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Boston College Daily Links: Kuechly, Fletcher And The 2012 NFL Draft
Football Mel Kiper's Top Five Linebackers (Bleeding Green Nation)A solid pairing at the top, both Kuechly and Burfict are well-known among evaluators and should crack the first round. Both have a ton of experience and will be able to step in, make calls and help teams immediately. I'm glad to see...
New ACC Divisions Set Up To Preserve BC-Syracuse ... And Pitt-Virginia Tech?
Everyone is happy with the new ACC Atlantic and Coastal Divisions, yes? Well sounds like you have our school ... and Virginia Tech to thank for this? Via The Daily Press' David Teel: "Swofford said the "overriding factors" in the division assignments were keeping Virginia Tech and Boston College...
Feinstein's "ACC Expansion Killed Basketball" Column Misses The Mark
The WaPo's John Feinstein recently took a closer look at how ACC basketball has continued to slide in the post-expansion era in a recent column titled "Since expansion, the ACC has been merely another common conference in basketball." Feinstein cutely interweaves quotes from college basketball...
ACC Divisions: Syracuse Or Pittsburgh To The ACC Atlantic?
Last week, ACC Commissioner John Swofford hinted at how Pittsburgh and Syracuse will eventually get slotted into the conference ... whenever that might finally happen. "I think nine (conference) games are probable in football. I think it's more likely to be maintaining the divisions and plugging...
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...
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