May
13
2018
After a few weeks hiatus, I’m back! I’ll be changing the format of these posts in order to expedite releases (meaning they should be more frequent). I’ll still be referring to Bill Connelly’s 2018 Returning Starters production rankings Without further adieu: Trust the Process: I’ll be using a standard format across all Chop’s Takes: I’ll …
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 …
Sep
01
2014
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. I know you are all glad that college football is here (Jeff and I were dying those first three weeks of August lol). We are very thankful that college football is back. Over the summer, I needed something to occupy the time before college football starts. As …
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 …
Mar
15
2014
Good afternoon, fellow Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) fans. It’s the calm before the storm here in the DC area – winter just won’t seem to go away smh. This post is going to be about as unstructured as it gets – a bunch of random ACC men’s basketball thoughts. Here we go: What a job …
Mar
08
2014
Happy Weekend, everyone – don’t forget, it’s Day Light Savings time – put those clocks ahead one hour tonight, eh? What follows below is my United States Basketball Writers Association (USWBA) ballot for national men’s basketball awards, including the All-America team, the All-District team (covering Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina), The Oscar Robertson …
Mar
05
2014
Ahead of Jeff’s (@TalkinACCSports on Twitter) and my (@HokieSmash) Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) podcast with Jerran Anderson (@HereGoJayAgain on Twitter), and Former Virginia Tech Men’s Basketball Player, Marcus Travis (@ItsMe_Teezy on Twitter), we have an all-ACC awards ballot for you. Specifically, the ACC ballot includes the all-ACC 1st, 2nd, and 3rd teams, the all-ACC Freshmen …
Jan
13
2014
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Men’s Basketball Fans!!! Obviously, you’ve heard this by now, but basically the entire state of North Carolina ACC teams lost their basketball games this past weekend – and we’re talking Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Wake Forest. As such, Tobacco Road dropped in our poll. We have …
Nov
02
2013
Before we get going with the tenth week picks in the conference, let’s check out the games from last week in the ACC and how I did. In all straight up I went 4 and 2 (13-4 overall), while doing very badly against the spread at 2 and 4 (8-8 overall). This week has six …
Oct
31
2013
Another week has passed in the Atlantic Coast Conference and it is once again time to check on which programs are looking good to get to a bowl game and which ones are slipping away from that goal in what I am call… “ACC’s Balling to the Bowls”. First off let’s say that as of …
Oct
25
2013
Before we get going with Week 9 picks in the conference, let’s chack out the game from last week in the ACC and how I did. In all straight out I went 4 and 1 (9-2 overall), and 3 and 1 against the spread (6-4 overall). This week has seven games in the conference, and …
Oct
20
2013
With the season over the half way mark, and after having done a piece about which program in the ACC could make it to a bowl game, I figured that it would be appropriate to keep an eye on all the teams in the conference as we head towards the last third of the season. And …
Oct
19
2013
Before we check the games for Week 8 in the ACC, let me give you the result from last week… 5 and 1 straight out, but only a .500 mark, 3 and 3, with the spread. Not bad, not good, but it is what it is and I will take it as the first week …