Back in October 1997, Dean Smith tried to get motivated to start his 37th season as head basketball coach at UNC and found he couldn’t muster the fire. Coaching is a hard job and requires immense amounts of commitment and intensity. When it’s not there, you can’t fake it. Coach Smith knew the signs and…
You like that cheesy title? I knew you would. To continue my recent trend of providing ACC football previews without actually writing my own content, I give you three outstanding compilations of links from the ACCBasketBlog (they aren’t just for basketball anymore!). I mean, why duplicate what they’ve already done? There are enough links on…
Last week I posted the first part of a guest preview of ACC football. MadduxSports.com gives us part II now – the Coastal Division ACC Coastal Division Preview from MadduxSports.com Defense, defense, and more defense, that is what the ACC Coastal is about. The Coastal is a rather interesting division to break down. Between quarterback battles,…
Wow. This is terrible news. Skip Prosser apparently had a heart attack this morning while jogging and died. He was 56 years old. By all accounts, he was an extremely likable and good man. Sad, sad, sad. I feel terrible for his family, his friends, his current and former players and all Wake…
I mentioned previously that I would be posting a third-party football preview, and here it is! Tom from MadduxSports.com put together a nice preview of the 2007 ACC football season for me simply for the quid pro quo of linking back to his site. The Coastal Division is coming next. Enjoy! ACC Atlantic Division Preview…
Yawwwwn. Strrrrrrrrrretttttch. So, what did I miss? Anything? [Thumbing through the news of the last couple of months …] OK, it looks like a few things happened while I was napping. Guess this is as good of a time as any to shake off the cobwebs and get back to it. But not just…
There’s just something about Charles Barkley. He’s not the smartest guy in the world, but he’s certainly smart. He’s not the funniest guy in the world, but he’s certainly funny. He’s not the best basketball analyst in the world, but he’s certainly a great one. He’s not any one thing, but as a whole, he’s…
I don’t have much experience watching and evaluating high school football talent, but this highlight reel of Georgia Tech running back recruit Jonathon Dwyer is pretty damn impressive. I don’t know, maybe all D-1 RB recruits look like that against high school competition, but even so, it’s fun to watch.
William Maloney, AKA Eagle In Atlanta, wrote a column last week for his AOL FanHouse site. In it, he ranks the ACC coaches using an objective measure – the coach’s winning percentage versus the school’s all-time winning percentage. It’s hard to find objective ways to compare coaches, but this is a pretty good one. (any…