Krzyzewski is already urging ACC officials to start contemplating what they need to do to avoid other leagues from poaching ACC schools.
Federal statute requires schools to report the financials for their athletic department (if they receive the Title IV funding, which all ACC schools do).
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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That money is spent giving back to SEC and ACC schools, supporting Winshape Homes (a Chick-Fil-A charity) and funding the Play It Smart program in Atlanta Public Schools, amongst other things.
Realignment talk is an especially speculative endeavor at this point in the year, but ACC schools will have to consider their options next offseason if Maryland is allowed to leave with an affordable exit fee.
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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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That does not mean that ACC schools are entirely without valuable media rights, but it puts the conference at a significant disadvantage and has led schools like Florida State and Clemson to consider leaving the ACC for another conference.
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Even though Notre Dame is more favorably positioned geographically with Big Ten schools compared to ACC members, the Big Ten likely would not back down from an insistence to have Notre Dame football as part of their overall fold.
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Syracuse already was headed to the ACC, as are several other schools.
Raycom Sports is based in North Carolina, and the ACC is often accused of favoring its four NC schools.
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Another way the Chick-Fil-A Bowl supports the colleges in the SEC and ACC is by providing endowed scholarships to the participating schools each year.
"For all these schools that have joined, it makes (the ACC) the most powerful basketball conference, I think ever, " Krzyzewski said Saturday of the latest round of conference realignment.
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.
In early September, 2012, the Council of Presidents of the ACC member institutions voted in favor of provisions requiring payment of an exit fee by member schools wishing to withdraw from the Conference, which was effective immediately upon the vote in affirmation by the presidents.
We looked at members of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC because those schools are eligible for an automatic qualification to a Bowl Championship Series bowl game (Fiesta, Orange, Rose, and Sugar Bowls).
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