Remember when deciding whether to move the conference office out of Greensboro was the trickiest question ACC commissioner Jim Phillips had to answer? Seems like a long time ago that was the ACC’s hot-button issue … in part because that decision has been marinating for a year.
It’s small potatoes now that the Big Ten and SEC have both since poached two teams from other conferences, moving threateningly toward a pair of Fox- and ESPN-supported superconferences, leaving the ACC even farther behind and threatening its very existence.
Phillips may not have imagined facing these kinds of issues in his second year on the job, especially with the 15 schools tied to the ACC through 2036 by the grant-of-rights agreement they signed in 2013, but it comes with the territory of running a Power Five conference in these uncertain times, to coin a phrase.
