CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Last week was a busy one for Jim Phillips.
As he enters his fifth year as the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, he’s had to grapple with a rapidly changing landscape in college sports. NIL has transformed recruiting, the transfer portal has changed roster management, and conference realignment driven by revenue from media rights deals for football has sparked some restlessness and uncertainty.
Under Phillips, the ACC has largely been able to weather those storms. The 2024-25 seasons were the first with Cal, Stanford and SMU as full members, and the Mustangs made the College Football Playoff. The ACC also settled lawsuits with Clemson and
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