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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 5051158, member: 3850"] ESPN had until Feb. 1. 2021 to exercise their option to extend the Agreement from 2025 to 2036..this was kept hidden from Members of the ACC..and the conference kept telling the press and members that the Agreement was in place until 2036. Jim Phillips came to the ACC that February...and, at some time, found out that ESPN had not exercised the extension option as defined in the Agreement...he, unilaterally, without informing members, sent a letter to ESPN in August, 2021 giving them until September 2025 to extend the Agreement to 2036. And that was also kept secret. Clemson and FSU's position is that, with the failure to extend by the deadline in the Agreement, the Agreement ends in 2025...and furthermore, the Commissioner did not have the authority to attempt to extend the Agreement without member's knowledge...and the deliberate misleading by the conference office, the secrecy, the hidden documents have been portrayed by Clemson as an outright act of fraud...and they have sued for damages caused to their program by being misled. Of course it is untenable for Clemson and FSU to stay in the conference...they will endure a stream of adversarial negativeness. The boats have been burned on the beach and there is no retreat. It is now about how much will it cost. Many ACC programs are hoping that the ACC stays together...But Clemson and FSU have been outsiders...big football programs in a basketball centric conference. It has never been a real comfortable match. ...and North Carolina politics will be working to keep the ACC a North Carolina based piggy bank...every championship is played now in North Carolina, the ACC office is in North Carolina...it is about North Carolina. Even if UNC was offered a place in the B1G, it is not at all clear that the State System BOG would allow it...their new Chair has stated that they would look out for what is best for the state university system as a whole...they currently have four programs in the ACC and might want to add another if the opportunity arose. And the BOG Chair is appointed by the Governor and ratified by the legislature. [/QUOTE]

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