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Willy Mac on *Ding Dong* The pizza man is here, did your team deliver what you expected in their opener, why or why not?
Willy Mac: I’d say they definitely delivered what we thought they would, but it’s really not what we wanted. It’d be like we ordered something when we were really drunk and by the time pizza got to the front door we’d already sobered up and we just sit there, dumbfounded in our bad decisions. Oh, and the guy that brought it had dropped it a few times on the street and just blew on it. Fuck you Clemson, you’re late and the pizza is only halfway edible. I’m not tipping.
Chili: I pretty much expected a half-assed performance by Clemson and that’s exactly what I got. After the game I waited, hoping to hear Dabo chew the shit out of the team, but instead it seemed that he gave them fairly positive marks. Which means he is aware what they’re capable of and they’re delivering it, or he’s a “praise in public, damn in private” sort of guy which is a good leadership quality according to those who know such things. DC Kevin Steele, who consumes for breakfast each day a large granite boulder drizzled in a nice ’04 light sweet crude, did get after his defense for inexplicably giving up big plays a la the “bend but don’t win” defense of Vic Koenning. From his comments on the issue it seemed like he was still trying to get the players to shake off the old mentality, which is a good sign.
The ACC was downright pathetic in week one. Which display of ineptitude shocked you the most? Going forward is there hope for the conference?
Chili: William and Mary making Virginia their bitch so damned bad that the Cavaliers now sit down to piss on instinct alone. I mean shit, UVA, nobody expected you to be worldbeaters, but damn. Anyway, this is what you get for waitlisting me again, so fuck y’all. Except Blair, she’s good people. Is there hope for the conference? Eh, VT and Miami will be tops, UNC and FSU will be respectable, and everyone else will just sort of meander around the school halls staring at their shoes trying not to get a swirlie.
WM: I really did think that Duke was at least going to be respectable this year. I thought with Cutcliffe in charge down there and a good quarterback in place, they’d be doing better than they have in a while. What a fool I was. Richmond? I mean yeah, they were FCS champions last year, but I thought for sure that Duke would at least pull it out. I’m also a little upset at Wake Forest not being able to pull it out against Baylor. Wake is always a respectable team year in and year out and I thought for sure they were going to beat Baylor. If there is hope, we need to go balls to the wall for the rest of the season in terms of out of conference.
After the show they put on Monday night, Atlantic bloggers is FSU the team to beat and what about Miami, Coastalites?
WM: We’ve got both. So, shit. I think that beating FSU and Miami will not only be the biggest stroke of luck ever, but could potentially pave our way to the ACCCG. i’m not saying it will happen, but if we accomplish both of those feats we’ll be the front runners for the Atlantic. Whatever it is, they are some tough sum bitches.
Chili: I figured Miami would bust out this season, and while beating FSU doesn’t necessarily a contender make, I think they’ll be the toughest ob-stacle to hurdle.
You’ve been granted one curse, other than your opponent pick one team you would like to see lose in week wo.
Chili: I’ll use any of my newly granted curse giving mojo to earnestly hope for a structural collapse and a rare inland tsunami to wipe the face of the earth of everyone attending the UGA-Sakerlina game this weekend.
WM: Notre Dame because I actually like to watch Michigan and I hate their fans liek any good southern football fan would. Also I’d love for Floridato some how fall via Troy’s inexplicably complicated offense. Troy has been known to be a loose stepping stone for big teams in the past. Fingers crossed.
1Tom
on Sep 9, 2009 at 7:49 pm:
I wasn’t impressed with FSU or Miami monday night. No defense and no consistency on offense. A few big plays here and there. Kindof like us.
VT and GT are the top teams in the ACC, we should meet one of them in the championship if we don’t screw the pooch.
2CUTigersinDV
on Sep 9, 2009 at 8:05 pm:
I thoroughly agree with Tom’s analysis. FSU and Miami are not the class of the ACC. FSU has no secondary, no pass rush, no defense whatsoever. Miami is just as bad. Two bad teams playing each other made each other look good. Wait until they play a decent team. Virginia Tech showed a lot of heart against Alabama and I think Georgia Tech ends up winning the ACC. They don’t win pretty but they win.
3Mogrits
on Sep 9, 2009 at 9:41 pm:
I hate to “plus one” but I agree. The only reason that game was close was because both teams were equally mediocre. Any separation would have resulted in a blowout.
We can do this thing this year, and handily. We have the talent and the defensive experience. This is my orange koolaid post for the season.
