mainejeff wrote:
My point is........go smack on the ACC fans/schools.......not fans/schools in your own conference........d-bag.
Well here's some pretty good ACC smack for you... though the guy pretty much douches on division I-AA
.... but I like where his head is at 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02031.htmlIt did not, however, go undefeated against 1-AA teams. The Duke apologists -- and they are legion these days -- will point out that Duke lost to the defending 1-AA champions, Richmond. All well and good except that when your program is allegedly on the rise and people are screaming that this is the year you are going to "rise," to 6-6 and go to a bowl (yeah, sure), you aren't supposed to lose to a team you beat a year ago. The good news for the Blue Devils is they get another crack at a 1-AA opponent when they play North Carolina Central in a couple weeks. Maybe next year they can find a way to schedule 12 teams from 1-AA and climb that 6-6 mountain once and for all.
Duke's loss was not as embarrassing as Virginia's. The Cavaliers turned the ball over seven times and lost to William and Mary, a team that was supposed to provide a decent warm-up before a home game against TCU on Saturday. Turns out Virginia provided William and Mary with a decent warm-up for the upcoming CAA season. After all, the CAA is now 2-0 against the ACC. Maybe its champion should get a BCS bid.
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Maryland went west and got crushed 52-13 at California, leaving Ralph Friedgen muttering about how young his team is. Whenever coaches bring that up -- as they always do after getting hammered -- the next question should be this: Why are they so young? You're in your ninth year, coach -- where are your juniors and seniors? The good news is the Terrapins have 1-AA James Madison coming to town this week. Oh wait, JMU is in the CAA, maybe that isn't such good news.
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The ACC and the Big East simply shouldn't have automatic BCS bids based on their recent play. Their champions should play each other in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. The Mountain West is better than they are right now -- see Brigham Young, TCU, Utah for starters. Heck, the CAA may be better than they are right now.
Of course nothing like that will happen. The apologists will continue to talk about the balance in the ACC and in the Big East. The schools will continue to collect their millions from the BCS and go giddily along acting as if everything is just fine and dandy because any day now it will all turn around. Just wait, one of these years Duke will rise up and whip those Richmond Spiders.
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Right now though, it's football season. There are a lot of games left to be played. Of course in the ACC, none of them will matter to anyone outside the ACC. But there's always a chance that the league can't get its record against the CAA up to .500 before all is said and done.
Now that's balance.
, And who is going to be starting QB? They figured that out yet?
