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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 5041805, member: 3850"] If there is movement...it will be the networks that decide it...not the teams or maybe even the conferences. ESPN almost needed FSU/Clemson to go to court. ESPN, having a contract relationship with both the SEC and ACC, needs to be seen not as the "prime mover" of a breakup of the current ACC. I suspect that ESPN does not intend to extend the current ACC contract through 2036...and that is why they missed the 2021 required date to renew (as now found in the ESPN Agreement). The cat is now out of the bag. ....In February of 2021, on Jim Phillips 1st day in office, it was supposed to be the day ESPN renewed the ACC contract through 2036. It ends in 2027. ....No company waits until the day-of to just come in and sign. ....With discovery soon underway in Judge Cooper's court, will there be a found bomb exposing the fact that ESPN had officially told Swofford and the conference office they were not picking it up as it currently exists back in 2021 prior to Phillips taking over and nothing has been related to conference Members ? Certainly Cal, Stanford, SMU would have had an interest in that. And any school desiring to shop another conference. ....Clemson is suing for damages they believe was caused by such. It will provide summer entertainment on X. [/QUOTE]