ACC radio head David Glenn reporting the ACC close to signing Grant-of-rights.

Well this could be a wrench in everyone's expansion pipe dreams. Good for our conference, bad for those who will get their foot slammed in the door.

Jeremy Fowler of CBS is echoing it:

@JFowlerCBS 5m

Can confirm #ACC moving to grant of rights (first by @DavidGlennShow). League presidents are clearing with their legal departments.

@DavidGlennShow

BREAKING: ACC's Grant of Rights will extend through the conclusion of ESPN TV Deal--the 2026-2027 season

well it looks like we will be here awhile.

(04-22-2013 12:34 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  well it looks like we will be here awhile.

Maybe not. The B10 might be a possibility for a school like UConn.

Any agreement can be broken--attorneys will always tell you that.

(04-22-2013 12:35 PM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  Any agreement can be broken--attorneys will always tell you that.

True, but who's going chance spending that kinda dough to find out? If its true, it all but brings realignment to an end to a while. With the exception being the Big12 taking any AAC, MWC, indy schools.

(04-22-2013 12:35 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(04-22-2013 12:34 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  well it looks like we will be here awhile.

Maybe not. The B10 might be a possibility for a school like UConn.

Possibly...but there would be no #16 now that Kansas is locked into GOR and ACC schools are locked in GOR.

Plus the B1G has no real interest in Connecticut from what I have heard.

Time is yours UMass. Get your act together so it wouldn't be an absolute embarassment to invite you. We need a rival.

This might just mean if the B10 and/or B12 go for additional teams, they might bypass the ACC and go directly to AAC.

(04-22-2013 12:44 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  This might just mean if the B10 and/or B12 go for additional teams, they might bypass the ACC and go directly to AAC.

My thoughts exactly. This might be very good for some schools here.

(04-22-2013 12:44 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  This might just mean if the B10 and/or B12 go for additional teams, they might bypass the ACC and go directly to AAC.

Can't see the B1G doing that, UConn might be the only possibility, but they'd have to find a partner. B12 sure, but all of us likely need Texas out of the picture before anything can happen.

(04-22-2013 12:44 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  This might just mean if the B10 and/or B12 go for additional teams, they might bypass the ACC and go directly to AAC.

NFW...

(04-22-2013 12:44 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  

(04-22-2013 12:35 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(04-22-2013 12:34 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  well it looks like we will be here awhile.

Maybe not. The B10 might be a possibility for a school like UConn.

Possibly...but there would be no #16 now that Kansas is locked into GOR and ACC schools are locked in GOR.

Plus the B1G has no real interest in Connecticut from what I have heard.

Time is yours UMass. Get your act together so it wouldn't be an absolute embarassment to invite you. We need a rival.

I wish that we didn't get Tulsa so quickly. I really don't think that Navy is coming or if they do, they won't stay long. UMass, Charlotte, GSU, and UTSA could be players by 2015. UMass and Charlotte would really help us in bb.

Good. I'm pretty much sick of this bull****. Pretty much narrows the list down of "poachable" schools from the AAC to UConn as a longshot Big10 target.

(04-22-2013 12:59 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  UMass, Charlotte, GSU, and UTSA could be players by 2015. UMass and Charlotte would really help us in bb.

Do everybody here a favor and stfu about these schools (sans UMass).

(04-22-2013 01:04 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(04-22-2013 12:59 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  UMass, Charlotte, GSU, and UTSA could be players by 2015. UMass and Charlotte would really help us in bb.

Do everybody here a favor and stfu about these schools (sans UMass).

They can STFU about UMass, too. No need.

"poachable" for the B1G is narrowed, but for the Big12 I think Cincy and BYU are a possibility. So are UCF/USF, maybe Boise, Memphis or ECU too. Still though, this calms major conference movement down at least through the end of the Big12 GoR.

(04-22-2013 01:05 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

(04-22-2013 01:04 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(04-22-2013 12:59 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  UMass, Charlotte, GSU, and UTSA could be players by 2015. UMass and Charlotte would really help us in bb.

Do everybody here a favor and stfu about these schools (sans UMass).

They can STFU about UMass, too. No need.

You can find the flagship university of a state with a population of 6.6 million and an enrollment of 30 K someplace else?

If they had your kind of thinking, the B1G would never have added Rutgers and probably not Maryland either. But they think long term, which is why they
Re so successful.

(04-22-2013 01:04 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(04-22-2013 12:59 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  UMass, Charlotte, GSU, and UTSA could be players by 2015. UMass and Charlotte would really help us in bb.

Do everybody here a favor and stfu about these schools (sans UMass).

Feel threatened by your neighbors to the west?