North Carolina is reportedly exploring a potential move from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Southeastern Conference.
According to a report by Inside Carolina, the Tar Heels are very interested in leaving the ACC for greener pastures in the SEC.
Here is an excerpt:
Meanwhile, as the Big Ten and SEC have expanded to grow more powerful — the Big Ten gobbling up Oregon, Southern Cal, UCLA and Washington, and the SEC poaching Texas and Oklahoma — former Carolina football coach Mack Brown used to quip privately about the fractured viewpoints surrounding a possible conference realignment maneuver in play for the Tar Heels. The academics among UNC’s faculty preferred joining the Big Ten, Brown remarked to sources on occasion, while the UNC fan base wanted a jump to the SEC.
But make no mistake, now, multiple sources told IC, the SEC is where the Tar Heels are aiming under the leadership of Roberts and Newmark, should UNC move to leave the ACC for another league, perhaps in the near future. Sources said the 2030-31 school year, when the ACC’s decreasing exit fees dip from $93 million to the flat $75 million threshold, would figure to become an important final line of demarcation, if the Tar Heels haven’t made their departure sooner. Seven decades ago, UNC was one of the original member schools in the 1953 founding of the ACC.
