Over at ESPN.com, David Hale and Andrea Adelson on the financial challenges facing the ACC as new commissioner Jim Phillips takes over. They got some frank opinions from league administrators speaking anonymously:
“I’m under no illusion that we’re going to close the gap and catch up with the SEC or Big Ten,” another ACC AD told ESPN. “I’m optimistic that we can maintain the gap at the same level of increase that the SEC just got and what the Big Ten will get in their next go-round. If we cannot let the gap get bigger and can cut into the gap in some other ways, that will be success to me.