Aug
17
2020
Everybody loved the late Bum Phillips — a Hall-of-Fame quipster and folksy NFL head coach with the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. Here’s quintessential Phillips, enshrined in college football lore, explaining Alabama legend Paul “Bear” Bryant’s coaching prowess. “Bryant can take his’n and beat your’n, and then he can turn around and take your’n …
Aug
17
2020
On the scale of Duke football mysteries – 10 being the toughest to speculate and 1 the easiest – the question about whether there will be a season in 2020 ranks a 10. Identifying the quarterback rates a 1. Well, at least that’s been the fan and media speculation since Clemson’s Chase Brice announced last …
Aug
16
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Well we are still hoping there will be a college football season. There are plenty of posts regarding the probability of that, but if there is we’re going to have top 50 ACC players ranked for the season. We’ll largely take our top 5 at each position rankings for 45 of …
Aug
15
2020
Crowning a college football national champion appears headed “Back to the Future.” Duke coach David Cutcliffe was asked during a Zoom interview following Friday’s practice if college football can have a national champion with some conferences playing in the fall and others, due to the COVID-19 pandemics, postponing their seasons to the spring. “Well, I …
Aug
15
2020
Good afternoon, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Promising news in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. You’ve seen the reports that testing is performed at a very uneven level through the states – and in many cases, people don’t get their results back until a week later. Now comes the news from …
Aug
15
2020
Good morning, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Just ran across this video from Bronco Mendenhall: #TakeBackOurGrounds #GroundsKeepers pic.twitter.com/By7q7icl3C — Bronco Mendenhall (@UVACoachBronco) August 10, 2020 I loved seeing Bronco lead his young men in their “take back their grounds march.” If you recall, in August 2017, University of Virginia student, Heather Heyer was …
Aug
15
2020
Good morning, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. As you know, I’ve called more than once for Virginia Tech to cancel it’s football series with Liberty University. Let’s make it three time today. Here is some new reporting from Damien Sordelett of the Lynchburg, VA News and Advance: Liberty football coach Hugh Freeze said …
Aug
14
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Well we are still hoping there will be a college football season. There are plenty of posts regarding the probability of that, but if there is we’re going to have top 50 ACC players ranked for the season. We’ll largely take our top 5 at each position rankings for 45 of …
Aug
13
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Well we are still hoping there will be a college football season. There are plenty of posts regarding the probability of that, but if there is we’re going to have top 50 ACC players ranked for the season. We’ll largely take our top 5 at each position rankings for 45 of …
Aug
12
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Well we are still hoping there will be a college football season. There are plenty of posts regarding the probability of that, but if there is we’re going to have top 50 ACC players ranked for the season. We’ll largely take our top 5 at each position rankings for 45 of …
Aug
11
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Five days into Duke football’s return to practice, it’s business as usual despite the gathering social media storm threatening to shut down the college season versus playing on despite the health risks. At least that’s what senior tight end Noah Gray and senior defensive end Drew Jordan said following Tuesday’s …
Aug
10
2020
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Just a quick post here for tonight. I’ve seen a couple of tweets from our friend, Mike Barber of the Richmond Times (you can follow Mike on Twitter at @RTD_MikeBarber), on how University of Virginia Head Football Coach, Bronco Mendenhall, views the pandemic (specifically the novel …
Aug
10
2020
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) want to get you ready for what will hopefully be a college football season. This week we speak with @hankkurzjr Virginia AP Sports Writer. We appreciate Hank 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 – …
Aug
10
2020
Good morning, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. If you haven’t read it, I’ve already called once for Virginia Tech to cancel its series with Liberty. Let’s get right to it: My proposal to replace Liberty with NDSU wasn’t as well received – so I’ll just cut that part out. I call once again for …
Aug
09
2020
The clock is ticking on college football preview stories, so let’s get this one posted before it’s too late. It’s about Duke believing it can surprise people with an improved offense. The COVID-19 pandemic may end the season before it starts, a view that has been increasingly acknowledged upon the Mid-American Conference’s weekend decision to …
Aug
09
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Well we are still hoping there will be a college football season. There are plenty of posts regarding the probability of that, but if there is we’re going to have top 50 ACC players ranked for the season. We’ll largely take our top 5 at each position rankings for 45 of …