Thursday: Don’t touch that dial
So if you’re looking for an ACC game between now and 2027, turn to ESPN. Good chance you’ll find it there or on one of ESPN’s other platforms. The league and network extend their partnership 15 years for a reported $3.6 billion.
-Andy looks at what the deal means for football here.
-Under the new deal, ESPN will now broadcast an additional 30 ACC men’s basketball games. The increase is mainly due of the addition of Pitt and Syracuse, and the ACC’s move to an 18-game conference schedule, which begins next season.
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We’ll have to wait a little longer for a resolution to the Cody Journell case. As Andy reports, today’s preliminary hearing has been continued to May 21.
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Congrats to William Byrd grad Jennifer Hoover, who takes over the Wake Forest women’s basketball job after one year at High Point. Hoover is the all-time leading scorer and rebounder in Demon Deacons history.
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Saw that 65-year-old Billy Martin of Stuart won last week’s race at Franklin County Speedway. Take that, Jamie Moyer.
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Staying in Franklin County, Doughty reports that FCHS and Virginia receiver Raymond Keys will fly out of Roanoke this morning for a tryout with the Green Bay Packers.
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All smiles these days for Jackie Bradley Jr. and the Salem Red Sox.
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The Caps force a Game 7 in their series with the Rangers after a 2-1 victory last night. The winner-take-all affair will be played Saturday in New York.
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NAME THAT TUNE
When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
and the bullets catch in her teeth
Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear a waterfall
In the night the stormy night
she’ll close her eyes
In the night the stormy night
away she’d fly
and dreams of…
May 10, 2012 - 8:48 AM
Paradise by Coldplay….seeing them in D.C. this July & can’t wait!
RP scores.
Dont you mean 3.6 Billion??? I would hope the ACC could negotiate better than that!!
I’d like to be in paradise right now. Anywhere but where I am at the moment.
Bryant — Yikes, yeah. Updated now. Thanks for the heads up.
Trevor — At least it appears you escaped captcha jail! Good to have you back.
Nah, I used the “Get Out of Catpcha Jail Free” card.
Hooray! I’m sure that all of the ACC schools are super excited that BC and Syracuse will be locked into football games the Friday after Thanksgiving. AND that ALL of the UNC-Duke basketball games will be featured (weren’t they anyway?)!
Rumor is that FSU (possibly partnering with Clemson) is gonna tell the ACC at their meetings next week that additional money is gonna need to come their way. They’re sick and tired of Florida and South Carolina getting millions extra each year because of their SEC affiliations.
If FSU and Clemson were to bolt for the Big 12, they would get $24 million/year through their new TV deal. Additional money would come when a championship game is re-established. Each school would get $28 million/team if 2 more teams were added. Yes, travel would be more expensive, but…
I realize that the ACC has always been known as a basketball conference, but the bottom line is that football is what brings in the dollars to the conference.
Maybe with a 3.6 Billion new contract, Seth will have more of a chance to comment on a Va. Tech game. Wouldn`t it be great to see him throw his coat off in the studio for old times sake? Better yet-how about as a color man at the Cassell. Bet he`d get a standing “O”. As readers of this blog will arrest for sure I am no where nearly smart enough to be a lawyer. That could be why I don`t understand why it takes so long to bring the porch, pizza, pistol, pot case to court. We`re not talking the Lindberg kidnapping case here. Oh well, maybe someone will keep a….okay, will take notes so I can see how the….okay,how things fall into place.
Jenny Hoover should have been the WBB coach at VT instead of Dennis Wolfe. Seems like Weaver doesn’t want to hire anybody who has more hair than he does. Hiring a hairless fossil instead of an up and coming go getter like Jenny is just not the Weaver style.
Good luck Jenny. I know your mom Carol and dad Dennis (no, not the comic strip one) are really proud today. Hope you don’t steal too many Hokie recruits away.
Bobby — Just to clarify, the Friday after Thanksgiving is the one Friday (out of three per season) that SYR and BC are not locked into. So food-hangover day could feature anybody.
Ralph – it’s called “lawyering”. Any good defense attorney will do one of two things if they have no case to present:
1. Yell about everything else; or
2. Delay, delay, delay until either the Assistant DA gives up or they get a judge they like. This is a common game.
According to Andy’s report, though, Zman, this continuation came at the request of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, not the defense.
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The delay helps the defense by time managment, the further they can distance themselves from the time of the crime, the less attention it generates. Hysteria becomes thoughtful interspection and hopefully a less emotion inspired prosecution. Maybe a little common sense will also prevail. We’ll see. If at Tech or not, I hope it doesn’t cost Journell a second chance to rectify a stupid young mistake. If Tech has a competant kicker, Journell won’t be back. If not, all bets are off.
