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Dark Clouds Loom Over Potential North Carolina Breakout Season

GREENSBORO, N.C. - The questions have come at T.J. Yates from all sides and angles. Never mind the concerns about his ability as quarterback of North Carolina, or the expectations heaped on a Tar Heels team that is projected by some to join the college football elite. Suddenly, the team is secondary. As he walked around...

ACC Commissioner, Players Take Their Turns Talking About Agents

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The attack on unscrupulous sports agents spread to the ACC Football Kickoff here Sunday afternoon. While the tone was measured and calculated, the message was loud and clear. Bottom line: ACC commissioner John Swofford says universities need help when it comes to sanctioning agents who don't act...

John Swofford Says 12 the 'Right Number' for ACC

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- After a summer of conference realignment, the ACC is happy right where it's at. League commissioner John Swofford said the ACC is content with its current 12-team lineup, weeks after rumors of the Big One in conference realignment caused just minor rumbles. "I think it's, without question, fair to say...

Former ACC Commish Corrigan: Expansion 'Has Everybody Scared'

When the Big Ten added Penn State as its 11th member in 1990, Gene Corrigan, commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference at the time, admitted his league was caught dozing at the wheel. The ACC quickly gathered itself and added Florida State as its ninth member a year later. The ACC reached a dozen members in 2005 with...

ACC Commish Swofford Believes Conference Is 'Solid as 12'

Will the Atlantic Coast Conference be left behind if expansion efforts by the Big Ten are successful? And let's not forget about the Southeastern Conference either. The South is expected to rise again -- in a hurry, too -- if the Big Ten makes a move, as predicted, to 14 or 16 teams. The ACC was once an aggressor in this...

John Swofford News From the Web

05/25/12 ACC commissioner John Swofford on realignment rumors,... Source: News-Record - Greensboro NC ACC commissioner John Swofford took some time out to talk with the News & Record about the realignment maelstrom that's hit his conference over the past three weeks.
05/24/12 Plus-one playoff 'still alive,' but Big 12, ACC... Source: CBS - KTVT CBS 11 - Dallas / Fort Worth TX Remember all the discussion the past several months about college football's upcoming four-team playoff?
05/24/12 : ACC commissioner John Swofford says Florida State,... Source: SceneDaily The ACC's most prominent members, if you buy into rumors, off-the-cuff comments and innuendo, all could be interested in the Big 12.
05/23/12 Pac-12's Scott Is Highest Paid Conference Commish Source: Sports Business Journal Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott earned nearly $1.9M in "salary and bonuses" during his first full year at the post in '10, according to Steve Berkowitz of USA TODAY.
05/23/12 Florida State was supposed to save ACC, but instead... Source: Jackson County Floridan - Marianna FL Florida State will be the death of the ACC.

Background on John Swofford

John Swofford (born 1948) is currently the Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). John Swofford and his family live in Greensboro, North Carolina, where the ACC has its headquarters.

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