ACC Week #6: Review

Brian Barbour on October 11th, 2009 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Defense? We don’t need no stinking defense!

Eleven ACC teams were in action on Saturday, eight of them scored 40 points or more. Three of those were against out of conference competition.  The other five were in ACC games.  In fact Boston College was the only ACC team that did not do much of anything on offense.  NCSU in their loss to Duke had 28 points and Maryland put up 32 on Wake Forest.

Duke’s win in Raleigh rates as the biggest shocker of the weekend though not for the fact Duke won but for 49 points the Devils hung on NCSU. The Wolfpack had no answer for the Duke passing game.  Usually teams find a way to stop an offense or at the very least get a stop here and there to keep your offense in the game.  That simply did not happen and that kind of lack of adjustment tends to fall heavily on the coaches.

FSU and Georgia Tech had zero interest in playing meaningful defense. Georgia Tech appears to have their offense all figured out which should make for an interesting game next week when Virginia Tech comes calling.  FSU continues to march towards irrelevance with Bobby Bowden securely at the wheel because for some reason people are unwilling to do the best thing for the program simply because a coach has been very successful. Yes, Bowden has earned the right to name his retirement date but that assume he would balance his own self interest with that of the program. Bowden is not doing that and if this were any company with a CEO making bad choices(re-hiring Chuck Amato, hiring his own son to be OC, etc.) the board would move for his removal regardless of what said CEO had done in the past.  For some reason we are willing to put up with coaches well past their prime even if they insist on running the program into the ground.  At any rate, FSU is 0-3 in the ACC for the first time ever and quite frankly UNC could do without an hungry FSU team coming to Chapel Hill in 12 days.

Wake Forest asserts control in the Atlantic and that division could well be decided next week at Clemson when Wake heads down there.

Finally, how many lives does Al Groh have? After looking like the worst team in college football for three weeks now the Cavaliers are world beaters.

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Category: 2009 Football Season, ACC Football

3 comments to ACC Week #6: Review

• badbadleroybrown

  October 11, 2009 at 2:25 pm

  I agree that in many cases coaches hang on too long but before Bobby Bowden FSU was nothing. Zero, zip, nothing at all. So given that he has brought them national championships and consistent good play over decades of football I think he’s in unique company with of course Joe Paterno. I can see fans being upset and angry but you can’t have trustees making comments, just bad business and poor management. Of course Bobby seemingly pushed the school regarding the academic scandal beyond what was reasonable and that coupled with losing is paying him back handily. I think if you try to find comparisons to Bowden with other schools and coaches you would be hard pressed to find anyone that should be pushed out in the media. I don’t even like Bowden but he made the program even if he had to empty the county jail to do so and he has many times. Just look at the arrest records for the offensive line in the 80′s, it’s pretty amazing and makes Urban look like the pope. You really don’t want to see an angry and hungry FSU in our house though, let’s hope we are even more so come Thursday night.

• Santiago

  October 11, 2009 at 5:23 pm

  I was at the GSU-UNC game, and wish I could talk intelligently about it. But, it was the first football game I’ve gone to with my kids. While I’m proud to say we made it beyond the start of the 4th (and would’ve stayed for the entire game had it not started raining), let’s just say they were a distraction. Also, we were sitting beside the jumbotron and could not see any replays (but the fireworks were fantastic).

  Last week, the lunatic fringe Tar Heel Fan focuses on basketball after a demoralizing loss to UVa and going 0-2 in conference. Makes me embarrassed to be associated with them. This week, the lunatic fringe State fan calls for the head coach, AD, etc. to be fired after losing to Duke at home and going 0-2 in conference. Puts it all into perspective.

  BTW, Dean, I’m taking the kids to see UNC host Duke in volleyball Friday. It’s not basketball season yet. (crush)

• badbadleroybrown

  October 11, 2009 at 9:39 pm

  I’m pretty excited about basketball as well, looking forward to Late Night. I’ll be there with at least two 5th graders. I do like the football discussion and it’s great to see the passion people have on the subject. I think people are over the top due to their expectations and State is overdue for anything positive to happen outside of bass fishing. I did note that the state fans while not all agreeing to fire TOB still want Fowler gone.

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