ACC stabilizes itself - will not be imploding any time soon...

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I think this, if contested, would be thrown out.  One could argue that the relationship between the school-conference is similar to an employee-business relationship.  Under right-to-work law/Taft-Hartley, this would seem to be an ambiguous situation. 
It also has a bit of being similar to a non-compete agreement, but somewhat more draconian in taking future profits from the "employee." 
If the right lawyer makes the connection school-conference/employee-business to the right judge, this could be negated.

It'll be interesting to see when the first team leaves one of these conferences. 

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I think this, if contested, would be thrown out.  One could argue that the relationship between the school-conference is similar to an employee-business relationship. 

One could argue that...if they want to be laughed out of court.

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One could argue that...if they want to be laughed out of court.

And.... Why not?  So, you can't see that could be a possibility?  Open your eyes to the litigious society we have.

Essentially, you have a union - conference.  You have a member of that union - the school.  It's a similar arrangement and one that has not been put on trial.  So what do you have?  

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And.... Why not?  So, you can't see that could be a possibility?  Open your eyes to the litigious society we have.

Essentially, you have a union - conference.  You have a member of that union - the school.  It's a similar arrangement and one that has not been put on trial.  So what do you have? 

Because employment law is very different than contract law.

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Because employment law is very different than contract law.

I don't disagree that in certain areas they are very different.  But there are a lot of similarities, enough that I think it's entirely possible that something along the employee/union/business relationship could be argued a valid parallel. 
We'll see when a school leaves one of these conferences. 

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Jack Ford
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I think this, if contested, would be thrown out.  One could argue that the relationship between the school-conference is similar to an employee-business relationship.  Under right-to-work law/Taft-Hartley, this would seem to be an ambiguous situation. 
It also has a bit of being similar to a non-compete agreement, but somewhat more draconian in taking future profits from the "employee." 
If the right lawyer makes the connection school-conference/employee-business to the right judge, this could be negated.

It'll be interesting to see when the first team leaves one of these conferences. 

Isn't this more like a partnership business arrangement?  I'd much rather be on the side of trying to uphold this agreement as it was unanimously entered into.