Apr
04
2022
Please Check Out our Podcast Sponsor – Main Street Pharmacy @Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) start our annual previews of the College Football season with the Duke Blue Devils. @DukeFBCoverage (Ben Byrd) joins us to help preview Duke football. Please check out his Duke football blog – https://anchor.fm/bullcitycoordinators. Thanks to Ben for joining! To find old podcasts …
Mar
17
2022
Maybe someone from Georgia Tech marketing can explain this one to me. Why is Georgia Tech having a spring game on a Thursday night, which just happens to be the opening day of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, and St. Patricks day? Never mind that you have to fight Atlanta rush hour traffic just to get …
Feb
27
2022
Those that follow this blog know me as @TalkinACCSports (Jeff Fann). Fann isn’t the most common last name, but here’s one to keep an eye on. My young cousin Jed Fann, son of my cousin Keith Fann and Alex McDonald. Only in the 8th grade, he’s putting in the work to become a future college …
Feb
26
2022
I know it’s the job of head coaches to be optimistic, but sometimes statements made are so delusional as to make fans wonder if their coaches have lost touch with the reality of their situations. Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins has been the ACC’s poster child for these kind of statements during the last year. In …
Feb
23
2022
Did the ACC pick the wrong alliance partners asks ACCPrescription? Florida State might have the best softball team in the country, and Tomahawknation tells us about the tournament with an elite field they just won. Is Miami’s Mario Christobal using Alabama’s success as a blueprint for the Canes? says StateoftheU The off-season results have been …
Feb
22
2022
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. One year ago, it was narrowly and technically true that Notre Dame was an ACC football member. It was a special situation under historically unprecedented circumstances for the conference. The pandemic created an adjusted reality in which Notre Dame didn’t merely play ACC teams; it …
Feb
20
2022
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Jayden Daniels, the mobile Arizona State quarterback who has considerable upside but struggled under Herm Edwards in Tempe, has reportedly chosen to enter the transfer portal. He isn’t officially in the portal (as of late Thursday night), but he intends to transfer. One wonders what …
Feb
18
2022
The worst post-season in sports will maintain the status-quo for the next 4 years. The College Football Playoffs is staying at 4 teams for the next 4 years. Statement from Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the College Football Playoffs. pic.twitter.com/ZVgmX3qOI0 — Nick Jacobs (@Jacobs71) February 18, 2022 Why didn’t it expand? Heather Dinich of ESPN …
Feb
07
2022
Please Check Out our Podcast Sponsor – Main Street Pharmacy @Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) celebrate our 400th episode with @ksugiuraajc (Ken Sugiura) as talk about Georgia Tech athletics. It was a treat to have Ken join us. To find old podcasts prior to episode 385, you can follow this link -> https://www.talkshoe.com/show/the-acc-weekly-podcast In this order, these are …
Feb
01
2022
The ACC recently released their 2022 ACC football schedule. Here we take a look at what we did like about the 2022 ACC Football schedule. It wasn’t all great, because there will also be the 5 things I don’t like about the schedule coming up soon. So here we go. 1) Florida State and North Carolina …
Jan
26
2022
The Big 10 is considering dropping divisions according to CBSSports.com. The Big Ten is considering scheduling models that could eliminate divisions and reduce conference play to eight games, Iowa athletic director Gary Barta told The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman. It’s about the time ACC starts seriously considering the doing the same. ACC teams have to start playing …
Jan
23
2022
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Please Follow him follow on twitter. Recently we a post that favored the ACC’s playoff stance. Here is another perspective on the topic… Just over a week ago, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips articulated the ACC’s opposition to the expansion of the College Football Playoff. To be clear, this isn’t a stance …
Jan
19
2022
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Just saw some sad news. Rest in Peace, Ron Franklin. (via @AwfulAnnouncing) I always remember Ron Franklin’s call of the 2003 Virginia Tech – Miami football game… Rest in Peace, Ron Franklin! Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page
Jan
16
2022
Louisville is in uncharted territory. I’m drawing a blank of the last time an ACC school looked to have made 2 universally praised hires with their men’s basketball and football team, and saw them so questioned several years later. In 2018 the men’s basketball team hired Xavier’s Chris Mack, and the football program hired Scott …
Jan
15
2022
Virginia got some good news this week when QB Brennan Armstrong announced his return to Charlottesville. This makes Virginia a threat in the Coastal along with Pittsburgh and Miami. The Hoos are a definite team to keep an eye on the ACC for 2022. the news we needed 🤩 https://t.co/LwuWIrtw0m — Hoo Crew (@Hoo_Crew) January …
Jan
08
2022
A few days ago we wrote how Wake Forest could have the ACC COY in football and men’s basketball. Well, there is always the other end of the spectrum. In 2021-2022 that end of the spectrum resides in Atlanta, Georgia. The failures of Geoff Collin’s 3-year tenure are well documented at Georgia Tech. At the …