You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
The Call, The Review, The Shaft
ACC officiating coordinator Doug Rhoads said today that Ron Cherry’s officiating crew handled the spot of the ball correctly on a key fourth-down play during the final minute of Maryland’s 38-31 defeat of N.C. State on Saturday. The officials gave Adams what appeared to be a generous spot of the ball, and coach Tom O’Brien [...]
TCU & the Absurdity of Expansion
Ok, for those of you that haven’t followed this most recent round of conference expansions closely, here’s a brief summary. Try to keep up. Texas Christian University, of Fort Worth, announced today that it will join the Big East in 2012 as a full member, which will give the conference a total of 17 teams, [...]
Bowl Preferences?
We’re going to have an entry later that will spell out NC State and the ACC’s current bowl landscape. Before we do, we wanted to give everyone a chance to chime in with your own selfish, personal preference for the Wolfpack’s coming bowl trip.
Observers drops damaging UNC academic info; where have we heard this before?
If you missed it this weekend, the News & Observer/Charlotte Observer took a deeper dive into the type of ‘student’ athletes being admitted – and curiously remaining eligible – within the John Bunting & Butch Davis football programs at UNC-Chapel Hill. The article is available here and a discussion had already been launched here on [...]
The Symmetry of Loserdom
I remember sitting in Carter-Finley on Philip Rivers’ Senior Day. State was choking against Maryland, and with under three minutes to play, the Terps missed what would have been the game tying extra point. I swear to God, I turned immediately to my family and said “Great, now we will lose in regulation.” Which we [...]
It’s Business Time – Maryland Game Thread
I’m sure Bret and Jemaine would agree – it’s business time for the Pack this afternoon. And a business-like performance will get it done. Maryland has to be a bit fragile after a tough home loss knocked them out of Atlantic contention last week. So we need to step on the Terps’ collective throat early [...]
Maryland = ‘Nemesis’
Decades of playing in a relatively stable conference can create some interesting trends and history between programs. While rivalries are often born of geographic location, alumni interaction and annual ‘game importance’, other secondary rivalries are often born of other trends and experiences. The N&O had an article today that focused on the scheduling of NC [...]
UNC-CH Board of Trustees chair critical of N & O’s “opinion” (day 134)
Today the News and Observer published this letter from Robert Winston, the chairman of UNC-CH’s Board of Trustees. The best part of the letter: As Chancellor Holden Thorp has said, we don’t feel good about being in this situation, but we do feel good about how we’ve responded to it. We pledged from the start that [...]
Final Weekend in the ACC AET Index Games (Week 13)
If you are new to the ACC AET Index please refer back to the first article of the year 2010 ACC AET Index for a quick education in the numbers. Week 9 article is also good to review to understand why I’ve included a new version of the AET Index that I believe is a more accurate [...]