AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — For most of the first two days of the ACC’s spring meetings, the vacuum of information surrounding the future of the league’s revenue model has been filled with the common hysterics on social media about college sports being on the precipice of another summer of imminent realignment chaos.
Well, we might not be there—at least not yet.
Athletic directors were expected to only briefly discuss changing the ACC revenue distribution model this week, but those discussions expanded and intensified after the publication Monday of an SI story detailing some internal strife within the league over the growing revenue gap between the ACC and Big Ten/SEC. The first day of meetings instead went nearly 70 minutes over time and when finished, administrators and commissioner Jim Phillips hurriedly left the room and walked past reporters with heads down and little in the way of comment beyond a quip about needing to get to dinner, an agreement they made before breaking for the day, according to a source.
