Thesurvey, led by William Anderegg at StanfordUniversity, included onlyresearcherswhohave at some point writtenscientific assessments orsignedpublicdocumentsin relation to ACC.
The ACC is not the only conference with rules concerning the withdrawal of a school and this is not the first time that a conference has sued a departing school over the breach of those terms.
The only losers in the deal are the ACC and Big East, which are forced to watch valued members walk out and take some valued conference tradition with them.