Damn. I know lawyers are good at bullshiting and making dumb things sound logical, but this is WAY better than I could have imagined. The below is the only part I figured they go after along with trying to understand the enforcement logistics of non compliance:
āThey believe that the severity of the penalty to withdraw from the league should be considered āunreasonable restraints of tradeā or unenforceable.ā
But if there is any truth to the rest (and discovery here should be fun, if itās ever publicly released) and the media rights really donāt go past 2027, that may be FSUās exit timelineā¦along with Clemson, Miami, UNC, UVA and others which would fuck the ACC hard.
Who would sign a GOR past their TV contract when you literally have no idea what value you would be getting in return? If true, and the ACC lied to pull a fast one on them then thatās huge.
If it all starts breaking apart, and youāre Pitt or Louisville, why hang around and wait and see when you could just join the Big 12?
For those that may have some fringe possibilities for getting into the SEC/B1G (VT, GT, NCSU, Duke) I could see waiting but you donāt want to be the last semi-serious fb school left in a zombie of a conference with Wake, Syracuse, BC, Cal, Stanford, and SMU where youāre best adds are UConn and the American Athletic Conference schools not good enough to get invited to the Big 12 (Temple, Tulane, Memphis, USF, East Carolina, Rice).