Monday through Friday each week, we compile the best links on ACC football from around the web.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Ranking the ACC’s College Football Stadiums (Athlon Sports)

Fall Saturdays are special. Small towns, huge crowds, tailgating, bands, cheerleaders and student sections are just a few of the reasons college football is the best sport on the planet. When campuses jump to life across the nation each weekend in the fall, college stadiums become a staging ground for history. There are a variety of ways to evaluate the greatness of a stadium…

F/+ in the ACC: Will an Elite Program Please Stand Up? (Football Study Hall)

One last stop on this tour of F/+ ratings in each of the major conferences: the ACC. Last time, I took you through the Big 12. A brief review: The better a team’s offense is, the further “north” they are on the chart. The better a team’s defense is, the further “east” you want to be. The best teams reside in the NE corner. The gray lines on the chart are percentile rankings for offense and defense…

Realign ACC Football Divisions to Create More Marquee Matchups (Daily Press)

No matter how many times I ask, the answer never changes. No, the ACC is not considering divisional realignment in football. No, despite considerable fan and media buzz, the issue is a non-starter among decision makers. Most recently, I asked commissioner John Swofford last month and the athletic directors from Virginia Tech and Virginia, Jim Weaver and Craig Littlepage, this week…

An Admittedly Impractical Suggestion for Solving the ACC’s Football Scheduling Problem (Virginian-Pilot)

The ACC has a scheduling problem. Don’t feel bad. So do the SEC and Big Ten. This is what conference expansion has wrought. While good for the league’s coffers, it is a pain in the you-know-what for schedule-makers. Twelve teams was manageable. Sixteen would have made for good symmetry. But 14, where it seems most of the big conferences will be stuck for at least this term of TV contracts, is incredibly awkward…

Saturday, 6 p.m.: Heat Update; SI Preparing UM/NCAA Expose; Shapiro Makes Another Allegation (Miami Herald)

With the University of Miami just days away from its hearing in front of NCAA’s infractions committee, two sources confirmed to The Miami Herald that Sports Illustrated is in the final stages of writing an expose about the NCAA and its investigation into the school’s athletics program, including not-previously-published allegations from former UM booster Nevin Shapiro…

Greg Dent Charged With Sexual Assault: FSU Receiver to Be Suspended Indefinitely (Tomahawk Nation)

Florida State senior wide receiver Greg Dent was arrested Sunday on a charge of sexual assault under Florida Statute 794.011 (5). The statute reads: A person who commits sexual battery upon a person 12 years of age or older, without that person’s consent, and in the process thereof does not use physical force and violence likely to cause serious personal injury commits a felony of the second degree…

Former UNC African American Studies Chairman Had Close Ties to Athletic Counselors (News & Observer)

Julius Nyang’oro, the former UNC African studies chairman at the heart of an academic fraud scandal, had a cozy relationship with the program that tutored athletes, according to newly released emails. Members of the academic support staff offered Nyang’oro football tickets and the chance to watch a game from the sidelines…

Monday through Friday each week, we compile the best links on ACC football from around the web.

Friday, June 7, 2013

A Nine-Game ACC Football Schedule Without Divisions (BC Interruption)

A little over a month ago, when the SEC was contemplating moving to a nine-game conference schedule, Year2 over at Team Speed Kills had an interesting, out-of-the-box scheduling model proposal. Given the inflexibility of the 6-1-1 schedule format, where non-crossover teams play just twice in 12 years, TSK wanted to junk divisions entirely…

As FSU Begins Search for New AD, Here’s an Early Look at Possible Targets (Orlando Sentinel)

With Wednesday’s news that Florida State athletics director Randy Spetman has been assigned to a new advisory role in the university’s athletics department, school administrators will soon direct their attention to a national search for his replacement. Such search processes are never easy. As we have seen in recent weeks with the continued drama at Rutgers…

Syracuse Football Recruiting: The Email That Helped SU Land Oklahoma Transfer Drew Allen (Syracuse.com)

