ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips gives Miami and the rest of the ACC high praise
The ACC Media Day one just wrapped up for today as we are going to be pouring out articles on it, the ACC commissioner Jim Phillips had some high praise to say on the ACC teams and the Miami Hurricanes.
Phillips said what makes the conference exciting starts with its coaches. There is a collection of talented coaches in the league that means players are both going to be developed and used as well as possible by those excellent coaches.
“All of these are the most of any conference,” Jim Phillips said. “We have elite coaching leadership, six ACC head coaches named to the 2024 Dodd Trophy pre-season watch list. No conference has more. Two of the three active coaches in the country to win a national title reside here in the ACC: Mack Brown and Dabo Swinney. The combination of our proven veteran coaches combined with our dynamic young coaches is incredibly powerful.”
“The ACC is the conference of quarterbacks. 13 enter the season with over 20 career touchdown passes and 3500 career passing yards. Eight quarterbacks are projected to start week one in the 2024 NFL season; 25% of NFL teams,” Phillips said.
“And since 2018, at least one quarterback has been drafted in the first round in five different drafts, the only conference that can state that claim. ACC football has the nation’s top returning passer and receiver in yards per game last year in Cam Ward of Miami and Caullin Lacy of Louisville. Plus the second returning rusher in Omarion Hampton from North Carolina.” according to On3.
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