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Chili on Folks, we chose to host the ACC Blogger Round Table this week. You know what that means? The rest of the conference has to step up their funny. Or not. Whatever. As usual you have your links below if you so choose to peruse them.
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Yet Another NCSU Blog | Joe Ovies | On the B.Rink
1) Let’s just say, not trying to jinx anything here, but let’s just say the Tigers make the ACC Championship game versus Georgia Tech. Who wins, and why?
Chili: This would be a match up of two teams that have greatly improved throughout the year. The Techies started strong and have gotten better under grizzled hatemonger Paul Johnson while the Tigers stunk it up a bit to start and have reeled off five straight victories. I think we match up quite well against GT. As well as any team in the league, in my opinion. That being said, I still think Tech is a better team with a better coach (at this point, Dabo’s still got time to prove his mettle) and will beat the Tigers in a close game in Tampa.
Willy Mac: It’s good to have two differing sides of opinion sometimes. While I strongly agree with Chili that both teams have improved vastly over the course of the season (and that Johnson is an insufferable prick both on the field and off), I have to disagree with his prediction. I’m partially buying into the logic that the reason Tech’s scheme is so successful is that teams only have one week to reconfigure their mind set to play an option attack team. They’re still a really good team, but the best evidence I can highlight to back up the one week prep thought process is that Peach Bowl stomping they received at the hands of LSU last year. LSU had weeks and weeks to prepare and the Tigers exploited their plan of attack. While we will only have one week again to prepare for them, we’ve already prepared for them once before. We’ve already played them once before. We’ve almost beaten them once before. I’m not trying to be a sunshine pumper, but Dabo Swinney is one hell of a motivator and will most certainly have the Tigers in a Thunder Dome state of mind if we get into the ACCCG.
2) Has the ACC taken the form that you thought it would at the beginning of the season? If not, what didn’t you see coming? Disappointments? Pleasant surprises?
We thought Miami would be better than they have been playing and that probably counts in the disappointment category, though we couldn’t be more pleased that those jort wearing mooks are losers. North Carolina seems to be playing on par with where most people thought they would this season, but it’s too late to do them much good. VT has been seeming less impressive every week and that’s a bit of a surprise from the norm of neckbubble ball.
3) If your team is not in contention for the ACCCG, what are the necessary changes your program has to make to get your team into the game next year? If there’s still a shot, what do you guys need to have happen in order to find yourself in Tampa? Non-team specific writers, pick your flavor of the week and go with it.
We have got to whip the dogshit out of UVA this weekend. If NORF CAKALAKA (we’re pretending to do the sound drop from Pack Man’s show there) beats BC, we’re in regardless of the outcome of the UVA game. That’s it, that’s all, that’s all there is.
4) If you could point to one player as the brightest spot on your team, who would that person be? Extrapolate a little for us please.
We’ve got this great versatile little runningback out of Lake Butler, Florida named Clifford Spiller you may have heard of. No, we don’t need to extrap-o-nothing.
5) Swap one player on your team for a player from your hated rival. Who you got and why?
Alshon Jeffery would be an awesome pick up. It would be nice to have some young talent that compliments the offense. We’ve got a lot of people heading out at the end of this year. I’d like to give them Kenneth Page before he quit in return for Jeffery, so that way he could go there and then quit. That way, the Gamecocks get double blammo’d.
1Bird
on Nov 18, 2009 at 2:25 pm:
http://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/2009/11/18/1163360/acc-roundtable-week-12-jinx
2furrer4heisman
on Nov 18, 2009 at 2:34 pm:
@Bird
Mmmmmmmm. Chicken bog.
3thedabokoolaid
on Nov 18, 2009 at 2:35 pm:
where exactly is the new dabo meter?! tuesday has passed and it was a very depressing day w/o the meter! this was a good roundtable btw
4Chili
on Nov 18, 2009 at 2:41 pm:
@3 late on the meter. sometime tonigh.
5ThisGuy
on Nov 18, 2009 at 3:32 pm:
Is it just me, or does Paul Johnson look eerily reminiscent of “Georgia Man Who Bitch Slapped a Child in Walmart” from the Dabometer? Separated at birth, perhaps? I’m just sayin’.
