ALL IS WELL WITH THE ACC ... WHO'S KIDDING WHOM?

 By the way … did you know that …

… “the Atlantic Coast Conference is entering a period of 

stability” …?? … which was the lead on a piece by the 

Associated Press following the recent ACC spring 

meeting. Stability? Really? … when (for one of many 

things) the rich – Clemson and Florida State – became 

richer, thanks to a settlement of their law suits against the 

conference … that changes revenue distribution to benefit 

schools with “marquee football brands” … like Clemson 

and FSU … “The revised deal should fortify a league that 

looked to be on the verge of collapse,” the AP said. Yeah, 

right! It is all about TV ratings, the more people who 

watch your games the more money you will get … which 

will enable the Tigers and Seminoles to move even 

further ahead of the Wake Forests and, yes, Virginias, 

even Virginia Techs … and eventually will lead to a 

breakup of a once-great association of area schools that 

went coast-to-coast and got too big … because of poor 

leadership combined with a lack of basic vision ... trying 

to keep up with Big 10 and SEC, both of which had long-

since given up any pretense of caring about anything but 

the bottom line. 

… Richmond’s ZAC JONES remains one of 10 New York 

Rangers unsigned for 2025-26? A restricted free agent, 

the left-handed defenseman should know something soon 

… “He will be a name to watch in off-season trade 

chatter,” according to the New York Times.

…  while Virginia’s BRIAN O’CONNOR apparently is 

the front runner to become next baseball coach at 

Mississippi State, not everyone in Starkville thinks it 

would be a good idea because?… “There have been some 

red flags this year,” said JASON SPOR, one of the 

proprietors of State-sponsored “Locked In” podcast … 

without saying what those red flags were .… Besides, he 

admittedly wants Oregon coach MARK 

WASIKOWSKI.

… the College Football Hall of Fame lowered one of three 

minimum requirements to make the late MIKE LEACH

 eligible? … from a 60 percent winning percentage to 

59.5. Leach (Texas Tech, Washington State, Mississippi 

State) won 59.6. In explaining why the change was 

necessary, the hall said something about not wanting to 

exclude anyone whose “contributions to the game 

extended beyond a narrow statistical threshold.” OK, so 

why have requirements, that also include minimums of 10 

years and 100 games in the first place?

… the NCAA would like to expand March Madness to 76 

teams? … from the current 68 that has been in effect 

since 2011 … when it jumped from the original 64 set in 

1985. Wonderful! Most coaches are in favor, naturally … 

because it means more can say they made the field which 

has become a major measuring stick for a coach’s value 

and worthiness to make more money (than reasonable). 

… another reason to like watching NCAA softball is … 

you get to see a real rarity … the occasional left-handed-

throwing catcher?

Until next time ...