The ACC welcomes Cal, SMU and Stanford to the league in 2024!Read more: https://t.co/9vhMMdDCq1 pic.twitter.com/N2ugGLAert— The ACC (@theACC) September 1, 2023
The additions of Cal, SMU and Stanford enhance and strengthen the ACC academically, athletically and financially as well as create a true national conference that spans coast to coast. The incoming universities enrich the league's competitiveness in all sports and further demonstrate the ACC's commitment to broad-based programs for both women and men. More than 2,200 student-athletes from Cal, SMU and Stanford will join the nearly 10,000 current ACC student-athletes competing at the highest level of intercollegiate athletics.
"This is a significant day for the ACC as we welcome Cal, SMU and Stanford to this incredible conference," said University of Virginia President James E. Ryan, chair of the ACC Board of Directors. "This expansion will enhance and strengthen the league now and in the future. We greatly appreciate the tireless efforts of Commissioner Jim Phillips throughout this entire process, especially his focus on minimizing travel burdens for student-athletes, and we are excited about the ACC's collective future."
"We are thrilled to welcome three world-class institutions to the ACC, and we look forward to having them compete as part of our amazing league," said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. "Throughout the evaluation process, the ACC Board of Directors, led by President Ryan, was deliberate in prioritizing the best possible athletic and academic experience for our student-athletes and in ensuring that the three universities would strengthen the league in all possible ways. Cal, SMU and Stanford will be terrific members of the ACC and we are proud to welcome their student-athletes, coaches, staff and entire campus community, alumni and fans."
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Cal, SMU and Stanford will begin competing in the ACC across their respective sponsored sports beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year. The ACC leads all Autonomy 5 conferences with 15 women's sports offerings and no conference offers more than the league's 28 total sponsored sports.
I know we already have the other thread, but this is the official announcement with more details. Personally, I absolutely hate it, its a terrible decision for each and every student athlete at Cal and Stanford, and I am truly sorry that they're now going to have to deal with this. I would say money talks, but apparently the ACC isn't really getting any more money out of this, the new schools are just surrendering their financial cut of the pie back to the other members to temporarily give us all a few million more per year before we go back to where we are in the 2030s.
Its stupid, its dumb, its pointless, and it makes us weaker in the biggest moneymaking sport in college athletics. So, its the perfect move for the ACC to have made.
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