Jim Phillips addressed the ongoing legal challenges presented by the league’s highest-profile football schools, who are exploring potential exit strategies.
ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips addressed lawsuits the league is facing from member schools Clemson and Florida State: “This conference is bigger than one school or schools.”
Commissioner Jim Phillips instead faced questions about court rulings and perceptions of fraying relationships in the wake of lawsuits brought against the conference by football anchors Florida State and Clemson over media rights agreements as those schools explore potential exit strategies. Both schools signed the grant of rights in 2013 and again in 2016, said Phillips, who added in his remarks Monday that they each enthusiastically agreed to the ACC’s current television contract with ESPN and the launch of ACC Network in August 2019.But the ACC’s television contract falls short of deals the Big Ten and SEC negotiated more recently. The Big Ten signed a seven-year contract worth $8 billion for games airing on Fox, CBS and NBC, effective last season.
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