ACC board to meet on Tuesday, possibly disputes with Clemson, State of Florida

The ACC Board of Directors will meet on Tuesday to discuss and correct a deal to terminate the legal disputes between the conference and the state of Florida and Clemson, a person who was informed about the situation confirmed on Monday.

The curatories of curatories for the State of Florida and Clemson will also meet on Tuesday to discuss the legal disputes, as can be seen from the agendas listed on Monday morning.

ESPN initially reported that Clemson and Florida State ended an agreement to terminate several complaints that had threatened the stability of the conference for more than a year.

Assuming that all sides agree to comply with the complaints-and it has been advised in this direction for months-it will mark the end of more than 14 months nine-digit legal dispute between the conference and two of its marquee programs. The dispute was at times ugly and threatened to find the Supreme Court of Court in the United States.

At the core of the ACC peace treaty, the 18 members are on the implementation of a new system of sales participation, with which the members generate performance bonuses based on television viewers. Similar to the success initiative of the ACC and the members implemented last year, the “brand initiative” would be available to all members on the success on the soccer field and on the basketball court.

Details still have to be worked out, said the source, but bonuses would be delivered to schools that are based on the average television viewers over a period of five years.

In addition, the conference again evaluates its statutes to ensure a school that ends with ESPN in 2036 before the ACC's contract.

At the end of January, ESPN agreed to publish an option to continue his exclusive deal with the ACC over 2027.

The dispute between the state of ACC, Florida and Clemson focused on hundreds of million dollars of television rights when a school leaves the conference. The schools argued that the liga contracts said that the schools would keep these media rights that they could bundle with a new conference (such as the Big Ten or Sec). The ACC did not agree and said that all schools had granted the rights to the league together by an agreement with the name of a granting of rights.

The actual problem went back to a growing gap between the ACC and that makes two of the Sec and Big Ten. The ACC deficit could grow to 40 million US dollars per school annually if new televisions are fully committed to the big ten and the SEC and the contract for college football playoff adapts next year.

This story is updated.

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