KitchinDeac
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The ACC should've gotten aggressive a few months ago after the UT/OU news. Proactively try to poach some Pac-12 schools etc. Looks like a failure of leadership here with the commissioner and AD's assuming the conference would be ok because "it's the ACC."
Also...shouldn't Phillips have had his ear to the ground on this? What's the point of hiring a former Big10 AD if he doesn't know about moves like this ahead of them becoming public? He should've known this was coming and been working to counteract this for weeks at this point.
How do you know he didn't and wasn't? What do you expect him to do? The ACC is viewed as a target, not a destination. The schools that might be interested won't change that.