The ACC’s battle royal of a regular season has ended. All 12 of the teams, their handlers, cut men and UCF officials convene in Greensboro. The final seedings and even the identity of fourth team with a Thursday bye was not decided until the last minute of the last game Sunday night. Ratings for the [...]
Roanoke Times sportswriter and noted algroh-lover Doug Doughty recently pointed out that Georgia Tech didn’t seem to be paying a lot for its new Defensive Coordinator. Following an exhausting investigative report that involved reading the Atlanta paper, the intrepid Doughty read that that the Jackets would be paying algroh, recently algrohed as Hoo football coach, [...]
Well, this very likely won’t be the first ACC basketball season where every single team finishes with an 8-8 record. While it looked for a while that the entire conference might finish at .500 in league play, and a bunch still might, a bit of separation has taken place in the standings. There is also [...]
The A-Line Board of Football Experts What does a Virginia Tech fan do during his team’s bye week? Why, he goes to at least one football game and gives serious thought to attending another. And so I did. Things got off to a rollicking start last Thursday morning. A call had been received at my [...]
When last week began, there appeared to be three ACC teams chasing perhaps two spots in the NCAA Tournament. Five losses in six games later, the chances of the conference placing more than half its membership roster in the Big Dance have gotten considerably more remote. A Lawrence Welk show had fewer popping bubbles. Virginia [...]
The games dwindle down to a precious few. The exhibition portion of the basketball season is about to end. Teams continue to jostle for positions and seedings in what the media folks continue to assure us is the only reason to even play basketball, the NCAA Tournament. Cries of ‘We’re Number 66′ are not considered [...]
What if they gave a conference championship game and nobody came? The ACC is blanketing the football airwaves with commercials begging people to buy tickets for its annual not quite extravaganza. Actually, forty-eight hours in Ybor City doesn’t sound half-bad. There does, however, seem to be a problem. Nobody wants to play in the game. [...]
Many will recall the riotous adventures experienced last year by the Clubhouse Tailgate in dealing with Catch-17. The marvelously-devious Catch-17 stated that RVs must have a parking permit to park in Lot 17, then the designated RV lot, unless one had a parking permit, in which case it could not park in Lot 17. Enacting [...]
We have reached what is roughly the halfway point of the season. As is usually the case, things have gotten fairly interesting. The Virginia Tech football team had last week off. Unlike Frank’s crew, I did not. Despite my best attempts at working very hard at not working very hard, I seem to have gotten [...]
Multi-Tech and the Color of $$$ 09/15/08 A win is a win is a win. Saturday’s annual multi-Tech ACC showdown resulted in victory for the team wearing the garish uniforms. It wasn’t pretty, either in the way the ‘good’ Tech played or was attired, but it was a win. Frank and most all other Hokies [...]