one way or the other, and sooner or later. "Preyer responded: “I firmly believe that ‘protecting UNC financially’ requires us to explore every available avenue to depart a conference that is in financial decline and is primarily serving its bottom tier schools. While Carolina once led the ACC, that time is long gone. The current Commissioner is not serving our best interests and simply ‘asking’ for transparency will not get us anywhere but would be a welcome change.” Preyer added, regarding a potential nine-figure fee required to leave the ACC, that he had, “no desire to disagree with our own team — particularly in public — but no one should not be making statements that quantify the exit cost at $600-700M. That perception only hurts us.” That's from a statement to the NYT given by John Preyer, the chairman of the UNC board of trustees. It was provided in response to the linked article, which was published yesterday. EDIT: It wasn't a statement by Preyer to the NYT, it was stated by Preyer in emails obtained by the NYT via FOIA. I misunderstood, and my mistake, but the larger point remains. I don't care what the "Random Asian Guy" poster says in the articles for ACC blogs that he's trying to build a resume with, the ACC is dead man walking. It is going to be a G5 conference no later than 2036, and not a very good one at that. VT needs to get gone ASAP, to the Big 12 or elsewhere, or we're all going to be discussing permanent relegation to the trash bin of college football. ** Edited by Baltimore_Hokie at 2/12/2025, 3:44:02 PM