Settlement May be Byproduct of Maryland’s $157 Million Counterclaim against the ACC

The legal battle between the University of Maryland and the Atlantic Coast Conference was kicked up a notch last month when the state of Maryland filed a $157 million countersuit against the ACC. The conference is seeking to enforce a requirement that UM pay a $52 million exit fee after UM announced that it was leaving the ACC for the Big Ten Conference.   The state, which filed its claim in a North Carolina court, alleges that the conference broke its own rules when it increased the confer