Krzyzewski is already urging ACC officials to start contemplating what they need to do to avoid other leagues from poaching ACC schools.

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By the way, that is more than any other budget in the ACC, the conference into which it will play It has won 20 or more games in each of the prior 10 seasons.

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Syracuse is headed to the ACC with several other schools.

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Several other member institutions are headed to the ACC, and Rutgers leaves for the Big Ten in 2014-15.

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Syracuse already was headed to the ACC, as are several other schools.

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The other school at the bottom of the pile in the ACC in terms of athletic department profits was Florida State.

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In other words, ESPN has the rights to every valuable piece of ACC television property.

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We have confirmed via the National ACC that this is the case in at least 10 other states.

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Once Notre Dame was ACC-bound, it freed the Big 10 to explore other alternatives.

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