You want me to go through all 5,000 articles Greg Barnes has written on this topic as well as podcasts in which he said it and point you to where the information is that you didn't read or listen to that the rest of us saw and heard? I'm not your secretary.
Both conferences have minimum expectations for their schools on how much each school is expected to invest in the revenue sports, but particularly football. We have historically not met that level of investment. Only recently, with the amount of money we spent on Belichick and NIL under Belichick, have we begun to meet that level of investment.
The whole point of joining P2 is to get a full revenue share from them. There's no point in joining either conference if we don't get a full revenue share. To get an invitation to either conference with a full revenue share, we have to continue to invest in football at a very high level, while at the same time getting less money from our TV deal with the ACC than the P2 schools get from the TV deals for their conferences. That puts a big strain on our donors and leaves them unable to invest in NIL for baseball the way we would like. The whole reason I started posting on this thread was because one poster was shocked that we're not top 10 in NIL for baseball, but the need to invest heavily in football is the reason for that (combined with the amount of money we need to spend a rebuild our basketball program). And if you don't like it, there's a very simple solution to that: make a multi-million dollar donation to the athletics department and ask that they earmark it for baseball NIL. Given how smart you claim to be compared to how stupid I am, you should have that kind of money lying around I would think.
