{"id":35102,"date":"2025-05-15T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/35102\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:11:10","slug":"acc-commissioner-jim-phillips-feels-good-about-the-leagues-newfound-stability-after-chaos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/35102\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC commissioner Jim Phillips feels good about the league’s newfound stability after chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, speaks at a NCAA college basketball media day, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo\/Chris Carlson)<\/p>\n

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(AP) \u2014 The Atlantic Coast Conference is entering a period of stability.<\/p>\n

How long it lasts is anyone\u2019s guess. Not even commissioner Jim Phillips knows for sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still live one day at a time,\u201d Phillips quipped.<\/p>\n

The ACC wrapped up its spring meetings Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, with athletic directors and coaches having spent three days discussing wide-ranging issues affecting football and basketball.<\/p>\n

The event came amid the backdrop of the pending\u00a0$2.8 billion NCAA settlement<\/a>, which would allow schools to share up to $20.5 million annually directly with their athletes.<\/p>\n

The ACC spent the past two years tracking that legal battle while also wading through contentious litigation from two of its top member schools, Clemson and Florida State.<\/p>\n

The Tigers and Seminoles\u00a0approved a settlement in March that changed the league\u2019s revenue-distribution model to benefit schools with marquee football brands<\/a>. Both would presumably fall into that category.<\/p>\n

Although the 2030-31 season looms as a potential spot for more changes to the college football landscape, the revised deal should fortify a league that looked to be on the verge of collapse while falling further behind the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think you got to settle down,\u201d Phillips said, noting he envisions four or five years of stability ahead. \u201cAnd I think college athletics needs it to settle down, not just the ACC. I think we\u2019ve positioned ourselves for that, and that\u2019s a good thing. It just is.<\/p>\n

\u201cChaos and the constant wondering of what\u2019s happening here or there, I just think that distracts from the business at hand. But I feel good about where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n

The league\u2019s revised revenue-distribution model incorporates TV viewership as a way for the league\u2019s top programs to generate more money.<\/p>\n

Florida State, for example, expects roughly $18 million extra annually from the tweaked structure. Those schools outside the top tier could see a decline of about $7 million a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really excited that this is now put behind us,\u201d FSU athletic director Michael Alford said. \u201cWe have a path going forward. We have a path to really look at how we control the conference together, how we expand on the great brands that are in this conference and really promote the ACC and especially ACC football moving forward and give it its day in the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presidential help ahead?<\/p>\n

Even though ACC schools are bracing for the NCAA settlement and how it will change their business model, Phillips believes President Donald Trump\u2019s proposed commission on collegiate athletics could help.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not been able to get this thing into the end zone, so to speak,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cIf the President feels that a commission could potentially help, I\u2019m all for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposed commission would be co-chaired by former Alabama coach Nick Saban and current Texas Tech board of regents chairman Cody Campbell.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s well-intended,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cI do feel that the time is right based on all the work that\u2019s previously been done and a supportive administration that\u2019s in there. So I\u2019m hopeful that that can be a positive to an end result that gets us a standardized law across the country with NIL.\u201d<\/p>\n

NCAA president Charlie Baker spoke at the ACC meetings Monday and said he was \u201cup for anything\u201d if it helped formalize NIL laws that differ from state to state.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it speaks to the fact that everybody is paying a lot of attention right now to what\u2019s going on in college sports,\u201d Baker said. \u201cI\u2019m up for anything that can help us get somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Future of the CFP<\/p>\n

While power four conferences \u2014 the ACC, the Big Ten, Big 12 and the SEC \u2014 continue to negotiate the future of the College Football Playoff beginning in 2026, Phillips declined to reveal specifics regarding the league\u2019s stance on automatic qualifiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remain steadfast about fairness in the system and access,\u201d he said. \u201cOut of respect for my colleagues, I want to hold off on commenting about AQs and specific models.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 16-team playoff model that has been widely discussed would grant four automatic berths to the Big Ten, four to the SEC, two to the ACC and two to the Big 12. That would leave four bids, with as many as three of those going to at-large teams and the other to the highest-ranked team from the Group of Six.<\/p>\n

The ACC, according to several coaches, wants three guaranteed spots.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou start to wonder if we are going to have an invitational,\u201d SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said. \u201cEvery year, one league may be better than the other, and it can change to some degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say we\u2019re going to pick teams based on what\u2019s happened the last 15 years, especially in an environment where we have more and more parity with the way the rules are, I think it\u2019s a slippery slope.\u201d\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, speaks at a NCAA college basketball media day, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[4473,7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-35102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-atlantic-coast-conference","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114512965347809918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}