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Matt Zemek

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Name: Matt Zemek
Date registered: August 27, 2018
URL: https://www.patreon.com/Zemek

Latest posts

  1. Know who should coach Georgia Tech in 2023? The current coach — October 10, 2022
  2. 2022 is reminding us why the ACC abolished divisions, and why other conferences should follow suit — October 4, 2022
  3. The moment of truth arrives for NC State and Dave Doeren — September 29, 2022
  4. No pressure, Dave Doeren — this is merely the most important NC State season ever — September 1, 2022
  5. ACC says goodbye to an imbalanced football era — July 2, 2022

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  1. 1995 Nebraska, 2001 Miami, 2013 FSU, 2018 Clemson – Who wins in a playoff? | answered by @MattZemek — 2 comments
  2. Should the ACC drop or modify the permanent cross-division opponent? | answered by @mattzemek — 2 comments
  3. Duke should worry about one thing — and it’s not Zion Williamson — 1 comment
  4. Of Duke, Syracuse or Boston College, which team appears to be the most legitimately good | answered by @MattZemek — 1 comment
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Oct
10
2022

Know who should coach Georgia Tech in 2023? The current coach

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I have a great idea for the next head coach of Georgia Tech football: The guy who is currently coaching the Yellow Jackets. Let’s not try to overcomplicate this: Geoff Collins was a terrible football coach. He was incompetent. He couldn’t tie his shoelaces. He took over the special teams and the special teams were …

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Oct
04
2022

2022 is reminding us why the ACC abolished divisions, and why other conferences should follow suit

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Author @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . In 2023, we won’t have ACC Coastal chaos. We will just have the top two teams — probably in the Atlantic — playing in the ACC Championship Game. While a lot of national college football writers might have a romantic attachment to the ACC WHEEL… OF… DESTINYYYYYY!, the reality about Coastal chaos and seven …

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Sep
29
2022

The moment of truth arrives for NC State and Dave Doeren

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Author @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . This is it. This is the moment North Carolina State fans have waited for. College GameDay. The primetime treatment. The national centerpiece game. Unbeaten Clemson is standing in the way. On the road. Wake Forest has lost. Miami and the rest of the ACC Coastal are a mess. If North Carolina State wins this …

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Sep
01
2022

No pressure, Dave Doeren — this is merely the most important NC State season ever

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Author @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . This is the biggest, most important season in the entire history of North Carolina State football. “Geez, Matt, why are you bombarding us with hot takes right out of the gate? Recency bias, much? Come on. This is so unprofesional. Why do you have to make an extreme, far-reaching statement with zero nuance? Sigh.” …

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Jul
02
2022

ACC says goodbye to an imbalanced football era

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Author @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . As a national college football commentator, I have written about the need for divisions to be abolished in the sport for several years. The concept of the conference championship game in college football is great, but one thing the sport has always needed is a less rigid approach. Division champions playing in a …

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Feb
22
2022

ACC basketball has a few weeks left, but Wake Forest has already won something

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. One year ago, it was narrowly and technically true that Notre Dame was an ACC football member. It was a special situation under historically unprecedented circumstances for the conference. The pandemic created an adjusted reality in which Notre Dame didn’t merely play ACC teams; it …

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Feb
20
2022

Transfer portal QB dramas heighten the need for Dabo to develop D.J. Uiagalelei

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Jayden Daniels, the mobile Arizona State quarterback who has considerable upside but struggled under Herm Edwards in Tempe, has reportedly chosen to enter the transfer portal. He isn’t officially in the portal (as of late Thursday night), but he intends to transfer. One wonders what …

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Jan
23
2022

Why are Jim Phillips and the ACC not supporting a 12-team CFB Playoff?

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Recently we a post that favored the ACC’s playoff stance.   Here is another perspective on the topic… Just over a week ago, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips articulated the ACC’s opposition to the expansion of the College Football Playoff. To be clear, this isn’t a stance …

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Dec
05
2021

Brent Venables finally leaves Clemson; we get to see how Dabo handles it

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Dabo Swinney made Clemson football what it is today, but he couldn’t have done it without Brent Venables. Every Clemson fan remembers the 2012 Orange Bowl. As much as Tiger fans would love to forget it, that game turned out to be a blessing, because …

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Nov
16
2021

Can Virginia Tech take advantage of coaching carousel chaos?

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. This coaching carousel cycle has already been different from most. For one thing, a blue-blood program — USC — fired its coach after Week 2. That’s not normal. That in itself started the 2021 carousel in a unique and unexpected way. Yet, it was only …

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Oct
17
2021

Justin Fuente should be done at Virginia Tech; where should Hokies turn?

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Justin Fuente had one more chance, one last chance, to save this season and create a badly-needed turnaround at Virginia Tech. If his team could have beaten the Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday, Fuente would have been in position to win the ACC Coastal Division championship …

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Oct
14
2021

How far can Wake Forest take this 6-0 start?

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons are 6-0 in football for the first time since 1944. That’s how impressive Dave Clawson’s body of work has been this season, and that’s how rare the Deacs have tasted gridiron success at the highest …

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Oct
13
2021

Kenny Pickett begins his — and Pitt’s — moment-of-truth fortnight

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The Pittsburgh Panthers have won the ACC Coastal Division before, in 2018, but they were 7-5. They got crushed in the ACC Championship Game. They lost their bowl game. They finished 7-7, hardly a team which will be remembered as …

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Oct
12
2021

NC State begins a program-defining journey this week

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The North Carolina State Wolfpack, after a much-needed week of rest, return to the gridiron this week to face Boston College in Chestnut Hill. This game begins a journey which is obviously important because the Wolfpack have a legitimate shot …

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Sep
24
2021

This moment of truth for Dave Doeren could be one of his last

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Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” That familiar pair of questions sums up the moment facing North Carolina State football and its head coach, Dave Doeren. North Carolina State should have beaten Clemson in 2016, and to be …

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Sep
22
2021

ACC coaching hot seats burst into flames in Week 3

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  Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Scott Satterfield of Louisville cooled off his hot seat in Week 3 of the college football season, but elsewhere in the ACC, coaching hot seats became crackling fires of chaos and discontent. Mike Norvell is in real trouble at …

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