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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 947303" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>In 2022, when Jim Phillips was appealing for the spirit of amateurism in college sports, and railed against expansion of conferences (on the heels of USC and UCLA joining the B1G), I knew right then and there the ACC and its members were about to be in BIG trouble. College sports has become BIG business, and conference commissioners have to be on the forefront of all of it. We're past accepting that college sports is about business, both on the university and student athlete level, and conferences have to generate value through nationally relevant matchups. The ACC has failed in all of it.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tarheelblog.com/2022/7/21/23271517/unc-north-carolina-tar-heels-acc-kickoff-commissioner-jim-phillips[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Phillips seems like a top notch person, and he would have been a great leader for our conference a couple of decades ago, but his mentality leading the ACC is outdated in today's environment. It's not all his fault, as he inherited a conference locked into media contract that looks increasingly more terrible as the years go by. I think he understands he's in between a rock and a hard place: Conference members wanting to leave for greener pastures, and an untenable media contract. Honestly, it's more on the ACC hiring someone that didn't fit the mold of what todays conference commissioners need to be: Powerful media brokers. Just look at what the B1G did with their recent AD hire and that tells you all you need to know about why the B1G is set up to become a massive sports media vacuum, and why the ACC is slowly slipping into also rans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 947303, member: 360"] In 2022, when Jim Phillips was appealing for the spirit of amateurism in college sports, and railed against expansion of conferences (on the heels of USC and UCLA joining the B1G), I knew right then and there the ACC and its members were about to be in BIG trouble. College sports has become BIG business, and conference commissioners have to be on the forefront of all of it. We're past accepting that college sports is about business, both on the university and student athlete level, and conferences have to generate value through nationally relevant matchups. The ACC has failed in all of it. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tarheelblog.com/2022/7/21/23271517/unc-north-carolina-tar-heels-acc-kickoff-commissioner-jim-phillips[/URL] Phillips seems like a top notch person, and he would have been a great leader for our conference a couple of decades ago, but his mentality leading the ACC is outdated in today's environment. It's not all his fault, as he inherited a conference locked into media contract that looks increasingly more terrible as the years go by. I think he understands he's in between a rock and a hard place: Conference members wanting to leave for greener pastures, and an untenable media contract. Honestly, it's more on the ACC hiring someone that didn't fit the mold of what todays conference commissioners need to be: Powerful media brokers. Just look at what the B1G did with their recent AD hire and that tells you all you need to know about why the B1G is set up to become a massive sports media vacuum, and why the ACC is slowly slipping into also rans. [/QUOTE]
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