Dec
28
2017
2017 was successful football season by Virginia, even with a 49-7 bowl loss to Navy. Here’s why… Getting embarrassed in a bowl game is still better than no bowl game at all. #UVA — Danny Neckel (@DNeckel19) December 28, 2017 When you haven’t been to a bowl game since 2011, and haven’t won more than …
Dec
27
2017
Boston College is not an easy place to coach football. They are in division with Clemson, Florida State and Louisville. That’s 2 national championship teams and 2 Heisman winners in the last 4 years. NC State and Wake Forest are solid, and on a given day Syracuse is capable of beating anyone they play. Just …
Dec
27
2017
There’s no way to sugar coat it, 2017 has a bad year for Florida State. 7-6 seasons don’t cut it in Tallahassee, but it certainly wasn’t the disaster it could have been. FSU doesn’t have to look far to see the trainwrecks at Florida and Tennessee, and know it could have been worse. Following the …
Dec
26
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
26
2017
Following a 4-8 2016, there were a little rumblings that Duke football had peaked with the 2013-2015 seasons. During that time Duke averaged 9 wins a year. 2017 was a big year for the Blue Devils to prove they weren’t slipping. Duke needed to prove 2016 was just an aberration, and that the Blue Devils …
Dec
26
2017
We’ve got an ACC gift from every ACC teams. Virginia Tech pic.twitter.com/6XIsMexZlb — Matthew (@hokiesmash_ASD) December 25, 2017 pic.twitter.com/0HHXQml5WL — Janet (@hokiegal7) December 25, 2017 Clemson pic.twitter.com/29GoDCqclf — Summer Fann (@summer_fann) December 25, 2017 Florida State Got a nice FSU jacket from my mom! pic.twitter.com/4dzfiPscXv — Tyler (@FSUReligionMan) December 25, 2017 North Carolina pic.twitter.com/o3VS5BrL7O — …
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
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
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
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 …