Based on various rulings and developments over the summer — including Clemson appealing a North Carolina judge’s initial decision to allow the league’s countersuit to go in North Carolina to the state supreme court — there’s a belief those legal disputes currently playing out in three separate states could take years to resolve.

Florida State and Clemson’s lawsuits against the ACC are going nowhere. The ACC, meanwhile, is taking a PR beating. It behooves them all to find a way forward.

The conference claims both schools are breaching their contracts simply by suing to get out of a deal they have signed twice in the past 10 years.