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Boston College Daily Links: Luke Kuechly Superlative Tracker
Football ACC superlative tracker: Week 11 (ESPN ACC Blog)Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly: He ranks sixth on the NCAA’s FBS career list for tackles with 491. (The NCAA’s list only dates back to 2000.) Kuechly has an NCAA-leading streak of 31 straight games with 10 or more tackles....
Reports: West Virginia Mountaineers Headed to Big 12, Missouri Tigers to SEC
The New York Post first reported at 2:39 this morning that West Virginia is set to leave the Big East and join the Big 12. I am honestly not sure about the Post's reporting bona fides (given its tabloid-y nature), which is why I didn't post anything earlier. However, CBS now has a source and Teddy...
Conference Realignment: No Partial ACC Membership For Notre Dame
Remember all that talk about Notre Dame maintaining its football independence but dumping all other sports in the ACC should the Big East fall in on itself? Well on Wednesday, commissioner John Swofford all but shut the door on that option for the Irish. Think you gon' get away with that in the...
The Shotgun/Throwdown: Syracuse Gameday (10/21/11) Edition
Welcome, By-Godders, to the Shotgun/Throwdown, WVU's nationally recognized best place for sports links, information, sophomoric humor and daily distractions. We're being brought to you today by Stoudt's Oktoberfest. It's that magical day that usually comes once a week, especially during the fall...
Conference Realignment: Separating Fact From Spin In UConn's Latest Media Plea For Sympathy
Yesterday, we mentioned that some dude named Ed Diagneault, who writes for the Waterbury (CT) Republican-American, cited an anonymous source that Boston College was trying to block UConn's entry into the Atlantic Coast Conference. After Diagneault tweeted this, he backed it up with a story...
CBS: Both SEC and ACC Rejected West Virginia
There has been some controversy about the status of West Virginia's application to the SEC. A report by the Cincinnati 247sports site said that the SEC rejected West Virginia. We covered in Sprints this morning that maybe WVU wasn't rejected after all. Now, CBS's Brett McMurphy is coming with a...
Boston College Daily Links: Syracuse, Pitt Must Wait 27-Months
Conference expansion-palooza 2k11! Big East says Pitt must wait 27-months (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)Big East commissioner John Marinatto told Pete Thamel of the New York Times that the conference will hold Pitt and Syracuse to the 27-month period before either school can leave to join the ACC. That...
ACC Played Its Cards Correctly, but SEC Still Looms
I don't often compliment the ACC about much other than basketball. It's fun to look down on the conference as the SEC's little brother and relentlessly tease fans of its teams for the conference's perpetual football mediocrity. However, I have nothing but compliments for the way that the ACC...
Pittsburgh, Syracuse Join ACC: Impact On Boston College
There's no telling whether the conference carousel has stopped spinning for the ACC. My guess is we'll know more tomorrow when both Texas and Oklahoma announce their intentions, though it's looking more and more like both those programs (as well as Texas Tech and Oklahoma State) are headed...
ACC Extends Formal Invitations To Pittsburgh, Syracuse: 14 Is The New 12
Here's the press release from Commission John Swofford and the ACC. Nice things are said all around. "The ACC is a strong united conference that is only going to get better with the addition of the University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University," said Duke University President Richard Broadhead,...
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