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With basketball starting up and football nearing its conclusion, my head has been spinning with things I want to write about. To keep things easy for now, I’ll go with a quick recap of the week’s football games with some thoughts. Clemson 20, NC State 14 – Yet another tough, close loss for NC State.…
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The charade is over. The worst kept secret in college football is no longer. Butch Davis will be North Carolina’s next football coach. I understand as part of his compensation package, he doesn’t have to watch the Tar Heels’ final two games. That might have been a dealbreaker.
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You hear the expression “in your wildest dreams, you never could have imagined it” a lot and it’s rarely true. I mean, like Han Solo, I can imagine a lot. Well, last Saturday’s 30-0 Wake Forest win over Florida State in Tallahassee absolutely qualifies. Seriously, even your most die-hard, longtime Deacon backers couldn’t have dreamed…
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I’m a day late with this, but it’s never too late to announce the official start of the college basketball season. Maryland kicked off the ACC year with a nice win over Hampton Tuesday night and followed that with another solid win over Vermont last night. Now, I know neither Hampton nor Vermont is a…
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Since I posted on the Butch Davis rumors yesterday, it’s only fair that I give an update. The update is … well, nothing. Everyone who knows is doing a great job saying nothing. Take that for what it’s worth. 850 The Blog has a nice rundown of the latest stuff, including a great pic. I…
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If the posters at Inside Carolina are to believed (and well, they aren’t), Butch Davis’ hiring is imminent. It looks like AOL agrees. As 850 The Blog reported yesterday, nothing is official yet, but there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of Davis-colored smoke over Chapel Hill. If the Heels do land…
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Last Season: 32-4 overall, 14-2 in the ACC. ACC regular season and tournament champs. Lost to LSU in the Sweet Sixteen as a #1 seed. Gone: All-Everything JJ Redick (you’ve heard of him?), All-American Shelden Williams, starter Lee Melchionni and seldom-used freshman Eric Boateng. New: Gerald Henderson (6-5 SF), Jon Scheyer (6-5 SG), Lance Thomas…
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This is a terrible story. Miami defensive tackle Bryan Pata was shot and killed shortly after practice today. That’s awful for Pata’s family, friends and teammates and the program in general. It’s been a tough, tough year in Coral Gables, but this is by the far the worst thing yet. At some point, you have…
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This is nuts. Apparently, the soccer team at Forestview High in Gastonia, NC played a speech from Hitler over the loudspeakers while warming up for a playoff game against Charlotte Catholic. Talk about your bad decisions. The head coach claims he didn’t know about it, which of course makes perfect sense, because head coaches always…
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Last Season: 19-13 overall, 7-9 in the ACC (seventh place). The Tigers lost in the first round of the ACC Tournament (as is the Law) and the second round of the NIT. Gone: Starters Akin Akingbala (#2 scorer and #1 rebounder) and Shawan Robinson (#1 scorer). New: Four freshmen (David Potter, Trevor Booker, Karolis Petrukonis…