ACC Teams

Sunday Samplings

August 13, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL JP Giglio (N&O) State’s depth chart written in pencil Watching football, instead of playing, was an adjustment for Tony Creecy last season. The N.C. State running back redshirted in 2010 but will play this season. The question now is how much will Creecy play, and how good will State’s […]

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Friday Findings

August 12, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com) Thurs. practice report: O’Brien feels good about RB’s A healthy offensive line and strong running game are two keys to NC State’s success this fall. O’Brien said that after two weeks of practice, fifth-year senior Curtis Underwood, Jr. and junior James Washington are still atop the […]

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Conference Expansion…again?

I wrote last November about the absurdity of the most recent series of conference re-alignments and expansion. Conference realignment and expansion is in no way a recent, or revolutionary, concept. College football over the decades has remained about as steady as the Hatteras shoreline. The trend of several small, regional conferences towards a few elite […]

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NCAA Stings GT With Probation

Recent news from Atlanta has surely caused the pucker factor in Chapel Hill to increase exponentially: Georgia Tech was fined $100,000 by the NCAA, stripped of its 2009 ACC championship in football and placed on four years of probation on Thursday for failure to cooperate with its investigation into the football and men’s basketball programs. […]

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Conference Title Drought

With the heat wave that has been in the Raleigh area as well as most places in the Southeast over the last week or so, it brought up another area where a major drought is occurring. Now that baseball is down to the College World Series, all conference tournaments have been completed in all sports […]

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