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Yates Named ACC Offensive Back Of The Week

Cats and dogs living together!

If I told you before Saturday that either T.J. Yates or NCSU’s Russell Wilson would throw for 412 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT on 28-46 passing 99.9999999% of people would have chosen Wilson. I guess this strange few months of UNC football in a way just got a tad stranger. Via [...]

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Weekend News & Notes

Scouring the interwebs to bring you things from the past few days that you may or may not have known:

From the hardwood:

•The NCAA regularly lists Academic Progress Rates (APR) for schools, but for the first time linked APRs to specific coaches. The list of coaches APRs was released this week and who tops the list [...]

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Clemson Also Gets A Visit From The NCAA

The NCAA is certainly racking up the frequent flyer miles this summer, as the AP is reporting that investigators showed up at Clemson this week.

Clemson AD Terry Don Phillips issued a Dick Baddour-approved statement confirming the NCAA had been on campus to interview two football players and that the school was cooperating fully. He also [...]

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Five Tar Heels Named Preseason All-ACC

Now the question is whether one of them will play at all.

Here is your preseason All-ACC team. UNC had five players, all on defense, named.

Robert Quinn, DE
Marvin Austin, DT
Quan Sturdivant, LB
Kendric Burney, CB
Deunta Williams, S

Quinn received 47 out of 52 votes.  I am little amazed Quinn was not unanimous given how good he was last [...]

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UNC Picked Fourth In Coastal By ACC Media

Interesting…I actually thought they would be higher. Here is the order of things as proclaimed by the ACC sports writers.

Coastal

1. Virginia Tech
2. Miami
3. Georgia Tech
4. North Carolina
5. Duke
6. Virginia

Atlantic

1. Florida St.
2. Clemson
3. Boston College
4. NC State
5. Wake Forest
6. Maryland

Here are the possible reasons UNC ended up fourth.

1. The sports writers are handicapping for possible suspensions [...]

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ACC Kickoff Reveals…Nothing Really

UNC sent QB T.J. Yates and DE Robert Quinn to Greensboro for ACC Kickoff. Both fielded more questions about non-football issues than they probably would like. Since agents was pretty much the talk of the day, we did get a view of how UNC handles agents from the perspective of educating players.

“It’s just an educational [...]

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ACC Announces TV Deal

The ACC and ESPN officially announced the details of the new TV deal.  Some previously unknown tidbits came to light including the disposition of the Sunday Night basketball games and how both UNC-Duke games would be handled. First, in a move which will undoubtedly require me to upgrade to digital cable, the Sunday Night Game(s) [...]

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