ACC also ****ed itself, or at least it's member institutions when they re-negotiated the media rights with ESPN. I'm going off memory and I've had about 7,000 beers since I last researched this, but I believe they changed the charter after Maryland left and upped the exit fee to $50M, making it cost-prohibitive for any school to leave the conference. To boot, if they do leave, ACC/ESPN retains said schools media rights for the duration of the current deal, which runs through 2028 or 2032. So yeah, Swafford really locked the conference into mediocrity for the long-term.