Last night trying to watch the NC State/BC basketball game in front of a sitting room only crowd of maybe 4,000 I am wondering how in the world BC got into the ACC?
They can't get enough people to go to football games, nobody wants them in a bowl game. Last night basically battling for first place I had more people in my living room than were at the game. I was a lot louder than they were.
This has nothing to do with whether their teams are good or not BC is just not a division one level fan base school in sports. Nobody in Boston cares about them. Not even their students.
Now turning to the game. If I was not already convinced Sidney Lowe has to go last night put the ribbon on the package. Tied 60-60 with 3.55 to play State calls time and and precedes to let the shot clock run out and they take a desperation 35 footer which leads to two straight three point buckets by BC, game over.
I don't care how heralded your freshman class is if the coach can't coach the Pack is headed back to 6-10 in conference play. If you can't beat a team that has lost to Yale and Harvard at home how are you going to beat anybody else on the road.
Now this is not to say the BC is not a good team because I think they are ok but if you are going to lose the close games because you get out coached there just aren't many wins left for the Pack.
When they win they will win by 10-15 points but don't count on winning many that come down to five points or less.
The Carolina Panthers get their man in Ron Rivera from the San Diego Chargers. Rivera who has a Super Bowl ring as a player and as a coach will be defensive minded. We all saw this year and certainly since Jake Delhomne decline his last couple of years that with a running game you need a quarterback that can get you a first down on third and 4. The Panthers have not been able to do that at least the last three. I know this sounds crazy but Vince Young might work at Carolina a team that relies on running first and passing last. I can't believe I would even think of that as poor a worker as Young is. A lot of wasted talent because he thinks he good and lazy.
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If State does not make the 2nd round of NCAA then Lowe is gone. Debbie Yow want stand for mediocrity. If O'Brien had not finished 9-4 and beaten a quality bowl opponent in a quality bowl game then he would have been told to pack his bags. Yow did not hire Lowe nor O'Brien so there are no preconceived loyalties. 1983 was a long time ago and Yow was hired to be more competitive and that starts in getting the right coaches in place.
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