ACC commissioner is trying to save its relationship with Notre Dame
If you didn’t know by now, Notre Dame’s athletic director Pete Bevacqua is meeting with the media this afternoon, and it’s a bit unclear as to why this is happening.
He’s had plenty of opportunities to go on national talk shows to speak on behalf of the Irish, defending them for opting out of a bowl after not being selected for the College Football Playoff.
One of the teams that an at-large bid was Miami, who while in the ACC, is like a step-brother to Notre Dame. They aren’t affiliated in football, but almost every other sport they are, and over the course of multiple days, it seemed like the conference was campaigning against the Irish and the CFP.
Bevacqua said that the damage was permanent, it would be hard to move forward with them. It could be that what we see tomorrow is the start of the separation, but before it happens, the ACC commissioner Jim Phillips made a statement about the Irish.
He pretended like the conference didn’t show the Notre Dame at Miami game on the ACC Network on repeat throughout the week, and multiple posts on social media comparing the two teams.
Hard to deny the proof what we all saw, and we’ll find out later today if Bevacqua and Phillips can make this relationship work.
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