ACC Championship Links

by Winfield Featherston on Dec 2, 2009 2:30 PM EST Comment 10 comments

Championship weekend is quickly approaching. When does everyone leave and where you staying? We leave Thursday afternoon.

Before we hit the links, here's one of my now favorite quotes of all time, courtesy of Paul Johnson himself:

"Get a thick skin. [If a georie fan is] giving you a hard time and you get tired of it, punch him in the face."

Watch out you fools. You mess with me, you mess with the lumberjack!

PAUL JOHNSON APOLOGIZES, EXPLAINS HIS COMMENTS: EDSBS
CLASSIC.

Sent on the road, Leavitt takes shots at ACC
For the second year in a row, USF coach Jim Leavitt will finish the Big East season on the road in sub-40-degree temperatures, knowing that Raymond James Stadium is unavailable because the ACC Championship Game is being played there.

A game-changer: Clemson understands challenge Morgan presents at end - Georgia Tech - Macon.com
How Clemson is preparing for Derrick Morgan...again

ACC Championship Assorted Thoughts : On The B.Rink

ACC title game rare rematch The Post and Courier - Charleston SC
CLEMSON -- Saturday's ACC championship game represents a rare occurrence in college football -- a rematch.

A devalued ACC title game? Not to Johnson and Tech | Mark Bradley
Mark Bradley of the AJC relates that Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson isn't apologizing for being in the ACC title game a week after losing to Georgia.

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I had to cancel, boys...

…Good news is that I sold my tickets to a Tech fan…

Have fun, drink a ton, and BEAT THE F OUTTA THE TIGERS!!!!

Maker's Mark--nectar of the gods...

by chrisinindy on Dec 2, 2009 7:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Whaaaaaat?

The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.

by Winfield Featherston on Dec 2, 2009 8:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yea I know....sucks ass

Maker's Mark--nectar of the gods...

by chrisinindy on Dec 3, 2009 6:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If Leavitt doesn't want to finish his regular season in New England, he should tell the Big East to get in line.

The Big East and the Pac-10 having regular season games this weekend is shameful. Both conferences are just trying to make up for the fact that they don’t have a championship game … trying to steal thunder from this weekend’s conference championship games.

All I-A teams should have to finish the regular season on the same weekend (the weekend after Thanksgiving) … except for Army-Navy. That can be played this weekend. Having the Big East and Pac-10 regular seasons end a weekend later also gives teams an extra BYE week that teams in the ACC, SEC, Big 12, etc. didn’t have. I don’t think that’s fair.

by Brian @ BCI on Dec 2, 2009 9:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

very good points

The Big East = sour grapes. They can add GA State when Bill Curry gets the team up and going. Add in FIU, FAU, and UCF and they’ve got a championship game. It’s all inevitable steps towards a more tournament style college football finale.

This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

by BirdGT on Dec 2, 2009 9:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

On a side note, am I the only one who’s excited about Georgia State’s football program? I’d be all in favor of dropping our games against teams like Mid Tennessee and Elon (ELON, REALLY? The team that was the Fightin’ Christians for the longest time?) for an annual game against GSU. Give it some stupid name, play it in on a thursday in the georgia dome (which would technically be a home game for GSU, but whatever) and give GSU some national recognition.

by evanseeds on Dec 3, 2009 1:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not excited about it from a football perspective

but I am interested to see how Curry has done in building a program from the ground up. That cant be an easy task and I’m wondering how long before they gain any true national interest.

So far, I think of them as our dumb little brother who f’s everything up but gets excited at every little thing…like drinkin his first shot of Makers.

Maker's Mark--nectar of the gods...

by chrisinindy on Dec 3, 2009 6:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ah

So they are to Georgia Tech Football as Southern Poly is to GT Academics.

by evanseeds on Dec 4, 2009 1:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think

it’s fine. We’ve got so many I-A athletes in GA that have to go out of state. It’s good to build another program because I don’t see GA Southern ever mounting a serious effort especially the way their program has been in decline as of late.

This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

by BirdGT on Dec 4, 2009 3:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs