ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips in favor of eliminating one and done rule
According to a report by Shams Charania, the one-and-done rule was going to be eliminated. This decision would allow players to enter the NBA Draft right out of high school, instead of needing to be out for at least one season before they go pro. This would, hypothetically, limit the number of players who would go to college for only one season before going pro. It’s a rule change that ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips would be in favor of happening.
While speaking at ACC Media Days, Jim Phillips explained why he’s in favor of eliminating one-and-done rules.
“I think I’ve said it before, maybe not recently,” Jim Phillips said. “Every young man and young woman coming out of high school deserves and opportunity to do what they want to do, and some want to go straight to professional sports.”
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“The more opportunity we allow those young men and women to do that, I think it’s healthy. I really do. I don’t think that that hurts the college game. I just don’t. Some would say that student-athletes that come for a year, that may hurt the game. I’m not sure.”
“My point is that I really believe that those individuals that are good enough to play at that kind of level deserve the chance to either go pro right out of high school or come to college and let them choose,” Jim Phillips concluded.
Jim Phillips on expanding postseason play
Along with eliminating the one-and-done rule, Jim Phillips also said that he wants to start discussions about expanding the NCAA Tournament and postseason play,
“I think where we’re needing some dialogue is in not only looking at the men’s basketball and women’s basketball tournament, but some of the other tournaments that have fewer opportunities. When you have this compression that I feel that we have to address in the sense that you have a lot of schools that are spending a tremendous amount of resources in sports and not having a chance to access those championships, I certainly felt like we deserved more than five ACC teams last year on the men’s side, and I felt like we deserved more than eight on the women’s side,” Jim Phillips said.
“The time is now. The time is now as we’re looking at the overall structure of the NCAA, and one of their responsibilities has been championships. So I’m in favor of looking at it, and I really would like us to expand.”