Around the ACC

NC State
-Linebacker Nate Irving apparently fell asleep at the wheel. He suffered a broken leg and collapsed lung. That sucks.

Duke
-Coach K is the highest paid employee at Duke. Does this really surprise anyone? I figured the Department Head of Foreign Lit would be making $2.5 mil easy.
-Duke guard Elliot Williams is transferring to Memphis.

UNC
-Good read by Yahoos!/Rivals about the importance of college seniors in the NBA.

Huge baseball series this weekend

Baseball
Our last three home games are this weekend against FSU. We need wins. Period. Unfortunately for us Chapel Hill plays good-for-nothing NC State and we play #6 FSU. So let's hope for some luck and good ol' fashioned Hall Ball. Last time we played FSU at home things resulted in a lot of tears in my beers. So let's prevent that magnitude of meltdown and kick the crap out of Chief Osceola. An NC State upset or two would be nice as well.

Softball
Also, softball starts their ACC tourney run today at 5:00pm against lowly Virginia. Tech is the #1 seed after taking the ACC regular season title by half a game. I'm really happy to see this team succeeding. I used to attend the softball games regularly especially in the Summer of '07. I want to see a game at the new stadium so hopefully we'll be hostin' some fools come tourney time.

Non-sports
Patrick Whaley, GT Civil Engineering student, is listed as being in stable condition at Grady Hospital after being shot by car jackers in Atlanta. Good luck getting back to your feet dude.

ACC football musings

Apparently Cutcliffe, like America, decided Zach Asack's name was too ironic to play quarterback and is moving the career punching bag to safety. Asack was suspended in '06 for plagiarism and has been stuck behind Thaddeus Lewis ever since. In case you were wondering, he's been sacked 27 times in his career.

Andy Staples wrote an interesting article about Russell Wilson on SI.com. Too bad all of this hype is for naught 'cause Jon Dwyer will take ACC POTY back to back seasons.

And finally FSU is fighting their win forfeitures. I understand their case. GT had a similar (not identical) situation but personally I think FSU's record should remain blemished. The sheer level of cheating was pretty reDUNKulous. However, why are they only attacking FSU when the NCAA truly needs to audit a lot of school's approaches to treatment of athletes in academia. If the NCAA wants to get on a high horse about FSU, why not other schools that relegate athletes to "General Studies" and "Communications" majors? Schools that truly don't care about educating their student athletes should all be punished.

So goes life.