The ACC’s unnecessary hand-wringing over the location of its headquarters has been, for almost a year, the ACC’s own stupid problem.
Now, with the release of the proposed Republican state budget on Tuesday and $15 million of taxpayer money for the ACC, it’s suddenly our stupid problem as well.
The ACC will get all that money for, essentially, nothing: The budget asks surprisingly little of the ACC in return, only to remain within these borders and host roughly the same number of championship here as it would have anyway. As with the ACC and Notre Dame football during the pandemic, there was a harder bargain to be driven.
