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Chris Landry on ACC Leadership · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris, I'm asking you for we got a break about the ACC. And
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  again, all of this is just speculation. We won't know until it happens.
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  But listening to Jim Phillips, the astute a Commissioner of the a SEC
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  last week, he spoke openly about the battle with Florida State in the battle
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  with Clemson, and he said, they're not backing down. And I'm paraphrasing,
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  and you know, they want to make this thing work, but they're
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  not back and down. It feels like eventually Florida State and Clemson will get
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  what they want. And if that happens, then you could see this mass
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  exodus of North Carolina. Maybe Virginia Tech is the ACC. And is Jim
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  Phillips taking the ACC in the same direction that George Klapakov took the PAC twelve
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  in your mind? Well, I think the difference is the PAC twelve under
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  not only George Pleocoff, but Larry Scott's leadership. And I would say that
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  as bad as Cleokov did, let's go back and look at what Larry Scott
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  didn't do, the fact that the PAC twelve, those programs could pick up
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  and leave without any grant of rights or without any fractual obligation, tells you
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  how poor of a job that was done prior to George Pliopoff getting in.
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  And then George didn't help matters by basically sitting on his hands and not taking
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  a role that was more aggressive. The ACC has these schools under contract,
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  so they have a play in hand now whether Jim is going to be able
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  to do enough. And I agree with you, Clempton and Florida State won
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  out. They know that if they're not in the SEC or the big men,
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  they're not going to be playing with the same deck as everyone else in
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  those conferences are, So I get it. But their Jim is coming from
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  a little bit more of a position of strength because of what has been aligned
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  to this point in the ACC. So in other words, they're more hurdles
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  for Florida State and Clemson to get out. Now, you know, I'll
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  let lawyers figure that out whether there's significant hurdles or not. But there were
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  no hurdles in the Pact twelve and just say yes see U C. L
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  A. Washington Art, We're leaving and nothing you can do about it.
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  Bye. And that was just to me, that was just malepractice. Of
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  that leadership,