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ACC financial health

This letter is the average of the financial health grades already on the member pages. Incomplete schools are listed and left out of the average.

A

0

B

1

C

6

D

2

F

0

Incomplete

8

Highest North Carolina B

Lowest California, Florida State D

Members

• Graded

  North Carolina B

  Needs a subsidy to cover a modest gap, gets modest help from the university, little stadium debt.

• Clemson C

  Needs a subsidy to cover a modest gap, depends on the university for a real share of revenue, a heavy annual debt payment.

• Georgia Tech C

  Needs a subsidy to cover a modest gap, depends on the university for a real share of revenue, very heavy stadium debt.

• Louisville C

  Nearly covers its bills without a subsidy, gets modest help from the university, a very heavy annual debt payment.

• NC State C

  Needs a subsidy to cover a modest gap, depends on the university for a real share of revenue, a moderate annual debt payment.

• Virginia C

  Runs a large gap without university help, depends heavily on student fees and the university, little stadium debt.

• Virginia Tech C

  Needs a subsidy to cover a modest gap, depends on the university for a real share of revenue, a moderate annual debt payment.

• California D

  Runs a large gap without university help, depends heavily on student fees and the university, a heavy annual debt payment.

• Florida State D

  Runs a large gap without university help, depends heavily on student fees and the university, very heavy stadium debt.

• Incomplete

  Boston College Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

• Duke Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

• Miami (FL) Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

• Pittsburgh Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

• SMU Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

• Stanford Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

• Syracuse Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

• Wake Forest Incomplete

  Incomplete: no public subsidy split, and athletics debt is not in a public filing.

How the conference letter is calculated

A conference letter uses only the financial health letters already on its member pages. It does not add a filing, a dollar, or an estimate.

Each member letter is a point: A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0. School grades in this book are A, B, C, D, F, or Incomplete. They do not use plus or minus. A plus or minus is not given a point. A member letter that is not one of those five letters, and is not Incomplete, is listed and left out of the average.

Incomplete members are listed and left out of the average. The conference letter is the unrounded average of the graded points. A is 3.5 or higher. B is 2.5 up to but not including 3.5. C is 1.5 up to but not including 2.5. D is 0.5 up to but not including 1.5. F is below 0.5. These are the same cutoffs as a school grade. The average in the grade reason is rounded to two decimal places for reading. The letter uses the full average, not that rounded display. If no member has a letter, the conference is Incomplete.

The grade reason quotes a reason already written on the member grades. Highest and lowest are the best and worst letters among graded members. A tie lists every school with that letter.

School grades and the factor cutoffs