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Syracuse, Pitt ACCepted; who’s next?

Background from yesterday here. This morning, SportscenterU on ESPNU reported that Pittsburgh and Syracuse have officially been accepted, and that others are being considered, and Yahoo! Sports confirmed this: But USA Today reported early Sunday that the ACC presidents had already voted on Saturday morning to accept Syracuse and Pittsburgh to the league. Citing an […]

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Thursday Compendium

September 1. 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 2 DAYS!!! Brett Friedlander (Starnewsonline.com) State bolsters receiving corps with move of CB Rashard Smith With C.J. Wilson and David Amerson having established themselves at the corners and the Wolfpack facing major questions at receiver, O’Brien decided that Smith’s best chance of making a contribution to […]

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Saturday Expansion (3:45pm Update)

As expected, this is all moving very quickly, and there is plenty of ongoing (opinionated) discussion on the SFN Forums about the inevitable next round of college football expansion and realignment, and more precisely, how it will affect State. So go on over there and join the fun, and it’s likely you’ll even win a […]

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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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