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Syracuse Headed to the ACC a Year Early

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Getty NCAA Image?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1342606872065Joe Robbins/Getty Images(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) — Syracuse University reached a deal with the Big East Conference to leave the Atlantic Coast Conference a year early.

Based on Big East bylaws, Syracuse was supposed to wait 27-months until it could leave. The exit fee was also supposed to cost Syracuse $5 million, but they payed an extra $2.5 million allowing them to leave on July 1, 2013.

Syracuse is one of the original seven members of the Big East, which was formed in 1979.

“This closes a chapter and opens a new one filled with exciting possibilities for the Big East’s future,” interim commissioner Joe Bailey said. “With the recent addition of eight schools to the Big East, the future for the conference has never been brighter.”

Those schools eight schools include Central Florida, Houston, Temple, Memphis and SMU in all sports, and Boise State, San Diego State and Navy, which will join in football.

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