Since January, two fairly large pieces of NCAA legislation came to pass, drawing national headlines for their potential impact.
The ACC ended up on the losing side of both. First, championship game deregulation gained approval, but with an addendum the ACC never wanted. Next, a ban on satellite camps the ACC championed was rescinded. Are these mere coincidences, or should we read more into the setbacks?
“If you go back, there’s all kinds of legislation that sometimes you get and sometimes you don’t,” ACC commissioner John Swofford said recently. “You work the system as best you can and hope that enough people agree with you that what you’d like to see passed passes.