Clemson247’s Austin Hannon: “In my opinion, this could last a while with the all of the different cases going on at once (including FSU). Clemson’s made it clear that it wants out of the conference but the ACC, and the hours and dollars in the courtroom, are going to make it hard to do so.”
Conference expansion is not slowing down, but the SEC will not be the next league to join the fray — at least not not — according to Sankey at media days. With the Seminoles and Tigers currently in legal entanglements with the ACC, those are two programs in the crosshairs of many. The Tigers are one of the “Big Three” football powers in the ACC, joining Florida State and Miami, and they’re the only ones with national championship hardware to show for it in recent years.
Clemson seeks a “declaration of its rights” about the “unenforceability of the exorbitant withdrawal penalty” as well as the “nonexistence of fiduciary duties” that the ACC would claim the school owes the conference by filing its lawsuit.
