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The ACC—It just doesn’t matter!

The ACC: It Just Doesn’t Matter!

You may be right, which is a problem. I don’t think anyone imagined that NIL would become the elephant in the room of college football. The people at Tennessee saw an opening and took it. They decided to test the law, and a court has ruled that they did nothing wrong. The reason the NCAA is hated is the perception that its enforcement practices were/are uneven and inept. Many readers on this site think that NIL only made legal what had been happening all along. Even when the FBI gave the goods on some teams/schools, they didn’t make anything stick. Tennessee fought back because it was clear that they were not doing anything that no one else was doing, and that the NCAA only singled them out out to get their pound of flesh after they paid their way out of the Pruitt deal.

Glad Bama did well. Question for Conner O’Gara: why is Friedlander writing on SDS? This is a Southeastern Conference site, where it just means more. Don’t dilute the product.

Who let you in? This is a Southeastern Conference site. Please go back to the Triangle.

Agreed! Shaq was an athletic player who had a great career in the NBA. . Edey plays flat footed and uses to his size advantage to good effect. He will be a role player at the next level if he chooses the NBA. In two games against Tennessee, Purdue shot 81 free throws to Tennessee’s 40. Tennessee needed some shooting from someone other than Knecht.

You’re kidding! Right? UConn will Destroy Purdue! Edey will face a more athletic big man and will be exposed. Conner is right. If someone other than Knecht were hitting Tennessee would have won that game.

Charlie Baker wants to end player prop bets. I would like to hear some thoughts from SDS readers.

I think Cal stays, but changes his style. He will look to work the portal for experienced players and still look for players who stay more than a year. Kentucky fans are through with the one and done show.

Creighton is a good team. Both the Big 12 and the SEC were overrated this. Dan Hurley was right. The Big East should have gotten more teams in the tournament. There will be no shame in losing to a very fine Creighton team. If Tennessee can find its shooting touch, it is certainly capable of winning this game.

I agree about the ACC content, but this appears to be a tournament article, although it may have a touch of ACC homerism to it. Having said that, I don’t think UNC wins it. Like it or not, it could be an all Big East Final, either Marquette or Creighton taking on UConn. If Tennessee gets past Creighton, however, think they can beat Purdue.

Matt Rhule is not done at Nebraska.

I fail to see the comparisons to coaches who happened to come from the same part of the country. I am a southerner who lived in the Midwest for 30 years. There are good people in every part of this country. Everything I read about Mr. DeBoer speaks to his character and the respect people have for him. It may take him awhile to adjust to the grits and gravy, but good people learn how to adapt to new circumstances. I don’t know that it’s a fail proof hire, but I don’t think the Tide will over and play dead next year.

The rest of the conference may be unpleasantly surprised at how well he does. He’s won everywhere he’s been. He took a team with #26 talent ranking to championship game. Remember, that was only his second year there. Saban tried to to hire his OC.

Although Saban’s retirement caught most of by surprise,I don’t think Greg Byrne was surprised. The man who introduced us to ‘’the process” didn’t act on impulse. Byrne has been working the back channels to see who would move. He was probably not surprised when Dan Lanning posted a preemptive message that he was staying at Oregon. The people who think Bama will crumble will be disappointed. Kalen DeBoer has the kind of discipline necessary to keep the Tide machine rolling. The issue is whether he can adapt to the Deep South culture, but if he comes he won’t be talking about “fam-a-ley.”