He won’t even need to leave the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex to prepare for games. While Pickett will not be playing for Pitt in 2022, he won’t be far away. There’s an excitement, just a genuine interest. Our season ticket sales are higher than ever. The city of Pittsburgh been - you know, they follow winners, right? It’s the city of champions. Great coaching staff continuity there in many ways, so it’s incredibly exciting.” “I’ve watched it now for five years and he’s just got an unbelievable, great group of kids together. “(Narduzzi’s) built a culture that is extraordinary,” Lyke said. With his propensity to serve as a coalescer of ideas, active listener and a bridge between people and ideas, she said the ACC is in a good place when it comes to future leadership. Lyke said that there’s a void of leadership in the NCAA right now, but she pointed to ACC commissioner Jim Phillps as a steadying voice for the conference. I think the future of it is taking a look at the 10 conferences and see whether or not we can come up with a structure that helps our coaches, manages the challenges we’re facing right now in a very different way.” Whether it’s opting out of Bowls, whether it’s the transfer portal, whether it’s NIL deals, I mean, it’s just Power Five schools, Group of Five, the FBS group of football is different than FCS, and we’re governed together. … I think football has grown differently, and I think it’s just different challenges. ![]() ![]() “I do think we have to sort of break it down and look at football separately. “We’re overly regulated, there seems to be a lack of enforcement just in general and I think we need to take a big, broad look at it. “I think we just need a fresh start,” Lyke said. But with all of the noise surrounding the prevalence of the NCAA transfer portal - and NIL deals by extension - and potential conference and CFP upheaval, Lyke said it’s time for a change. With NCAA president Mark Emmert stepping down from his role at the end of the 2023 college football season, change is coming to the NCAA. With an 11-1, 10-2 team, depending on who the wins and losses came against, she said there’s a very good case for making it. With a division-less ACC possibly the ACC with potential College Football Playoff bids, especially in a four-team format that’s expected to last a few more seasons, Lyke feels confident that the ACC is able to get teams in either way. “We’re having lots of conversations,” Lyke said, “but we’ll certainly do what’s best for the league.” With a divisional title, Lyke said that teams know that if with a divisional win, they’ll go to the title game - as opposed to finding out at the very end of the season. Lyke pointed to the chase of competing for an ACC championship game every season, Pitt’s own 2021 ACC title clinched after an emotional win over Virginia to clinch the Coastal division. I think you’re always playing for something, and there’s more people in the conversation, the more schools in the conversation, I like that aspect of it.” “I think I’m slightly biased toward keeping the divisions honestly. “I do want to do what’s best for the league, we all do at the end of the day,” Lyke said on the Packer & Durham Show Thursday. ![]() ![]() In fact, while Lyke admitted that she may be biased, she’d actually like to keep a divisional ACC instead of just combining both into one division-less conference.
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