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Terry Bowden tells a great story about recruiting against his daddy, Saint Bobby. I don’t want to steal his thunder, because it really is a great story. As we walked back out onto the front porch, before I said goodbye, I turned to his mom one last time, hugged her neck and reminded her how…
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Tis the season for endless articles about who’s in and who’s out and what teams still need to do. I love it! If my article from Monday wasn’t enough for you (and I’m sure it wasn’t), read Al Featherston’s lengthy piece at the DBR. Coincidently, Featherston uses the same power ratings I do, but he’s…
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Growing up as an ACC fan outside of North Carolina, I quickly learned to resent the Big Four schools. I mostly hated UNC, of course, but I was also really annoyed at how the conference really only seemed to exist to serve the schools in North Carolina. The ACC Tournament was nearly always there, players…
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It’s completely predictable. A coach of a struggling team is fired and before his replacement has even unpacked his boxes, several key players transfer. It makes sense. Things weren’t going well and the guys are obviously frustrated. They don’t know what to expect from the new guy, so they head out for greener pastures. When…
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Things are getting serious. Nine ACC teams have a very good chance of getting into the NCAA Tournament – although not all nine will – but only three have wrapped up bids with two weeks left. Carolina is really only playing for seeding – a one or a two – at this point. It probably…
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Pardon me for a little site-related post here. Lately we’ve had some good discussions in the comments of my articles. There are a lot of intelligent, knowledgeable ACC fans reading and posting here, fans from nearly every school in the ACC. Each day, Dave Sez receives at least 500 unique visitors, some days seeing well…
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It was an interesting week, that’s for sure. With Virginia Tech’s impressive win in Chapel Hill, Duke’s explosion (and BC’s implosion) in Chestnut Hill last night and Clemson and FSU damaging their NCAA chances, there was a lot going on. Each year, when we get to this point, the most interesting storylines to me are…
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Duke’s been losing. Have you heard? The news has gotten so pervasive that even those college hoops agnostics in the Northeast have caught on. And this guy seems to be enjoying it. That’s a pretty inflammatory piece right there. He even gets in a few shots at NC State and Clemson. Call Duke any names…
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Each year, I like to check in somewhere around the middle of the ACC season and run an analysis on the players to see who’s having the best season so far. As in the past, I’ve calculated the Prouty Rating of each player in the league who averages 10 or more minutes per game. I’ve…
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One of the commonly listed items in Duke-haters checklists is that Duke and Coach Krzyzewski unethically saddled interim coach Pete Gaudet with K’s losses in 1995. This story has always seemed like a non-issue to me, because Gaudet did coach that team for two losing months, but the controversy never seems to go away. Well,…