{"id":15643,"date":"2016-08-27T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/?p=15643"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T14:43:35","slug":"acc-news-and-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2016\/08\/27\/acc-news-and-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"#ACC News and Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/new-new-acc-logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15661\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2016\/08\/27\/acc-news-and-notes\/new-new-acc-logo-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/new-new-acc-logo1.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"new-new-acc-logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/new-new-acc-logo1.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/new-new-acc-logo1.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15661\" alt=\"new-new-acc-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/new-new-acc-logo1.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good morning, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. \u00a0One Saturday to go!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Let’s get you caught up with some ACC news and notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Appears that Thomas Sirk, the Duke senior starting QB, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/article\/20160826\/sports\/308269770\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter\">is likely out for the year<\/a>\u00a0(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Top25\">@AP_Top25)<\/a>. \u00a0That’s kind a crushing blow and it lowers my predicted records for the Blue Devils. \u00a0FWIW, I had the Blue Devils as a bowl team – I don’t now.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2016\/08\/25\/transfer-jerod-evans-named-virginia-techs-starting-qb\/89372546\/\">Transfer Jerod Evans was names the starting quarterback for Virginia Tech<\/a> (that might have been the worst kept secret on the east coast) – h\/t\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Top25\">@AP_Top25)<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/sports\/college\/schools\/virginia-tech\/article_fd7b38c2-6725-5cee-98eb-ab82c6d0baa6.html\">College GameDay is coming to Bristol for the Virginia Tech football game with Tennessee<\/a>. \u00a0Thursday was a good day for Hokie Nation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/football\/article\/2016-08-25\/clemson-football-deshaun-watson-embracing-spotlight\">Deshaun Watson is ready to embrace the spotlight<\/a>. \u00a0He’s up 25 pounds since his freshman year – he is likely NYC-bound for the Heisman Trophy (one of the favorites), will likely be playing for a national title, and could be the top pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2016\/08\/26\/uncs-hiring-of-tim-beckman-was-a-bad-idea-and-now-hes-resigned\/\">WTH was North Carolina thinking when it hired Tim Beckman.<\/a>\u00a0(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PostSports\">@PostSports<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/florida-state-seminoles\/os-fsu-season-preview-0825-20160824-story.html\">Jimbo Fisher is going to have a young, redshirt freshman, Deondre Francis, start at quarterback<\/a>. \u00a0That worked out pretty well for Florida State in 2013-14 – Seminoles won the national title that year.<\/li>\n<li>Louisville QB, Lamar Jackson, is the most exciting player in the ACC that no one hears about because he plays in the same ACC division as Deshaun Watson. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/story\/meet-the-breakout-star-qb-who-could-turn-louisville-into-a-title-contender-082516\">That will change this year<\/a>\u00a0(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@slmandel\">@slmandel)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make sure you check out the FCS Kickoff tonight – North Dakota State University takes on Charleston Southern in the Fargodome!!!! 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Let’s get you caught up with some ACC news and notes: Appears that Thomas Sirk, the Duke senior starting QB, is likely out for the year\u00a0(h\/t @AP_Top25). \u00a0That’s kind a crushing blow and it lowers my predicted records for the Blue Devils. \u00a0FWIW, … <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2016\/08\/27\/acc-news-and-notes\/\">Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Ih8i-44j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15662,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643\/revisions\/15662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}