WaPo: Maryland issues subpoenas to 10 ACC schools, ESPN

[Todd Gack]

Syracuse is among the ten: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ues-subpoenas-to-10-acc-schools-espn/?hpid=z3.

 

[Bayside44]

Syracuse is among the ten: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ues-subpoenas-to-10-acc-schools-espn/?hpid=z3.

We should cancel our football contract with them. Debt riddled desperation.

 

[NKR1978]

Fishing expedition. I'm sure the ACC will soon subpoena all the records from the B1G and various schools involved with Maryland along with Fox and the Big 10 network to find out their strategy to destroy the ACC, strong arm cable companies to put the BTN on basic cable, etc. I also imagine UVA and UNC are well aware of that conference's attempt to woo them.

Maryland is doing nothing wrong by leaving just like we did nothing wrong by leaving, but Maryland just doesn't want to follow the ACC bylaws. In this whole realignment mess, Maryland is the one school that doesn't believe the rules apply to them.

I also don't see how ESPN's consulting with the ACC, a significant business partner, has anything to do with the issue of whether Maryland has to pay the $50m exit fee. I Syracuse fights the subpoena and cancels all future games in all sports with that school.

 

[oldpinepoint]

I would tell them to pound salt

 

[orange79]

"Following the ACC’s recent filing to stay all discovery in the ongoing legal battle over Maryland’s roughly $52 million exit payment following its announced departure to the Big Ten, the school in January and Feburary summoned documents from the following institutions: North Carolina, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Duke, North Carolina State, Clemson, Notre Dame, Syracuse and Virginia. According to an affidavit signed by North Carolina-based attorney J. Alexander S. Barrett, only Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech have thus far complied, while North Carolina State was granted extra time “only on the basis of time set forth for compliance.”"

• So, I assume either the list should have said Virginia Tech instead of Virginia, or Virginia (and not Virginia Tech) has complied.
  
• The headline says 10 schools, but the list above has 9. Which is it?
• No Pitt, Miami, BC, Florida St. Why not? Are they MD 'friends'?

 

[CousCuse]

Good. Now is the time to subpoena ALL the financial records of the parties involved in the Maryland boards vote. This should get real interesting.

 

[SyracuseMiami]

Agree. Just said basically the same thing in the other thread. Maryland needs to quietly pack its bags and pay what they owe.

Fishing expedition. I'm sure the ACC will soon subpoena all the records from the B1G and various schools involved with Maryland along with Fox and the Big 10 network to find out their strategy to destroy the ACC, strong arm cable companies to put the BTN on basic cable, etc. I also imagine UVA and UNC are well aware of that conference's attempt to woo them.

Maryland is doing nothing wrong by leaving just like we did nothing wrong by leaving, but Maryland just doesn't want to follow the ACC bylaws. In this whole realignment mess, Maryland is the one school that doesn't believe the rules apply to them.

I also don't see how ESPN's consulting with the ACC, a significant business partner, has anything to do with the issue of whether Maryland has to pay the $50m exit fee. I Syracuse fights the subpoena and cancels all future games in all sports with that school.