CLEMSON -- When word spread three days ago that Clemson's Board of Trustees were not only meeting, but spending a prolonged amount of time in executive (meaning: private) session, of course the information caused a stir.

Future realignment, and Clemson's theorized part in it, has been at the top of everyone's mind since the massive news of USC and UCLA bolting to the Big Ten.

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The topic is so all-consuming that NIL was basically a footnote for an entire week. And it's been a long time since that happened.

Last Wednesday, a highly-placed source brought up the coming BOT meeting to us as a means of sharing that nothing big was going to happen.