The Greensboro News & Record breaks down the ACC basketball coaching trees – the head coaches who were assistants under current ACC coaches. As they point out, Herb Sendek’s done pretty well, although I don’t really think it counts if a guy only worked for you for one season (like Thad Matta under Herb Sendek).…

I know I’ve posted several of these stories, but that’s what time of year this is. Anyway, this is maybe the best read yet on the summer basketball camps, particularly Sonny Vaccaro’s ABCD camp When you’re done, you can read this accompanying piece on Vaccaro. Try not to gag on the fact that it’s titled…

The News & Observer has an interesting article this morning, asking the question is Darian Durant the best Tar Heel QB ever? It’s something I had never thought about. I guess he’s the best that I can recall, although Chris Keldorf is right with him. It’s pretty jarring to see just how few good quarterbacks…

I’ve always kicked myself for never making it down to a Chavis League game. I’m sure it’s fun as hell. This is a cool little article recalling a few past Chavis highlights. ps. Chivas and then Chavis? What’s next for me? Chachi?

NC State fans are once again very excited about the upcoming football season. They’ve sold out all of their home games and are looking for big things. In this N&O article, they only subtly point out that State hasn’t quite lived up to similar expectations in recent seasons. One bit that disturbed me is the…

Caulton Tudor points out that the ACC football POY has become a quarterbacks-only award lately. I think he’s right that that will continue this year. Tudor goes one to list his favorites for offensive and defensive players of the year. The one inexplicable ommission is Brock Berlin from Miami. Maybe he’s not the greatest QB…

If you’ve never been to the SportsProf’s site (it’s a blog, really), you should make it a regular stop. He’s a good writer and covers interesting topics. In this one, he talks a bit about how complicated Bobby Knight is. Coach Knight’s a classic Greek hero, extremely capable, but critically flawed. SportsProf covers the recent…

The Winston-Salem Journal has a nice breakdown of the incoming classes at each ACC football school. I’m linking to Wake Forest’s haul, but you can get to every school from this link. No surprise, FSU and Miami had the best classes and Wake and Duke had the weakest.

In the wake of yesterday’s basketball disaster, Bill Simmons puts together his own Olympic basketball team. No shocker – it looks better than what we have. My one problem with it is he has Iverson as a backup to Dwyane Wade. That would never work. Never. Iverson wouldn’t just be a cancer sitting behind a…

He’s not gone yet of course, but with Alzheimer’s, Eddie Robinson is only a dim reflection of the man he once was. But then, we are all dim in comparison to the man he was. Jerry Izenberg, an old friend, tells us a bit more about the man. Don’t skip this one.