North Carolina’s Public System Will Require Colleges To Get OK Before Changing Sports Conferences – News18

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.: The board overseeing North Carolina’s public college system would require colleges to get approval to alter athletic conferences, which most notably may influence any potential transfer by Atlantic Coast Conference members North Carolina and North Carolina State.

The system’s board of governors authorized the measure Thursday. It comes amid one other wave of realignment set to take impact subsequent season, together with the ACC including California and Stanford from the Pac-12 together with SMU of the American Athletic Conference.

It additionally comes as Florida State is in a authorized battle with the ACC because it seeks to exit and keep away from paying greater than $500 million in charges and penalties to get out of a grant-of-rights deal working by 2036.

The system oversees 16 public colleges, together with Bowl Subdivision applications like Appalachian State, East Carolina and Charlotte.

The measure requires colleges to supply advance discover of any convention change, together with a report on the monetary influence, for the board president’s approval. The president can approve or reject the plan, whereas the board may additionally vote to reject a plan initially authorized.

UNC and N.C. State are constitution ACC members with a protracted-standing rivalry and neighboring campuses separated by a few 30-minute drive. The measure in idea may make it more durable for one to go away the opposite behind in a profitable convention transfer.

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