(03-23-2014 02:19 PM)Tbringer Wrote:  

(03-23-2014 02:13 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  

(03-23-2014 12:38 PM)Tbringer Wrote:  Its way too early to say who can get out for what.

Seems Maryland has some legitimate information they are attempting to present to the courts. It will be interesting to see what does come out from this discovery.

As far as the Big East, that conference doesn't exist anymore, not sure why the BE didn't push for legal remedies from the ACC in the latest round, but individual schools did sue when the earlier realignment happened. They didn't win much other than legal fees and some games though. Don't really think any of that will have anything to do with the present case other than possibly showing the hypocritical nature of the ACC suing Maryland for leaving when the ACC has a long history of poaching schools from other conferences.

The American Athletic Conference is the legal successor to the original Big East - all the conference did was sell the name and intellectual property to a group if schools who withdrew from the conference.

Actually, the Big East is now a basketball conference HQd in Providence RI.

The AAC is a new conference that happens to have a few members from the old Big East conference.

Legally, the AAC is the successor to the old Big East Conference. Therefore, the AAC would inherit any legal claims by the Big East against the ACC. Unfortunately for them, chances are the buyout agreements with Syracuse and Pitt probably blocked any such litigation.