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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 4805505, member: 173"]
This is probably not true; I’d expect NIL correlates closely with football budgets.  Va Tech is in the top 4 (actually third) with a large drop from that group (FSU, Clemson, Va Tech, Miami).  Syracuse is in the second tier, 9th overall in the ACC and $10-20MM/yr less than the big four.  Which makes sense; a 3-4 VT team just played in a sold out stadium, we can’t sell out a stadium ever and attendance plummets if we’re sub-500.  Virginia Tech isn’t good, and this game was an embarrassment - but if VT isn’t in the top 25 they are getting a terrible return on their investment.

My SWAG is their NIL pool money is probably 30-50% larger than ours.

So two things - I agree with Cuseregular, we aren’t going to complete for ACC championships.  We should be able to compete with our peers and win 6-8 games most years with occasional 5-9-10 win seasons in the mix.  We’re not there right now.

And UNC is close to us on budget.  I do hope they do leave the ACC for a greener pasture - they will be getting their teeth kicked in regularly, the other schools won’t care about their opinion, and they will regret the move for eternity.  (Especially if Duke does the right thing and tells them to go pound sand and refuses to play them regularly in hoops so that rivalry drops off just like Syracuse-Georgetown did in national relevance).
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