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John Swofford
Administration
Inducted: 2009
- All-state high school quarterback in North Wilkesboro
- Morehead Scholar and football player at University of North Carolina
- Earned a master’s in sports management at Ohio University
- Named athletics director at UNC in 1980
- Succeeded Gene Corrigan as commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1997
- League blossomed under his direction both academically and athletically and also expanded its membership