Most teams in the ACC basketball race are at the eight-game mark in the conference season. That would be equal to the football season when no one wanted to take charge. Let's look at where this thing seems to be going.
Carolina, 6-2 - You may have already forgotten they started 0-2. They seem to be the best in the league but I don't hear to any Tar Heel fans jumping for joy right now.
Duke, 6-2 - Last night they fell to 3-3 on the season on the road. That's not a good sign since I don't see any NCAA games scheduled for Cameron Indoor Stadium come March.
Clemson, 5-2 - This is probably the best Clemson team since Eldon Campbell and the Tigers were robbed by Connecticut in 1991.
Boston College, 6-3 - When the Tournament starts guard play is important. BC might make Sweet 16.
Wake Forest, 4-3 - Lack of outside shooting is telling on the Deacs. They must get back to playing good defense.
Virginia Tech, 4-3 - If they make NCAA tournament the Hokies are another team that can cause trouble.
Florida State, 4-3 - They have really good athletes but always seem to let lesser teams beat them.
Miami, 4-5 - The Hurricanes are another team that seem to be better than their record.
Maryland, 3-5 - Not that long ago were National Champions. Looks like this year is a throw away season with all the Gary Williams firing talk.
N C State, 2-5 - Point guard, point guard, are you listening John Wall?
Virginia, 1-6 - I think by year's end they will finish last.
Georgia Tech, 1-7 - Well somebody has to be last.
After only getting four NCAA bids last year the ACC could get as many as eight but I think six is about right. It would not surprise me to see four in sweet 16.
Pat Summitt has won No. 1,000 as a women's basketball coach. The scary part is Pat Summitt is only 56 years old. She could win another 500 if she sticks around that long.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Signing Day
If you believe all the hype, then the Big Four schools, plus ECU, had a banner day yesterday on National Signing Day.
In my younger days when I had to know the BIOS of every player, I believed all that guff about who the best players in the country were.
Yesterday, ESPNU had nine hours of coverage of signing day across the country. The so-called headline players, the ones who will get all the press during the next four years, aren't the real stars of signing day. It's the fringe player who fills in at tackle after another player is hurt that no body cares about on signing day.
The team that can come up with those type players are the real winners on signing day. No one will know who the winners are for two to three years.
Notre Dame, under Charlie Weis, up until yesterday had been a Top 10 every year in recruiting. On the field, they have barely been Top 50.
The reality is a recruiting class is only 25 percent of any team. If like Wake Forest, you like to red shirt your freshman class ,then only 20 percent as those players will be with you five years.
Coaches go after holes they need to fill over sometimes signing the best overall player. But recruiting is still the perception that we are on the way up not treading water or heading backwards.
The 24-hour news service and 24-hour-a-day sports has produced a hype into our world that everything is much better than it is, or in the case of the news, worse than it is.
Sorry, but I don't need to see on network TV a child kidnapping live all day in Des Moines. Ia. The networks need to fill the day with something.
Unfortunately, ESPN has not been able to get teams to play games live at 7:30 in the morning so they can have show them. Heavens knows they have probably tried.
Yesterday, WITN-TV7 featured three Gryphon signees. Bravo to them. They didn't make them out to be the next coming of Wake Forest football, but three local kids who have an idea what they will be doing for the next four or five years.
For a family, signing day is a joyous time. A culmination of a dream come true. In our world today, do you know how much a football scholarship means to a family?
I wish instead of telling me how great LSU is going to be next year with all the recruits they have. Networks would show how important signing day really is.
Our economy is such that a higher education is further from main stream America because most families can't afford to pay a house payment much less a college education.
The real winners on signing day is Mom and Pop. Everyone of them regardless of how good their kids are in football, yesterday they were the No. 1 signing in the country.
Congratulation to all of them!
In my younger days when I had to know the BIOS of every player, I believed all that guff about who the best players in the country were.
Yesterday, ESPNU had nine hours of coverage of signing day across the country. The so-called headline players, the ones who will get all the press during the next four years, aren't the real stars of signing day. It's the fringe player who fills in at tackle after another player is hurt that no body cares about on signing day.
The team that can come up with those type players are the real winners on signing day. No one will know who the winners are for two to three years.
Notre Dame, under Charlie Weis, up until yesterday had been a Top 10 every year in recruiting. On the field, they have barely been Top 50.
The reality is a recruiting class is only 25 percent of any team. If like Wake Forest, you like to red shirt your freshman class ,then only 20 percent as those players will be with you five years.
Coaches go after holes they need to fill over sometimes signing the best overall player. But recruiting is still the perception that we are on the way up not treading water or heading backwards.
The 24-hour news service and 24-hour-a-day sports has produced a hype into our world that everything is much better than it is, or in the case of the news, worse than it is.
Sorry, but I don't need to see on network TV a child kidnapping live all day in Des Moines. Ia. The networks need to fill the day with something.
Unfortunately, ESPN has not been able to get teams to play games live at 7:30 in the morning so they can have show them. Heavens knows they have probably tried.
Yesterday, WITN-TV7 featured three Gryphon signees. Bravo to them. They didn't make them out to be the next coming of Wake Forest football, but three local kids who have an idea what they will be doing for the next four or five years.
For a family, signing day is a joyous time. A culmination of a dream come true. In our world today, do you know how much a football scholarship means to a family?
I wish instead of telling me how great LSU is going to be next year with all the recruits they have. Networks would show how important signing day really is.
Our economy is such that a higher education is further from main stream America because most families can't afford to pay a house payment much less a college education.
The real winners on signing day is Mom and Pop. Everyone of them regardless of how good their kids are in football, yesterday they were the No. 1 signing in the country.
Congratulation to all of them!
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