According to a report from Yahoo’s Pete Thamel, the ACC is planning to hire Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips as its next commissioner.
Phillips was a finalist for the Big Ten commish gig that eventually went to Kevin Warren, and he’s been at Northwestern since 2008 while overseeing some large-scale facilities investments at NU (along with their own attempted branding as “Chicago’s College Team”... which, take from that what you will). Obviously it’ll be no small feat replacing outgoing commissioner John Swofford. Ninja Swoff has been in charge of the ACC since 1997, and his tenure has included the addition of six full-time members, the loss of one (later, Terps) and a non-football deal with Notre Dame — plus the formation of the ACC Network.