Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The ACC

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The Offseason Vibe Check series continues with the ACC, as Rodger Sherman joins Alex and Richard to talk about the state of the league. It's not a 2024 recap, and it's not a 2025 preview. It's a check-in with every team in every FBS conference about what's been happening since Thanksgiving. How was the postseason? How was the coach carousel? How was signing day? How was the transfer portal window? And is anything else going on around your program?

* Pitt finished on an 0-6 run but has continuity in some important spots

* Florida State makes wholesale changes after going 2-10 with one FBS win over Cal by five points

* Jake Dickert takes over at Wake Forest after Dave Clawson stepped away without making it all about him

* Virginia Tech’s make-or-break year approaches

* Cal adds some funny culture fits

* Belichick’s UNC is talking funny about operating like an NFL program

* SMU appears to be building on its playoff season

* Duke might be in the best shape of its football life

* Syracuse recruits a massive class as Fran Brown tries to build

* “We’re all on in Georgia Tech, right?”

* Clemson steps into the transfer portal at last

* NC State’s party might be over, but give Dave Doeren a chance

* Miami gets itself involved (of course) in a major legal matter

* BC and UVA make quarterback swaps

* Is Louisville about to have a highly drafted NFL QB to recruit off of?

* Palace intrigue at Stanford involving Andrew Luck (!)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Alex here. In a moment, we will roll the tape on our ACC off-season vibe check episode.
0:05.7	That's Richard Johnson, guest Roger Sherman and me, talking about how things have been going in the
0:10.3	off season for all of the football programs in the ACC. But I did want to start the episode
0:14.4	with an unfortunate note, which was that in the days since we have recorded this episode,
0:19.3	Pitt Freshman defensive back Mason Alexander died over the
0:23.2	weekend in a car accident in his home state of Indiana. This is horrendous news that obviously
0:29.6	renders all of the Pitt and football talk in this episode pretty unimportant in the grand
0:36.4	scheme of things. It's not going to be accounted for
0:38.8	in the discussion that we had about Pitt and how its offseason has been going, but it felt
0:43.0	not quite right not to mention it. So we are thinking of everyone at Pitt, everyone in Mason's
0:48.8	friend group and family in the wake of this horrible event. We will play the episode,
0:54.6	but wanted to make note of that before we do.
0:58.2	Thank you for listening,
0:59.4	and this will be our ACC off-season show.
1:02.7	We're coming, and we ain't backing down.
1:04.6	We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
1:06.2	Looking in the mirror.
1:07.3	Everybody's do your job.
1:09.5	You understand that?
1:10.4	Hey, will you shut up?
1:11.4	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
1:13.9	Guys being dudes.
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