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I like the idea, but it doesn’t really seem to solve the problem of scheduling winnable home games the ADs seem so intent on.
I prefer the ACC/SEC schedule alliance (even if it’s Mississippi State).
I went to the UConn-State Jimmy V game at MSG in 2012 and had fun. I was surprised — as were some of the UConn fans around me — at how many State fans are in the NYC area. There’s a place right across the street — Jimmy’s maybe? — that is actually a NC theme sports bar.
Note that the ACC is also challenging the two division requirement, which would provide for more flexible in-conference scheduling (such as multiple protected rivalries and re-balancing schedules each season similar to what the NFL does).
My favorite class in college was in Harrelson, History of Foreign Policy (right in my wheelhouse, classes like this are why I sucked as an engineering student).
It was interactive, with two term papers. The professor was great, Michigan undergrad, Ohio State grad school as I recall, had worked at the Pentagon. Don’t remember when exactly, 2000 or spring 2001, but I distinctly remember discussing the USS Cole attack and him telling us the most serious threat facing us was bin Laden.
Crazy the things we remember looking back.
I was in Harrelson on 9/11, actually in History of Technology 341 (can’t remember the professor now but he was good), my final semester. A classmate came in and said a plane had hit a Tower. I didn’t even own a cellphone yet and information still traveled slow, so none of us thought much of it and class went on as normal.
Crazy to think nowadays that I found out what had happened only because I turned on my radio while driving home after that class.
That assholes’s book was widely discredited soon after publication.
However, what followed was nothing but an opportunistic witch hunt that crippled a program that until then had always been entirely on par with UNC. Subsequently, because every entity with jurisdiction was looking at N.C. State, this put The Flagship in a position to implement the system of fraud it perfected over the next two decades.
I once “met” him at Sammy’s when he forced his way into the conversation I was having with my buddies at a separate table. He’d always seemed like a caricature in his posts and that day did nothing to change my impression of him.
Hadith left the ACC for the Big XII, then by chance ended up in the SEC because of expansion and now he’s going (voluntarily) to C-USA. That’s the career path of a guy leaving a trail of sanctions behind.
I penned that “Spirit…” Column a few years ago, and I remember making the conscious decision long before that to never put that self-serving asshole’s name in print, for fear some curious kid may google it and believe the driveling, lying vitriol he spewed in a book rife with errors and mischaracterizations of even the most basic of facts (for instance, he didn’t even fact check players names and years they were in school, and consistently misspelled mascots, etc).
You criticize ESPN in your poll then use their website for the bracket pool?
Life is a paradox, indeed.
Name and email submitted to ESPN in order to play? If it were just us “family”, no problem. Maybe I’m too cautious….
I’ve been using ESPN for fantasy sports for a decade and never gotten a single unwanted email from them. And the group is private, password required to join.
The first two days will be interesting. GT-BC could’ve been played at Page High School Wednesday and there’d have been plenty of tickets available.
That team proved Saturday night, that on any given night, it can play with anybody.
Now it’s time to prove it can overcome that kind of loss and keep that level of intensity against a more evenly matched team.
Cow, I’m pretty sure I’ve been beside you on the lift before. I skied off both confused and fascinated by the experience.
Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons are two of the finest drives on earth. Solitude is my favorite ski hill in the Wasatch.
The coldest I’ve ever been was either on the Italy-France border at La Rosier or the Alta-Snowbird pass a few years ago.
The most nerve-racking, treacherous drive I had was through a whiteout on California 88 from Kirkwood back to Tahoe.
Utter chaos reigns in Cary. I was out for a while this afternoon and had to help push several cars just to clear an opening to get things moving. It got nasty fast. Snow movers don’t do much good when it’s gridlock. I’ve navigated blizzards in the Wasatch, Sierra Nevada, Loveland Pass, Chicago and of course back home on Highway 421 from Boone — it’s fun if you’re equipped for it.
I remember when State-UNC was cancelled in ’91 the night Desert Storm began. They played back-to-back the next two nights.
It’s irresponsible for the ACC to play this game, simply because it is, in fact, so important to so many folks, that people will get killed trying to get there.
I really wanted Rick Barnes.
It ranks right up there with “What if Philip had redshirted in 2000?” What if Fowler had acted with even a shred of competence and fired Sendek in 2001 and we’d hired Barnes?
This is based on the “eye test” and not anything scientific, but I don’t see any way we get in without a win over Syracuse and Pitt and/or UNC. Keep in mind, you can win two games Wed and Thu in the ACCT this year and neither of them be considered quality.
We won’t play Duke or Virginia again unless we meet in the ACCT. Splitting with WF and beating Miami twice won’t do it.
Nice summary Va.
There’s also merit in discussing why 20 wins no longer matters. Namely, expansion means the league schedules are now so imbalanced that you can’t simply combine the 20 wins with 9-7 to pad your resume. Several ACC teams over the years — including a couple of Herb’s teams — got at-large bids at 7-9; but until a few years ago only one or two had ever been snubbed at 9-7. Now, there’s a big difference between a 20-win, 9-7 team that only plays (and loses to) Syracuse, Duke and Virginia once this year and a .500 team that plays each of them (and perhaps splits with some of them) twice.
My favorite over the past few years has been ESPN’s insistence on touting a bubble team’s BPI, which is a stat it made up because it thinks the RPI is too simplistic. Never mind that the selection committee doesn’t factor in BPI and still uses RPI because it is, in fact, simplistic.
Notre Dame’s NBC ratings have been at their highest since the late 80’s, and they just extended the agreement — they aren’t going to be a full member anytime soon.
In the end, adding Notre Dame as a partial member — and a full member of our bowl package — was a brilliant move, because it will ensure the ACC stays in the Power 5.
It sounded like ESPN may force the issue to produce the ACC Network.
NBC will still own all of Notre Dame’s home games (even its ACC games), so the ACC Network will need more watchable material.
