Jan
10
2015
@Hokiesmash and I (@TalkinACCSports) hope you had a happy holiday season. This is our first podcast of 2015, and it is a good one. We have @danofero14  (Daniel Ferreria) of the fine Florida State Blog Site ChopChat.com joining us to review the ACC Bowl season, talk ACC Basketball, and give us his thoughts on Florida State sports. …
Jan
08
2015
Welcome back to the ACC Basketball Power Rankings. If you missed them yesterday (you didn’t), I held off a day realizing that Thursday and Friday are typically the off days in this year’s ACC schedules. Maybe I could have done a little research before starting this weekly practice and done it on Thursday all along, …
Jan
06
2015
Happy New Year from all of us at All Sports Discussion.  You can follow us on Twitter at @AllSportsDACC. Let’s talk some awesomeness first – the ACC will likely have four teams in the Associated Press Top Ten most of the season – and will repeatedly play nationally televised scheduled games vs. each other over …
Jan
05
2015
It’s been a couple of weeks since we took a look around ACC Blogosphere. With the football season at a close, what are feelings of ACC Bloggers on things? Georgia Tech blog FromtheRumbleSeat said it was a memorable, improbable, and spectacular season for Yellow Jacket football this season. Â Â You know what? They are right. A …
Jan
04
2015
This is the first ACC Bubble Analysis for the year. Now it’s gets really serious. Selection Sunday is just a little over 2 months away, so let’s find out who is great shape already, and who has work to work to do to get into the NCAA tournament. In my ranking system, any RPI top …
Dec
31
2014
It’s almost time to celebrate a new year. A fresh start, a chance to carry out those resolutions, and 365 more opportunities for #goacc greatness. There wasn’t much #goacc in basketball circles this week, however, as most teams rounded out their non-conference slate to end 2014. 1 – Duke: Holy Toledo! The Blue Devils easily …
Dec
28
2014
Some of ACC fans are more than ready to turn the corner to basketball – like right now. Well going to into the new year and the conference season, let’s find out where your teams stands as it positions itself for the NCAA tournament. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a …
Dec
24
2014
‘Twas the day before Christmas, and all through the south … and northeast … and parts of Indiana … not a creature was stirring, not even an ibis. The jerseys were hung in the lockers with care, in hopes that the NCAA would not soon be investigating there. The players were nestled all snug in …
Dec
23
2014
In the last few days we’ve seen a couple of incredible defensive performances on the basketball court. Kentucky jumped out to a 41-7 halftime lead against a decent UCLA team, where the Bruins shot 25% for the game. Well that did it, the Wildcats were unquestionably the best defensive team in the country. That was …
Dec
22
2014
Let’s see what the ACC Bloggers are up too during the last full week of 2014! We are going to start with Florida State blog Tomahawknation who have summarized what is likely the end of the Jamies Winston investigation in regards to his playing career at Florida State. Winston will be playing QB at Florida …
Dec
21
2014
Which ACC teams made positive moves this week in our ACC Bubble Analysis? As more games are played you’ll see the RPI come more in line with the Selections… Now about those bubble teams… In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. …
Dec
17
2014
It was a pretty slow week for ACC basketball, as exams cut into playing schedules. Only one game paired ACC teams against each other, and most were against weaker teams from small conferences. Thus, there wasn’t a lot of shake-up in the rankings, but there was no shortage of drama, coaching rants, and Karl Hess. …
Dec
14
2014
The non-conference portion of the college basketball is drawing to a close. If you picked up a couple of good non-conference wins, great! If not then there is a lot of work to be done from now until in March. The ACC is solid through the top 6 teams, and then it’s total chaos. The …
Dec
11
2014
Just a short post for tonight as we turn the page from football to basketball at least until bowl season. I’ll be starting up an ACC Bubble Analysis in the next few days, but before I get into that I want to do a quick breakdown of the ACC. There are three distinct tiers in …
Dec
10
2014
With the ACC Football Championship behind us, the only thing left in football season is the bowl parade during the holidays and this newfangled playoff. Until then, we have basketball to entertain us! By entertain us, of course, I mean give us a few games to watch but not that many because student-athletes will be …
Dec
08
2014
Well that was a great ACC Championship game wasn’t it? Florida State beat Georgia Tech in a thrilling game. You know we are checking in with those ACC bloggers. Let’s see what elser is out there too. Tomahawknation says facing Oregon in the national semi-finals is better for Florida State, but it is not better …