Mar 16, 2023; Sacramento, CA, USA; The UCLA Bruins bench celebrates in the second half against the UNC Asheville Bulldogs at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
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(New York, NY) — The Atlantic Coast Conference may have an Atlantic Coast Crisis on their hands.
The Action Network’s Brett McMurphy reported on Monday that seven schools–Clemson, FSU, Miami, UNC, NC State, Virginia and Virginia Tech–are looking to get out of what many see as the worst TV deal in college sports: 20 years through 2036 that only pays around $17 million per year. They’re exploring “just how unbreakable” their grant-of-rights deal is.
Just a reminder: the ACC has fourteen schools.
Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger had earlier talked about seven programs that are trying to find their way out of the deal:
“A subset of seven schools in the 14-member conference has coalesced over what many of them describe as an untenable situation…Officials from the seven schools, led by Florida State and Clemson, have met a handful of times over the past several months, with their lawyers examining the grant-of-rights to determine just how unbreakable it is.”
There have been a lot of big moves and realignments within other Power 5 conferences, and it seems the ACC has the weakest current situation financially.
