May
17
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Pulled from the ICYMI file this past week, some notes on the ACC’s revenue projections were discussed… Swofford says @accnetwork ahead of first-year revenue projections. — David Teel (@ByDavidTeel) May 14, 2020 ACC commissioner John Swofford said the league will distribute 98% of its projected revenue despite the loss of …
May
17
2020
PART II of a series Jerry LeVias is on the phone, a stationary moment unlike his 1960s trailblazing college football career. In those days, the Southwest Conference’s first black scholarship football player left segregated Beaumont, Tex., a refinery town near Houston, for Southern Methodist University in Dallas. It was a time and place resistant to …
May
16
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek, Editor@TrojansWire , a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. When we ask if this upcoming college football season is make-or-break for Justin Fuente, we need to start by noting that this season might not be make-or-break for any coach. Let’s be clear: …
May
12
2020
Clemson currently has the best National Championship odds, just ahead of Ohio State and a whole host of SEC teams: Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Florida, and even Texas A&M way in the back. Oklahoma and Penn State are in the mix, too, but the real question is whether or not Clemson can wrestle the title away …
May
10
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. First things first: Asking about Clemson’s biggest threat the next three years should not be taken as an implied statement that Clemson WILL face a severe threat in ACC football the next three years. This is only …
May
08
2020
PART I of a series Martin Luther King Jr. initially hesitated to accept an invitation to speak at Southern Methodist University in 1966, a time and place where resistance to integration persisted. The Civil Rights icon explained to an SMU student senate leader that the Dallas school had rescinded an invitation a couple years earlier. …
May
07
2020
@MattThompson87 has been tweeting the last 10 days on ACC Divisional records, scheduling scenarios and more. You need to really check him out. Below is a tweet thread on 15 years of intra-Atlantic Division games. Check out his Coastal Division results. What can we take away from his analysis, in addition to the notes he’s …
May
06
2020
@MattThompson87 has been tweeting the last 10 days on ACC Divisional records, scheduling scenarios and more. You need to really check him out. Below is a tweet thread on 15 years of intra-Coastal Division games. What can we take away from his analysis, in addition to the notes he’s made? Overall standings: VT 59-23 (.720)Mia 48-34 …
May
05
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Before saying anything else about ACC football scheduling, let me first say that a friend of All Sports Discussion and ACC fans everywhere is the neighborly and smart Matt Thompson, whom you can follow on Twitter at …
May
04
2020
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) want to provide a little distraction to these trying times with good ole ACC podcasting. We are moving along in our ACC previews with Virginia. Our special guest Will Ojanen @WillsWorldMN joined, and we thank him for taking the time. Will is a great friend to the blog and you can …
May
01
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Who was the best ACC basketball player of the past decade? Everyone’s method for establishing the best player in a given decade of college basketball will vary. Every person will place a …
Apr
29
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing So here we go… An earlier than we wanted offseason series The All-Time Top 75 NFL Players from a current ACC School. Players 6-10 | Players 11-15 | Players 16-20 | Players 21-25 | Players 26-30 | Players 31-35 | Players 36-40 | Players 41-45 | Players 46-50 | Players 51-55 | Players 56-60 | Players 61-65 | Players 66-70 | Players 71-75 Some players are still in the middle their careers on the …
Apr
28
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing The ACC was ridiculed by college football media and fans, and beaten often in ugly fashion during the BCS era in their biggest OOC games. The conference spent the better of the past decade improving and gaining national respect, peaking in 2016 as college football’s best conference. The last couple …
Apr
27
2020
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) want to provide a little distraction to these trying times with good ole ACC podcasting. We are moving along in our ACC previews with Virginia Tech. Our special guest Mike McDaniel @MikeMcDanielSI joined, and we thank him for taking the time. He is Co-host of @BCPodcastACC (The ACC Football Podcast about …
Apr
25
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing So here we go… An earlier than we wanted offseason series The All-Time Top 75 NFL Players from a current ACC School. Players 1-5 | Players 11-15 | Players 16-20 | Players 21-25 | Players 26-30 | Players 31-35 | Players 36-40 | Players 41-45 | Players 46-50 | Players 51-55 | Players 56-60 | Players 61-65 | Players 66-70 | Players 71-75 Some players are still in the middle their careers …
Apr
24
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing So here we go… An earlier than we wanted offseason series The All-Time Top 75 NFL Players from a current ACC School. Players 1-5 | Players 6-10 | Players 16-20 | Players 21-25 | Players 26-30 | Players 31-35 | Players 36-40 | Players 41-45 | Players 46-50 | Players 51-55 | Players 56-60 | Players 61-65 | Players 66-70 | Players 71-75 Some players are still …