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ACC Commissioner John Swofford Earned His Bonus This Year

When you think about this, it’s pretty impressive.

The biggest impact of what ACC Commissioner John Swofford pulled off with the new ACC Network is that, as Duke A.D. Kevin White puts it, “[t]he landscape has been, at least in the Eastern seaboard, literally frozen...The dartboard is no longer jumping.”

When Maryland left the ACC and joined the Big Ten, there was a fear that the ACC could implode. FSU was publicly flirting with the Big 12 and Jimbo Fisher was grumbling about not being in a “real” football league.

Now? With the grant of rights extended for 20 years, the ACC has stability.