Jan
13
2019
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 …
Jan
13
2019
NC State gritted out a win against Pitt yesterday. Now, that shouldn’t sound like a big deal, except when you look at that kind of win in the context of NC State’s last 5-8 years of basketball. Those 8 or so years have been marred by a team that is inconsistent at best, and down …
Jan
13
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college football at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : Which ACC team is better on an all-time scale — 2013 Florida State or 2018 Clemson? Both teams were awesomely talented. Both teams had gifted quarterbacks. Both teams were led by formidable head coaches who started their …
Jan
12
2019
Greetings Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Hope your weekend is going well. Well, after three games, here are a couple of lines about each ACC men’s basketball team: Virginia – The Hoos, like always, are playing great defense – but are playing confidently on offense this year (very efficient). Seems like the ACC regular …
Jan
12
2019
Programming and scheduling news for the ACC Network coming in 2019 continues to leak in. We already knew that Clemson vs Georgia Tech would the first ACC Network football game August 29. We also know that Notre Dame at Duke will be on the ACC Network on November 9. That confirms that Notre Dame ACC road …
Jan
11
2019
How did Clemson blog ShakintheSouthland view the Tigers beatdown of Alabama in the national title game? RubbingtheRock says Christian Wilkins finishes his career as one of the best Clemson Tiger players ever. ACC Prescription always has good takes on the ACC Network. Here is revenue projection that they take a stab at. ACC fans would very …
Jan
10
2019
Since football still drives so much when it comes to conference revenues from TV Contracts, Bowl Deals, to a lesser extent the general health of a conference let’s take stock of ACC football. Certainly it never hurts to have the best football team in the country. Clemson won their second national title in three years. …
Jan
08
2019
Sometimes a win can be so earth shattering that it can change the direction and/or perception of an entire sport. National Title teams from the SEC were deemed unbeatable after the conference had 4 different teams win 7 straight titles. That was until Florida State stopped the streak by defeating Auburn in 2013. SEC hasn’t …
Jan
08
2019
So many thoughts on Clemson’s absolute destruction of Alabama 44-16. I will be writing more tomorrow, but for tonight all I can think of is Clemson has now entered dynasty territory. They are up there with the great Miami teams of the 80s and early 90s, FSU and Nebraska in the 90s, USC in the …
Jan
06
2019
You won’t see two better dunks this year than this weekend’s dunks by Duke’s Zion Williamson and Louisville’s Jordan Nwora. Nwora’s one handed ally-oop dunk was every bit as impressive as Williamson’s incredibly athletic 360 dunk. If we’re going to see stuff like this every week in the ACC, it’s going to be a great …
Jan
06
2019
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 …
Jan
05
2019
Football season has just 1 game left. The national title game with Clemson facing off against Alabama. College basketball is starting to get in full swing with the ACC looking as strong as ever. Duke and Virginia look like national title contenders. Another sport where the ACC should be very solid in is College Baseball. …
Jan
05
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college football at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : What will ACC and Virginia coaching legend George Welsh be most remembered for? Virginia football might be on the verge of a true rebirth under Bronco Mendenhall. With so many ACC Coastal programs in a state of …
Jan
04
2019
Can anybody beat Duke? On paper, the answers appears to be no. We already know that Kentucky, the only school that can keep pace with Duke’s ability to recruit NBA lottery picks, isn’t a likely candidate. The Blue Devils’ NBA combine roster beat the Wildcats’ NBA combine roster by 34 points to start the season, …
Jan
04
2019
It’s on to the national title game for the Clemson football team. ShakintheSouthland has a statistical breakdown of the big game with Alabama. ACCPrescription has some current ACC Network notes in one spot. It’s worth a read, because it combines some of the latest information from several sources. Should Georgia Tech look for transfer QB? …
Jan
03
2019
Flipping the calendar to 2019 seems a good time to empty my East Carolina football notebook. Here is a look back at the chaotic dismissal of Scottie Montgomery followed by the ironically efficient hiring of Mike Houston four days later. Talk about turning the tables. In the aftermath of ECU’s embarrassing 58-3 loss to N.C. …