Apr
17
2014
Here is an interesting piece from CBSSportsline’s Dennis Dodd titled “Expect ACC to play an influential role as playoff era begins” that was written a couple of days ago. Dodds looks at where the ACC was 2 years ago and then at the conference’s promising future. It is fascinating to remember realignment-palooza of 2012. There were …
Apr
08
2014
Monday night the Connecticut Huskies men’s basketball team won their 4th national championship since 1999. That’s more national titles than the Big 10 conference has won in the 4 biggest collegiate sports – Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, Football, and Baseball combined. There was the 2002 National Title in Football for Ohio State, and the 2000 …
Apr
03
2014
My podcast co-host @HokieSmash and I @TalkinACCSports had plenty of ground to cover this week in the ACC. Boston College just made a new coaching hire, and Boston College blogger @SoaringtoGlory joined us on the podcast to discuss it. We appreciate @SoaringtoGlory coming on such short notice. To download the audio file of this podcast, please go here. You can also find …
Apr
01
2014
Short post for tonight, but here’s something interesting from CBSSportsLine. It is a document detailing NCAA rules the Power 5 conferences would like to see changed or amended. When I read this, I thought these actually seem like reasonable requests. I would recommend taking a look at the proposals. It’s a good read. I don’t …
Mar
26
2014
Anyone that follows sports has heard what Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, believe will happen to the National Football League in the next decade. Here you can read how he went on to explain more about his theory, but the main focus of the discussion on sports programs has been this… “I …
Mar
18
2014
I would be lying if I said I did not love the National Football League, even though I follow it for the former Tar Heels and because of Fantasy Football. On the other hand, I would not be telling the truth if I didn’t say that I believe that the NFL is the classic case …
Mar
13
2014
If you are a fan of college football, if you enjoy watching College GameDay on ESPN and like to watch the Saturday Night Football games on ABC I hope that you also like Chris Fowler. Because if you do not, you are going to have to deal with it for the distant future, as the …
Mar
10
2014
If you know me well enough and enjoy talking sports then you should know that I have always said that “Americans are lucky” in many ways when it comes to what they have when speaking of fields and facilities. In other countries that luck just isn’t there for the most part. Where in the US …
Mar
09
2014
Bad week for the ACC’s top teams. Virginia, Syracuse, and Duke all may have played themselves out of a realistic shot at a NCAA number 1 seed. A couple of bubble teams, let golden opportunities slip away too. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top …
Feb
24
2014
Here’s the press release for the ACC’s announcement of Charlotte as the home of the ACCCG through the year 2019 sent to me from our friend @HokieSmash. Personally I think this is a good move by the ACC. I’ve been to the last three ACC Championship Games in Charlotte, and to one in Jacksonville, Fla. …
Feb
22
2014
Back in August 2013, @HokieSmash and I ( @TalkinACCSports ) were asked by @RyneHancock19 if we’d be interested in having an ACC podcast partnered with Road Warriors Radio. It sounded like a good idea, and we’ve had a lot of fun doing it. We’ve a lot of great guests, and we just wanted to take a look back at …
Feb
21
2014
Thursday night the North Carolina Tar Heels defeated the #5 ranked Duke Blue Devils 74-66. It’s college basketball’s best rivalry. It’s a huge game, no question about it. When it was over North Carolina fans rushed the court. After that, about 10,000 North Carolina fans rushed Franklin St. It was a giant party, and Heel’s fans were …
Feb
18
2014
We are getting into late February, that’s when your basketball team better get going for the stretch run… What do the ACC bloggers have for us? The North Carolina Tar Heels are one one team getting hot at the right time. TarHeelFanBlog called the win at FSU gutty and resilient. I agree especially with James Michael …
Feb
17
2014
Interesting piece from ESPN about the dwindling student attendance at college football games. Since I live in the upstate of SC I often hear about attendance issues at Clemson regarding students on their sports radio shows. I think this is a good time for a poll. Why are students staying away? I’m going to use myself …
Feb
15
2014
This past week a 10 second wait time for defensive substitutions was proposed by the NCAA rules committee. Two college football coaches Alabama’s Nick Saban and Arkansas’s Bret Bielema are leading the charge for rule change in the name of player safety. A multitude of coaches are vehemently opposed to this rule change. I understand …
Feb
10
2014
@HokieSmash and I ( @TalkinACCSports ) had a very special podcast on Monday evening. @theACCDN host @JeffFischel joined us to talk about what’s going at the ACC Digital Network. If you follow the blog, you know we’ve written about the @theACCDN in the past as it’s grown from an emerging internet venture to one of if not the …