer mouths to feed, so to speak.
Administrators from seven schools — FSU, Clemson, UNC, Miami, NC State, Virginia and Virginia Tech — met multiple times last spring over the matter in what was described as a serious endeavor.
It fizzled over legal fears, mostly from university presidents and counsels.
“Now look,” said one administrator. “It would have been the smart thing to do. The SEC and Big Ten have cut us open and they’re just watching us bleed out."