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Is he the guy feeling the other guys tricep or the guy enjoying another man fondling his tricep.
I don't know anything about him beyond what I just read here, but I like that he isn't some carolina good ole boy.
Well, that's a name I never expected. View attachment 192901
I guess my surprise comes from the fact that I was not expecting the position to be filled by an AD. I do like the fact he is not part of the Carolina south old ACC mindset. The connection to ND is nice but does a former associate AD at ND bring the kind of juice needed to persuade ND to fully come on board? The article suggests the renegotiation of the contract with ESPN will be front and center. Not sure if that is true or not but if it is, what in this ADs background is the expertise to drive that discussion? Again as more information comes out maybe it will seem like a better hire but again kind of surprised here. If the Clemson guy was the primary but he bailed once the Clemson BoT sweetened his deal, I would think that they would have tried getting Swofford to extend through 2021 as the replacement committee re-evaluated the market.
Agree. JWs prior corporate ESPN experience will be very beneficial to those discussions. No doubt. I am with you on that one.I thought the same and then remembered that our AD has some experience there and might be able to leverage it for the benefit of the conference as well as to generate good rapport with the new Commish. I know JW has in the past been an asset to the ACC on this front and likely will be so again. I really like that they are bringing in an outsider who has experience in another conference to lend perspective.
The fact that the B1G ADs wanted him to be the next B1G commissioner is strong testimony to his abilities.More about his background
Sources: ACC eyeing N'Western AD as commish
Jim Phillips, who has had a successful run as athletic director at Northwestern, has emerged as the leading candidate to become the next ACC commissioner, sources told ESPN.www.espn.com
Phillips had strong support from Big Ten athletic directors to become that league's commissioner after Jim Delany's retirement in January.
Other ACC commissioner candidates included ESPN executive vice president Burke Magnus, Clemson University president James Clements and Stanford athletic director Bernard Muir.
Phillips spearheaded several major initiatives at Northwestern, including the $270 million Walter Athletics Center, the lakeside home of the school's football team and other programs. He also led the overdue renovation of Welsh-Ryan Arena and a standalone facility for the basketball programs. Phillips also held several major leadership positions with NCAA groups, among them serving the inaugural chair of the Division I council from 2015 to 2017.
Before Northwestern, Phillips served as athletic director at Northern Illinois for four years. Although he never worked in the ACC, he spent time as an associate athletic director at Notre Dame prior to the school's joining the conference in all sports except football.
Phillips came up under Duke athletic director Kevin White, working for him at both Notre Dame and Arizona State.
ND will never join the ACC, it's never going to happen.
Fantastic choice
This fact here is really the only thing I care about at this point...I don't know anything about him beyond what I just read here, but I like that he isn't some carolina good ole boy.