Clemson’s Lawsuit Turns Up the Heat on an ACC Already in Hot Water

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, the Tigers have finally joined the Noles in suing the ACC on a parallel legal track. It turns the heat up on a league that was already in hot water.

Clemson filed a lawsuit against the ACC on Tuesday over exit fees and media rights.

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