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Amid backstabbing and shaky college football reality, ACC commish Jim Phillips just wants everyone to get along

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips acknowledged that he would be criticized for a lot of what he said Wednesday about the unsettled present and uncertain future of college football. So give him that. He knew he would sound Pollyannaish.

And, in further fairness, some of what he said wasn’t wrong.

It just probably isn’t right. At least not these days.

Phillips kicked off the ACC's football media festivities with a stump speech and question-and-answer session that could have been delivered two generations ago.

He assailed the relentless pursuit of profits. He cautioned that every school and league needed to consider the greater good, not simply their own bottom line.