Could the ACC dissolve? Here are 6 factors about college conference shifts

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – To those who weren't happy that the North Carolina General Assembly would budget $15 million to ensure the Atlantic Coast Conference would keep its headquarters in North Carolina, we ask this: How would you feel if there were no ACC anywhere? That has emerged as a very much discussed possibility amid an earthquake of change that has undertaken the nation's elite universities and the athletic conferences in which they hold memberships – primarily in relation to football. Some of that seismic shift has brought the suggestion that the Big Four in North Carolina – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest – could be leaving the ACC as we know it for (choose your debate) the Southeastern Conference, the Big 10 Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the Pac-12 Conference or something that we haven't even defined.