It’s about this time of year — every year — when the talk of realignment in college sports is front and center. That happened again this week as seven ACC institutions [Clemson, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia & Virginia Tech], known as the “Magnificent 7,” banded together to potentially challenge the ACC’s grant-of-rights.
Two days later, it would appear things have calmed down as the ACC held spring meetings this week, and Commissioner Jim Phillips came out of those meetings with a message of unity.
“We’re all in this together,” Phillips said the athletic directors of the seven schools above assured him per Andrea Adelson and David Hale of ESPN.