The regular season of great mediocrity parity in the ACC has ended.
Somewhere in Greensboro, John Swofford is weeping. Weeping because instead of Maryland stepping up and knocking off Boston College to setup what would have been an extremely well attended Virginia Tech-Florida State ACC Championship Game, Maryland lost and setup a rematch of VT-BC from last season where the crowd looked like this:
Yeah. Virginia Tech will bring a crowd. Boston College will bring the players’ families. Not the ideal situation but it is the ACC which has 10 bowl eligible team incindentally. Makes you wonder what Johnny Come Lately bowl Clemson or NC State end up playing in.
Record This Week: 4-4
Record This Season: 59-39
![[Bloglines]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/bloglines.png)
![[del.icio.us]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
![[Digg]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/digg.png)
![[Facebook]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/facebook.png)
![[MySpace]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/myspace.png)
![[Technorati]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/technorati.png)
![[Windows Live]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/windowslive.png)
![[Yahoo!]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/yahoo.png)
![[Email]](http://www.tarheelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/email.png)
Perhaps this sorry lot of sort-of-OK “bowl eligible” ACC teams is sufficiently embarrassing to encourage those who sponsor these things to re-think what they are doing.
The justification for these bowls-for-nobodies is (1) that they bring in some extra dough for the football programs, and (2) they are a good investment for the sponsoring corporation — a good investment in that their value as advertisement will enhance to a profitable degree the sales of tires or computers or insurance or whatever it is that they’re peddling.
Even assuming that proposition (2) is correct, which I certainly do not (I mean, how many people actually watch these minor bowls?), it is a woefully inadequate justification for putting them on.
Bowls should be a reward for outstanding play during the season. Not a single ACC team, unfortunately including ours, meets that description. If their pride exceeded their desire for the extra buck, every one of them would sit home.
Since it doesn’t, they won’t. And sad to say, I’ll be just as guilty of watching the Mediocrity Bowl — or all 10 or 20 of them or whatever there are — as anyone else.
Bring on basketball!!!
The good news is there is a Basketball game today!! Although I think we could beat them with our last minute and a half guys.