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Like I said in an earlier posting, there are dozens if not hundreds of team preview articles floating around on the web. I’m not going to be linking to too many of them, because there’s just no point. If you’re interested at all, you will have already found a few to your liking. That said,…
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Maryland at Clemson – I often completely miss the boat when predicting what will happen in these games. I’m not ashamed about it; it’s practically impossible to accurately say what will happen in a college football game. In this game though, “The Desperation Bowl” I called it, I got it right with this prediction, “[Clemson…
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The NCAA released its latest graduation rates, with numbers from the class that entered in 1997-98. I really don’t put too much weight in these numbers, because they are so flawed. Transfers and players who turn pro early count against schools, which really isn’t fair. For this reason, basketball numbers in particular are flawed, because…
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Michael Wilbon has a nice article up about parity in college football. He frames it in reference to Maryland fans’ dissatisfaction with this year’s team. They feel like since they’ve won 10 games three years in row that they should just continue that. Nuh uh. It doesn’t work like that. Not anymore (if it ever…
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You’ve probably seen by now, but I’ll tell ya anyway. Florida fired head football coach Ron Zook today. Curiously, they are letting him finish out the season as a lame gator. I have no problem with the firing; it was inevitable. Actually, I’m kind of happy, because it gives me a second chance to post…
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Julius Hodge, comedian. When asked about Rashad McCants’ now infamous “jail” quote, Hodge had this to say: I don’t look at it in that same way, because if that’s the way he looks at it, I would hate to see what their shower scene looks like. You can read that here, right at the bottom.…
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This is pretty fascinating. According to Dan Hughes, the director of basketball operations for the MAC, refs can actually whistle a technical foul on coaches for yelling at their own players! It’s not clear if he meant that this was only in the MAC, but it sounded like he was implying it was a national…
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OK, they aren’t really killing it, but it made for a better headline. What’s really happening is that the good folks at the NCAA have decided to tweak the lame RPI. Good. What they are doing is taking into account the location of games, whether they are home, road or neutral. That’s a welcome change,…
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The other day, I linked to an article about a Hispanic soccer league here in Raleigh. I was amazed that they actually recruit pro players from Mexico and other South and Central American countries. Well,
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A while back, I was dutifully keeping up with the Duke Basketball Report’s ACC previews. Somehow, I fell behind. Instead of linking to them all separately, I’ll just send to the Maryland preview. From there, it’s a pretty easy link to the rest. They’ve finished all eleven previews and they do a really good job.…