UNC isn't going anywhere without approval from the UNCS Board of Governors, which is controlled by NC State alumni. Also there isn't any D1 conference that is more financially attached to one state like North Carolina is to the ACC. All of the ACC events in North Carolina brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the state and I highly doubt the the BoG is going to let the ACC implode, just so that UNC's football program can get a 20-30 million more dollars a year. That's tax revenue that the state is not going to want to lose at all.
We hear rumors all the time that the SEC and B1G "want" UNC, but dealing with a whole state government is a whole lot larger than dealing with a school president or a school board of trustees. And at the end of the day, I feel like that Tobacco Road is just going to have to deal with rebuilding the ACC when other teams not tied down by state legislatures bolt for the SEC and B1G.
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