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00:02 - Jim Phillips, the ACC commissioner,
00:05 speaking about that very idea yesterday, Josh,
00:08 to kick off ACC Media Day, saying,
00:10 quote, "This league is third right now in revenue.
00:13 "We've looked at it.
00:14 "Third is certainly a good position,
00:16 "but we want to gain traction financially
00:19 "to close the gap with the SEC and the Big Ten."
00:22 So Jim Phillips, Josh, says the ACC is third.
00:25 Where do you believe the conference stands
00:27 in the landscape of college sports?
00:30 - They are third, and that's fine.
00:32 Like, I understand wanting to chase the Big Ten
00:37 and the SEC in terms of the financials.
00:39 I understand that.
00:40 That's capitalism.
00:41 That's American.
00:42 You want more, you could try to get more.
00:45 I'm cool with that.
00:46 But this idea in sports that having less money
00:50 means that you can't compete,
00:52 or that if you have more, it's a birthright to success,
00:55 it's unfounded, and it's a lie that's sold, frankly,
00:58 by university presidents in '80s, Florida State,
01:02 that's trying to tell us that the ACC
01:05 is in some sort of crisis,
01:06 that I think that's misinformation.
01:09 Like, look everywhere in sports.
01:10 I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan.
01:11 The Orioles are first in the ALEs,
01:13 and they have a fourth of the bankroll, or the payroll,
01:16 that the Yankees have,
01:17 and the Yankees have it once since 2009.
01:19 The Knicks spend more than anybody else.
01:21 I hate to really rag on New York, sorry about that.
01:23 But the fact that you have more money
01:26 doesn't immediately mean that you're given success.
01:29 I mean, the Big 10, again,
01:31 I don't want to offend Ben Stevens over here,
01:33 but they haven't won anything,
01:35 a national championship in football since 2014,
01:38 and a basketball championship since 2000.
01:40 And again, they have more money than anybody,
01:42 it seems like, other than the SEC,
01:44 but certainly more than the ACC has.
01:45 So yes, they're third, and third is fine.
01:49 And if anybody in the Big 12 is gonna argue
01:51 that because they have slightly more TV revenue
01:54 than the ACC does right now
01:55 because the ACC's deal has been locked in through 2036,
01:58 ask yourself this question.
01:59 If the grant of rights didn't exist anywhere in sports,
02:02 and the SEC could poach anybody,
02:04 how many ACC schools do they poach
02:07 before they even think about going to the Big 12?
02:10 If they wanted Big 12 schools,
02:12 they could have had them already.
02:13 They got the two that they wanted
02:14 that will join starting next year.
02:16 The ACC doesn't have anybody who's poached,
02:19 but if they could poach them,
02:20 you know it's North Carolina, Clemson,
02:22 maybe Virginia, Florida State,
02:24 before you get to one Big 12 school.
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