Apr
22
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) are moving along with our ACC Football previews. This week we had two great guests@techlunchpaild of http://techlunchpail.com and @treadmillhorse of treadmillhorse.com. Those are two great Virginia Tech blogs to checkout. We have a near 2 hour podcast that Virginia Tech fans will be sure to enjoy! You can also find this …
Apr
22
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : Is Clemson a college football blue-blood? We return to the question of blue-blood status in college sports. When does a program gain such status? When does a program lose it? How can programs change the answer, for …
Apr
20
2019
Now that basketball season has come to end, we’re seeing a lot of off-season college football talk. This week we saw many SEC media types take direct aim at Clemson football. Following the lead of the Alabama football program, many in the SEC media had a litany of excuses for why Clemson has become their …
Apr
19
2019
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) fans. And here we are 😉 With both college football and men’s college basketball done for the year, we’re watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs – but we miss college football – we miss college basketball lol. Many of you might not have heard of the Learfield Sports Directors’ …
Apr
18
2019
I think we can all agree that the decade of the 2010s has been a resurgence of ACC football. I’ve looked at the ACC’s best Out of Conference wins in the past, but I want to compile the 30 best into a series so far this decade. We did this last year, and we’re updating …
Apr
17
2019
StreakingtheLawn has a tribute to National Championship winning Virginia coach Tony Bennett. @WillsWorldMN of ACCNation has a first hand account of Virginia’s National Title weekend. He was there in his hometown on Minneapolis to see all the festivities. ACCPrescription gets you excited about ACC football by picking the top ACC football game of the week. …
Apr
15
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) are moving along with our ACC Football previews. We took a look at UNC in this podcast. Zach Evans (@ztevans ) of @speed51dotcom and a former contributor here joins us. We are so glad he took the time to talk with us. You can also find this most recent podcast and …
Apr
15
2019
Aaron Donald is an institution at Pitt, he is from Pittsburgh, he graduated from Penn Hills in Pittsburgh, he works out at Pitt in the offseason. Every time you see a spring game Aaron Donald is there. Aaron Donald is the face of Pitt football in the NFL. And this past week, he came through …
Apr
15
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : Is Virginia now a basketball blue-blood? I wrote about the revocation of blue-blood status last week at College Basketball Today, so it is good to visit the other side of this topic: When does a blue-blood get …
Apr
14
2019
The college football national championship game was some four months ago. We remember the game. Clemson hammered the Alabama Crimson Tide 44-16. It was a 4 TD beatdown, that was the worst loss of Nick Saban’s career. Take the crimson and white off the uniforms and Clemson made Alabama look like a pretty ordinary college …
Apr
12
2019
The paint has barely dried on Virginia’s 2019 national title and we are already getting those Way Too Early Pre-Season Basketball rankings for the 2019-2020 season. Sure these rankings won’t matter much, with transfers and early entrys, but they make for fun off-season conversation. Here’s a sampling of some of those rankings. USAToday Way Too …
Apr
11
2019
We have an update to our national championship tracker after Virginia’s recent men’s basketball title. With Notre Dame’s title last year in Women’s Basketball, the ACC became the only conference with national titles all 4 major sports (Football, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, and Baseball) since 2013. That’s a significant accomplishment for a conference that won …
Apr
11
2019
There are dozens of highly recruited high school basketball seniors and hundreds of ranked prospects overall, but only two watched March Madness unfold with the satisfaction of knowing they committed to the school that won the 2019 NCAA title. One of those Virginia-bound prospects is Kadin Shedrick, a 4-star center from Holly Springs High located …
Apr
10
2019
It was a magical Monday night for Virginia fans as their men’s basketball took down Texas Tech to win the national title. Here’s the reaction from StreakingtheLawn. HoosPlace says the Redemption is Complete for Virginia basketball. I can’t argue with that. ACCPrescription interviewed yours truly on a variety of ACC topics. Find out what …
Apr
09
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. No one needs any explanation or recollection of the many times and many ways in which college basketball people — within or outside the ACC — knocked the playing style and overall aesthetic of the Virginia Cavaliers over the years. We have gone …
Apr
09
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Let me be very clear about this: Fans of a conference should not be expected to root for fellow conference members. SEC fans do that a lot, and Big Ten fans are usually very good about NOT doing that. If you want to …