It takes about a week for a college football coach to plan for a championship game, but planning to stage that game tends to be a little more involved. It is not a proce s that is measured in days or weeks. And the Atlantic Coast Conference is allowing itself 80 days.Actually, 79 days. Wednesday, the league announced the 2016 Dr Pepper Atlantic Coast Conference Football Championship Game would be removed from Charlottes Bank of America Stadium as a reaction to the discriminatory HB2 law pa sed in March by the state of North Carolina. Howmuch you figurethey got done around the league office after that?MORE: What other leagues will have spent much of a year doing, the ACC now will have to manage in le s than three months: site selection, site prep, advertising and marketing, ticket sales, local market outreach Los Angeles Dodgers , securing hotel accommodations for participants and official party, fan experience, much more. All the other big leagues are running the final tough miles of a marathon, and the ACC is going to have to do a 10-K run in an all-out sprint.Theyre doing this why? Because they are a collection of universities, and universities are becoming more inclusive not le s, and because theyre all smart enough to recognize the HB2 law is discrimination in disguise.This is amomentous decision for the ACC. In pulling the football title game and seven other neutral-site championships from the state, Joc Pederson Jersey the ACC has i sued a declaration about the state it has called home since its 1953 birthday."We have great respect for the NCAA's and ACCs decisions," North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in a statement."We are hopeful that these i sues are resolved quickly and the championship events are able to return to our state. Maury Wills Jersey The ACC always has been a Carolina-centric league, with the Big Four of Duke, Wake Forest, N.C. State and North Carolina often carrying significant weight in league matters. The ACC headquarters in Greensboro are right there on I-85. If youre driving south on the way to Charlotte, you can look to the right and see the leagues office building.The past six football championships have been played in Charlotte, and the next four were contracted for B of A Stadium. The ACC Tournament has been played in Greensboro 28 times and in the state 54 times in all; only a dozen of the tournaments have been staged outside North Carolina.MORE: So the ACC moved le s eagerly than many desired to reach this conclusion. Its never too late, though, to do the right thing. And make no mistake, this is the right thing.HB2 was pa sed principally to eliminate a Charlotte ordinance that had become law a month earlier, which had forbidden discrimination against the LGBT community.HB2 has been sold by its proponents as offering protection to women and children against the po sibility of sexual predation by criminals who might masquerade as transgender. It offers zero protection against any predators of any sort, however. There is no criminal offense designated for those who do not use the bathroom a signed to the Mark Lowe Jersey gender on their birth certificate. There is no method proscribed for enforcement.Instead of acknowledging their egregious error, which has led to billions in lost revenue and opportunity and the evacuation of scores of major sports and entertainment events, the parties aligned behind that law mostly have attacked those whove objected.North Carolinas lieutenant governor, Dan Forest, blasted the NCAA and NBA and threw in Hollywood for good measure over their progre sive sexual agenda.The NCAA has pulled events, including the 2017 NCAA Tournament and 2016 womens College Cup soccer championship. The NBA moved the 2017 All-Star Game away from Charlotte. Major production companies are choosing not to film in the state. Musicians from Bruce Springsteen to Demi Lovato have chosen not to play concerts there. At least two major busine ses cancelled plans to expand.It has never been more clear than it is right now --HB2 is hurting our state every minute that it remains law, Equality NC executive director Chris Sgro said in a statement.And now the ACC, which has Tobacco Road still running through its bloodstream, is saying it has to Kenta Maeda Jersey leave.North Carolina is in a sorry state. Even if it wont get back the football games and basketball games and rock shows it has lost, its never too late to do the right thing.