COLLEGE SPORTS Vote on ACC expansion is delayed by the details

A few ACC schools still expressed reservations about adding three members.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- No vote will be taken on ACC expansion until at least next week, after the league's school presidents and chancellors failed to reach a consensus on the plan in five hours of talks over two days.
Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford said after the 21/2-hour teleconference Wednesday night a few schools still had concerns over student welfare. However, he said the lack of a vote wasn't a sign the plan to add Miami, Syracuse and Boston College of the Big East to the nine-team league was falling apart.
"When you talk about minor or small things that's in the eye of the beholder," Swofford said of divisional alignment or travel costs, two concerns of Duke and North Carolina. "Certain things are more important to some presidents than they are to other presidents.
"We've never put a time frame on when we would be voting other than to say that's up to the presidents when they reach that point."
Another call is set
Swofford said another conference call involving himself and the ACC leadership would be no sooner than early next week.
"There are some things they want to think about that we talked through today in regard to some details," he said. "I don't think it's a step backward in the process."
The three Big East schools have to pay a $1 million exit fee. If they leave after June 30, that figure doubles.
"The only thing that we've ever said about the end of the process is we felt like it would be completed by the end of this month," Swofford said when pressed on a timetable. "There seemed to be some expectation coming back from the site visits that there would be an immediate vote. Those were outside expectations, not internal expectations."
Site visits completed
Site visits to Miami, Syracuse and Boston College by ACC leaders were completed last week.
The presidents of the three Big East schools participated in Tuesday's conference call, but did not on Wednesday, Swofford said.
Earlier Wednesday, Big East presidents sent letters to their ACC counterparts seeking a meeting about their expansion plans and urging them not to "rush to judgment."