The email found its way to Tim Lester’s inbox at roughly 7 p.m. one evening in March. He happened to be working late that night in the Syracuse football office when the message popped open, a circumstance that would prove unbelievably fortuitous in a few short weeks. The email, which came from the University of Oklahoma, described a 6-foot-5-inch, 235-pound quarterback named Drew Allen…

Chancellor Holden Thorp Leaving UNC (Associated Press)

Holden Thorp is packing up after nearly five years as chancellor at the University of North Carolina, preparing for his next job as provost at Washington University in St. Louis. It’s no accident he’s leaving a school that regularly plays for national titles at the NCAA’s highest level to one that competes at its lowest. Thorp’s done with big-time college sports, and if he had his way, other school presidents would be finished with them, too…

Q&A With ESPN’s Burke Mangus: New ACC Could Redefine College Basketball Viewership (AL.com)

Burke Magnus, ESPN’s senior vice president of college sports programming, hopes college sports has reached a stable point. Over the past three years, 45 Football Bowl Subdivision schools have changed conferences or announced their intention to switch. Texas-Texas A&M and Kansas-Missouri are gone (for now, at least); the Big East is a shell of itself and now called the American Athletic Conference…

Should Conference Championship Games Be On Campus? 10 Times It Could’ve Changed Things (SB Nation)

Wednesday, ACC commissioner John Swofford discussed the idea of having the ACC Championship Game at campus sites, like the Pac-12 and Conference-USA, as opposed to Charlotte. It seems like a win-win. Remember what the ACC Championship Game sometimes looks like? Put those games at campus sites, and you can build an atmosphere and reward a team for a strong regular season by giving it home-field…

Wake Forest Has Two New Helmets, But Not the Ones We Expected (SportsLogos.net)

A few months ago, photographs of some purported new helmets for Wake Forest had made the rounds. People considered them to be fairly likely, and were proclaimed “legit.” Today, we see what the team will actually use. This morning, Offensive Line Coach  Jonathan Himebauch (@COACH_HIMEY ) tweeted pictures from the Wake facility, of their new helmets…

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

ACC Football Championship Game On Campus? (BC Interruption)

The ACC Football Championship Game will be played for the fourth consecutive year at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium in 2013. After this season, the game will be seeking a new home. The conference could keep the game in Charlotte, seek another neutral-site venue or … “@DavidGlennShow: Swofford says ACC will look into the playing the ACC Championship game on campus like the Pac 12″…

Timing of Spetman Move is Odd, But Decision is Not (Tallahassee Democrat)

There are a lot of questions we can ask about Florida State University President Eric Barron’s decision to remove Randy Spetman from his post as athletic director. Why did it happen on Wednesday, one day before Spetman was expected to unveil a five-year strategic plan to Florida State’s Board of Trustees? Why not this time last year, when Barron instead gave him a one-year contract extension?…

Orlando Natural Choice to Replace Atlanta for ACC’s Top Bowl Destination After Orange, Playoff (Daily Press)

Orlando was the ACC football champion’s bowl home from 1987-91. More recently, the city has hosted an ACC team for the last 12 postseasons. Given that history, Orlando is the natural choice to replace Atlanta atop the conference’s non-playoff bowl pecking order. And that is precisely what the ACC and Russell Athletic Bowl are poised to finalize…

Injecting Imbalance and Inequity Into ACC Football (WRAL Sports)

The Atlantic Coast Conference released their inter-divisional schedule rotation for football through 2024 yesterday amid exactly zero controversy and even less conversation. And, while that might be fine on one hand, the lack of serious discussion is awful on the other. College football has always thrived, even feasted, on loud debates surrounding rankings, schedules, fairness, etc…

Clemson’s Academic Track Record a Centerpiece of Dabo Swinney’s Recruiting Pitch (Orange and White)

After four-star linebacker Korie Rogers committed to the Tigers two weeks ago, he said his choice of Clemson over Georgia was more a matter of academics than football. During an unofficial visit to campus, Rogers and his parents toured Vickery Hall, talked to members of Clemson’s academic support staff, and were sold. “Something was just telling me that Clemson was it for me,” Rogers told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution…

