Dec
23
2017
Good afternoon, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. We hope you all are enjoying the holiday season!! As we head to conference season, our holiday gift to you is one or two lines (maybe three) about each ACC men’s basketball team as we head to conference play. 1.) Boston College – With their defeat …
Dec
23
2017
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) fans. Hope you are having a great holiday season. Seat Donations Today, the President recently signed tax legislation – and there are two very significant changes to the tax code that will impact college athletics. First, Forbes summarizes the current law governing tax deductions directly tired to the …
Dec
22
2017
Did you catch this week that SiriusXM Satellite is going to have an exclusive ACC Channel? Check out ACC Blog ACCPrescription’s for more details. @hokiesmash_ASD and I are willing to move the podcast over there… I’m just saying. It’s not early to take a look at some pre-season College Baseball rankings. Our friends over have …
Dec
21
2017
With Clemson reaching the college football playoffs for the 3rd year in a row, already hoisting up a national championship trophy, and pulling in another monster recruiting class you have to wonder is Clemson on the verge of becoming College Football’s next dynasty? That’s exactly what Dan Wolken at USAToday writes about in his piece …
Dec
20
2017
Nick Saban has forgotten more college football than I’ll ever know. He is the greatest coach of this generation. He is one of the best of all time, but he’s wrong about something. He’s wrong that the new early signing period is bad for college football. It might be bad for him. Coaching staffs are …
Dec
18
2017
This is going to be a weekly article, where I seed the ACC teams and where I think they’d should be placed if the tournament started the same day as my posting. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses …
Dec
17
2017
I’ll be doing my ACC Bubble Analysis in the next day or two, but according to ESPN the ACC getting 11 NCAA tournament teams would happen if the tournament were this week. John Swofford would certainly be pleased about that, and I can certainly see the ACC getting double digit NCAA entries due to a …
Dec
17
2017
@Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports are back at it with another podcast with our first ever podcast guest @MattZemek . He’s the Copy editor: @FanRagSports | College football writing: @Patreon | Tennis live-tweets: @mzemek. Check out all the great work from Matt! You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on ITUNES at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rwradios-acc-weekly-podcast/id831843856?t=2. We are also now available on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr …
Dec
16
2017
We’ve seen each ACC basketball team now in the non-conference season. The ACC pre-season rankings at ACC.com had the order of finish in this way. 1. Duke 2. North Carolina 3. Notre Dame 4. Miami 5. Louisville 6. Virginia 7. Virginia Tech 8. Florida State 9. Georgia Tech 10. Syracuse 11. Wake Forest 12. NC State …
Dec
15
2017
When we talk about successful and unsuccessful ACC athletic programs in the ACC in 2017, we don’t have to make it complicated. It’s football, and men’s basketball, maybe baseball and women’s basketball . 10 ACC football teams made a Bowl game. Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh, North Carolina, and Syracuse did not. North Carolina has a top …
Dec
14
2017
Interesting stuff from Disney\ESPN… Now that Disney now owns all of the FOX Regional Sports Networks, what will Disney\ESPN do with their new acquisitions? This piece from Yahoo Finance tries to answer that question. For those that were concerned about the ACC Network in the cord cutting era… Disney paying for these TV assets is …
Dec
12
2017
ACC Blog ACCPrescription has put together an interesting piece that shows the ACC’s Bowl payout this year. Good year for the ACC. Clemson blog RubbingtheRock is already preparing for the Tigers national semi-final game with Alabama by asking which offense is more potent. Florida State has a new football in Willie Taggart. Taggart is bringing …
Dec
10
2017
@Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports are back at it with another podcast. We have a great guest – @TerryPJohnson of the http://thecomeback.com/. Please check out that really good site. You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on ITUNES at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rwradios-acc-weekly-podcast/id831843856?t=2. We are also now available on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr In this order, these are topics we covered on …
Dec
10
2017
This is going to be a weekly article, where I seed the ACC teams and where I think they’d should be placed if the tournament started the same day as my posting. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses …
Dec
09
2017
Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield won the 2017 Heisman. He was a great choice. I’m not arguing that. Louisville’s Lamar Jackson was the 2016 winner and a finalist this year. Sometimes in losing you find out even more about more about an athlete. Louisville are and should still be very proud of Lamar Jackson. It’s been a …
Dec
09
2017
We’ll be turning the corner from ACC Football to ACC Basketball over the next few days. Expect a weekly NCAA Bubble Analysis of ACC starting this week. Before we get into that, we are go select 3 ACC teams that have been up in the early non-conference schedule and 3 that are down. Up Duke …