According to the Daily Press, FDS’s mother was a pain in SG’s butt. In rectrospect, he may have been spending too much time trying to appease his prize recruit and mother, than in coaching the team. What his mother doesn’t realize is that all his other choices for scholarship would have had him riding the pine for most of the game. Wish him well but Johnson doesn’t need the distraction of a BB mom trying to get her son into the NBA for a family payoff. Can’t blame her for trying though but based on what I’ve seen of him locally and his first year at Tech, she had better pick out a foreign country she would like to live. He doesn’t handle the ball or shoot well enough to play guard and he’s not big enough to play inside professionally.
I’m no legal scholar; my guesses would be the Commonwealth’s Attorney is having trouble getting key witnesses to cooperate, gathering more evidences, or trying to pressure Journell to accept some kind of plea bargain.
Mike Barber of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Montrezl Harrell has requested his release from Tech. His blog post is here.
AMc, you might want to wake Berman up. Johnson has hired his complete staff, yet no report by the RT on it. Not even any report on rumored candidates, except for Byington, and that was days late.
Here’s the official word, for all those who are interested.
http://www.hokiesports.com/mbasketball/recaps/20120510aaa.html
There certainly is a local feel to the VT coaching staff. Two local guys and a head cach who played at Ferrum. Plus Wake hires a Byrd grad to coach Women’s hoops. Good job Roanoke Valley!
Aaron, or anyone. When a player transfers because of a problem-like Seth`s firing-does he still have to sit out a year?
If your a Hokie basketball fan you are looking at a few gloomy years ahead of being in the bottom of standings in the ACC. Now the athletic dept. is truly one dimensional.
Ralph — Because he never enrolled, Harrell just gets released from his letter of intent and doesn’t have to sit out a year. Finney-Smith does have to sit out a year, though.
No matter how positive a spin Johnson want to assign it, the loss of these two players hurts the program for the next 2-3 years at least. Suddenly the solid foundation Greenberg built is starting to crumble underneath James Johnson’s feet.
Let’s hope the coaches are ready to begin recruiting tomorrow (or as soon as is permissible) and that Johnson has an organized plan of attack, with clear communication on the desirable traits of VT recruits, etc.
They need to hit their targets immediately. If (what remains) of this heralded recruiting class goes through four years of no NCAA tournaments, the program is going to be mired in the quicksand of the ACC cellar.
Thanks. Guess that means he`ll be playing at Kentucky next year. That guy Gilchrist who left Tech “because” of the April 16 tragedy must have had the same deal. He transferred more then a Metro commuter.
A Mac….still thinking JJ hire is a 7 out of 10??? So much for keeping Harrell and Doe Doe leaving too. This whole thing is a disaster courtesy of JW as I posted when this hiring was announced. Weaver should have been fired a long time ago. Still say unbelievable an ACC school settles for a 40 yr old assistant with no HC experience that resigned 2 weeks prior. Go Hokies!
PSH — Nope. It’s a 4 now at best. Sounds like Finney-Smith might have gone regardless, but losing both is big.
The impact of these losses is not just the W-L total for this season, either. Remember, DFS was a freshman. Had he stayed, Harrell come in and contributed, then you’d have a much more solid front court for the next three years. Now Johnson & staff are going into the season with a very limited group of front court players.
Where do we stand now? We’ve got an untested rookie head coach with a very depleted roster, and virtually no ‘big’ players. And we’re in the ACC.
For all those who screamed about Greenberg not making the NCAA’s? You got what you wanted, he’s gone now. How does it taste? In February, how will it taste?
I’m hopeful, but it is pretty hard to be optimistic right now. Let’s see if Johnson can handle this…
First time in a very long time, I’m actually looking forward to some NFL actions involving former Hokies such as Wilson and Coale. I’m curious to see how they will fare against the pro.
“For all those who screamed about Greenberg not making the NCAA’s? You got what you wanted, he’s gone now. How does it taste? In February, how will it taste?”
I 100% agree.
#28 and #30. Let me put a 3rd to that. Frankly, I would rather have Seth`s assistant coaches leave the program then the present or future players. Under Seth, Harrell could have been the power forward leaving DFS at 4 which may have solved his problem and he could have lived up to his potential. That team probably could have made the NCAA tourney. Good luck Coach Johnson
Pittsburgh is suing the Big Least so they can leam
ve early. The Big Least is crumbling…