Tag Archive for 'ACCFootball'

Saturday’s College Football open thread

Published by StateFans on 11/01/2008 in '08 Football and ACC. 19 Comments

Let me remind everyone that SFN now has a chat room associated with the site. We don’t use that much, but I figure it would be a nice place for some of you to convene during the day.

There are some interesting games in the ACC today starting with Miami @ Virginia (that just kicked-off). I am probably most interested in Clemson’s visit to Boston College. I’m pulling for Dabo Swinney to make a nice run to end the year at Clemson. Dabo has done a lot of things right with alumni and students since taking over for Tommy Bowden; and reaching out to Danny Ford certainly doesn’t make him look bad. Today Swinney is trying avoid becoming the first Clemson coach to start his coaching career with two consecutive losses.

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Next year’s 12th football game

Published by Daily Update on 10/29/2008 in '08 Football, ACC, AD, Chuck Amato, Football, General, Stat of the Day and Tom O'Brien. 47 Comments

At the risk of over-stating the obvious - next year is a very important year for the NC State Football program and every single leader with any type of influence over the direction of the football program. Unless the Wolfpack can string together four consecutive wins to close out the 2008 season, the program is heading for a 4th losing season in the last five years - all under the ‘leadership’ of Athletics Director, Lee Fowler.

To offer some historical perspective on this - NC State has experienced four losing seasons in a five year period only three times since the formation of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953..

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ACC Power Rankings

Published by StateFans on 09/29/2008 in '08 Football and ACC. 10 Comments

The Atlantic Coast Conference has certainly had a topsy-turvy first month of the season. After starting slowly, the conference earned enough respect in recent weeks to move as high as fourth in comparative conference rankings.

The events of this past weekend certainly didn’t help our image. (Why can’t we ever play a Wake Forest team that turns the ball over 4 or 5 times in ONE HALF?!)

A couple of weeks ago ESPN’s ACC Blog ran a really good entry on the ACC being ‘down but not out’ that can be seen by clicking here.

1. Youth. Check this out:

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N&O: ACC in the NFL

Published by StateFans on 09/17/2008 in ACC, Alums and Football. 16 Comments

Joe Giglio at the N&O’s ACCNow has a fantastic blog entry analyzing the ‘ACC in the NFL’.

Very comprehensive. Very insightful.

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Stadium Argument Follow-up

Published by StateFans on 07/16/2008 in ACC, Football and Rankings / Lists. 31 Comments

An awful lot of attention was applied to an ESPN blog post about “toughest” football stadiums in the ACC throughout the conference’s footprint this week.

SFN led the charge with a pretty comprehensive initial entry that can be seen by clicking here and then was followed-up by a great piece from LRM that received a lot of links in cyberspace.

You would think that everything that could be said on the topic would have been said…but there are actually a few follow-ups that we wanted to share with the community.

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A View from the Cheap Seats

Published by LRM on 07/14/2008 in ACC, Football and Fun Stuff. 41 Comments

Dear Heather Dinich,

Good for you, having been to all of the ACC stadiums – it’s something I can’t say for myself. And kudos to ESPN for hiring an Indiana graduate and a Maryland resident to write a regular blog about the ACC.

I’ll be honest here, Heather. I’m provincially prejudiced and I don’t intend to change that about myself. I’m a born and bred North Carolina boy and times have been few when I cared what an outsider thinks about Carter-Finley, but your rankings lack credibility and beg for a response. I’ve been to Lane, Memorial, Bobby Dodd, Groves, Wallace Wade, and Kenan stadiums. And when I say I’ve been there, I’ve been there on days where actual games have been played and not just to look at all the pretty columns.

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ESPN.com: Carter-Finley 11th Toughest Stadium In The ACC (Updated 1:45pm)

Published by RAWFS on 07/14/2008 in ACC, Fans, Football, General, Media and Rankings / Lists. 26 Comments

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 upcoming games.  Still, it’s a 24×7 news cycle and the media needs to drive traffic in order to get paid for their ads. Lacking news, they quite often they come up with meaningless lists like ESPN.com’s “Toughest Places To Play In The ACC.”

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League will NOT expand schedules…more

Published by StateFans on 05/14/2008 in ACC, Basketball and Football. 14 Comments

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 football or 18 in men’s basketball, conference officials said Tuesday.

Some basketball coaches had expressed interest in an 18-game conference schedule, but the issue died this week at the ACC spring meetings when coaches were reminded that a year ago they committed to 16 conference games through 2010-11.

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Schedule expansion in football, too?

