To most of us, the ACC is inherent to our culture, and we’ve seen it go through exceptional changes over the past twenty years. Following is the second of a two-part discussion (Part I: Evolution) focusing on how college football, and the ACC in particular, has changed and how this recent evolution of college football […]
Evaluating ACC Expansion Part I: Evolution
There is no question that the college football we all enjoy now is not the same college football we enjoyed as kids, evidenced primarily by the excessive number of bowls and the intense debate over the need for a playoff system. Personally, my favorite football season as an 11-year old kid was the ridiculous 1990: […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
I’m 28 years old, but at this rate, it’s unlikely I’ll see 29. I’ve always kind of figured a woman would be the end of me, but after this weekend, I’m certain that won’t be the case. Instead, it will be this team. See, we don’t rebound. At this point, it almost seems less like […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
Perhaps the Gameday crew will mention it in passing Saturday morning. Otherwise, I expect the most coverage The Biggest Game of the Year will garner nationally will be when its score scrolls across the bottom of other games. After all, it’s just a little backyard rivalry that will certainly never matter like the Red Sox-Yankees […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
If there’s ever been a year we’ve needed a fresh basketball season – and soon – this is it. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet. Atsur is gone, leaving us without a tested point guard, much less a proven one. The freshman Gonzalez is hurt while the sophomore Johnson isn’t eligible until […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the decline of ACC football over the past few years. To me, it’s an interesting topic because the whole basis behind expansion was on increased football revenues from restructured television contracts and the multi-million dollar payout from that much-coveted, yet ever-elusive second BCS bowl. In its simplest […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
Tom O’Brien may be an Ohio native who’s spent the past decade in Boston, but he’s got a certain nature about him that seems distinctly southern. In a way not entirely different than Sidney Lowe, O’Brien has unified a fan base that hasn’t been completely united across the board in twenty years, a refreshing change […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
I was wrong. Way back in November, before teams were playing in Maui or Anchorage and March Madness was still nothing but a distant idea, I wasn’t a complete believer. I had begrudgingly offered my support for the new coach that I had, admittedly, felt was simply the guy that we knew would say yes. […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
Through the last day of January, it had been a season that was particularly forgettable. At the halfway point of that 1996-97 season – back when there was still a true halfway point – we were 0-8 in the conference, which in all fairness wasn’t entirely unexpected. We had played strikingly close games against two […]
A View From the Cheap Seats
I am a State fan. There is a plausible sincerity to these words, an earnestness that rings poetic. To mention these words is to seemingly reveal your character, the very essence of your soul. It is shameless and self-affirming, an unabashed sense of pride about whom you are, perhaps a tad arrogant, however devoid of […]
