As The Clemson Insider confirmed Tuesday morning, Clemson University has filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference, challenging the league’s Grant of Rights deal and $130 million exit fee. Clemson joins Florida State, who filed suit against the ACC on December 21 of last year, as conference members who are challenging the league in […]
CLEMSON – Could an historic tradition at Clemson be coming to an end? No one knows just yet, but what happened at the end of the Duke-Wake Forest game in Winston-Salem, N.C. could affect how the Atlantic Coast Conference looks at fans storming the court or rushing the field going forward. Dating back to 1942 […]
On Friday morning, in response to Florida State’s Board of Trustees meeting, the ACC released a statement from Commissioner Jim Phillips and Jim Ryan, Chair of the ACC Board of Directors. “Florida State’s decision to file action against the Conference is in direct conflict with their longstanding obligations and is a clear violation of their […]
CHARLOTTE – ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips held a press conference Wednesday morning at the ACC Basketball Tipoff. Phillips was asked, now that the league had its annual fall meetings, how he would assess the conference membership right now in terms of schools being content and aligned after a spirited discussion when it came to new […]
CHARLOTTE — ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips held a press conference Wednesday morning at the ACC Basketball Tipoff. Phillips was asked about the three schools that voted against expansion – Clemson, Florida State and North Carolina. “I cannot control individual decisions on campus, and we can’t,” Phillips said. “We have absolutely listened. I’ve tried to be […]
During his teleconference call with the media Friday, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips made it seem like the conference is one big happy family. However, that cannot be further from the truth. Right now, the ACC is like that difunctional family on Facebook that looks to be happy and content, but on the inside, there is […]
The Atlantic Coast Conference made talks over the last few weeks official Friday morning, announcing the expansion of the conference. The trio of Stanford, Cal and SMU are joining the ACC, moving up to 18 teams over all sports including Notre Dame, with 17 for football. For the expansion to go through, 12 of the […]
CHARLOTTE — ACC revenue distribution was one of the big topics that ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips discussed during the Commissioner’s Forum on Tuesday morning as the 2023 ACC Football Kickoff got underway. Phillips was specifically asked about schools like Clemson and Florida State that have spoken out publicly about being unhappy with the revenue gap, […]
CHARLOTTE — The 2023 ACC Football Kickoff kicked off Tuesday morning with the Commissioner’s Forum. During it, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips emphasized that college athletics should have national guidelines for NIL (name, image and likeness) payments to college athletes, adding that he sees the involvement of the federal government as the best route to that. […]
CHARLOTTE — As the 2023 ACC Football Kickoff commenced Tuesday morning, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips commented on the future of the conference amid the questions surrounding it, saying during the Commissioner’s Forum that the league “is strong.” “I’m well aware of the narrative and stories surrounding the ACC and our members as well as the […]