[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Originally Posted by yacovfb

ACC signs Grant of Rights. Hopefully this will slow expansion talk for awhile (at least as it pertains to snatching up ACC schools).

ACC Announces Grant of Rights - The Official Athletic Site of the Atlantic Coast Conference

Grant of Rights is such a backward way of handling the situation. Yes, it can maintain your status quo for the short term, but if you get enough teams to leave at once, you effectively dissolve the conference and void out any rights. In addition, the mid-major schools are the only ones that are going to join a conference with that arrangement. No high majors are going to jump into that kind of a conference.

There's little question this was done to attempt to slow NC State's exodus to the SEC. We'll have to see what the SEC's next move is because it's a given that they're going to 16 schools with the network now in place.