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2010 ACC Age, Experience, & Talent (AET) Index
The AET Index is a quantifiable look at the each ACC team in 5 different categories: Class Size (Percentage of team that are Jr/Sr) Returning Starters (Percentage of starters that are returning from previous year(s)) Returning Lettermen (Percentage of players who have received a Letter) Depth Chart (Percent of 2-deep players who are Jr/Sr) Talent [...]
Continue reading...Joe Schad: North Carolina is exploring the possibility of rolling suspensions spread over multiple games
2. September 2010
Link to Schad’s twitter page here Last evening, ESPN college football reporter Joe Schad was tweeting vigorously on the UNC football scandal. North Carolina leaves for Atlanta at 9:30 a.m. on Fri. The school may know by they which players cannot play and which held for precaution. North Carolina may be wiped out complely at [...]
Continue reading...Marvin Facebooks!
31. August 2010
Just when you thought all the rocks were turned over, our man Marvin comes through and provides some more great material! I am sure most of you heard about this, but apparently our man has given up Twittering but taken up Facebook! Which is great for us! Yesterday it came to light that our man [...]
Continue reading...Timeline of Carolina Circling the Drain (Tuesday Update)
30. August 2010
[UPDATE 08/31/2010, 10:55AM: Thanks to Clarksa for the following visual.] We’ve heard a lot in the past few days about Carolina’s agent-gate, their excuses, and their hintings at a loss of institutional control. At this juncture, I think it’s great for State fans to relish in the circling-of-the-drain that the Tar Heels are experiencing. At [...]
Continue reading...UNC sport symposium: “Thou Shalt Not Tweet: Athletes’ Social Networking Legal Rights vs. Institutional Control.”
27. August 2010
My jaw dropped yesterday when I discovered that UNC associate athletic director of communications Steve Kirschner participated in a UNC sport symposium in April 2010 that had a segment of discussion titled: Thou Shalt Not Tweet: Athletes’ Social Networking Legal Rights vs. Institutional Control. Wow. Monitoring social networking sites has become an enormous issue for [...]
Continue reading...ANOTHER ‘mis-truth’ rears its head in NCAA’s investigation of UNC Football (Updated 10:20)
25. August 2010
Greg Little’s father claims Little only went on a trip to Miami in March. Oops. Make that May as well. UNC proclaims multiple times that the NCAA has mandated they not speak about the investigation. Oops. The NCAA says this is not true – even if they had the legal authority to issue a gag [...]
Continue reading...West Virginia Under Investigation
5. August 2010
These accusations are not related to the recent scandal at UNC, however it is certainly newsworthy considering similar allegations were made against Rich Rodriguez at Michigan. Rodriguez left West Virginia for the job at the University of Michigan before the 2008 season and he was the West Virginia coach from 2001-2007. West Virginia University officials [...]
Continue reading...Ted Brown highlights ACC’s 2010 Legends Class
3. August 2010
NC State’s 4-time All-ACC running back, Ted Brown, will lead the 2010 ACC Football Championship Legends Class. The group of 12 former gridiron standouts from current ACC schools includes five former players who earned some kind of ACC Player of the Year honors, three members of the ACC’s prestigious 50th Anniversary Football Team, a former [...]
Continue reading...Ranking College Football Schedule Posters – N.C. State # 27
30. July 2010
N.C. State made the list of the top 50 college football schedule posters this year, coming in at #27. The poster, depicting 14 Pack players, includes an intense wolf in the middle of “Wolf Pack.” So, what do you think? Have there been better posters? Does this one rank with posters in recent memory? Let [...]
Continue reading...Zarzour Catches Up with TOB at ACC Media Days
28. July 2010
Sports Talk’s Taylor Zarzour recently had a one-on-one with coach Tom O’Brien at the ACC Media Days event. Zarzour’s interview was centered around Russell Wilson, injuries, expectations for the Wolfpack offensive line, and more. This interview is a testament to TOB’s steady-as-we-go style. O’Brien is far from excitable from behind the mic, but he shows [...]
Continue reading...Marvin Austin’s participation in off-season workout program being investigated
26. July 2010
Link here. Sources told SportsBusiness Journal, a sister publication of Sporting News, that one of the things the NCAA is investigating is who paid for Austin’s training at Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Proactive Sports Performance, a training facility where all of Wichard’s rookie clients have trained for the NFL draft in the last five years. Austin [...]
Continue reading...Helpful hints for Elaine Marshall [Update @ 2pm EST]
23. July 2010
As it becomes more evident that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s athletics department is in a huge pile of stink, more and more agents are being blamed and scapegoated by UNC-CH partisans who truly believe that God created the sky after he created the color ‘Carolina Blue’. In today’s News and Observer, North Carolina [...]
Continue reading...Agent Fires Back at Saban
23. July 2010
Link here. “In terms of him throwing that out there, most agents know what goes on in college programs and what programs are clean or not. You want to find out who has the dirty programs, give immunity and go off the record with agents, and it would be like a cockfight, the last one [...]
Continue reading...More from National Football Post: Austin expected to be suspended; 2 more current Heels implicated
22. July 2010
Full article here. We’re told that Austin has been accepting money and other extra benefits, including trips to Miami and his hometown to Washington, D.C., for quite some time and has been in cahoots with South Carolina tight end Weslye Saunders, his good friend, as far as comparing notes on what inducements can be gained [...]
Continue reading...Are you ready for a real bombshell? Austin possibly working for an agent in connection with mid-May party!
22. July 2010
Originally posted at 4:16 a.m. Late Wednesday evening this story broke from Birmingham, Alabama: This article explains how Tide player Marcell Dareus was lured to an agent’s party in Miami in “the middle of May.” Given what we have learned over the past few days about the travel and party attendance of some UNC-CH [...]
Continue reading...Full-blown fiasco here we come! Elaine Marshall steps in to stir the cow-pie! Plus some bonus Miami pictures!
21. July 2010
Get the popcorn ready! As you can read about it here: North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is now involved in this developing Gong Show – in her capacity to regulate agents. From the story: “We’ll be investigating the agents,” Marshall said said. “We will not be investigating the school.” You know what? I think this [...]
Continue reading...Alabama’s Dareus Declared Ineligible
21. July 2010
HOOVER | University of Alabama defensive end Marcell Dareus has been declared ineligible and is believed to be the only UA player who attended a party in Miami hosted by a sports agent, a source close to the situation told The Tuscaloosa News. UA will petition immediately for the reinstatement of Dareus’ eligibility. The NCAA [...]
Continue reading...Caught in a lie? Little, Austin & others in Miami @ “Aquagirl Weekend” in May…not March?
21. July 2010
“Oh! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” — Sir Walter Scott (Scottish novelist) Last night, SFN ran a fun story (linked here) focused on Marvin Austin’s pictures and tweets and is currently blowing up the internet with attention and traffic. Some of the pictures and comments served [...]
Continue reading...Texas A&M AD Reacts to Harsh E-mail
2. July 2010
You may have seen this a couple of weeks ago but it was too good to pass up…especially since the timing coincided with Lee Fowler’s last day in Raleigh. Some Texas A&M Aggie fans are disappointed about the results – or lack thereof – of the recent expansion merry-go-round as they were hoping that the [...]
Continue reading...ACC Media Takes on Yow Hire
25. June 2010
This is great stuff. This is fantastic stuff. Hopefully because of my relationship with Debbie Yow over the last decade plus, I have a more detailed perspective than just about anybody in the media down here. I think it’s an absolutely, positively, overwelmingly great hire for NC State. You are talking about one of the [...]
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2. September 2010
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