I predict we blow out GaTech because of defense and their refusal to kick away from Spiller and Ford.
4dwight_clark87
on Sep 9, 2009 at 9:42 pm:
As usual, I don’t know what to expect this season in the ACC. I’m really sick of the underachieving FSU and VT, and it’s long past the time for some other team to knock them off their pedestals. I was really hoping Davis’ UNC team would come out of nowhere and grab some respect for the conference, but that didn’t happen last year and probably won’t this year. The ACC can’t stay VT and FSU forever, can it? I hope some other team, be it GT, UNC -preferably Clemson– breaks out of the pack of 7-5 also-rans and does something really special this year. ACC football has too many past achievements for this mediocrity to continue.
5dwight_clark87
on Sep 9, 2009 at 9:43 pm:
@3, I think we can win the game tomorrow night, too. If we do, I predict Dabo will develop a stutter.
6Mogrits
on Sep 9, 2009 at 9:52 pm:
@5, I am being a t’netter and predicting a Clemson blowout. If Swinney stutters afterwards so be it. My only complaint with him so far is he talks to much. Maybe a stutter willo cause ESPN to cut away.
Also, no stutter could be as bad as this delivery: http://www.break.com/index/i-was-like-um.html
7flaact
on Sep 9, 2009 at 10:02 pm:
I think we can win this game, but I doubt it’ll be a blowout.
I spent 2 years living in Atlanta (home park), right next to the Georgia Tech campus. My roommates were all Georgia Tech students, and we shat on ourselves in both head to head games we played while I lived there. I’ve been talking so much shit to Ga Tech alums this week it’s insane. Gawd I hope we win this game!!!
8dwight_clark87
on Sep 9, 2009 at 10:04 pm:
@6, thanks for the link, hilarious stuff! And I thought the “Slap-Chop” remix on Youtube was funny! If it IS a blowout, yeah, I think Dabo will definitely develop a stutter. Semi-permanent. Here’s hoping.
9Mogrits
on Sep 9, 2009 at 10:21 pm:
I think Steele & the Clemson defense are going to provide the definitive film for all teams to study henceforth on how to pull the curtain back on Johnsons wishspreadboneflextripleoptionoffensethatnoonecanstop.
Remember- there has been nothing new in football since Coach Heisman installed the forward passing game.
10JasonL
on Sep 9, 2009 at 11:44 pm:
Prediction: GT 35 CU 24
Sorry. We can win, but it’s remote. Unless Dwyer breaks his right hip and his left leg and Nesbitt loses an eye during the pregame circle-jerk he and Tom have over Paul Johnson’s press photo, Tech will win this game.
11AndrewTheTerrible
on Sep 9, 2009 at 11:45 pm:
don’t mean to be the downer, but that stutter clip was linked by willymac in the fall tv thread in the forums yesterday. he got there first. still funny as hell, though
12AndrewTheTerrible
on Sep 9, 2009 at 11:47 pm:
sorry, i should have known better than to just assume it was the same link. the remix is even funnier
13CUTigersinDV
on Sep 10, 2009 at 7:22 am:
@10 is right. Sorry guys, but we don’t break the Thursday night/Atlanta curse. Not this year. GT is too strong and too well coached. If you’re going by the JSU game as for what GT is capable of then you’re in for a rude awakening.
14AParker
on Sep 10, 2009 at 8:54 am:
I’m staying near the fence here, it really just depends what Clemson team shows up, the usual Thursday night “Holy Shit we’re on National TV, lets do a dance and look good yeah, oh crap they’ve already scored three TD’s while we were jerking it” or the team that shows up once a year (usually either FSU or USC) and beats a team soundly because it can. Oh and GT will have 4 fumbles in game
15bigcheesy
on Sep 10, 2009 at 11:25 am:
I’ll drop a stat that may make some people feel better. In 2003 we played Ga Tech at home and trounced them 39-3. Who did we play the week before that? Middle Tennessee State. What was the score of that game? 37-14. See any similarities?
16Chili
on Sep 10, 2009 at 11:40 am:
I completely omitted GT from my list, my bad. I’d say they’re up there with the top of the conference. I think you guys are underestimating Miami a bit, though.
17Kyle
on Sep 10, 2009 at 12:05 pm:
I’m not underestimating a John Lovett defense that played like a John Lovett defense.
18dwight_clark87
on Sep 10, 2009 at 2:22 pm:
@17 – All I know is that John Lovett was great on Saturday Night Live. “Master Thespian” was hilarious!