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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 40295, member: 780"] I get the "contract" part .. but not the "partner" piece. No one has violated any contracts here. Many of thse discussions seem to suggest that the ACC had no idea that: 1. Their contract had a provision that either ESPN or the ACC could renegotiate the deal if the conference added or lost two or more schools. 2. That the market price of these contracts has risen tremendously since the ACC signed its contract. Love him or hate him this guy Swofford is a pretty smart guy. I think the ACC was well aware of points 1 and 2 above. The ACC didn't need ESPN to coach them. They may have asked ESPN which the available schools might yeild the most money in a re-negotiated contract. But, there again, Swofford is no dummy and he probably had his own ideas on his. The original idea was to add SU and UConn. That may have been ESPN's advice. But Swofford ran into resistance to this within his own membership. Remember, it wasn't just BC that the UConn-driven lawsuit targeted but the ACC, as well. And no one in their right mind brings in a new "litigious" partner. Apparently, no one objected to Pitt, so they got the bid. Much of UConn's problem in this is their own history. Then Attorney General Blumenthal drove that law suit. And now its coming back to bite them in the butt. Besides, UConn is not suing anybody. The new CT governor --- a BC grad --- met with BC President Leahy on this and he came away with two messages. These were: 1. The only way UConn gets in the ACC is in a package deal with Notre Dame. If that doen't occur than the ACC might be looking to expand again in two to four years. 2. That, in the interim, UConn should not do anything else to piss off BC any more than they have. Based on that, I'd say that the CT governor and the UConn president don't want to sue anybody. In fact, I'll think you'll see a charm offensive from UConn. And if it weren't for that grandstanding, slimeball Blumenthal, they probably would have been picked over Pitt. [/QUOTE]

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