ACC lawyer lists three Power 5 schools in Florida, omits Miami in favor of UCF in FSU court hearing

It is a crazy time in college sports as Florida State and the ACC are currently battling in court over the Grant of Rights.

University of Miami Athletics Director Dan Radakovich said recently that the Hurricanes are “incredibly solid with the ACC.” However, that didn’t keep an ACC lawyer from taking a shot at Miami on Friday.

According to David Hale of ESPN, an ACC lawyer said during court on Friday that there are three Power 5 universities in Florida — Florida, Florida State and UCF.

“Finally something FSU might like… ACC lawyer says there are 3 power 5 universities in Florida… FSU, Florida and UCF,” Hale posted on Twitter.

That seems pretty disrespectful to a Miami football program that has won five national titles and a Miami men’s basketball program that was in the Final Four last year, not to mention the other sports the Hurricanes perform well in.

It was likely just an honest mistake by the ACC’s attorney, but it’s a pretty big one to make, especially when you factor in that Miami has been supportive of the ACC and shared that it is committed to being a part of the future of the ACC.

More from Dan Radakovich on FSU, Clemson lawsuits

CaneSport recently provided an update on Miami, the ACC and Dan Radakovich after listening to his appearance on a local radio station.

Radakovich had this to say about the whole situation.

“I really didn’t see (Clemson filing a suit to leave the ACC) coming at this point in time,” Radakovich said. “Almost every school in the ACC has gone to the home office and looked at the documents and just made sure they understood all the different things associated with the grant of rights, television contracts. I was a little surprised that Clemson did that at this point in time.

“But each of these circumstances are very, very local. Whether you have constituencies on campus making a little more noise that we don’t want to be in a circumstance where we are (at a) disadvantage. I guess Clemson looked at that, said this is an important time to lessen exit fees or (get rid of) the grant of rights. Same thing with Florida State.”

Before becoming the AD at Miami, Radakovich was the AD at Clemson. Still, he is not leading the Hurricanes down the same path Clemson is on.

“Here at the University of Miami we are incredibly solid with the ACC. It’s a great conference, provides great structure, access to the College Football Playoff, which is very, very important. We look at our circumstances here with a very orange and green set of glasses saying ‘Are we in a good spot, growing our football program?’ We’ve invested in it, brought Mario (Cristobal) here, he’s establishing an incredible foundation.

“What’s the opportunity for us here with things under our control to be able to move this thing forward? The ACC is still one of the Power Four conferences that are part of the College Football Playoff, a very active and vibrant member of that Power Four. We are very proud to be a part of that, a leading brand within in the ACC and will continue to be a part of it.”