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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In March, the North Carolina legislature passed a measure that repealed House Bill 2.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
(6,037 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)And/or wanting to get the last word.
ExciteBike66
(2,372 posts)too bad they cannot include Duke next time the NCAA boycotts the state!
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Says the UK fan.
underpants
(182,868 posts)I actually root for UNC when they play.
Long suffering UVA fan here.
StubbornThings
(259 posts)Republicans are stupid.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)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
(2,434 posts)legislature, not all legislators.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)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
(82,849 posts)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.