New North Carolina bill would require UNC, NC State to exit ACC if state is boycotted again

[underpants]

North Carolina legislators filed a bill this week that would require North Carolina and NC State to withdraw from the ACC should the conference decide to boycott the state again.

Last year, the ACC decided to pull its neutral-site championship games and tournaments out of North Carolina because of House Bill 2, the controversial law that limited legal protections for the LGBTQ community.

In March, the North Carolina legislature passed a measure that repealed House Bill 2. As a result, the ACC said the football championship game would return to Charlotte, North Carolina, and all other neutral-site championships that had existing contracts would return as well, beginning with the 2017-18 calendar.

But several North Carolina legislators were unhappy with the initial decision the ACC Council of Presidents made to boycott the state. They have proposed House Bill 728, filed Tuesday, which states any public state school in a conference that boycotts North Carolina would be barred from "extending any grant of media rights to the conference" and "shall immediately provide written notice to the conference that the constituent institution intends to withdraw from the conference no later than when the assignment of its media rights expire, unless the conference immediately ends the boycott."

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/19142531/under-new-bill-north-carolina-nc-state-required-withdraw-acc-conference-boycotts-state

[nycbos]

1. Just when you thought these people couldn't come up with anything more idiotic.

[underpants]

9. Yeah this has a real YOU BETTER NOT! feel to it

And/or wanting to get the last word.

[ExciteBike66]

2. This UConn fan says

too bad they cannot include Duke next time the NCAA boycotts the state!

[get the red out]

5. Good idea

Says the UK fan.

[underpants]

10. F Dook

I actually root for UNC when they play.

Long suffering UVA fan here.

[StubbornThings]

3. The SEC or some other conference would happily take one or both of those schools.

Republicans are stupid.

[get the red out]

4. Whining!

These hateful Christo-Fascists demand to be assholes with no repercussions.

I predict this bill goes nowhere. Even fellow Christo-Fascists wouldn't want college basketball to get screwed up!

[OldHippieChick]

6. My money is on the "Republikans" in the

legislature, not all legislators.

[bathroommonkey76]

7. This will never get by Tim Moore or Berger

Tim Moore (Speaker of the House) is a UNC graduate and Tar Heel fan- There's no way he would come out in support of this insane bill.

[gratuitous]

8. No, I have a better idea!

Just eliminate all the varsity sports at the state universities. Then those pecksniffs at the ACC and the NCAA can just leave North Carolina in peace to discriminate against its citizens.