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It’s a busy Friday around the ACC, with 11 games. North Alabama visits Miami, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi checks in at the Tucker Center to play Florida State, Georgetown goes to Clemson, Pitt plays Butler in Hinkle, which is bold, Virginia Tech welcomes Mt. St. Mary’s to Cassell, Troy jets into Raleigh to take on NC State, Georgia visits the Dean Dome to take on the Tar Heels, Virginia gets Maryland in College Park, Stanford sees Josh Pastner’s Runnin’ Rebels in Thomas & Mack, and Ball State takes its chances at SMU.
Some of these games are not that interesting, so we’re going to focus on the ones that really are.
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Let’s start with Virginia and Maryland. The Terrapins are struggling, the fans appear to be deeply unhappy, with some proposing to bring Mark Turgeon back.
Virginia is playing very, very well. This could get ugly, and we’re here for it if it does. Another bad loss, this one at home, should be highly entertaining – by which we mean the fan meltdown.
Then there’s UNC and Georgia. We don’t know much about the Dawgs yet, but UNC has been erratic, to say the least. This is not going to be Western Carolina hanging in until late UNC will need to be ready for Georgia.
There was a time that we would never have imagined Georgetown visiting Clemson. Why would the mighty Hoyas do that?
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Long ago and far away, y’all. On the upside, Georgetown stuck it to Maryland last week, but this team is still unproven. But so is Clemson, so we’ll see.
Ronald Nored is back at Butler, this time as head coach. He was a devastating player for Brad Stevens. Can he lead his Bulldogs back? Maybe. Pitt will have to bring its A game.
The other games? We’ll see what happens and what’s worth talking about. There’s just not that much of interest to us now.
You know what is interesting? State will introduce Philip Rivers as its new head football coach.
Hiring a high school coach is a risky business. Maryland hired Bob Wade to replace Lefty Driesell after the Len Bias scandal. Wade was…
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