know, that is even worse. I'm just trying to figure out how it played out and there is no way that it looks good. My other guess is that the ACC numbers would have been a lot worse than the SEC's and the ACC people didn't want that being in the press all the time, so they added a very valuable (to ESPN) embedded option the allowed them to claim that the gap wasn't so big. It is sort of the way that counties give big pensions because the politicians know they will be gone when the crisis hits. Were they just tried to go along with shenanigans to create short term optics? That makes more sense. If they didn't know, then how did that conversation go? "Hey guys we have magic, double top secret contract that is tucked away in Swofford's pocket that we won't let you read, but you need to vote on it?" I'm not saying you are wrong, but if they knew it was a bad contract it was a terrible decision, but if the administrators didn't know, doesn't that mean they just didn't do the job they were supposed to do? This thing looks very sleazy on ESPN's behalf. With the unwind option being included, they had a tremendous incentive to unravel the ACC. ** Edited by TDVick at 3/31/2024, 5:55:11 PM