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Miami & Lack of Control
The Miami athletic department is having to answer to the NCAA regarding its lack of institutional control. As a reminder, the NCAA contends that Miami booster Nevin Shapiro “provided $170,000 in benefits to players, recruits, coaches and others between 2002-2010.” So Miami is faced with the lack of institutional control allegations.
That’s kind of interesting, isn’t it?
Conference Comparisons: Football Recruiting
ESPN obviously does a very thorough job covering college football recruiting. Led by Tom Luginbill, ESPN.com has evaluations of players, schools, and conferences. Yesterday, they updated the conference rankings for football recruiting. The results may be surprising:
Rodon, Pack push Heels to CWS brink
Sunday in Omaha NC State at least partially avenged their ACC tournament loss to UNC as Carlos Rodon once again handcuffed the Heels. The difference this time was that the bats showed up as well and the Wolfpack hammered the Heels 8-1.
Rodon was the star, pitching a complete game and allowing only five hits as State improved to 50-14, their first-ever 50-win season. Brett Williams, Bryan Adametz and Logan Ratledge each had two hits of the Pack’s eleven for the game. UNC scored its run in the bottom of the ninth with the game well in hand.
With the loss, the Heels fall into the losers bracket and will face LSU at 3 pm Tuesday with the loser going home. As an ACC loyalist, this correspondent will be rooting for the Heels, but has no problem with State fans who differ with this plan. State also plays Tuesday, but will be on the diamond at 8 pm vs UCLA trying to avoid their first NCAA tournament loss this year and stay in the winner’s bracket. It is still possible the Pack and Heels could collide again before this is over, albeit not in the title series.
Unfortunately future ACC school Louisville fell to Oregon State 11-4 today ending their CWS run. Good season, though, Cardinals fans; looking forward to your being part of the family.
The Confidential Cup!
As previously noted, Big 10 fans do not like the Capital One Cup. Now, the world could be polite and let the Big 10 have its complaints and criticisms. But not the Confidential. The Confidential is creating its own “Cup,” this one being so very ACC-centric that it will be sure to anger Big 10 fans. Here is the scoring system:
ACC Week in Review: June 16, 2013
As we noted previously, followers and non-followers of this blog can now get weekly updates of the blog entries. Here is this week’s recap:
Capital One Cup Criticism
Yesterday, we shared the exciting news of the Capital One Cup victory by the North Carolina women. But did you know that not everyone likes the Capital One Cup? Indeed, fans of the Big 10 (remember, the Confidential’s motto for the Big 10 is “first in money and nothing else”) are unhappy that the Capital One Cup (gasp!) assigns different points to different sports. Here is our response to that…
North Carolina Women Win Capital One Cup!
Congratulations to the North Carolina Tar Heels! Their women have claimed the Capital One Cup!
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