Good.
Let's see them all burn.
If nothing else, if it goes to trial, and I hope it does, it will provide for some interesting reading.
Thanks for the legal analysis.
I'm sure Maryland's legal team has more candlepower than you do, so perhaps leave the strategy to them.
Yeah, I'm sure that would go over well...It sure looks like the Maryland Legal team has about as much candlepower as the Obamacare website team. I mean if they start screwing with ESPN, ESPN should ban all Maryland franchises from ever appearing on a Disney property again. Maryland will not get anywhere with this strategy.
Yeah, I'm sure that would go over well...
Subpoenas were issued in January and February to North Carolina, North Carolina State, Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Clemson and Georgia Tech, according to an affidavit filed Friday by J. Alexander S. Barrett, an attorney for Maryland. It's not clear from the filings whether other ACC schools received subpoenas at a later date
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Maryland also subpoenaed "various ESPN entities" and ACC consultants, according to Barrett's affidavit. Copies of those subpoenas were not immediately available.
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Maryland has alleged in previous filings that that the ACC's desire to expand was driven "in large part on counsel and direction that the conference received from ESPN."
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Maryland's subpoenas were first referenced in a motion filed earlier this month by the ACC. The document said the subpoenas "purport to require each entity to search for documents from potentially thousands of current and former employees of these entities over a time frame of 12 or more years."
It's amazing how personally ACC fans have taken Maryland's skipping off to greener pastures.
It just plain hurt them.
Yeah, I'm sure that would go over well...
There are no ethics in conference relations - they are rivals for dollars as we've seen.
But it's a little rich to see someone bleating about Maryland's disregard for the ACC's rules when they invited Big East schools and scheduled them well in advance of their 27-month release date.
I guess one set of bylaws is more sacred?
Odd to see a group of people so wounded and betrayed by something from their own playbook.
Your so stuck on these stinking sacred bylaws the ACC alleges Maryland is not following, yet completely ignore that one of Maryland's main legal arguments is the increase and/or the procedure followed leading up to the increase vote of the exit fee was against ACC bylaws.The ACC has all along been prepared to take all of its members after they follow the exit bylaws of the Big East including the 27 months. The Big East let West Virginia change that bylaws provision on the Big East by accepting more exit fee. It had nothing to do with the ACC at all. Then the Big East negotiated separately with each additional school after West Virginia set precedent.
I have no problem with Maryland going to the Big Ten. They become the Big Ten's problem, and with the current shape of athletics at Maryland, that's work. I do have a problem with Maryland, and specifically Dr. Wallace Loh, thinking Maryland doesn't have to follow the ACC bylaws for exit. And I think he will learn that he's very incorrect in this thought.
I seriously think UConn, Cincy, and USF need to get involved in this lawsuit at some point.