at their CFP ranking.

#1 is FSU and #2 is Louisville.

Because the ACC has always been run by a pack of basketball fools, the ACC always has harmed its own reputation in football. Maryland wins the National Championship the very first yer of the ACC, and the league itself ws ignoring the great achievement by February 1954 to laud that damned basketball tournament. Nobody is that retarded for it just to have been an accidental oversight. THt ws the plan: make this new league a pure basketball league. When you do that, the rest of the country will not fight you.

The results are all around us. The ACC is rather lucky not to have been 'PACed' even before the PAC was. League TV pay is abysmal based on total viewers even for only football, because the essentially Universal perception is that the ACC being a basketball league has no football writers worth anything.

Basketball focus always ruins football. AS football always has been MUCH bigger, it is fiscally retarded to want basketball focus, basketball-firtism. Fiscal retardation is rather easily exposed and then bought out. Which is what the ACC is now facing.

Over the hill , grandfatherly, often befuddled, Mack, who has never consistently won unless he has out recruited his foes, is the perfect choice for football HC for a school still playing according to the basketball-first script. He will produce mediocrity. And that does its big share to keep people assuming the ACC football is quite weak and so deserves no playoff spot, and no money.

If you haven't figured out why most FSU fans now hate the ACC, that's it. It's that they see and feel the many huge problems born of the leagues basketball-first history.

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UNC has opened as a 2 point favorite over NCSU.

...and let's get started by saying how cool it was to see the Davis #24 shirts. RIP, Sweet D.

Radford is a very solid and experienced team that won 21 games last season and made a run in the CBI tourney and has a former 5* transfer. They're the sort of team our last team could've easily lost to, so... perfect opponent to start the season and expose some things. They did. More on that below...

First some notes:
- We played straight 21.5 throughout with only one possession of 24. A bit disappointing.but I'll reserve judgment til later on.

- Was good to see everyone healthy for the opener, and again, we are legit DEEP. On that note, is anyone still questioning the commitment to playing a lotta guys? Everyone on scholarship except Lebo saw the floor, with 9 guys getting double-digit minutes.

- First real game look at Withers was intriguing. He moves his feet well on D for his size and has loing arms and is even able to participate in our full-switch perimeter scheme.

- Sorry, but I'm still SMH at anyone "underwhelmed" by Washington. Even without flashing his perimeter game tonight, he was again highly effective.

- The transfer who benefits most from Carolina basketball is Ryan, He fits so much better off-ball and being a motion guy than he did at ND. Good off the catch. With that said, he should NOT shoot when he's off-balance, He's just not that guy.

- one thing I've heard out of practice is that Cadeau doesn't make the same mistake twice. Not surprising with that basketball IQ. No hints of foul trouble tonight and much sounder footwork on D. And just wow at that vision. Speaking of that, we still have some guys needing to keep their eyes open anytime he has the rock.

- On that note, EC and RJ need more minutes together asap.

- With all that said, this game exposed some things that need correcting. We started off scoring 12 points on set plays. That's all well and good, but it's fool's gold. This is the second time we've seen it already. We're coming out of the gate as a half-court team and that gets overlooked when we happen to make shots, but even then, we played right into Radford''s hands --- they thrive in a half-court game with crafty (and one dirty) little Guards, so yep, they stayed right with us despite our excellent early shooting.

- When we pushed TEMPO we got our margins and it took them out of their offensive game to boot, but that was NOT consistent. Guys, we only scored 20 points in transition and that dog ain't gonna hunt. In reality, the advantage that mitigated that bad number was that they just couldn't do anything with Mando and our other Bigs (kudos to our spacing and ball-movement that enables that, BTW).

- Finally, look, there's a lot to like about this roster and making last season's dribble-dribble-heave offense just a bad memory. HOWEVER... and some may not like this, but we saw it in the exhibition and we saw it here --- with RJ at point we're still too much of a half-court team -- which defeats the purpose and advantage of our depth. We should be running at people in waves --- with the key word being running. And to do that we need to set the tone from the tip. Bottom line is, if this tantalyzing team is to be all it can be, then EC needs to start, and the sooner the better.

Anyway, I told a buddy that I couldn't have lived thru having to watch last season's brand of basketball again --- that was SOOOO painful --- so hallelujah for our return to Carolina basketball. Now... let's unleash the machine and wreak some havoc....