CHARLOTTE — ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips held a press conference Wednesday morning at the ACC Basketball Tipoff.

Phillips was asked about the addition of the three schools from out West–Stanford, Cal and SMU–that have struggled in football recently.

Q. At the risk of being crazy blunt, is it a bug or a feature that the three schools you’re adding are not very good at football, and two of them in California aren’t very interested in supporting football?

JAMES J. PHILLIPS: “I would just say this: Those two schools have had success in football in the past. David Shaw did an amazing job. They’re going through a transition there.

“Cal has had good football, as well, and SMU is really good. They may be at the G5 level, but you’ll see them I think immediately perform well in our league.

“Again, you can look at a moment in time. I appreciate it very much and I understand that. But in totality, I feel really good about what they can do in the ACC, and so does the membership.”