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The Florida State Seminoles might be one step nearer to leaving the ACC.
In response to Matt Baker of the Tampa Bay Occasions, a choose in Lee County, FL has denied the ACC’s movement to postpone Florida State’s lawsuit in opposition to the convention.
The choose requested a better degree of readability surrounding a number of issues inside the case, together with the ESPN media settlement in addition to whose jurisdiction the matter ought to finally fall underneath.
Because the ACC is headquartered in North Carolina, that state’s legal guidelines could also be used for precedent and even for a choice within the case. It is at the moment unclear which aspect would profit from that, however the ACC’s movement to delay has been denied.
Florida State’s points with the ACC come amid a consistently altering panorama of faculty sports activities.
Conferences with nice status just like the Pac-12 and Massive East have all however ended, with groups searching for better income via soccer.
Florida State was additionally omitted of final yr’s Faculty Soccer Playoff regardless of an undefeated report and an ACC convention championship.
Many have argued that if FSU was within the Massive Ten or the SEC final yr, they might not have been ignored for the Playoff.
Extra groups are set to affix the ACC throughout Florida State’s points with the convention, which might solely lengthen the authorized battle as rights turn into extra difficult.
Accepting extra member faculties signifies that the pie will get smaller for each college, one thing that Florida State – and different faculties within the ACC – are actively seeking to keep away from.
We’ll see what occurs with the remainder of the case, however Florida State picked up an enormous win of their effort to separate from the convention on Tuesday.
