Feb
10
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Assessing coaches is one of the toughest things to do in college sports. Naturally, there are and will be plenty of situations in which it becomes very easy to evaluate a coach — Kevin Stallings at Pittsburgh as a portrait of failure, Mike …
Feb
10
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. If you were raised properly, your mama told you to say “please” and “thank you” in various social situations. Instilling good habits and good manners is one of a parent’s many jobs. Conditioning children to express gratitude and appreciation is one of the …
Feb
09
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 : What did we learn from the Duke-Virginia rematch? Good questions generally require complex answers, and I have had to answer a lot of good questions over the past several months in both football and basketball. This week’s …
Feb
09
2019
It’s going to be huge game today when Virginia faces off with Duke. Gameday was there and those clever Virginia fans came up with some great signs. Here’s a sampling if you missed it. Cam Radish was my personal favorite. It’s the UVA fellow with the glasses. ????? pic.twitter.com/BdeaceA1ux — Caroline Darney (@cwdarney) February 9, …
Feb
08
2019
As we move into February begins, the real run for NCAA tournament positioning begins. Teams like Duke and Virginia will be playing for #1 seeds. Louisville, UNC, Virginia Tech, Syracuse and FSU will work on seeding. Clemson and NC State will try to get in to the Big Dance. Wake Forest and Georgia Tech are …
Feb
04
2019
Watch Coby White now that the ACC basketball logjam at the top has been halved to three one-loss teams, Virginia, Duke and North Carolina. In the past week, North Carolina’s maturing freshman has moved ahead a couple chapters in the education of a point guard. You can hear it in his deeper comments and see …
Feb
03
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 …
Feb
02
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 : So far this year, Is Virginia Tech’s Buzz WIlliams having the best coaching season of his career? When a question begins with the words “so far,” it has to be dealt with on its own terms, not …
Feb
02
2019
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Roy Williams was still coaching at Kansas the first time he saw Julius Peppers in a summer tournament. Upon hearing Peppers was committed to North Carolina he thought the kid was in over his 6-foot-5 height. “The Peach Jam is my favorite tournament of the summer time,” Williams said of the …
Feb
02
2019
NC State has their new Athletic Director, and it’s Boo Corrigan. With Debbie Yow retiring, NC State hired a search firm, to the consternation of Jay Bilas and others, to arrive at Mr. Corrigan. The hire has been lauded around the country, and for the first time NC State doesn’t seem to be absorbing shots …
Jan
27
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
27
2019
Not since the disgraced Reggie “Kardashian” Bush, the only Heisman Trophy winner stripped of the award, and the shamed Marion “BALCO” Jones, forced to return Olympic track medals, have I felt so conned by a high school athlete. Dennis “Shoe Money” Smith Jr. earned his way into my hall of shame. Smith’s one-and-done basketball season …
Jan
27
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 Louisville’s Chris Mack the early front-runner for ACC Coach of the Year? The important word in the question above is “early.” The ACC basketball season has more than a full month left, and the showdowns at …
Jan
26
2019
This is a big week for NC State basketball. They have 3 straight home games against Clemson, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. NC State needs to go 2-1 in this stretch to show that they are a Top 25 program. I believe that this is achievable. NC State is not the same team without Markell Johnson. …
Jan
21
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) had a great ACC basketball podcast with @Peacone36 (Mychal Hunter) of ACCBasketballReport.com . Take a listen, Mychal knows his ACC Basketball. You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on ITUNES at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rwradios-acc-weekly-podcast/id831843856?t=2. We are also now available on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr To listen go here – https://www.talkshoe.com/episode/5913312 In this order, these are …
Jan
20
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 …