The rivalry is one of the greatest in college football and having these teams showcase their talents in front of a national audience to kickoff the season is tremendous.
"John Swofford" (born 1948) is the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
Swofford was born on December 6, 1948 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. While at Wilkes Central High School, he played as quarterback for the Wilkes Central Eagles football team and was twice selected to the all-state football team. He was awarded a prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship/Morehead Scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also played for the football team. He holds a master's degree in Sports Management from Ohio University. From 1980 to 1997 he was the athletic director for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In 1997 Swofford was named the Commissioner of the ACC. During his tenure he has doubled the ACC's annual revenue, served as Chairman of the Bowl Championship Series in college football in 2000 and 2001, and expanded the ACC to include Boston College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University/Virginia Tech, the University of Miami, the University of Pittsburgh, Syracuse University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Louisville by 2014.
More John Swofford on Wikipedia.There are a lot of ways to look at it, ... but I think we're right there with any of the other four conferences. And that's where we'd like to be, and where I feel we should be.
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No, I wouldn't equate it totally to dollars necessarily. Just like there are years some people may feel a certain conference is maybe a little better than the ACC, that doesn't mean their television dollars are going to equate to our television basketball dollars necessarily.
It's not as much of a financial bang as some people think. But certainly it would help, and prestige-wise it would be very positive.
We owe the Big Ten a debt of gratitude.
We feel that this system will benefit officiating in college football. All of us want a correct ruling on the field and we believe that implementing this system will enhance the quality of officiating. The system that was used by the Big Ten this past season received very positive reviews by administrators and coaches alike.
We're probably a little short on bowls for one year, ... We'll want to do everything we can possibly do to have a home for all of our bowl-eligible teams if at all possible. But that will be a challenge this particular year.
In talking with Miami officials it was evident that lights in the Orange Bowl would not be available, ... and consequently a 3:30 start on Saturday was simply not workable.
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