The News & Observer’s Luke DeCock and Andrew Carter explain how the ACC got to this point, where its future is now in question. How might a lawyer attack the league’s grant of rights agreement that is currently holding the conference together? Is Miami to blame for the position the league finds itself in? What should ACC commissioner Jim Phillips do next? They try to answer these questions and more.
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