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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

Most commented posts

  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
  5. Is West Virginia-North Carolina State the best under-the-radar game of Week 3 | answered by @MattZemek — 1 comment

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Oct
21
2019

Has Virginia re-established itself as the ACC Coastal favorite? | answered by @mattzemek

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Has Virginia re-established itself as the ACC Coastal favorite? The Virginia Cavaliers performed brilliantly against the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday. If you were convinced by that performance, you have every right to be. Yet, it is quite another thing to say …

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Oct
16
2019

Louisville’s rise is more than a 2019 story

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The Louisville Cardinals aren’t “back.” They will be “back” when they win nine or 10 games in a regular season and play in high-profile bowl games, as they did in Bobby Petrino’s two separate stints as UL’s head coach. The Cardinals aren’t “back” …

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Oct
13
2019

Is Louisville the ACC’s most surprising mid-season team? | answered by @mattzemek

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Is Louisville the ACC’s most surprising mid-season team?  Is Louisville the ACC’s most surprising team halfway through the 2019 season? Before answering that question more directly, I will simply note that one can easily make a strong case. Yet, what is especially …

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Oct
12
2019

Virginia falls to Miami… and a familiar dynamic

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Johnathan Kirkland of All Sports Discussion wrote an article during the Virginia Cavaliers’ idle week, which was sandwiched between the Notre Dame game on Sept. 28 and Friday night’s game at Miami. I agreed with Johnathan’s thesis. I thought the idle week did …

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Oct
10
2019

Who is the ACC first-half coach of the year? | answered by @mattzemek

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Who is the ACC first-half coach of the year?  There are two reasonable and correct answers to the question, “Who was the ACC’s best coach in the first half of the 2019 season?” Dabo Swinney is not on the list. Dabo isn’t …

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Oct
02
2019

Duke tries to escape a familiar Pitt of misery

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC fans know how football works: Clemson wins everything. Florida State’s offensive line can’t pass protect. Boston College runs out of steam. Dave Clawson overachieves at Wake Forest. North Carolina State exasperates its fan base. North Carolina: almost. Those are just some of …

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Oct
01
2019

Virginia Tech-Miami carries its own long shadow

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  Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. When John Swofford imagined a new world of ACC football 15 years ago, he imagined a world in which Miami and Florida State would define the league. It is one of the more surprising plot twists of college football in the 21st …

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Sep
29
2019

Is there cause for concern at Clemson? | answered by @mattzemek

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Is there cause for concern at Clemson? Early on Saturday, the Texas A&M Aggies barely defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks. The Aggies won, but the game felt like a loss, because no one in their right mind would say that A&M has a …

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Sep
26
2019

Virginia plays with house money in South Bend

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The Virginia Cavaliers are not expected to beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish this weekend in South Bend, Indiana. Losing this game does not own the power to redefine the Cavaliers’ season. The main goal for 2019 is to win the ACC Coastal. …

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Sep
25
2019

Can anyone explain Pittsburgh’s unpredictability? | answered by @mattzemek

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Can anyone explain Pittsburgh’s unpredictability? Just how good an explanation is there for the unpredictability of the Pittsburgh Panthers football team, year after year? The immediate truthful answer is that there ISN’T a good explanation. An occasional upset — say, once every …

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Sep
15
2019

Is there any doubt that Virginia is the ACC’s second-best team? | answered by @mattzemek

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Is there any doubt that Virginia is the ACC’s second-best team? Maybe a slight pinch of doubt, but not enough to matter at this point. Everyone in the ACC knew this was high-stakes poker on Saturday night in Charlottesville. Style points didn’t …

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Sep
12
2019

Florida State’s “less” is Virginia’s “more”

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Florida State might wake up this weekend and play well, renewing a sense that it can compete for a decent bowl bid and forge a respectable season. We don’t know, but we can allow for that possibility. Maybe the Seminoles are late-bloomers in …

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Sep
08
2019

How impressive was Clemson’s win over Texas A&M? | answered by @mattzemek

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: How impressive was Clemson’s win over Texas A&M?  Clemson’s win over Texas A&M on Saturday wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t beautiful or elegant or overwhelmingly brilliant. It didn’t have to be. This wasn’t a display of fireworks or a laser light show seen …

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Aug
25
2019

What is Miami’s greatest area of need after the Florida game? | answered by @MattZemek

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  QUESTION: What is Miami’s greatest area of need after the Florida game? Tick, tick, tick, tick.  The 60 Minutes watch is ticking for Miami. In 60 minutes against the Florida Gators, the Hurricanes’ foremost need for improvement became glaringly obvious. This is not …

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Aug
24
2019

North Carolina’s most important coach isn’t Mack Brown

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  The detail about Mack Brown’s career which needs to be kept in mind, upon the veteran coach’s return to North Carolina, is that he is and has been a CEO head coach. Brown recruits the bejeezus out of the trail. He is a …

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Aug
19
2019

North Carolina State football tries to thrive with new nerve centers

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Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek.  A baseball team is “strong up the middle” when its catcher, second baseman, shortstop, and center fielder are all formidable. The catcher’s pitch selection is connected to scouting reports on hitters and an awareness of where defensive players are positioned on the field. …

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