Florida State University President Richard McClough and multiple members of the FSU Board of Trustees voiced feelings of frustration, anger, and bewilderment about FSU’s relationship with the ACC during last week’s Board of Trustees meeting. It was punctuated by Drew Weatherford stating “For me, it’s not if we leave [the ACC], it’s how and when.” These feelings aren’t anything new. Florida State Athletics Director Michael Alford quit with any subtlety about the current situation when he directly compared FSU’s revenue earnings to the SEC & Big 10 while leaving out the ACC in a presentation to the FSU Board of Trustees in November 2022.
Moment of Reckoning: How decades of mismanagement has Florida State on the outside looking in of conference realignment
