After a long season, it is time for the ACC Baseball Championship. After spending the last four years alternating with Greensboro’s NewBridge Bank Park as host of the event, the Durham Bulls Athletic Park will host each of the next four ACC Tournaments, starting Tuesday with two play-in games. The winners of the play-in games …
Monthly Archive: May 2015
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Articles from around the ACC Blogosphere May 18, 2015
It’s time for articles around the ACC Blogosphere! Sadly another North Carolina Tar Heel basketball legend has pass away. UNC blog TarHeelBlog remember longtime Dean Smith assistant coach Bill Guthridge. Will Ojanen (@WillWorldsMN) should be familiar to AllSportsDiscussion.com readers and podcast listeners. He’s a frequent podcast guest, and he wrote this timely piece on Virginia football …
May
18
2015
NBA: Conference Finals Previews
#1 Atlanta Hawks vs. #2 Cleveland Cavaliers The Atlanta Hawks have made their first ever conference finals, while LeBron James has made his 5th consecutive Eastern Conference Finals as a player. The Hawks won the season series against the Cavaliers 3-1 but if there’s anything we know, injuries have plagued both teams (Sefolosha – broken …
May
17
2015
What it really takes to make the CFB Playoffs (Part 2). Don’t Lose.
Here is the second of a two part series on what a team must do to make the College Football Playoffs. In part 1 we went into how much scoring margin factors into the playoff selection. Now let’s get into the most sure fire way to get into the playoffs… DON’T LOSE. AllSportsDiscussion.com contributor @Hokiesmash and I …
May
16
2015
Final Winter Update – #ACC’s Performance in the @LSDirectorsCup
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans!! What is the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup? It is an award that honors institutions maintaining broad-based athletics programs success in many sports (including male and female sports). The Directors’ Cup, founded by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics and USA Today, began in 1993-1994 for …
May
16
2015
Did the 2015 ACC Spring Meetings reveal anything about the progress of an ACC Network?
We wait and we wait for the ACC and John Swofford to make a more definitive ACC Network statement. It simply hasn’t happened, and it’s clearly not going to happen until John Swofford and the ACC are good and ready. I will continue to maintain that the ACC could make some more public statements about …
May
14
2015
Podcast – @HokieSmash and @TalkinACCSports review the spring and preview 2015 North Carolina football with @ztevans
@Hokiesmash and I (@TalkinACCSports ) review the spring and preview North Carolina football for 2015 with AllSportsDiscussion.com contributor, one of our own – @ztevans (Zach Evans). We really appreciate @ztevans taking the time to join the podcast and discuss North Carolina football with us. To download the audio file of this podcast, please go here. You can also find this …
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What it really takes to make the CFB Playoffs (Part 1). Analyzing the Florida State and Ohio State results.
The off-season has been filled with so many permutations for what it takes to make the college football playoffs, it’s become exhausting, confusing, and downright over complicated. Throw it all out, because there are two sure ways to make the playoff – blow teams away, and simply don’t lose. This will be a 2 part …
May
12
2015
Ranking every Power 5 and Independents Head football coach 1-68 for 2015. Here is 1-9.
We finally have reach the end of our coach rankings going into the 2015 season. Agree or disagree I hope you’ve enjoyed the series. Ok, Let’s see who is on on top. Records shown are at current school with their conference records. Coaching Rankings : 10-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-59 | 60-68 1) Urban Meyer – Ohio State …
May
12
2015
Podcast – @HokieSmash and @TalkinACCSports review the spring and preview 2015 Old Dominion football with @VaBeachRep
@Hokiesmash and I (@TalkinACCSports ) step out of the ACC this week to review the spring and preview Old Dominion football for 2015 with a frequent podcast guest and one of our favorite people @VaBeachRep (Joe Suhoski). We really appreciate @VaBeachRep taking the time to join the podcast and discuss Old Dominion football with us. To download the audio …
May
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2015
Articles from around the ACC Blogosphere May 11, 2015
We are getting to that time of the year, when the College Football previews are starting to trickle in. Football is still months away but the talk is starting to build. What do the ACC bloggers have for us this week? Florida State blog Tomahawknation says the Seminoles could be leading for Notre Dame transfer …
May
10
2015
Ranking every Power 5 and Independents Head football coach 1-68 for 2015. Here is 10-19.
Records shown are at current school with their conference records. Coaching Rankings : 1-9 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-59 | 60-68 10) Bill Snyder – Kansas State (187-94, 109-71-1) One of the true coaching greats in college football, Bill Snyder is the only coach that’s ever been able to win at Kansas State. He still winning there too. Snyder …
May
08
2015
What should the ACC talk about at their 2015 Spring Meetings?
Next week the ACC will be having their Spring Meetings in Amelia Island Florida. The well respected ACC writer David Teel of the Newport News says one of the topics that should be discussed the Spring Meetings is a tweaking of the Divisional Alignments. I think Divisional Alignment and scheduling should always be a topic of …
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2015
Ranking every Power 5 and Independents Head football coach 1-68 for 2015. Here is 20-29.
Records shown are at current school with their conference records. Coaching Rankings : 1-9 | 10-19 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-59 | 60-68 20) Kevin Sumlin – Texas A&M (28-11, 13-11) In his first year in the SEC, Kevin Sumlin led Texas A&M to an 11-2 record and top 5 finish back in 2012. While he …