The additions make the ACC a 14-team conference with five members pilfered from the Big East.
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Rutgers and Connecticut could be in line to make the ACC a 16-team league or could look to the Big 10.
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Meanwhile, the ACC enjoys a major boost in their conference branding initiatives by adding Notre Dame and ensuring that the Fighting Irish play 5 ACC teams per year despite not being a conference member in football.
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When the ACC voted on the exit fee being three times the annual budget, did the ACC have a valid reason for choosing this figure?
Just how affordable that cost of leaving ends up being could decide whether the ACC remains a major conference or recedes to being an afterthought.
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The fact that somebody isn't from an SEC or an ACC or a Big 12 or Pac 12, something like that, in our sport, it's a non-factor.
That basketball is such a high percentage of total revenues in the ACC speaks to (a) the immense popularity and tradition of college basketball on Tobacco Road and (b) the relatively weaker football revenues generated collectively among ACC schools.
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Virginia and Alabama are also the only two schools out of the SEC, Big Ten or ACC to turn a larger profit in the athletic department than their football program profit.
The ACC did, however, get Notre Dame to agree to play five football games a year against ACC schools, something the Big East was never able to do.
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The decision to join the ACC early had no impact on Notre Dame's commitment to play five games a year against ACC teams starting in 2014, when it also will have access to the league's non-BCS bowl tie-ins.
Miami became the first ACC team to be denied a top seed after winning both the regular season and the conference tournament in the ACC.
The ACC has long been a leader in transparency and ensuring positive appropriate relationships with industry.
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The ACC has already announced a basketball scheduling model for Notre Dame's arrival.
If you are a fan steeped in ACC or Big East traditional rivalries you are peeved, perturbed and a little pissed off.
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"It's concerning to us, because we're worried that patients who really aren't experts and read this casually could interpret that the ACC endorse this as a first-line therapy, " says Weaver.
The ACC claims that the exit fee is necessary to provide some financial protection against potential damages and losses for members of the ACC that remain after a withdrawal by another member.
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has filed a lawsuit in the state of North Carolina against the University of Maryland and its Board of Regents after the announcement that Maryland will be leaving the ACC for the Big Ten Conference.
Few believed Maryland, a charter member of the ACC, was part of those plans but Rutgers was a natural fit.
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The effect that an NBA team would have on the popularity and profitability of the University of Louisville basketball program, which will become a part of the strong Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in 2014, appears to be a key, if not the chief concern.
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Slatin also likes the yield at ACC, although GCT offers a richer 7.3% dividend yield and EDR pays 8.1%.
The Hurricanes (23-6, 14-3 ACC), who squandered a 13-point lead in the second half, lost their second straight game with a shot at an outright title.
Kelly knocked down 10 of 14 shots including 7 of 9 3-pointers for the Blue Devils (25-4, 12-4 ACC), who avenged a blowout road loss in January by grinding out a tough win in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The prestigious American College of Cardiology (ACC) did not accept a controversial study of Merck and Schering-Plough's Vytorin as a highlighted presentation at its annual meeting in March, a key showcase for data on heart drugs, but the group plans to include the presentation at its meeting in some other form.
The University of Maryland was a member of the ACC since the Conference was founded in 1953.
Earlier in the day, Notre Dame announced it would be joining the ACC starting next season a year earlier than expected.
When Notre Dame does become a member, the ACC will have 15 teams so conceivably another school (most likely UConn) is on the way.
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Miami had beaten Duke 90-63 in January and had already clinched at least a share of the ACC regular-season title with the Blue Devils' loss at Virginia on Thursday night.
Helen Parise, a Boston University statistician, argued at a session at the ACC meeting that because of the way that study was designed, it managed to show both that the valve was non-inferior and statistically inferior.
On Thursday, the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) published the findings of a year-long investigation that claimed the use of banned substances such as growth stimulants was "widespread" among professional athletes across a range of sports there.
Another new drug, tolvaptan, from Japanese drug firm Otsuka, improved the symptoms of heart failure patients in a clinical trial presented at ACC.
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