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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 457999, member: 628"] Yep, BC said they didn't want to be part of a 16-team league and that they'd leave if the BE went that way. I've always figured that they got that on record because they knew they'd be leaving anyway. It was the longest of l.ong shots that the ACC's petition to the NCAA to have a conference championship game with 11 schools would be granted (if the NCAA said no to the SEC on that exact same request, why would they say yes to the ACC?). And BC and the ACC kept talking from the moment the motion to table expansion was approved in that fateful meeting. So they knew they'd be gone eventually and probably wanted something to "cover" them in the event of litigation. Lots of people have ripped BC for backtracking on their pledge to the BE, but every other left behind school would have done the same thing, including SU. [/QUOTE]