The Atlantic Coast Conference hosted a series of Championships this weekend that provided 33% of Atlantic Coast Conference members an ACC Championship when: * Florida State won its FIRST men’s golf championship * Virginia won men’s tennis * Clemson won the women’s tennis championship * Duke won women’s golf Additionally, we haven’t yet taken the […]
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ACC May Send a Bowl Team to DC
If given the option of Boise or Washington, DC I’ll take Washington every time. Check out the progress of the “Congressional Bowl” in this link. The proposed Congressional Bowl took a major step toward becoming a reality on Monday when it signed an agreement with the Atlantic Coast Conference. Sean Metcalf, co-founder of the District […]
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 […]
Evaluating ACC Expansion Part II: Measuring Success
To most of us, the ACC is inherent to our culture, and we’ve seen it go through exceptional changes over the past twenty years. Following is the second of a two-part discussion (Part I: Evolution) focusing on how college football, and the ACC in particular, has changed and how this recent evolution of college football […]
Evaluating ACC Expansion Part I: Evolution
There is no question that the college football we all enjoy now is not the same college football we enjoyed as kids, evidenced primarily by the excessive number of bowls and the intense debate over the need for a playoff system. Personally, my favorite football season as an 11-year old kid was the ridiculous 1990: […]
2007 ACC Bowls and Bytes
This link will take you to the bowl schedule for the entire country. The ACC Bowl Menu is set and can be seen by clicking here. Of course, if you read SFN then you would have seen that we accurately projected the entire bowl line up BEFORE Sunday. A couple of interesting NC State tidbits: […]
The Bloodletting Begins (Again)
It is ACC-Big 10 Challenge week, and that means it is time for another beat down of big boys from the midwest. The ACC has won each of the previous eight challenges and leads the overall series by a whopping 48-27. Make that 49-27 after Wake Forest won on the road at Iowa last night. […]
Quote: ACC Expansion Exceeds Expectations
Related to yesterday’s entry ,we thought that we would share the following quote from ACC Commissioner, John Swofford via the ACC Area Sports Journal: “The (ACC’s pre-expansion financial) projections were accurate. That’s the way you would want it. How did the Bonham Group do in assisting us with that analysis? The answer would have to […]
