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 …
May
03
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Was it a bubble, a structure, a container, a network? Whatever you want to call it, the NCAA set up a very particular living situation for NCAA Tournament teams in Indianapolis this past March. On a podcast created by …
Feb
28
2021
This article is written by college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The month of March is here, you might have noticed. Jokes aside about this being “March 350, 2020,” due to the awareness that we’re still living in March of 2020 until the pandemic ends, we are …
Feb
24
2021
is This article is by college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. A few weeks ago, I made the point that the strength of ACC basketball in 2021 would be judged not by the top two teams, but by teams 3 through 6. How has that tension point …
Feb
21
2021
Author of this article is our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The Florida State Seminoles were originally supposed to play the Virginia Tech Hokies on Saturday, Feb. 20, but the game was postponed and the ACC schedule reorganized. This leads to a problem …
Jan
31
2021
Give this article’s author and our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire a follow Virginia and Florida State both served up clunkers on Saturday. Before I say anything else: The teams that beat them played really well. Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech displayed the desperation and hunger of teams trying to prove themselves and fight for …
Jan
24
2021
Give this article’s author and our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire a follow How good is 2021 ACC basketball? We don’t know the precise answer, but we do know that Duke and North Carolina aren’t carrying the freight for the conference. Typically, when ACC basketball is at its best (or close to it), …
May
23
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek, Editor@TrojansWire , a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Did The Last Dance help or hurt Michael Jordan’s legacy? It helps no one when a columnist is asked to give an opinion on a compelling but contentious point of debate, …
May
03
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Though Steve Forbes did not actually coach in the 2020 NCAA Tournament, he was going to have that opportunity. The Buccaneers were headed for March Madness after winning the Southern Conference Tournament. Interestingly enough, East Tennessee State …
May
01
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Who was the best ACC basketball player of the past decade? Everyone’s method for establishing the best player in a given decade of college basketball will vary. Every person will place a …
Nov
01
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. John Chaney, the legendary former basketball coach of the Temple Owls — quite possibly the best coach in the history of college basketball who never made the Final Four — used to have his players practice before six in the morning. It was …
Apr
14
2015
Greetings, Atlantic Coast Conference sports fans – I’m going to steal a page out of Jeff’s (@TalkinACCSports) book this afternoon – and give you all a look from our ACC blogger friends (you’ll notice a lot of spring football in these posts from now – Jeff and I are really looking forward to the upcoming …
Mar
08
2015
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans – if you’re like me, you were watching North Carolina and Duke play men’s basketball tonight – a classic rivalry between two great teams. It was the last game of the ACC men’s basketball regular season – and the ACC tournament is right around the corner. As …
Jan
06
2015
Happy New Year from all of us at All Sports Discussion. You can follow us on Twitter at @AllSportsDACC. Let’s talk some awesomeness first – the ACC will likely have four teams in the Associated Press Top Ten most of the season – and will repeatedly play nationally televised scheduled games vs. each other over …
Jun
24
2014
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Hope the summer is flying by quickly for you. Jeff (@TalkinACCSports) and I (@HokieSmash) have some great material coming up this summer on the site – we hope it will get you through to football season 😉 We are at the end of the year where …
Jun
14
2014
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans!! It is time for the Learfield Sports Director’s Cup Update!! The Director’s Cup award honors institutions maintaining broad-based athletics programs success in many sports (including male and female sports). The Directors’ Cup , founded by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics and USA Today, began …