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Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan
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.
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That's actually just about the first time I've heard the GOR was supposed to keep State in the league (FSU or Clemson, sure, but State?). While there is a sizable contingent of State fans who have deluded themselves into thinking they could (and should) have got an SEC invite, the administration was never close to going. There's too much political interference (State's not going anywhere without Carolina and, indirectly, Duke, getting landing spots if they need it), not to mention too much history and loyalty with the ACC for State to have ended up anywhere else short of a total collapse of the conference. State wasn't going to pull the pin, in other words. Now, had the B1G ended up taking Virginia and UNC, that would have been a different matter.
The fans most bitter about this are the FSU and Clemson fans who are all angry that their admins didn't try to get them out while the getting was good because all they see is football and don't care a dot about anything else. This has resulted in some interesting gloating coming from the new ACC member fanbases who are all pretty much saying "Nyah! You're stuck with us now!"