This week’s ACC Blogger Roundtable is hosted by Jim Young of the ACC Sports Journal. Jim is a good guy, but he can get side tracked with things like curse words, kittens, and shiny objects. Hey, at least he doesn’t say “Heeeelllooooo” on his podcast like some idiots I know. This week it’s just me, Willy Mac, answering questions because Chili is living the life in Europa. I’m not gonna lie, he picked a baller study abroad program to join for grad school.

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1) Most of the ACC has now reached the halfway point of its season. On a scale of 1 (I’m rounding up pitchforks, torches and a mob to storm the football office) to 10 (I’m selling of organs to raise money for a statue of the coach) how do you feel about your team’s performance thus far?

I’d say about a four or five. It’s growing pains with a coach who is brand new to having the top spot in the locker room. We’re 2-3 right now and Swinney is definitely starting to pay for it, but it should have been expected as opposed to the ACCCG victory some of our more homeresque fans are starting to expect year in and year out. Hey, at least we’re not forced with the collective decision to put our coach out to pasture like FSU is facing currently.

2) Give me the best case scenario for your team the rest of the way. Then give me the worst case.

Best case scenario is we win out and win the ACC Championship Game. Then we lobby our way into the top five at the end of the year and win every game from now until doomsday. That’s some hard hitting, tough as nails questions I’d expect out of you tobacco-roaders there, Jim (I keed, I keed. To much hate in my heart, I guess.) I think the worst case scenario is that we only get five or six wins this year and in a preemptive strike to quell the masses, Terry Don Phillips cans Swinney and we’re sent on some never ending quest to find the coach that will bring us back to the magical dreamland of Clemson in the 1980′s.

3) Because it’s my turn to host the roundtable and I like fantasy football, I’m going to ask a few questions with that theme. First, you’re in an ACC keeper league. Which three players on your team do you designate as keepers for next season? (Obviously this rules out seniors, except for Riley Skinner, who I assume has six more years of eligibility remaining)

I’m assuming you mean our team as in Clemson. I don’t do the fantasy much any more. I’d go with DaQuan Bowers, DeAndre McDaniel, and Andre Ellington. If you’re talking about league wide, then I’d go with DeAndre McDaniel, Jacory Harris, and Ryan Williams from Virginia Tech BECAUSE THE BLOOD HE SPILLS MAKES THE GRASS GROW GREENER… RRRRRRRAAAAAAARRRRHHHHGGGGRRRUUUHHHH!!

4) Let’s do the reverse of this, with coaches. You’re forced to drop one member of your team’s coaching staff. Who gets the axe? (Head coaches or assistant coaches are eligible here)

Hrm. This is a very tough question right here, and our readers will disagree with me. I think you have to get rid of anyone it’s Jeff Scott, our wide receivers coach. That’s based on how terrible that unit has been in all aspects of the game this season. Many will argue that his father, Brad Scott, needs to go but realistically the line has gotten better over the season and is definitely better than last year. Others will say Napier and I agree with that, but more so the younger Scott needs to hit the bricks as his receiving corps has been so glaring in their inefficiency.

5) Let’s say the rest of the ACC is available via free agency. Who’s the one player from the other 11 teams that you’d most like to add to your squad?

Wait, didn’t I just answer?? What? Anyways, I’d take Tyrod Taylor over Jacory Harris because Mr. Harris is such a widdle fella and I don’t like his haircut. I like the way Tyrod is maturing and overcoming things. I also think that he would fit well in our system and would really help elevate our team.

6) Finally, we’ll stage a mock draft of ACC quarterbacks. Who are you taking with the first pick, and why? And who would you get stuck with if you had to pick No. 12?

I’M NOT ANSWERING YOUR FANTASY QUESTIONS ANYMORE, FOGEL.