ACC league presidents are meeting early next week to possibly raise the buyout for member schools of the conference to leave. Right now the buyout for an ACC team to leave, according to sources, is between $10 million to $13 million.

Big East Commissioner John Marinatto has been in contact with Dan Beebe of the Big 12 and John Swofford of the ACC and wants to meet to discuss to conference realignment. The Big East Commish said...

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"I thought it would be important for us to meet face-to-face and take the lead in trying to do things the right way."

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I'm sure this will be all the talk until the first week of the season.