Construction on New Syracuse Football Indoor Facility Could Start Before Fall (Syracuse.com)

Syracuse will soon break ground on its new indoor facility, and construction may start even before the fall, athletic director Daryl Gross said Wednesday in his office. “We’re on track on the indoor facility,” Gross said, adding renderings will be available “soon,” though offered no details on what might be included. “Our meetings have been great,” he said. “They’re ongoing. They’re frequent. It’s got so much momentum going right now…

The Best ACC College Towns for Sports Fans (Movoto Blog)

In writing this post I wondered, at first, if I should tell you upfront that I have absolutely no experience or interest in College Sports. This might ruffle some feathers—but if I’ve learned anything in my writing for Movoto, it’s that some people seem to want to get ruffled. So there it is. Until I started working on this post, I did not know what the Atlantic Coast Conference was…

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

ACC Network Still in Early Stages… What’s Next? (CBS Sports)

Burke Magnus remembers the SEC and ESPN first discussing a 24-hour channel back in 2010. The channel is officially launching in August 2014. ESPN’s senior vice president of college sports programming brings up this point when discussing a potential ACC Network because, well, if this happens, it’s going to be awhile. Think 2016 or 2017. ESPN has not gone beyond “initial conversations” with the ACC on the channel concept, Magnus said…

ACC Football Schedule Rotation a Reminder of Expansion’s Price (Daily Press)

ACC fans knew this was coming. They knew in October that the conference had scrapped plans to adopt a nine-game league football schedule, and they knew the cost of that reversal. Yet when the ACC released the 2014-24 interdivision rotation Tuesday afternoon, many were outraged that attractive matchups such as Virginia Tech-Florida State will be staged only twice every 12 years. Talk about short-term memory lapse…

The New England “Brain Drain” and Impact on Boston College Athletics (BC Interruption)

A new report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston shows that recent college graduates leave New England at a faster rate than any region of the country. A year after graduation, only 63.7 percent of 2008 graduates of New England schools were still living in the region. In comparison, 88 percent of college grads in the West, 82.7 percent in the Middle Atlantic and 79 percent in the South Atlantic stayed in the area for at least a year after earning a degree…

Chat Time: The ACC’s History and Post-Realignment Future (SB Nation)

Martin: Hey, Mark, it’s that time again. Time to talk about the ACC and things that go along with the ACC, like friends and sports. It’s still May, which means things are a bit quiet aside from baseball, but what stands out to you right now in the old conference world? Mark: It’s funny you ask that because, eventually, SB Nation will have a site devoted solely to the ACC, and in order to prepare, I’ve been doing a little reading…

Miami Hurricanes Schedule Preview — Gators v. Hurricanes — a Farewell (State of the U)

Already circled on many of the pundits Top 10 non-conference games of the year, the Gators and Canes meet for what could be the last time in a very long time on September 7 at Sun Life Stadium. A Bitter History: The Gators and Canes, the two oldest major football program in the history of the state, will be looking to get the last laugh, barring a bowl meeting sometime down the road…

N.C. State’s New Web Series “Dare Coach D” Opens Up a World of Possibilities (Dr. Saturday)

Dave Doeren must get bored in the offseason. Last season with Northern Illinois, the school started a series called “Doeren Discovers” where the coach went around the Chicago area doing random things like singing at Wrigley Field and skydiving and documenting it for Northern Illinois. Well, this year, Doeren, the new N.C. State coach, is doing something similar in Raleigh with “Dare Coach D”…

More Takeaways a Next Step for Clemson Football (Orange and White)

88 days to kickoff of Clemson-Georgia, let’s look at some fun with football statistics… Coaching Search has done a number of college football pieces that paint the picture of where the Tigers stand nationally and among the ACC. Clemson had the top red zone scoring offense in the country last year (95 percent), but it doesn’t appear in the upper rung over the last three years in their study due to lean years in 2010 and 2011…

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