Sep
26
2017
I’m sure you’ve heard by now the astonishing allegations levied against Louisville today. Louisville confirms it has received notice it is included in federal investigation involving criminal activity related to men’s basketball. — Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanESPN) September 26, 2017 Louisville received its punishment from the NCAA 6/11. A bball assistant was in a hotel room …
Sep
25
2017
The tenure of Dave Doeren has been an interesting one at NC State. He was brought in to win games, and in his first 4 seasons it was looking rocky. He was not beating teams that he should have (last year ECU, BC are just 2 of those examples). The fan base was becoming very …
Sep
25
2017
@Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports take a look back at week 4 and preview week 5 in ACC football in this podcast. We were joined on short notice by @treadmillhorse. We really appreciate @treadmillhorse agreeing to come on the show about 30 minutes before we aired! Please check out his Virginia Tech site treadmillhorse.com. You can also find this most recent podcast and …
Sep
24
2017
While the playoff committee doesn’t rank the power 5 conference, there is no way conference strength – which means OOC results doesn’t figure in to a committee members thought process. Let me point out on my philosophy on these rankings – your most recent OOC results count a lot, and you’ll see me reference …
Sep
24
2017
Congrats to Duke and Wake Forest for a couple of nice 4-0 starts to the season. So nice it’s never happened before at the same time for both teams. Dave Clawson and David Cutcliffe are in early contention along with Justin Fuente, and Dabo Swinney for ACC coach of the year. I’m hoping someone will …
Sep
23
2017
A month ago Florida State entered the season as a national title contender. Even after the 24-7 loss to Alabama the Noles playoff hopes were not completely dashed. QB Deondre Francois suffered a season ending injury, a hurricane disjointed the schedule, and FSU went into their game with NC State having not played in a month. …
Sep
22
2017
Each football weekend, I give you my reaction to handful of ACC games. I very rarely comment on games that I didn’t watch a good a portion of. Let me just say I wasn’t able to watch, but the final minutes of Virginia vs Boise State. I still had to write a game reaction, because …
Sep
22
2017
Amazing, we’re about a quarter of the way through the regular season, and FSU only has one game under their belt! No fault of their own, it just came after a heart-wrenching loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide, a season crippling injury to Deondre Francois, and a devastating Hurricane that impacted seven Collegiate football programs …
Sep
21
2017
It’s been awhile since we’ve done an Around the ACC Blogosphere, so let’s get right into it. ChopChat takes a look at what the expectations are for Florida State for the rest of the football after their long layoff. The good folks at ACCNation make their picks this week for games featuring an ACC team. …
Sep
20
2017
It’s been awhile since we’ve had any updates on the ACC Network, but some news came out this week. First many of us thought the ACC Network would be based in Charlotte, NC near the ACC’s geographic center. SportsBusinessDaily reports that the ACC Network will based out of Bristol, Connecticut. ESPN told network staff today …
Sep
20
2017
Do you realize basketball is just around the corner? The ACC is again stacked with quality teams. Thanks to @Hokiesmash_ASD for sending this ACC press release. The Atlantic Coast Conference leads all leagues with six teams listed among Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook’s preseason Top 25 rankings, including three among the top 10. In addition, the publication has …
Sep
19
2017
While the playoff committee doesn’t rank the power 5 conference, there is no way conference strength – which means OOC results doesnt figure in to a committee members thought process. Let me point out on my philosophy on these rankings – your most recent OOC results count a lot, and you’ll see me reference that …
Sep
18
2017
@Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports take a look back at week 3 and preview week 4 in ACC football in this podcast. We were happy to be joined by AP SportsWriter @ahammsportsgeek (Andrew Hammond). Andrew’s work can be also be found @FanSided and @SaturdayBlitz. We highly recommend that you check it out. You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on …
Sep
17
2017
Good evening all you ACC football fans. As a NC State fan, I came into this season with aspirations of 9 or if the cards fell right, a 10 win season. After the first 3 weeks NC State is 2-1, not a bad record, but not ideal. NC State lost to South Carolina because, South …
Sep
16
2017
All I could think of as I was watching Clemson flatten Louisville was this team might be better than last year’s national championship team. That is bad news for the rest of the ACC and the rest of the country. Clemson was Louisville’s Super Bowl this year. It was their biggest home game of the …
Sep
16
2017
Duke played a sloppy game today against a bad Baylor team. They won 34-20, and moved to 3-0. Daniel Jones made some uncharacteristic mistakes at QB, and the secondary gave up a couple long TD passes. You never really felt Baylor would win the game though. A win is a win. They took care of …