They get around $7-8 million a year now from the ACC and would get an additional $20 million at least if they joined the ACC in football. There is really no financial future for football as an independent. The NBC deal is an albatross and even if they could negotiate doubling the annual NBC revenue ( which I doubt would happen either now or after the current contract expires) their TV revenue would still never come close to what the SEC and B1G teams are getting now and in the future. Plus their bowl options suck unless they go undefeated or at least lose no more than 1 game. Maybe that doesn’t matter to the administration, but I wonder if the failure to even pretend the last 2 home games were sellouts will cause them to rethink their strategy.