It seems my article on the rising costs and pressures of recruiting was pretty timely. I even picked the right coach to quote. In an article today, Clemson’s Tommy Bowden goes off on the growing “arms race” in ACC football recruiting. He doesn’t propose slowing things down; he complains that Clemson’s being left behind. “Every…

The ACC is reviewing football recruiting rules in the expectation that the NCAA is going to tighten its rules. Wisely, the ACC wants to get in and draw some of their own lines before the NCAA steps in. The ACC has always tried to hold higher standards than the NCAA at large. The flash point…

In case you haven’t noticed, I have a new feature on Dave Sez, the Quick Links. These are links to stories on other sites. As the name implies, I don’t put too much effort into them. They’ll have at most a sentence or two of description. Thanks to a handy little browser extension, I can…

The job that Chuck Amato has done in four years as NC State’s football coach is amazing. When he arrived in 2000, State fans were desperate for some success from their sports teams. Any success. State has always been a basketball school (more on that in a bit), but their hoops team was in the…

He ain’t heavy, he’s my felon. Today, JamesOn Curry will accept a scholarship to play basketball for Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State. It should come as no surprise that Curry ended up with Sutton. Now that Tark is out of the picture, Sutton and Bob Huggins at Cincinnati have taken on the roles of the…

On Monday, Duke recruit Shaun Livingston and North Carolina recruit J.R. Smith both announced that they are going to skip college and enter the NBA draft. Both say that they don’t plan to hire agents, leaving the possibility that they will instead decide to play in college. I think that’s extremely unlikely to happen. Livingston’s…

As I’m sure everyone saw earlier this week, Luol Deng declared himself eligible for the NBA draft. He said that he isn’t going to sign with an agent, but there’s no chance in hell that he’s coming back to Duke. None. Baring some disastrous event, he’ll be drafted in the top five. He knows it…

Ken Pomeroy posted an article where he makes the point that Frank Haith made a mistake by accepting the head basketball position at Miami (and frankly, I wasn’t too impressed with Miami’s choice of him either). Ken’s point is an interesting one. He says that in the ACC, teams at the bottom tend to stay…

Unlike every other sports-related web site, I didn’t see fit to put out my own mock NFL draft. It just seemed a pointless exercise. Sort of like artificial sport. Journalistic onanism. I think more people were interested in guessing who teams would pick than in the results of the actual picks. Thank god for the…

As you’ve you no doubt heard by now, former Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman was killed yesterday in Afghanistan. You probably remember Tillman from the news he made three years ago when he abruptly quit football to join the Army. He said he was motivated by the events of 9/11 and wanted to serve his country.…