Following USC and UCLA leaving Pac-12 for Big Ten, conversations around the future of NCAA conferences continue to transpire, especially for Pac-12, Big 12 and ACC.
David Teel of the Richmond Times-Dispatch spoke with various current and former ACC administrators about what challenges they think current ACC commissioner Jim Phillips, who is only in his second year in the role, needs to focus on. They narrowed it down to three major ones.
The first challenge is “manage simmering resentment among some members and lean on the ACC’s long-term grant of media rights to keep his current group intact.