Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt 5m
Maryland files a $157 million counterclaim vs. ACC. Alleges Wake Forest/Pittsburgh officials tried to recruit unnamed B1G schools to leave.

Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt 3m
This counterclaim was filed in North Carolina, because the Maryland issues have been stayed until the N.C. court resolves matters there.


This case just keeps getting weirder.

I wonder who the ACC tried to get to leave the B1G? And why would Wake Forest be the lead on that?

Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt 3m
Alleges that b/c of "counsel and direction...received from ESPN," the ACC has tried to lure other schools "to extract more lucrative terms."

(01-14-2014 10:41 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt 3m
Alleges that b/c of "counsel and direction...received from ESPN," the ACC has tried to lure other schools "to extract more lucrative terms."

Sweeeeeet! ESPN is involved? This is good!

(01-14-2014 10:39 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  I wonder who the ACC tried to get to leave the B1G? And why would Wake Forest be the lead on that?

Probably personal connections, but yeah, Wake is supposed to be the neutral facilitator/pacifier of the ACC.

Penn State and... Ohio State?

(01-14-2014 10:39 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  I wonder who the ACC tried to get to leave the B1G? And why would Wake Forest be the lead on that?

You'd have to assume it would be Penn State, but I suppose there are other possibilities as well.

(01-14-2014 10:57 AM)SeaBlue Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 10:41 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt 3m
Alleges that b/c of "counsel and direction...received from ESPN," the ACC has tried to lure other schools "to extract more lucrative terms."

Sweeeeeet! ESPN is involved? This is good!

Lol. Maybe add the Big East/AAC to the case, double the damages and create a class action. Grisham's next novel? He is a football fan.

(01-14-2014 10:59 AM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 10:39 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  I wonder who the ACC tried to get to leave the B1G? And why would Wake Forest be the lead on that?

You'd have to assume it would be Penn State, but I suppose there are other possibilities as well.

Rutgers?

(01-14-2014 11:00 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 10:57 AM)SeaBlue Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 10:41 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt 3m
Alleges that b/c of "counsel and direction...received from ESPN," the ACC has tried to lure other schools "to extract more lucrative terms."

Sweeeeeet! ESPN is involved? This is good!

Lol. Maybe add the Big East/AAC to the case, double the damages and create a class action. Grisham's next novel? He is a football fan.

Honest question: why would having ESPN give the ACC counsel on who to grab from the B1G have any bearing on why the ACC should reduce Maryland's exit fee?

Who wants to make a bet that this thread is locked by evening?

(01-14-2014 11:03 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  Rutgers?

You're probably right. Messing with Ohio State is just too risky

(01-14-2014 11:03 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 10:59 AM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(01-14-2014 10:39 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  I wonder who the ACC tried to get to leave the B1G? And why would Wake Forest be the lead on that?

You'd have to assume it would be Penn State, but I suppose there are other possibilities as well.

Rutgers?

I wouldn't think that would be likely. I'm betting Maryland had this information before the B1G announced them and Rutgers as new members, as any expansion info of poaching the B1G would surely be kept away from Maryland by the rest of the members after that time.

I'd be willing to bet it was Penn State. Ohio State would have laughed at the ACC and the ACC knows this, they are a Big Ten school through and through. The ACC wouldn't have even approached them.

I never expected it to happen, but this probably puts the nail in the coffin for the ACC homers who expected the 50M exit fee to be paid in full.

I put the chances of a mutual walk-away with Maryland never receiving the withheld funds from this season as the most likely outcome at this point.

(01-14-2014 11:10 AM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  I never expected it to happen, but this probably puts the nail in the coffin for the ACC homers who expected the 50M exit fee to be paid in full.

I put the chances of a mutual walk-away with Maryland never receiving the withheld funds from this season as the most likely outcome at this point.

But all the ACC trolls told us that that was a lock that it would be paid out in full.

Smells of desperation from here.

Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt 6m
The $156,799,026 in damages sought represents "3 times the amount of compensatory damages for the ACC's violation of Md. Antitrust laws."

(01-14-2014 11:14 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt 6m
The $156,799,026 in damages sought represents "3 times the amount of compensatory damages for the ACC's violation of Md. Antitrust laws."

That works out to $52.2M - the amount of the ACC exit fee.

(01-14-2014 11:14 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Smells of desperation from here.

Desperation started the whole thing...

ACC sues the B1G next?

I don't know why this is illegal to recruit schools.

I don't think it is against the rule at all. Recruiting of other schools to your conference happens a lot behind doors