I’m here at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, North Carolina, getting ready for the start of ACC Media Days 2012.
Feel free to use this thread to stay up-to-date with all of our content from the event. Also, if you have any questions or comments, please drop them in here as well. Looking forward to an exciting couple of days!
Just to let you guys know how it will work, today will consist of all of the player interviews, which will start at 2 PM EST and go until 6 PM EST. Tomorrow will be centered around the head coaches. If there are any questions you guys would like me to ask particular people, let me know here, and I will try my best to make it happen.
Ask Paul Johnson which receivers have impressed him the most. Will the passing game be less emphasized this year? Also ask him if Synjyn Days will play this year other than at the QB position.
Ask John Swofford how much money the ACC will make from their partnership with Google/YouTube. What kind of prevention has the ACC taken to make sure the ball does not move on a first down measurement? How come divisions are not aligned North/South which will cut down on travel cost for fans and schools?
* As for the nine-game ACC football schedule, Swofford indicated that it’s on its way in 2013, unless the league’s ADs - who voted on that by a supermajority - changed their minds.
* A few Clemson topics came up. Swofford talked about his recent visit to meet with the Clemson Board of Trustees and was pretty emphatic when asked if the Tigers were still on board with the ACC. He offered a one word answer: “totally.” *
* Plenty of praise was thrown the way of Pitt and Syracuse, but Swofford said that the league would not be helping its newest members pay their $7.5 million exit fees from the Big East. *
I would be very interested for you to ask Jimbo Fisher the Big 12 question, and see the difference in his answer and Dabo Swinney’s when asked the same thing.
Interesting. I bet it is with the Big 10 for a 6 team series kind of thing with rotating opponents for scheduling flexibility since the Pac 12 thing fell through. I am so so on that. Ohio State and Michigan sure but Indiana and Purdue? Meh….
* As for the nine-game ACC football schedule, Swofford indicated that it’s on its way in 2013, unless the league’s ADs - who voted on that by a supermajority - changed their minds.
* A few Clemson topics came up. Swofford talked about his recent visit to meet with the Clemson Board of Trustees and was pretty emphatic when asked if the Tigers were still on board with the ACC. He offered a one word answer: “totally.” *
* Plenty of praise was thrown the way of Pitt and Syracuse, but Swofford said that the league would not be helping its newest members pay their $7.5 million exit fees from the Big East. *
I would be very interested for you to ask Jimbo Fisher the Big 12 question, and see the difference in his answer and Dabo Swinney’s when asked the same thing.
Is the league willing to work with the teams that have permanent OOC games in addition to a 9 game conference schedule?
I thought I saw a guy dressed in Pitt gear walk past the camera in the interview with Tanner Price, were there Pitt and SU reps there?
Which of the guys were the most composed in the interviews, which were the most nervous?
No Pitt or Syracuse reps were there, as far as I could tell.
I don’t think anybody really seemed nervous during the interviews. The coaches get to choose which players come to this event, so it is always upperclassmen who are very comfortable in front of the camera. I will say that Logan Thomas was probably my favorite interview though.
None of the guys even come close to approaching Missouri’s T.J. Moe at SEC Media Days. That guy was media gold!
