school decides to join a conference, it agrees to whatever bylaws and any future amendments the members pass including the process for dissolving the conference. I would be very surprised if a conference doesn't have a section that talks about it in its bylaws or charter. FWIW there is an example of a DI conference that dissolved since 2000. The Great West Conference (GWC) dissolved in 2013. Over the course of its existence it had 7 full members. South Dakota left in 2011 and North Dakota left in 2012. In 2013 Chicago State, Houston Baptist, TX-Pan American, and Utah Valley voted to dissolve the conference so they could leave too. New Jersey IT was the only member to vote to not dissolve the conference and even wanted to remain in the conference because it didn't have a future home. However, 1 member was below the charter's/bylaw's minimum threshold to continue existing as a conference, so NJIT was forced to accept the dissolution and become an independent until it could find a new home. If NJIT wanted the GWC to continue to exist as essentially the GWC 2.0, then it would need to find enough new members to satisfy the NCAA's conference requirements and establish a new charter. If the ACC were to dissolve, then I suspect it would play out the same way assuming any members want the ACC to continue to exist. I would even go as far to say that the ACC's charter or bylaws states somewhere that either 8 members or a majority of members (which is still 8 in this case) is required to support the dissolution of the conference. Any member wishing to continue using the ACC name is free to do so under a new charter assuming the ACC 2.0 could satisfy the NCAA's conference requirements.