[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/

Here's the complaint: https://news.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/...aint-4.pdf

Well, hello to you, too! From the complaint:

 In demonstration that the ACC had missed the point of conference realignment, in
making its ‘strategic’ conference realignment move, the ACC skipped over Oregon State in favor
of Cal and Stanford, a recognition the ACC did not appreciate what had driven the Power Four
Conference realignment in the first instance – Tier I media value in football.  

[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/

Here's the complaint: https://news.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/...aint-4.pdf

Well, hello to you, too! From the complaint:

 In demonstration that the ACC had missed the point of conference realignment, in
making its ‘strategic’ conference realignment move, the ACC skipped over Oregon State in favor
of Cal and Stanford, a recognition the ACC did not appreciate what had driven the Power Four
Conference realignment in the first instance – Tier I media value in football.