Published by StateFans on 05/09/2008 in ACC and Football. 17 Comments

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 some obvious pros and cons, and it’s certainly not beyond the exploratory stage for now. But with the 12-game regular-season policy, there is some additional room for flexible in-conference scheduling.”

Perhaps the best part of the N&O’s blog entry is that Lee Fowler is FINALLY NOT interviewed the piece!

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ACC’s NFL draft success continues to be unappreciated

Published by StateFans on 04/27/2008 in ACC, Alums and Football. 35 Comments

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 in the draft — again the most of any conference in the history. (Crushing the previous record of 36 selections, also set by the ACC in April 2005, the spring after our first season with eleven teams) (Link to interesting entry from two years ago.

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The Demise of ACC Football

Published by VaWolf82 on 01/04/2008 in '07 Football, ACC, Football, General and Rankings / Lists. 29 Comments

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 Fiutak at foxsports.com.

I liked his entire commentary, but he “stole” my idea that I was saving for next summer at the onset of pre-season football hype. Since Pete started the ball rolling, we might as well finish it off. Let’s look at the last point from his article:

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Good Luck, Clemson

Published by Jeff on 12/31/2007 in ACC, Football, Multimedia and Tradition. 22 Comments

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 the SEC will ‘count’ more in most people’s minds than just one game.

With this said, we have posted a video to help ring in the New Year and hopefully to serve as a harbinger for a 2008 bowl appearance for Tom O’Brien’s Wolfpack!

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Dear ‘Jags’, The Feeling is Mutual

Published by StateFans on 12/28/2007 in ACC, Football and Rivals. 60 Comments

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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, but winning 11 games is still very important. This is also the last BC football game for nine months, so enjoy every moment.

Laugh out loud!! OMG that hurts!!

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More Info On Lack Of UVA’s Gator Bowl Ticket Sales

Published by StateFans on 12/25/2007 in ACC. 18 Comments

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 they were shafted by the bowl process.

The Cavaliers were 6-2 and tied with Maryland for second place in the league standings. The Terps went to the Peach Bowl, and N.C. State (which was 5-3) went to the Gator Bowl. Meanwhile, Virginia was sent to the Continental Tire Bowl, which turned out to be a good deal for the program, but didn’t stop the perception that bowls were out to get the Wahoos.

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Hayes: Ranking the ACC Football Stadiums

Published by Jeff on 07/21/2006 in ACC, Football, General and Rankings / Lists. 16 Comments

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 to go with it…we might as well chime in a little bit on the topic –

If you’ve read StateFansNation for a while then you know that we hold Sporting News’ columnist Matt Hayes in high regard. Unfortunately, Hayes severely hurt his reputation with Wolfpackers in his recent assessment of Ranking the ACC Football Stadiums.

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Six Wolfpackers Drafted

Published by Jeff on 05/01/2006 in ACC, Alums, Football and General. 43 Comments

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 things with analysis in ESPN’s studios.

* Prior to the 2006 draft, NC State had produced twelve first round picks. On Saturday, State grew that number by 25% when three players were chosen in the first round. NC State had never had three players selected in the first round in a single season.

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ESPN: ACC is Top Football Conference (again)

Published by Jeff on 07/26/2005 in ACC, Football and General. 1 Comment

Bruce Feldman writes a blog for ESPN.com’s Insider. If you have Insider access then you can check out his July 20th entry titled, “Weighing in on best conferences” where he uses a system to try to quantify the relative strength of college football conferences.

Feldman’s System
Feldman’s system (subjectively) places each school into one of five categories derived from boxing classifications. As Feldman describes it, “the heavier the team the more points the team (and therefore the conference) gets. It goes like this: Heavyweight — 5 points; Light heavy — 4; Middleweight — 3; Welterweight — 2; Flyweight — 1. The points for the schools in each conference are added up, and an average is arrived at.”

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Sagarin: ACC #1 College Football Conference

Published by Jeff on 01/07/2005 in ACC, Football and General. 0 Comments

The Atlantic Coast Conference is accustomed to holding the top spot in USA Today’s Sagarin Ratings, but that top spot is traditionally reserved for the conference’s basketball prowess. Although NC State may have experienced its worst football season of the Chuck Amato era… the Atlantic Coast Conference ’s new additions helped the conference flex enough balanced muscle to claim this year’s designation as the #1 conference in college football.

The ACC schools finished as follows:

(#7) Virginia Tech

(#9) Miami

(#16) Florida State

(#22) Virginia

(#25) Georgia Tech

(#35) North Carolina

(#40) NC State

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