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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4662566, member: 71"] What new league? Do you believe the identical membership of a dissolved conference can immediately reassemble and not have any contractual obligations of the prior conference (which was materially identical)? Additionally, how do you believe the NCAA would react to a group of schools sending in paperwork informing them that the ACC is no longer in existence with an attached letter by the same schools requesting the NCAA grant them status as an athletic conference. ESPN would file a lawsuit against the individual schools (and possibly leadership of both the dissolved and the new conference) immediately, on the grounds that the excercise the schools just completed was merely a ploy to try to break a binding contract. Hell, ESPN (if they wanted to be vindictive) could even attempt an injunction to prevent the schools from joining a conference or collecting any broadcast revenues until a judge made a determination on whether the dissolution/reconstitution of the ACC and its member schools was a legitimate set of distinct transactions with an actual purpose (outside of breaking a contract) or if it was just an attempt at bypassing contractual obligations. This may be more of a financial risk than trying to buy out of the GOR. The only way the ACC could legitimately dissolve would be to leave a handful of members behind as everyone starts looking for a new home. [/QUOTE]