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Typos here from the local paper, but you get the gist that FSU wasn't happy with Stanford, Kal and SMU joining the ACC:

 "On September of 2023, over the strenuous objections of FSU and other ACC members. the ACC added three members. The new members are widely respected academic institutions but not strong tier one need of detail, don't have strong tier one me feel in football, and as the, as the Chairman said, the result of that is to actually diminish the bargaining power of the ACC for its media rights," said David C. Ashburn is Managing Shareholder of the Tallahassee Office. 

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports...000260007/

On the current cost to leave:

 An outside attorney, David Ashburn, is going through financial figures now. He said the penalty to leave the ACC is $572 million.

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2023/12/...seminoles/

[needle]

Typos here from the local paper, but you get the gist that FSU wasn't happy with Stanford, Kal and SMU joining the ACC:

 "On September of 2023, over the strenuous objections of FSU and other ACC members. the ACC added three members. The new members are widely respected academic institutions but not strong tier one need of detail, don't have strong tier one me feel in football, and as the, as the Chairman said, the result of that is to actually diminish the bargaining power of the ACC for its media rights," said David C. Ashburn is Managing Shareholder of the Tallahassee Office. 

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports...000260007/

On the current cost to leave:

 An outside attorney, David Ashburn, is going through financial figures now. He said the penalty to leave the ACC is $572 million.

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2023/12/...seminoles/