Tag Archive | "ACC Football"

2008 ACC Football Review

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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2008 ACC Football Review

  It should be really easy to project this fall’s college football results. All we have to do is: - Assess what went right/wrong in 2008. - Subtract contributions from “graduating” players. - Add in contributions that we will see from new players. - Subtract lost contributions due to injuries. That should leave us with [...]

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The State of State 2.0 – Football

Monday, June 8, 2009

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The State of State 2.0 – Football

Last year I did a series of entries with summaries of ACC records and titles(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5). This year I will be posting entries by sport and at the end of the school year I am planning on doing some overall summaries for the athletic department. [...]

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Dienhart: ‘Expect a breakout this fall’

Monday, April 13, 2009

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A couple of years ago we highlighted various media exercises where Tom O’Brien was garnering praise and high rankings. It may be worth some of your time to do a little surfing. As you can see from some of the previous links, Tom Dienhart was writing for The Sporting News in the past. Today, [...]

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ACC Football Future: NC State (Updated 11:30am)

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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As ESPN.com reviews the Wolfpack’s 2008 Football season in this entry, Dave Glenn says that after an impressive stretch run, Wilson & Pack aim to contend in 2009 With UNC flirting with an ACC championship run this year before fading in November, and with the Tar Heels talking up big plans for another stadium expansion, the [...]

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Heather Dinich ‘Heart’ David Cutcliffe

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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She’s at it again. The woman who originally ranked Carter-Finley Stadium the ACC’s  11th toughest place to play while ranking Kenan Stadium 4th because of its scenic beauty… This place is just the right size, and the picturesque pine trees make this one of the nicest venues in the league. Butch Davis has an amazing view of [...]

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Has realignment worked?

Friday, December 12, 2008

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Long article and a good read. When the ACC begins negotiations next year on a new TV contract, the league will be in year six of its move to a 12-team, two-division superconference. In many ways, the strength of that next deal will serve as a referendum on the ACC’s expansion, which added Miami, Virginia Tech and [...]

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Focus on Football

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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We’ve got some solid football items to digest today. Heather Dinich has ranked the ACC Bowl games in order of most entertaining.  The Wolfpack vs the Scarlet Knights is a strong second on the list.  It’s interesting a bowl that is not an official ACC Bowl and includes the ACC’s 10th team is ranked so highly.  [...]

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ACC Went 6-4 This Season Against God’s Conference

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Some odds and ends to fill the time before the Wolfpack tips against Davidson Saturday and bowl bids are finally settled: The Big Lead: Head to Head, The ACC Beat the SEC This Year We all know the Pac-10’s a joke. And everyone thinks the ACC is a joke. We compiled the season-long stats, and if our math [...]

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NC State’s Evolving Bowl Picture (Update #7: GT Accepts Peach)

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

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Folks, stay tuned to this entry, as we’ll be adding updates as they roll in relative to the Wolfpack’s bowl destination. We learned on Monday that NC State was out of the running for one of the nine bowls with ACC ties after the NCAA held a lengthy teleconference with conference and bowl officials to [...]

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Russell Wilson Is All-ACC First Team QB

Monday, December 1, 2008

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The Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association has named their 2008 All ACC Football team. Russell Wilson wins First Team QB honors Willie Young gets Honorable Mention at DE Nate Irving gets Honorable Mention at LB T.J. Graham received Honorable Mention for Special Teams The rest of the list can be found here.

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Saturday’s College Football open thread

Saturday, November 1, 2008

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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). [...]

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Next year’s 12th football game

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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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 [...]

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ACC Power Rankings

Monday, September 29, 2008

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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 [...]

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N&O: ACC in the NFL

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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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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More Fun With Rankings- ACC Coaches

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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Here’s something to play with on a Thursday morning in August. Our favorite ESPN ACC blogger is at it again. (I suppose I’m using a “neutral” favorite there– neither a compliment nor in the perjorative.) Since we had so much fun with the stadium rankings, here is a ranking of the ACC [...]

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Helmet schedule…get your helmet schedule…

Monday, August 4, 2008

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My wife actually asked me over the weekend where was the helmet schedule for this season so that she could put it on the refrigerator. Great timing! Click here so that we can send you web surfing to get your helmet schedule for 2008!

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Stadium Argument Follow-up

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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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 [...]

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A View from the Cheap Seats

Monday, July 14, 2008

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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 [...]

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

Monday, July 14, 2008

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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 [...]

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League will NOT expand schedules…more

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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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 [...]

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