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1bigfan13

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What is Napier doing? Either the play by play guys explained this incorrectly or Napier is an idiot for calling that timeout.
 

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Guys. Listen. You dont have to keep worrying. Its just another week and another football powerhouse that Tech has handled.

Been a great day. Tech won. Horns lose. Yankees lose.
 
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Heels down

The dream of recreating the Deion Sanders experience in Chapel Hill took its first major step forward Saturday, when a world-famous rapper finally showed up for a game. Unfortunately, this was because Ludacris was contractually obligated to play the pregame concert, and due to the miserable September unfurled by both of Saturday's participants, he was forced to (ahem) roll out of bed bright and early for a 9:45 a.m. set. It's rare for Carolina's usually staid wine-and-cheese crowd to dig into the Chicken-n-Beer (we know) before lunch, but in fairness, they would've otherwise been 2 Furious 2 Fast (seriously, we're sorry).

This was supposed to be one of the season's great matchups -- Belichick vs. Dabo Swinney, the first college football game between a coach with a Super Bowl ring and one with a natty since Bill Walsh and Joe Paterno faced off in the famed 1993 Blockbuster Bowl, which feels a little like saying The Beatles and The Rolling Stones once got together to play a show at a RadioShack. With North Carolina and Clemson a combined 0-5 against Power 4 competition entering play, Saturday's matchup might well have been dubbed The Disappointment Bowl.

The game started well enough for UNC, with the Heels down 28-3 after the first quarter. Unfortunately, Belichick wasn't coaching against the Atlanta Falcons in this one.

If losses to TCU and UCF were embarrassing for UNC, Saturday's first half was something altogether different -- like a septuagenarian posing for a 20-something's Halloween photos on Instagram. :lol

Clemson scored touchdowns on five of its first six drives, and Cade Klubnik had twice as many TD throws (four) as incompletions (two), before the Tigers called off the dogs, and the surviving members of the 1916 Cumberland team could celebrate, knowing their legacy of a 222-0 loss was safe for another week.

Earlier in the week, Heels GM Michael Lombardi wrote a letter to donors that bordered on a manifesto, suggesting this is all part of Belichick's rebuilding plan, though it had more of the feel of the guys who started Fyre Festival saying the porta potties would be delivered any minute now. For a team that is already having this much trouble scoring points, moving the goal posts seemed a bad idea, but Lombardi's analogizing Belichick's plan for UNC to the Philadelphia 76ers' famed "process" might be fitting. After all, throughout all of the Sixers losing, management continued to invest in bad personnel, and the end result, a decade later, is still nothing close to a title.
 

1bigfan13

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Guys. Listen. You dont have to keep worrying. Its just another week and another football powerhouse that Tech has handled.

Been a great day. Tech won. Horns lose. Yankees lose.
And this guy committed for the 2027 class.

It's two years away so obviously this may not stick. But at least for one day it's another feather in the cap.

 

Texas Ace

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Texas is really bad.
That's right.

A lot is going to be made of how disappointing Arch Manning has been and rightfully so, but the truth is that Texas just isn't an elite team this season and you can even make the argument that they may not even be a good one.

I said coming into the season that I thought we were talked too high and that this team had a lot of questions coming into it.

And again, this is why last seasons disappointing end hurt so much because that team was loaded and had NFL talent on every unit on the team, and the defense specifically was the best college defense I've seen since the best Saban Alabama defenses.

We just needed a little better QB play and we could have won the NC.

But that opportunity was missed and now we've got more issues on our hands than just a disappointing QB.
 
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