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FSU/Clemson vs ACC updates: The latest (May 3, 2024): The ACC must provide an unredacted copy of its ESPN contract to Clemson within seven days, a South Carolina judge has ordered in an interim ruling. But the contract remains confidential and can only be used for the litigation. That news...

Which part? The divisions, the NIL/transfer stuff, the schedule, or a mix of them? Because yeah, the schedule stuff is the most likely to kill this thing dead if the colleges can't get them to budge on it.

Here's what that super league idea apparently was going to look like, somehow stealing Josh Pate's eight 10 team divisions idea while coming up with divisions he'd probably hate: Sportico recently obtained a “confidential” pitch deck, which was circulated by the group in mid-February. The...

Update on FSU vs ACC - Florida Edition: Critical points Cooper has made The ACC's anticipatory filing against FSU was a form of forum shopping Believes that motion to stay in Leon County should be postponed. This case isn't a local concern but a state concern and one for all states with ACC...

The ACC might be dead by July: (1) If two of Clemson, FSU, or UNC leave before June 30, ESPN can unilaterally renegotiate with ACC via Composition Clause immediately. (2) ESPN has already refused to extend ACC media deal, ACC/ESPN deal will expire in June 2027, ending the Grant of Rights. (3)...

FSU, at least in terms of public perception. TBH, I don't think there's any advantage for the ACC anytime they have to disclose any amount of information.

Actual substantive update in the FSU vs ACC legal war: MORE NEWS in ACC v. FSU: Judge rules that some parts of the ACC's deals with ESPN can remain sealed but some parts will have to be public. ACC has until April 15 to file a public, redacted version.

Well, this is interesting: https://theathletic.com/5383639/2024/04/03/college-football-super-league-cst-realignment/ The current CST outline would create a system that would have the top 70 programs — all members of the five former major conferences, plus Notre Dame and new ACC member SMU — as...

Well, they're both suing each other, now Clemson and NC State (IIRC) are suing the ACC, so I think they're not really having a great time ATM.

While Florida State and ACC officials wait for a North Carolina judge to rule on whether their case should proceed there, FSU’s attorneys on Wednesday filed a new response in Leon County Circuit Court accusing the conference of several “misrepresentations” to the court and also making it plainly...

More gas on the fire if it's true: In court documents, Clemson claims that "the ACC did not hold a vote requesting that its members, including Clemson, approve of the lawsuit against Florida State. Nor has Clemson ever authorized the ACC's lawsuit against Florida State." Clemson is on Team...

Clemson has joined the ACC lawsuit bandwagon: PRAYER FOR RELIEF WHEREFORE, Clemson respectfully requests that the Court: 1. Enter a declaratory judgment declaring that the GOR Agreements are limited to only those rights needed to perform the ESPN Agreements and that the media rights Clemson...

LOL LMAO: NAACP asks Black student-athletes to reconsider Florida colleges The NAACP asked Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in the state of Florida, in response to the University of Florida and other state schools recently...

ESPN and ACC Network (owned by ESPN) won't bring it up because that would give everyone who already thinks ESPN is super biased more ammunition. FS1 won't bring it up probably to avoid ESPN throwing a legal temper tantrum over them covering it.

ESPN is super salty that FSU wants to make the ACC's deal public: ESPN not happy with FSU.

Here's a pretty cool thing I found if you're interested in the legal craziness going on:

Florida State wants dismissal of ACC lawsuit in North Carolina Florida State has asked a North Carolina court to dismiss the ACC’s lawsuit against the university — the latest legal step as the Seminoles explore a potential exit from their conference. The ACC originally filed this case in...

FSU takes aim at former ACC Commissioner John Swofford in amended complaint Nearly two weeks after the Atlantic Coast Conference raised the stakes in its legal battle with Florida State University by filing an amended complaint in North Carolina Superior Court, the Seminoles fired back with a...

Oh man, the University of Arizona Athletic Department is a shitshow:

Lawsuit update! Note - The ACC may not get how Florida's freedom of information laws work, so there may have been no leak or standing for them to be salty over any Grant of Rights release to the public. Today, the Justice Department joined 10 states and the District of Columbia in a civil...