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TampaBuckeyes said:
Wait, you mean 3 north carolina judges all agreed to have the state of maryland send them 53 million dollars. Im just shocked.
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Not exactly, 3 North Carolina judges elected by North Carolina ACC fans just ruled that the case should continue in the NC court system. FWIW, the judge that wrote the decision (Robert N. Hunter) is an UNC grad. If money changes hands it doesn't directly go to North Carolina, it goes to the ACC which is based in North Carolina and has 4 members in North Carolina (UNC, NCST, WF, & Duke).

After the North Carolina rules that Maryland owes some money, the Maryland court will take up the case per: "After the ACC filed suit, Maryland filed its own case in Prince George’s County alleging that the exit fee is anti-competitive and should not be enforced. That suit was stayed pending the outcome of the North Carolina case."

My guess is that after it plays out in North Carolina (in favor of the ACC) the Maryland court will rule for Maryland; and then it will go to Federal court and the loser will appeal. Maybe by the year 2525 we'll have a final decision.



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Maryland’s $157 million counterclaim: ACC recruited B1G schools

t wouldn’t be a college football offseason without a some news related to conference realignment, would it?
On July 1, Maryland, along with Rutgers, is scheduled to officially join the Big Ten, the former moving on from the ACC and the latter from the AAC. The Terps and the ACC, however, have yet to come to terms on an exit agreement (re: $), and the process that will end with Maryland in the Big Ten has suddenly gotten a whole lot murkier. And messier.

Tuesday morning, Maryland announced that it has filed a $157 million counterclaim against the ACC in which it’s alleged the conference “is confiscating NCAA monies that belong to Maryland when it has no right to do so.” Thus far, the ACC has withheld over $16 million in league revenue from Maryland because of the school’s intended move to a new conference.

The $157 million figure represents “three times the amount of compensatory damages for the ACC’s violation of Maryland antitrust laws.” The ACC is attempting to assess Maryland a $52.3 million exit fee prior to its departure.

The counterclaim also alleges that the ACC in general and Wake Forest and new member Pittsburgh specifically recruited two unnamed Big Ten schools for membership in the conference. It’s also alleged that the ACC received “counsel and direction… from ESPN” in its attempt to poach Big Ten schools, which remain anonymous for now but is suspected to include Penn State.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...llion-counterclaim-acc-recruited-b1g-schools/

http://www.csnbaltimore.com/ncaa-maryland-terps/maryland-ag-countersues-acc-157-million
 
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LostLassie said:
Forget ped state--WHAT ABOUT US!!! They could have been gone?? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo!!
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Anything that the cult wants that badly, they must be denied. No quicker way for them to become relevant again than to steamroll a pathetic ACC north every year. Right now, they have two guaranteed curb stompings a year from us and sparty.

Ped Aggy being one of the two is obvious, but I'm really intrigued who the second one might be.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Anything that the cult wants that badly, they must be denied. No quicker way for them to become relevant again than to steamroll a pathetic ACC north every year. Right now, they have two guaranteed curb stompings a year from us and sparty.

Ped Aggy being one of the two is obvious, but I'm really intrigued who the second one might be.
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How funny would it be to find out they walked up to tOSU and asked them to join their fun little conference?
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Ped Aggy being one of the two is obvious, but I'm really intrigued who the second one might be.
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This was posted by someone else in the Big Ten expansion thread. Whoever that was (sorry - I forget who posted it) seemed confident that it was Indiana, based on basketball.
Does Johns Hopkins count as a Big Ten team? Any chance they were the 2nd team?
 
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It might have been Northwestern. In any case, it's great that they and their espn puppet masters received a big GTFO from whomever it was.

Interestingly, no comment on BWI yet. Nobody from the hive has ventured out into the real world today, just 50 threads about Larry Johnson and one mega-thread on whether Franklin will take the names off the uniforms.
 
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Woody1968 said:
How funny would it be if it comes out that the teams that the ACC was trying to flip did NOT include Penn State? Right now you have the cult lamenting the failure of leadership to bolt to the ACC, can you imagine the meltdown that would occur if it comes out that the ACC had been trying to get Indiana and Northwestern?
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I can just picture Bushwood.

 
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Whoever it was that was recruited by the ACC at the behest of ESPiN (I'd bet on IU and that troll Crean being involved as the 2nd school), wouldn't this basically be the impetus for the Big Ten to tell ESPiN to fuck off when the next TV negotiations come around?

Fox Sports has to be licking their chops right now. The Pac 12 and the Big 10 with a chunk of the Big 12 will be viewed on Fox airwaves sooner rather than later.
 
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