For starters, John Swofford, Commish of the ACC. If we recall, the Blumenthal lawsuit named him personally as a defendant in the lawsuit. It can be assumed that if you are sued personally, ( whether the naming of you personally was warranted or not ) then later the person who sued you personally wants your support on something, the natural inclination for you is to not do so. Thats how I see the aftereffects on Blumenthal's lawsuit anyway. Now, having said this, if there was no lawsuit launnched ,do I believe that BC without the lawsuit would have had enormous power and influence to prevail upon all the other ACC Schools to keep Uconn out of the ACC ? No , I don't see BC with the power and influence within the ACC to have kept Uconn out of the ACC... lawsuit or no lawsuit. BC does not have the power and influence in the ACC that from reading this board that many Uconn football fans apparently think that they do. The ACC just added Louisville, and whether BC wanted them in or not, was of no influence one way or the other, imo. Each school has one vote only, and the network executives have input, and a school needs at least 50% of the current league member school votes to get at invite. Thats true with all the p5 Conferences.