ACC Commissioner Swofford to retire in June
AP College Football Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 5 months AGO
Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford is retiring after the 2020-21 academic year, ending his tenure after 24 years.
Swofford, 71, has been commissioner of the ACC since 1997, the longest run in that position in the history of the 67-year-old conference.
The former North Carolina athletic director took over as commissioner of a nine-team league. In the years that followed, Swofford directed the league through multiple waves of expansion that first turned the ACC into a 12-team league by 2005 and ultimately reach 15 teams by 2013.
The conference also launched its own network last August, a project that Swofford spent years pursuing as the league hoped to close a growing financial gap with its power-conference peers.
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