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Report: 'Continued Momentum' for ACC to Add Cal, Stanford, SMU

But a meeting of the ACC presidents scheduled for Monday night to vote on the matter has been postponed because an armed shooter was on the North Carolina campus Monday
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Report: 'Continued Momentum' for ACC to Add Cal, Stanford, SMU
Report: 'Continued Momentum' for ACC to Add Cal, Stanford, SMU

There is increased momentum for ACC expansion in the form of the addition of Cal, Stanford and SMU, according to ESPN's Pete Thamel, who spoke to sources Monday morning.

The schools' presidents were scheduled to meet Monday night to vote on the issue, but the meeting has been postponed because an armed shooter came onto the North Carolina campus on Monday and fired shots.

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The ACC is still expected to make a final decision either way in the next few days  on whether to add Cal, Stanford and SMU.

Here is a key excerpt from Thamel's Monday morning report:

After a weekend of conversations, a source told ESPN that the details of the potential additions are "only in pencil," but it's trending in the direction of happening. One of four ACC schools that had previously objected to the additions -- Clemson, Florida State, NC State and North Carolina -- needed to change its vote, and that is expected to happen this week.

Sources cautioned to ESPN that the situation is fluid and nothing is finalized. But the general tenor heading out of the conversations over the weekend is that the league is close to formalizing the additions.

While there's momentum toward additions, a decision either way is coming in the early part of this week. This is the fourth week that ACC officials have discussed the potential additions, and there's a now-or-never tone hanging over the next few days.

Here are the reports of an armed shooter on the University of North Carolina campus on Monday, and that threat apparently has caused the vote on ACC expansion to be postponed.

Here is an excerpt from the Associated Press report:

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — An apparent shooting at the University of North Carolina flagship campus on Monday led to a school-wide alert warning of an “armed, dangerous person on or near campus” and urging people to go inside and avoid windows.

WRAL TV reported that a person of interest in the shooting is in custody.

Ross Dellenger of Yahoo reports some of the financial numbers involved in the possible expansion.

.And Brett McMurphy of Action Network adds this significant detail.

Cover photo by Scott Taetsch, USA TODAY Sports

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JAKE CURTIS

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

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