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I'm optimistic we won't by gordonbombay

This is a historically unprecedented situation. The ACC is being courteous to one of its member schools (and we are a member school, we just don't play football). It's nice that the ACC is accommodating us, but it doesn't, and shouldn't, mean that we roll over and join the league in full.

That's to say nothing of the various contractual stipulations in play - we're still with NBC through 2025 (that would likely have to be modified or canceled), we'd have to make an immediate call on whether to keep playing all 3 of USC/Navy/Stanford or start cancelling marquee home-and-home series, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff I'm not thinking of right now.