I know we're not supposed to be negative about anything on a 6-1 UNC team, but some of the star recruits on this D are struggling to be good.

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I hate to pick on a specific guy, but how does this angle happen? He's had several headscratchers this yr. It took Cayson Collins all 4 yrs to be productive, so it isn't too late, but this dude needs to step up if he wants to be more than a 3rd-down specialist forever. Poor Ced Gray is having to play 100% of the snaps. He's gonna be exhausted by Nov.

Getting more TV money is not about winning. It is about drawing fans to TV sets. The ACC weakness is that the league has too few schools, vis a vis the SEC and BT, that truly draw fans to watch. Wake and BC could meet in the ACC Championship, both 12-0, and that game would have trouble drawing anything like the number of fans that would watch the SEC Championship, no matter which 2-loss teams are in it. 10-2 UGA or 10-2 UF vs. 10-2 OU or 10-2 A&M is always going to have a MUCH larger TV audience than 12-0 Wake vs. 12-0 BC.

State flagship and/or Land Grant schools have major built-in advantages in drawing fans. Private schools (with a couple of exceptions) have built-in disadvantages in drawing fans. The ACC has far too few of the former and too many of the latter. The SEC and BT are built almost exclusively upon flagships and land grants.

Do enough ACC power brokers finally grasp that football is at least 4 times bigger than basketball? If so, then they should recognize now also what I've said above. And any new distribution method must accept those facts and aim to maximize the long term value of the conference, which can never come through Wake or BC, Pitt or Syracuse, or even GT - which is State but is neither flagship nor land grant (UGA is both).

When will the first live Coaches show be at Top of The Hill

Has anyone heard anything about yesterdays secret scrimmage?

I assume everybody sees Hood as the starter the rest of year (assuming no injuries) and perhaps a star in 2023. But what about the rest off the RB room? Elijah Green looked very good last night, and he's just a Sophomore. Frosh Hampton has shown good power and is still learning. Frosh Pettaway has shown breakaway ability. DJ Jones is a Junior, and while he is a not a potential star in the making, he is a competent reserve RB.

Brooks is coming back for 2023, but if all the other RBs return, I expect that Brooks may see virtually no snaps on Offense - he is a proven top special teams player.

When you have a QB like Maye and the kind of receivers we have, you know that DCs must focus on stopping the passing game. And that means that your RBs can shine precisely because they are not the main focus of opposing Ds.

From what I have seen this year, I think both Hood and Hampton can make an NFL roster.