ACC coaches wary of more realignment -- 'Guessing it's not over' - ESPN

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — In his first time addressing the media since the Atlantic Coast Conference voted in early September to add California, Stanford and SMU, ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said Wednesday he has «never been more bullish» about the health of the league.

«I've never been more confident in the league than what we just went through over the last three or four months,» Phillips said at the ACC Tipoff. «Where is the health of the league? The league is healthy. The league is healthy. At the end of the day, my job is to run the ACC and make sure it's as healthy for the next 70 years as it's been the last 70 years. I cannot control individual feelings on campuses, but we have addressed head-on anything that our campuses have indicated. I feel great. I really do. I can't say that I felt that way a year ago.»

It was a tumultuous summer for the ACC, with Florida State making it clear it would consider leaving the ACC due to the league's revenue distribution model. FSU president Richard McCullough told his board of trustees in early August that «FSU will have to at some point consider very seriously leaving the ACC unless there were a radical change to the revenue distribution.»

After the Big Ten and Big 12 made moves to bolster their respective memberships and in turn decimate the Pac-12, the ACC picked up the two most viable remaining pieces of the Pac-12 in Cal and Stanford and also poached SMU from the AAC. The three schools will join for the 2024-25 year.

«I cannot control individual decisions on campus, and we can't,» Phillips said. «We have absolutely listened. I've tried to be a really good listener. It hasn't fallen on deaf ears. We've been proactive. The distribution of dollars with success initiative