Condi Rice for commissioner.

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The league needs to hire a search firm.

Jun 26, 2020, 8:55 AM

instead of looking internally or trying to do this themselves.

Conference bylaws require that a commissioner be approved by at least three-quarters of the presidents. With 15 schools, the 75% threshold is 12.

Absolutely NO ONE who worked under Swofford should be even remotely considered.

Some possible candidates with no real ties to the ACC as reported by other media outlets are:

Bernard Muir
Stanford’s athletics director since 2012, Muir also served as AD at Delaware and Georgetown. He worked previously at Notre Dame, Butler, Auburn and the NCAA — his boss at Notre Dame was current Duke AD Kevin White. Muir, 51, chaired the NCAA men’s basketball committee in 2018-19 and played the sport at Brown.

Chris Howard
Howard, 51, became Robert Morris’ president in 2016 after serving in the same role at Hampden-Sydney. He played linebacker at Air Force and received the Campbell Trophy as college football’s top scholar-athlete. He was a Rhodes Scholar, earned his doctorate in politics at Oxford and MBA at Harvard. A former fighter pilot, he sits on the College Football Playoff selection committee.

Amy Huchthausen
Completing her ninth year as America East commissioner, Huchthausen worked previously at the NCAA, ACC, Big East and Missouri Valley conferences. She was director of academic and membership affairs at the NCAA before landing the America East job at age 34. A native of South Korea, Huchthausen played softball at Wis.-La Crosse and earned an MBA from MIT.

Jon Steinbrecher
The Mid-American Conference is Steinbrecher’s third commissioner role and follows stints at the Ohio Valley Conference and Mid-Continent Conference, the latter since renamed the Summit League. Chairman of the NCAA’s working group on transfer issues, he graduated from Valparaiso in 1983 and earned a doctorate from Indiana in physical education/sports administration.

Oliver Luck
A quarterback at West Virginia and for the NFL’s Houston Oilers, Luck, 60, has worked in executive roles with NFL Europe, Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo, the NCAA and, most recently, the XFL, a football start-up doomed by the COVID-19 pandemic. He was WVU’s athletics director from 2010 to ’14 and shepherded the Mountaineers from the Big East to Big 12. He has a law degree from Texas.