Wake me up when the politics actually keeps teams from separating into different conferences. We heard Texas and Texas A&M would never separate because of politics. We heard it about Washington/WSU, Oregon/OSU, UCLA/Cal, Oklahoma/OSU…. Next time it actually happens in major conference realignment will be the first. The NC BOG isn’t going to keep UNC from bolting to the SEC or B1G because of NC State (too much $$$ at stake) - and that link certainly doesn’t state as much either.