As speculation and rank rumor roiled outside the meeting rooms of the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Fla., this week, there was discussion among Atlantic Coast Conference leaders about doing what comes naturally amid realignment drama: putting out a statement of unity among the league members.
The ACC punted on that idea, a small triumph for honesty in an inherently dishonest process.
“We’re not unified,” is how one ACC source explains it. “We’re unified until someone offers a school more to go somewhere else. Everyone is going to grab it.”
