WracerX
Dr. Dunkingstein
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Texas and OU paid $100 million dollars to leave the Big 12 one football season early to join the SEC. If the going rate is $50 million per team per season on the GOR and there are 13 football seasons remaining on the ACC GOR then any team leaving the ACC based on a financial arrangement would have to pay $650+ million dollars if the league would even allow you to leave.
It is also unlikely that any schools could get out of the GOR by voting to dissolved the ACC conference. I don't know what is in the ACC's bylaws, but it likely includes stipulations (similar to the Big 12 bylaws) that any members seeking to leave or conspiring to leave the conference with others would lose their voting right on whether to dissolve the conference. In other words, a majority of the jilted schools would have to vote in favor of dissolution which seems extremely unlikely.
So let me make this argument, the going rate for Texas and OU is $50M/season. Could GT argue that the damage done to the ACC contract would be $5M/season by GT leaving? I mean, they can only recoup actual damage not some inflated imaginary value where GT and FSU command the same value.