Barringer said Tuesday that with the NCAA decision to move events from North Carolina there have been too many “unintended effects” of HB 2.
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Concerns about the economic impact of HB2 have been raised as businesses, entertainers and sports organizations have pulled commercial investments from North Carolina in opposition of the law.
Replacement venues have not been finalized, but the ACC council of presidents said as part of the statements released on the conference website that locations will be announced “in the future from the conference office”. Cary will lose ACC women’s soccer and and men’s and women’s tennis tournaments, and the ACC baseball tournament will be moved from the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Per USA Today’s Nicole Auerbach, the ACC will relocate all of its neutral-site championships from North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year.
And this was not an easy decision for the conference, headed by former UNC-Chapel Hill quarterback John Swofford.
But unlike before, the governor didn’t directly criticize the ACC, which is based in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Wednesday’s decision came after this week’s ACC’s Council of Presidents meeting, undoubtedly affected by the NCAA’s move two days earlier.
Another North Carolina Republican state senator is urging colleagues to consider repealing a law about LGBT rights that’s caused the NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference to pull championships from the state this week. “Today’s decision is one of principle”, according to The New York Times. So it appears that like many North Carolinians, they’re waiting to see if the November elections change the political climate in the state and the problem handles itself.
Of the championships stripped from North Carolina, the NCAA could look into relocating either the 2016 Women’s College Cup soccer championship (Dec. 2 and 4) or 2017 Division I women’s lacrosse championship (May 26 and 28) – or both – to Fifth Third Bank Stadium. Our policies protect students, faculty and staff from discrimination, regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status. But he defended the law and the state: “The truth remains that this law was never about and does not promote discrimination”.
The headliner ACC event affected is the football title game, previously scheduled for December 3 in Charlotte, its home since 2010 and where it has drawn large crowds and created an economic impact of more than $30 million annually.
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Orlando is already hosting first and second round men’s basketball championship games at the Amway Center in March of 2017.
