Oct
29
2019
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s important to expect the unexpected when it comes to the ACC. Every time that I think I have things figured out, mass chaos ensues. In fact, as one post on Reddit points out, operation #4and4ForAll could actually happen. So how did these unexpected results impact …
Oct
28
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) review of 9 and preview of week 10 with @BostonCollegeSI (AJ Black) of https://www.si.com/college/bostoncollege/.We really appreciate AJ joining us. 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=stpr0 We are also now available on PodBean! https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/p573j-6e69d/The-ACC-Weekly-Podcast To listen go here – https://www.talkshoe.com/episode/7629861 In this order, these are topics we covered on …
Oct
27
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Virginia the school isn’t female, but Virginia O’Hanlon was a young girl whose story gave rise to the familiar and enduring expression, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” If we were to inject a feminine dimension into a discussion of Cavalier football, …
Oct
27
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: What is the significance of Louisville’s win over Virginia? We are still in the middle of the 2019 season, but it was hard to avoid the sense that when the Louisville Cardinals defeated the Virginia Cavaliers on Saturday, they made a statement …
Oct
26
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: What is the ACC Coastal in two words? Wide open. Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page
Oct
26
2019
At the time of writing this post, Ohio State is still playing Wisconsin. The game is not over, but it was scoreless at the end of the 1st quarter. That’s all anyone needs to see. It was 10-7 Ohio State early in the 3rd quarter after Ohio State shanked a punt. This is not the …
Oct
25
2019
What is wrong with Clemson? What is wrong with Clemson? That’s all we’ve heard from national media types since Clemson’s 52-14 win over Georgia Tech during the opening week. It’s gotten stale, it is lazy journalism, and could directly affect where Clemson gets ranked when the playoff rankings come out in a couple of weeks. …
Oct
24
2019
Ford Higgins began his Navy football career like many service academy linemen: lightly-recruited, undersized and relegated to the scout team his freshman season. He didn’t play a varsity snap in 2016. But unlike many Navy, Army and Air Force O-linemen that hope to develop their potential by their junior or senior season, Higgins jumped into …
Oct
24
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Clemson is unbeaten. Virginia has a great chance to win the ACC Coastal. Those are not surprises to anyone who follows ACC football. Those realities do not deviate from most pundits’ expectations in late August. Yet, the path we have taken to get …
Oct
23
2019
A week ago when Virginia and Wake Forest went down to defeat, we wondered if anyone in the ACC wanted to go the Orange Bowl. They rebounded this week with victories, and are now part of the ACC chase for the Orange Bowl. Let’s look a them and the other Orange Bowl contenders. The Orange …
Oct
23
2019
College football recruits typically dream they have an NFL future. They think as a scholarship athlete they have a leg up. Don’t bother telling them that a 2019 NCAA study showed only 1.6 percent of college players play pro football. That’s a short leg. If the scale of odds for a prospect to make the …
Oct
22
2019
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 that …
Oct
22
2019
Raise your hand if week 8 went exactly as you expected. Don’t feel bad: no one else saw some of these upsets coming, either. So how did these contests impact our weekly power rankings? Here’s the latest installment: 14. Miami Last Week: 8 The Hurricanes drop six slots this weekend after losing at home to …
Oct
21
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) review of 8 and preview of week 9 with @techlunchpaild (Tim Thomas) of the Virginia Tech blog http://techlunchpail.com. Please check that out and we thank Tim for joining. 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=stpr0 We are also now available on PodBean! https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/p573j-6e69d/The-ACC-Weekly-Podcast To listen go here – https://www.talkshoe.com/episode/7586516 …
Oct
21
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: Has Virginia re-established itself as the ACC Coastal favorite? The Virginia Cavaliers performed brilliantly against the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday. If you were convinced by that performance, you have every right to be. Yet, it is quite another thing to say …
Oct
20
2019
As I sit here and try to digest what happened in Chesnut Hill yesterday, I am still angry. What happened in that game, should not have happened, at all. From the inability to produce a run game against a team that gave up 328 yards rushing against Kansas. To being unable to tackle either one …