CHARLOTTE - In his first ACC Tipoff as the league’s commissioner, Jim Phillips opened the proceedings on Tuesday morning with an interview session that touched on a wide range of the major issues.
Phillips, the former athletic director at Northwestern University who succeeded John Swofford as the ACC’s commissioner earlier this year, answered several questions that touched not only on basketball, but on football, storming the field after games, and the impact that the NIL has had on college athletics and specifically the ACC.
Here is a partial transcript:
QUESTION: Another big announcement in this offseason was about the alliance and the future with the alliance and the Big Ten and the Pac-12.