6mullet
on Nov 18, 2009 at 4:26 pm:
I think CU rolls the next 3 opponents by an average of at least 14. We won’t be tested again until the Orange Bowl,and if that turns out to be Iowa or Pitt we will roll them too. Cincinnati could be a close one though.
7William.Brown
on Nov 18, 2009 at 4:52 pm:
We must beat South Carolina. Period.
8dwight_clark87
on Nov 18, 2009 at 5:50 pm:
@4 -Looking forward to it!
@5 -It’s not just you.
@6 & 7 -Clemson versus Pitt would be an excellent game. Cincinnati is overrated, but we’ll see what happens in the next couple of weeks in the Big East. I honestly do not care if Clemson beats USC as long as they win the ACCCG. In fact, if God Himself said, “DC87, you must choose between winning the ACCCG or beating USC,” I would say, “the championship game, please, sir.”
9Jon
on Nov 18, 2009 at 5:56 pm:
Clemson fans who worry more about beating SCAR than the ACC are hilarious.
Ten years from now people will remember going to the ACC CG and maybe even winning it. They won’t remember whether or not we beat SCAR.
10penthouse tiger
on Nov 18, 2009 at 6:45 pm:
@9, everyone else
Why can’t we have both?
11Jon
on Nov 18, 2009 at 6:54 pm:
@10 No one said it can’t. I’m referring to the people who are more interested in beating scar than going to and winning the ACC championship.
12Navy Chief
on Nov 18, 2009 at 8:17 pm:
I think what most people are overlooking is the fact that GT’s defense is not really that good. I think its fair to say the offense has improved, but the defense has certainly not (see Fla State vs GT). This is the same defense that we scored 27 points on when our offense was quite frankly borderline awful. We will score at will on GT. With the exception of a couple of busted plays we have shut down the option attack two games straight. But their offense has improved slightly in that they have found a couple of receivers and Nesbit has found a little success passing. I think it would be a Kevin Steele wet dream for GT to have to resort to passing the ball to beat us. While he has had some success Nesbit is nowhere near the passer that that Ponder or Russell Wilson are. They will probably score 21 points on us. We will hang no less than 30 on them. Save turnovers we beat them handily.
13Jon
on Nov 18, 2009 at 9:29 pm:
Also, hopefully we won’t have Lambert blocking their stud DE.
That’s at least a 14 point swing.
14Winfield Featherston
on Nov 19, 2009 at 2:10 am:
@12 While you may be correct in the fact that our defense is not very good, you are going to have to consistently score points throughout the entire game to beat our offense. Only twice since the Miami debacle have teams scored 14 or more points in the 2nd half against us (VPI and Wake Forest). While on the other side of the ball we’ve only been shut out in a 2nd half quarter twice (UNC and WF and both in the 3rd quarter). In addition, we went on a 6 game streak of NOT punting the ball in the 2nd half. So, you’re going to have to do something about that as well.
It will be a good game. It will be something the ACC desperately needs and yall will come out swinging that’s for sure. But don’t quite overlook us yet simply because you’ve “seen us already”.
15Navy Chief
on Nov 19, 2009 at 3:09 am:
I think right now we are trying not to overlook Virginia. Do you seriously think we would overlook the ACC championship game? I think you really made my point in fact. Wake Forest, NC, Miami and Va Tech held you to 30 points or less. I believe our defense is better than all of those teams. While you did hang 30 on us, I believe our defense only allowed 2 tds. I said we would hold you to 21, I think that is very reasonable to say. I don’t think you will go up and down the field all day like you did with Vanderbilt and Duke.
I didn’t watch the games, but it is not surprising that you didn’t punt in the second half. I watched PJ go for it on 4th down against LSU on his own 25 yard line or so early in the game. While he didn’t punt, he certainly didn’t get the first down. You will not run the option up and down the field on Kevin Steele and your defense will certainly not contain our offense. So you will pass the football, we do have 20 interceptions this year against far better passing qb’s than Nesbit. Clemson’s offense is on the a five game stretch right now that is the best in its history. Pretty impressive when you think back to the years when we used to run a train on shitty teams like GT every year. Those days are just around the corner again.
Paul Johnson is a good coach. He is going to be great when he goes to one of the big boy schools after the couple of years he spends at GT. Because if you don’t think teams like Michigan or Notre Dame are going to come calling you are sadly mistaken.