It’s almost the official middle of summertime – about six weeks past Memorial Day and about six weeks until the start of the college football season - so it is obviously a slow time where college sports are concerned. Fall practices are still several weeks out, and it’s really too soon for the major media outlets to start covering […]
ACC Football
League will NOT expand schedules…more
Despite a lot of talk recently, the leaders of the Atlantic Coast Conference decided yesterday not to consider a proposal to expand the number of conference games played in both football and basketball. The Charlotte Observer provides an update of league meetings in this article. ACC schedules will not expand to nine conference games in […]
Schedule expansion in football, too?
Just last week we were all talking about the ACC’s potential interest in expanding the conference basketball schedule. Now the N&O is reporting that the conference will also consider expanding the league’s football schedule. “It’s something that I think we should talk about and explore,” Wake Forest athletic director Ron Wellman said Thursday. “There are […]
ACC’s NFL draft success continues to be unappreciated
In 2006, the Atlantic Coast Conference produced seven of the first fifteen selections in the NFL Draft en route to setting the all-time record of first round draft choices from a single conference with twelve. Additionally, the ACC generated 25 of the 97 selections on the draft’s first day and had 51 total players selected […]
The Demise of ACC Football
Inane utterances from the local media, gross inaccuracies perpetrated by the national media, and glaring inadequacies of State’s athletic department frequently provide topics to address here. But every so often, someone in one of the organizations that we often ridicule will absolutely nail an issue. Such is the case with an article today by Pete […]
Good Luck, Clemson
The Clemson Tigers take the field tonight in the Chick-Fil-A bowl in what I think will be the ACC’s ‘defining’ bowl game of 2007. The Tigers game tonight against Auburn will only count as one game – the conference is currently a respectable 2-1 in bowls thusfar – but the magnitude of this battle with […]
Dear ‘Jags’, The Feeling is Mutual
The Boston College Eagles are gearing up to play Michigan State today in the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando..and evidently, the Eagles aren’t very happy to be there. We provide the following from BC’s top blogger, Eagle in Atlanta: Let me echo what Jags is saying — this is not where we wanted to be, […]
More Info On Lack Of UVA’s Gator Bowl Ticket Sales
Even though this article is 10 days old, we thought everyone might want to read it. We also want to save it for future years when iit is bowl selection time. Before we explain why we’ve come to that point, let’s rewind to 2002. I remember all the whining and complaining by Virginia fans that […]
Hayes: Ranking the ACC Football Stadiums
Great minds do think a lot. Yesterday, Dave Sez ran a piece on a topic that we also had started and were holding in our drafts box and waiting for the “slow days” of late July and August to use. We even had the link to Fansblog in our entry. Now that we are last […]
Six Wolfpackers Drafted
It was a nice weekend for NC State to receive some positive PR!!! Six Wolfpackers were selected in the two-day NFL Draft over the weekend, and two others signed free agency contracts on Sunday. The Wolfpacker’s Draft Tracker highlights State’s six draft picks over the weekend. Heck, even Torry Holt got into the swing of […]
