According to those in the big conferences now, the ACC is about to learn that 12 team conferences aren’t perfect. There’s no denying that there’s more money, but the competitive landscape is different. It’s harder to win the conference (duh, there are more team!) and you lose the closeness. I found it incredible that Vandy…

It’s official now, Shaq is being traded to the Miami Heat for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Brian Grant and first round draft pick. I think it’s a good deal for the Lakers. Is it an even swap? No. But, there aren’t really any even swaps for Shaq and the Lakers’ hands were tied once Shaq…

Half of the ACC’s starting quarterbacks have been nominated for the Davey O’Brien award. The O’Brien is given to the nation’s top college qb.

Andrew Jones of the Wilmington Star-News weighs in on the fifth year proposal (registration required) given to the NCAA. If you missed it, I weighed in on this (and more) here.

TheInsiders.com has a pretty thorough preview of next year’s ACC basketball teams. The preview covers every team in depth, including the new ones, Virginia Tech and Miami.

It seems that recent changes in college basketball might force Coach K to (gasp) actually use all of his scholarships. It seems that he prefers to use only 10 of his 13 scholarships (all on McDonald’s All Americans, it seems) at a time. In these days of abreviated (or aborted) college careers, he might want…

This guy starts to rip Miami (and a judge) a new one for letting Willie Williams off easy. Then, he relaxes and decides that that’s just the way things are now. I’d have prefered if he stuck to the outrage – it would have been a better article.

Gary Williams hired former star Keith Booth (or “Boof” if you’re Magic Johnson) as an assistant coach. Booth was one of my favorite ACC players. He was undersized for the way he played, but he had a great senior year.

This is a nice article on Jason Williams’ comeback status. He’s jogging now and applying for graduate school at Duke. He really comes across as an impressive guy in this article. He’s not bitter and he’s completely aware that basketball is not his whole life. He implies that he always realized that and that was…

Former Tar Heel Larry Brown is about to hire former Tar Heel Phil Ford to an assistant coach position with the Detroit Pistons. For the past four years, since Matt Doherty opted not to hire him, Ford has been drifting around Chapel Hill doing various basketball-related duties. It’s really a surprise to me that no…