The Atlantic Coast Conference is going Pacific.
ACC presidents approved an expansion measure to add Stanford, Cal and SMU, sources tell Yahoo Sports, ending a month-long saga into an issue that divided the league. It was not a unanimous decision.
But new financial models developed over the last 10 days pushed the conversation forward and created more momentum for at least one vote to swing. The models feature further monetary concessions from expansion members, an incentive for the original 14 schools, plus Notre Dame, to approve the measure.
Under the ACC’s most recent proposal, Stanford and Cal would take a reduced TV share and SMU was expected to take no TV share for as many as nine years. The concessions free up about $55 million to be distributed to ACC teams both evenly and through an incentive pool primarily rewarding football success.
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