Dec
28
2018
Numbers aplenty explain Mack Brown luring Jay Bateman to leave Army for his newly assembled staff at North Carolina staff. But in college football, statistics are only half of story to grading a coach’s value. What about developing talent? What about recruiting? Those are parts to the full package, too, that define Bateman’s five seasons …
Dec
27
2018
Thank goodness Mark Richt has 2 straight wins over Florida State because since a regular season loss to Pittsburgh to end the 2017 regular season it’s just gone downhill for Miami. Since a 10-1 2017 start Miami, is 4-9 against against Power 5 opponents.That’s not just unacceptable at Miami, that’s unacceptable anywhere. In year 3 …
Dec
27
2018
Sometimes there are bad 8-5 seasons. Sometimes they are good 8-5 seasons, and sometimes an 8-5 season could be considered almost great. I would call David Cutcliffe leading Duke to an 8-5 year arguably his best coached season at Duke. Looking back on the schedule it was a very difficult one – A 11 win …
Dec
26
2018
Some information was just released on ESPN’s work to get the ACC Network into distribution… Blog contributor @JamesIV1978 brought this to my attention. @TalkinACCSports @hokiesmash_ASD here comes the run to see if the ACC Network will be profitable. This is the first salvo https://t.co/gNfEbNUOwl — James Cunningham (@JamesIV1978) December 26, 2018 Already there are some confusion by …
Dec
26
2018
It shouldn’t have ended this way for future HOF coach Paul Johnson, but it did. Georgia Tech was poorly prepared, played sloppy, and without any urgency in Paul Johnson’s final game as head coach. Minnesota is not a very good team. The Gophers were a wildly inconsistent 6-6 team. Today they were better, far better …
Dec
26
2018
Boston College jumped out to a 7-0 lead on Boise State, then due to lightening the First Responder Bowl delayed and then cancelled the game. That’s amateur hour organization from that bowl. They could read a weather forecast to cancel the game for the rest of Wednesday, but couldn’t see the weather coming yesterday and …
Dec
26
2018
For a couple of redshirt juniors that NFL scouts have bird-dogged the past two seasons, Duke’s Daniel Jones and Joe Gilles-Harris don’t sound like guys looking ahead to 2019 NFL Draft at the expense of their teammates’ bowl experience.. Jones, a third-year starting quarterback, and Giles-Harris, a third-year starting inside linebacker, both have endured enough …
Dec
24
2018
This is going to be a weekly article, where I seed the ACC teams and where I think they’d should be placed if the tournament started the same day as my posting. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses …
Dec
23
2018
Sitting at 4-6, with 3 bowl teams left on the schedule and two of them on the road, it looked like Wake Forest’s 2 year bowl streak was coming to an end. Wake Forest’s defense had given up more than 35 points in seven straight games. Dave Clawson had worked wonders making Wake Forest competitive …
Dec
23
2018
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college football at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : Which ACC team is playing the best basketball entering conference play? It is very early in the season, and we don’t know how any team will respond to conference competition after the mixture of cupcakes, mid-tier opponents, …
Dec
22
2018
The sports world’s biggest names routinely enter “The Jungle” on the Jim Rome Show, but the host still presents a change of pace for his audience craving irreverent smack- talk with a guest representing an ultra-conventional background. Army quarterback Kelvin Hopkins Jr., MVP of the 119th Army-Navy Game, appeared last week while preparing to lead …
Dec
22
2018
Texas Tech is a very good basketball team. They are a year removed from an Elite 8 run, and came into their Thursday night game with the Duke Blue Devils, 10-0 and ranked in the top 15. The Red Raiders are a team with Final 4 aspirations, and are arguably the 2nd best team in …
Dec
21
2018
If college football mic’d players for games, Army senior outside linebacker Kenneth Brinson made a play for the ideal mic drop. Navy rallied after trailing the Black Knights all afternoon in the 119th Army-Navy Game until Brinson strip-sacked the Midshipmen’s quarterback. He recovered the loose ball to essentially clinch the 17-10 victory on Dec. 8 …
Dec
20
2018
Are you looking to cut the cord or just lower your cable bill? ACCPrescription shares the costs of several viewing packages to help make your decisions. RubbingtheRock has their takeaways from another great signing day for Clemson. Were you wondering how good NC State basketball was? Wonder no more as the Wolfpack knocked off top 10 …
Dec
19
2018
We have to get used to early signing day in college football. So some schools can still pull things together by February, but have our winners and losers for the December 19 signing day. Here are the ACC recruiting rankings from the 247 and Rivals. 247 ACC Rankings Rivals ACC Rankings Winners Clemson Another consensus …
Dec
18
2018
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) are joined by one of very favorite guests -> @MattZemek. Give him a twitter follow and check out his additional musings on college football at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on ITUNES at 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=stpr To listen go …