2008 ACC Discussion

[BB73]

usatoday

Clemson ends Fla. State's run as ACC favorite
By Kelly Whiteside, USA TODAY

GREENSBORO, Ga. - The Atlantic Coast Conference has a new Bowden at the top. Clemson was picked as a heavy favorite to win the ACC by the sports media at the conference's football kickoff event Monday, thus unseating Florida State, which had been a preseason favorite every season since joining the league in 1992.

So you dethroned your dad, Clemson coach Tommy Bowden was asked. "Nah, he's got 300 more wins, I don't think I dethroned him," Bowden said of his father, Bobby, the winningest coach in major college football history with 373.

It's the first time Clemson has been the league's preseason choice since 1991, which is also the last year the Tigers won the league title.

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[HailToMichigan]

I hate to admit it but Heather Dinich is so far doing a more or less respectable job of covering the ACC at ESPN. Today, the ACC's most bitter rivalries (according to her) and the hate-o-meter.....both of which are something that it looks like all their new "bloggers" were ordered to do for each conference:
ESPN - ACC

She's got the rivalry thing pretty close. NC State and UNC hate each other more than most people think, especially on the NC State side. FSU/Clemson is bull[censored] though.....from the ESPN perspective, it's like the biggest thing ever because of the Bowdens. Nobody else cares. Many ACC teams have their biggest rivalries outside the conference: Maryland/WVU, Clemson/South Carolina, GT/UGA. Swap out that BS FSU/Clemson one, though, and add UVA/Maryland. There's some real, legitimate hatred there.

[DaddyBigBucks]

Originally Posted by HailToMichigan

I hate to admit it but Heather Dinich is so far doing a more or less respectable job of covering the ACC at ESPN. Today, the ACC's most bitter rivalries (according to her) and the hate-o-meter.....both of which are something that it looks like all their new "bloggers" were ordered to do for each conference:
ESPN - ACC

She's got the rivalry thing pretty close. NC State and UNC hate each other more than most people think, especially on the NC State side. FSU/Clemson is bull[censored] though.....from the ESPN perspective, it's like the biggest thing ever because of the Bowdens. Nobody else cares. Many ACC teams have their biggest rivalries outside the conference: Maryland/WVU, Clemson/South Carolina, GT/UGA. Swap out that BS FSU/Clemson one, though, and add UVA/Maryland. There's some real, legitimate hatred there.

Agreed

Here in Tallahassee, they are sort of interested in the Clemson game; but only because Tommy seems to have Daddy's number.

They proved to me that they don't even understand hatred when half of them who used to profess hatred for the Gators ended up covering their Seminole bumper stickers with UF bumper stickers.

[MD Buckeye]

Yellow Jackets QB Nesbitt will be fine after bruising shoulder - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com Live Scores, Standings, Stats

Originally Posted by sportsline.com

Yellow Jackets QB Nesbitt will be fine after bruising shoulder

ATLANTA -- Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson insisted Josh Nesbitt will recover quickly from a shoulder bruise the quarterback sustained in practice Wednesday morning.

Though Nesbitt wore an ice pack on his right shoulder for the final half of the early two-hour session, Johnson was hardly surprised when the school's medical staff cleared the sophomore to practice in the afternoon.

"You get hit in football," the Yellow Jackets' first-year coach said. "We've always practiced that way for 28 years, and I can honestly tell you I have never lost a quarterback in practice. We haven't lost that many in games, either, not to that. We've had guys tear their knee up or something like that. I think if you went back and looked at it, you'd find dropback (quarterbacks) get hit a hell of lot harder than these guys."

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[Gatorubet]

FSU's Athletic Director had a meeting with boosters a few days ago, where he finally agreed to go public with an acknowledgment that the Noles were not done with their cheating scandal. Despite the spin coming out of T-town these last several months, he let the faithful know that they did indeed get a NOA from the NCAA, that it may involve "2-9 scholarships a year for up to three years in football", and that "the NCAA may be looking to make an example of us."

Something like five or six schollies a year for three years will freaking cripple them for years, and also f-up their 09 recruiting. We've noticed that they are trying to get an unusual number of early commits (unusual for FSU), and that they tend to be FSU leans geographically and legacy type deals....IOW, kids who are less likely to change their minds if/when the hammer falls.

This could get ugly up there, despite the low profile so far. FSU refuses to release the NOA to anyone, although most schools put it on a website and let the press have access. This leads us to believe that it has some bad [censored] in it, and that the Noles want to try to minimize the press coverage and not hurt recruiting. We will see. In any event, most of my Nole buddies have been saying that the school was proactive, the penalties accepted, blah blah blah...they are now stunned by the possibility that the hammer will come down.