The WASHINGTON POST goes with, "The ACC can’t forget its past. What’s at stake is its future." As the Pac-12 "collapses and the Big Ten and SEC gorge and the ACC tries to duct tape itself together," it is "worth asking whether there is room for what most defines college sports: tradition." The ACC is "fighting to hold together," as Florida State is suing the conference, "challenging what it says would be $572 million in penalties -- from future television rights the ACC says it owns, plus an exit fee -- should the school choose to leave the league." The ACC is suing back, arguing FSU "agreed to the contracts it is now trying to void." Last year, seven ACC schools -- FSU, Clemson, Miami, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia and Virginia Tech -- held meetings to see if they could "avoid those millions of dollars in penalties if they left the league before the expiration of the current media rights deal in 2036." Think about what was being discussed: a college sports landscape in which Duke and North Carolina are in different basketball conferences.
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