Behind the Scenes Look at ACC as Stanford and Cal Rejected

The potential move of Stanford and Cal to the Atlantic Coast Conference -- an interesting plan on paper to bring together academically elite schools but a dubious geographic proposition -- appears dead for now. ESPN.com's Andrea Adelson spoke to various ACC school officials and reports on some of the apparent reasons the plan failed. Note, however, that inviting Stanford and Cal into the ACC failed by only one vote, so perhaps the issue will be revisited at some point.