Jan
07
2020
Cassius Winston is finding his way, painful step by step, to let it go, to let if flow. The hurt over his brother Zachary taking his life on Nov. 9 will always be with him and his family — younger brother Khy and parents Reggie and Wendi. How they move forward, letting go of the …
Jan
06
2020
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) get you prepped for ACC basketball with a great guest – Mychal Hunter ( @accbr1 ) Owner of http://ACCBasketballReport.com| ACCBR Podcast | Preview Writer for http://KnupSolutions.com 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/show/the-acc-weekly-podcast In this …
Jan
05
2020
With the bowl season going on the last 2 weeks, we’ve been mostly focused on the game results. With a 4-6 bowl record, it hasn’t been a stellar bowl season for the ACC. There was a story from a couple of weeks, that we wanted to address though. ACCPerscription tells us about a potential television …
Jan
04
2020
It’s been an uneven early start for ACC Basketball. It certainly hasn’t been a vintage stuff, and not what we expect from the conference. With s much player turnover it wasn’t that unexpected though. The conference is still a respectable 4th in terms of conference RPI. Saturday brought much needed clarity of who are the …
Jan
04
2020
CHAPEL HILL – Winning college athletic programs are often taken for granted. One assumption not to make, though, is that’s an easy transition for an assistant coach to pick up where his mentor left off. Sometimes there are hiccups before a blue blood re-establishes itself. At North Carolina, Roy Williams has made it look easier …
Jan
03
2020
1. Duke (12-1, 2-0) Projected NCAA Seed 1 I really like the direction Duke is trending. Forget the loss to Stephen F Austin a few weeks ago. This is a top 5 team. 2. Louisville (11-2, 2-0) Projected NCAA Seed 2 Louisville had Kentucky on the ropes until they missed 43 free throws. 3. Florida …
Jan
02
2020
Boston College was the latest ACC team to flop in their bowl game after going down 38-6 to Cincinnati. There will be plenty of time to discuss the ACC’s disappointing 4-6 bowl season. Clemson may yet still give the ACC one more win the National Title game, but the conference will still finish under .500 …
Jan
01
2020
Over the course of his career Lebron James has been one of the best players of all-time. The NBA’s best player title seemed to go back and forth between James and Kobe Bryant. That is until Kobe Bryant’s Laker teams started to fade in the early part of the decade. The mantle definitely seemed to shift …
Jan
01
2020
DURHAM – Duke looked impressive winning two games without Tre Jones and Jordan Goldwire starting in his place, but, wow, did the Blue Devils show talent, balance and depth with Jones returning to the lineup and Goldwire back to coming off the bench. The No. 2-ranked Blue Devils (12-1, 2-0 ACC) scored 45 first-half points …
Dec
31
2019
15 seconds is all that stood between Virginia Tech and a 9 win, top 25 season. There’d also be an an off-season of optimism plus the added bonus of sending out coaching legend Bud Foster a winner in his final game as DC. Then it all fell apart against an average Kentucky team, with a …
Dec
31
2019
There wasn’t anyone that thought Mike Novell wasn’t walking into a major rebuild at Florida State. In the last three seasons Florida State football has an 18-20 record. That includes back to back to losing seasons in 2018 and 2019. Tuesday’s 20-14 six turnover bowl loss to Arizona State just further is a microcosm of …
Dec
31
2019
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. QUESTION: What does Clemson need to do to beat LSU? The Clemson Tigers will have to do many different things to beat the LSU Tigers in the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Clemson’s receivers need to get healthy after a …
Dec
31
2019
Piece by piece, year by year, holes are punched in storyboards depicting Alabama coach Bear Bryant as a benevolent segregationist. The myths were created to hide his silent voice on race in the 1960s — the issue of his times for a southern leader to be on the right side of history — belie that …
Dec
31
2019
Virginia was a huge underdog against Florida in the Orange Bowl. Many did not give them much of a chance to compete with a top 10 Florida team. Compete and compete hard is exactly what they did. The Virginia coaching schemed around the team’s deficiencies and injuries in the secondary as best they could. It …
Dec
30
2019
DURHAM – Mike Krzyzewski said from the beginning this was an “old-school team, old-school season.” Relying on balance and depth was Duke’s path to an ACC and/or NCAA title. He meant teaching his players lost arts as a result of the modern AAU circuit that emphasizes individual workouts. Fundamentals such as talking on the court …
Dec
30
2019
You better get Louisville now, because they are coming. Following a nightmare 2018 season, that as we’ve said several times was among the very worst in ACC history, Louisville roared back into relevance with a remarkable 8-5 season that just about nobody saw coming. You won’t find many people that didn’t think Scott Satterfield wasn’t …