Sources told ESPN on Thursday that ESPN moved to a key step to ensure the stable meeting. ESPN has agreed to choose its option to continue to broadcast ACC Sports in 2036.

As the TV agreement has reached a settlement, ACC is now reaching a settlement with Klemson and Florida, which may end these schools' continuous lawsuits on the meeting.

ESPN must be selected in the 20 -year contract signed in 2016 before February 1, which helps start the ACC network. If ESPN refuses, the partnership will end after the 2027 season.

ESPN refuses to comment to select this option.

Sources said that ESPN agreed to choose the option after the ACC agreed with the new "value supplement", which was assisted by Jim Phillips to promote it. These include creating more election duels in football and men's basketball team to maximize the content of the network. The ACC board of directors held a phone call on Wednesday night to approve these supplements.

Several sports supervisors told ESPN that this may also involve the use of ACC's relationship with Master of Paris to create more games with the top teams of the conference. Earlier this month, Pete Bevacqua, Director of Mother's Virgin, said he would play more games with Klemson in the future. Mother Paris currently plays five to six regular season football games on ACC each year, and is a member of all other sports.

The negotiations around this option are related to the discussion between ACC and Klemson and Florida. It aims to reduce the biggest concern of the school's financial differences in the school. Contracts signed over the past two years.

According to the proposed plan, the percentage of ACC TV income will be included in the "brand" fund, and then the money is allocated to the school that gets the maximum income every year in football and men's and women's basketball games every year-sources told ESPN, Klemson, Klemson , Florida, Miami and North Carolina may be at the top of the pyramid.

If the agreement is finalized-sources are not imminent, but closely related to the ESPN options-Klemson and Florida are expected to revoke their lawsuits.

Clemson has always pointed out in legal documents that its lawsuit is not a move to leave the ACC, but to determine the cost of doing this. Although the Florida State University's desire for waters is even more voiced, Michael Alford, director of sports director, insists that the Cyminol never announced that they intend to leave ACC and just want to explore their choices.

After leaving, whether any school will have a landing point is still a guess, but ensuring that their media rights signed the alliance in 2016, which will be a key part of anyone else.

The source of ACC sources is recommended to vote for the new income distribution plan, which may not be consistent, but a conference administrator said that as the university track and field movement works in a series of turbulent survival series, the reduction of allocation may mean stability in stability. In the next few years, the transformation of its amateur model will be stabilized in the next few years. A number of managers who talked with ESPN pointed out that the PAC-12 has a serious impact on the collapse of Oregon and Washington, and the value of these plans decreased, which has stimulated people's interest in negotiation solutions. Essence

The new brand distribution fund will be supplemented by ACC's "successful plan", and the league approves the fund in 2023. The money was funded by the expanded university rugby playoffs. ESPN's additional expenditure came from the meeting, thereby increasing new funds. Members at Stanford University and SMU in 2024. SMU agreed to give up its TV income in the first nine years of ACC to exchange for the invitation meeting, and Cal and Stanford agreed to get a 30 % share.

ACC's successful measures this year have been implemented and provided additional income for schools in the playoffs. Any ACC school can use the brand plan, although the well -known person will be clear. The specific indicators have not been completed.

Between the brand and the successful plan, it is expected that the two sources of income sources are expected to maximize the gap between the Top Ten and SEC Schools every year, with only millions of dollars per year.

As early as February 2023, Olford, Florida, began to promote ACC TV funds to the team with the highest brand value and TV ratings. Alford said at the time that based on the market valuation he had entrusted, Florida accounted for 15 % of the ACC media rights agreement, but only 7 % of the distribution. At that time, there were 14 members in the meeting.

ACC has left the meeting with Florida and Clemson more than $ 700 million a year. ACC refuted the two schools to retain the awarding rights agreement by 2036.

Both Clemson and Florida State argued that compared with competitors in the SEC, about half of the school's about ten giants (FOX) from Fox won about half of the ACC Television contract, which has caused the school to be in major financial adverse effects and the top ten competitors. Strive for the national championship.

As part of the settlement, Klemson and Florida requested that the ACC consent to reduce the punishment of the right to withdraw after 2031. At that time, the ten -year -old TV contract of SEC and BIG 12 will expire.