The Tigers joined Florida State in a fight against the conference over media rights and exit fees.
Clemson has long been content to sit just outside the ring and watch Florida State very publicly and very loudly fight the same fight it was also ready to wage. It doesn’t mean the schools had dissimilar goals, but it does mean they had dissimilar tacts.
You couldn’t watch a Clemson board of trustees meeting on YouTube like you could FSU’s to see Seminoles administrators both inside and outside of athletics talk openly about the need to leave the ACC over a year ago. But after watching and waiting,Clemson filed a lawsuit against the ACC on Tuesday over exit fees and media rights.
Beyond the legal theatrics, there’s a leverage angle at play here. Clemson and FSU were joined by Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia and Virginia Tech in looking at the grant of rights last spring. It stands to reason that five of those schools that have yet to sue the league could file their own legal actions in the near future. It ratchets up how precarious one of college sports’ two middle-class leagues feels.
But if the league gives the schools a number, they’d probably bounce tomorrow. The ACC can try to just jam this up in court for as long as possible at which case who knows what form college sports will even take. That scenario, however, is one that does not sit terribly well with the Noles or Tigers, but the agreement is one both schools voluntarily signed years ago.
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