2008 ACC Discussion

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From the Florida State site.....

Scrimmage Insider: Fisher pleased with progress

 

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BC Site - 4/9

Talks about Chris Crane filling Matt Ryan's shoes this year

 

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Virginia Site - 4/9

Talks about WR Kevin Ogletree coming back from his knee injury

 

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Virginia Site - 4/9

Talks about WR Kevin Ogletree coming back from his knee injury

That'll be huge. Bigger than it maybe sounds cause not many have heard of Ogletree. I couldn't say how many times I saw a drive stall because of not having a single wide receiver with the ability to get open. Leading WR last year had 269 receiving yards. It's no wonder every game was so close. Ogletree's got much more talent than these other guys.

 

[BB73]

Looks like Va Tech will have some issues at RB this year.

Hokies' Lewis, expected starter at RB, to miss 4-6 months

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Kenny Lewis, counted on to be Virginia Tech's starting tailback this season after one-time all-Atlantic Coast Conference tailback Branden Ore was dismissed from the team will be sidelined 4-6 months with a shoulder injury.

Lewis, a 5-foot-10, 199-pound junior, will have arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder Tuesday, coach Frank Beamer's website, Beamerball.com,
reported Friday night.

"This has been a reoccurring injury that has been bothering him since he's been here," Hokies head trainer Mike Goforth said, according to the posting. "So, we'll just go ahead and get it fixed now and get him back as quickly as we can."

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4/13

Observations from the Florida State Spring Game

 

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ESPN - After talk with new coach, Bennett leaves Georgia Tech - College Football

After talk with new coach, Bennett leaves Georgia Tech

ATLANTA -- Taylor Bennett, Georgia Tech's starting quarterback in 2007, will transfer to Louisiana Tech and will be eligible for the 2008 season.

Bennett decided he wouldn't return for his senior season at Georgia Tech after meeting with new coach Paul Johnson, who is installing a spread option attack.

At Louisiana Tech, Bennett will play for Derek Dooley, the son of former longtime Georgia coach and athletic director Vince Dooley.

Bennett said he hasn't been promised a starting job by Dooley.

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ESPN - Green, Scott hope to form potent 1-2 punch for Maryland - College Football

Green, Scott hope to form potent 1-2 punch for Maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- It didn't seem to matter that Morgan Green racked up 5,133 rushing yards at Lackey High School and was one of the all-time leading rushers in the state of Maryland, or that he was recruited by the likes of Penn State and Florida.

Almost all of the traditional hype was quickly replaced by talk of what Green hasn't done at Maryland, and who he isn't -- namely Steve Slaton, the former West Virginia Heisman candidate who wanted to come to Maryland but was denied a scholarship in favor of Green.

"I hated to hear it," Green said, "but you know how that goes."

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ESPN - ACC Roundup: Miami's growing weapon - College Football

ACC Roundup: Canes look to Bailey to make a big impact

Miami coach Randy Shannon said he's not sure if sophomore defensive end Allen Bailey is ever going to stop "getting bigger."

Bailey certainly isn't shrinking.

He came to Miami weighing about 250 pounds and finished spring football at about 290.

"He may be up 310, 315 the next time I see him in the fall," Shannon said, "but we're excited about him."

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FSU football releases linebacker Marcus Ball
DEMOCRAT STAFF REPORT

Florida State announced today that Marcus Ball has asked for a release
from his football scholarship and that the request has been granted.
A sophomore linebacker from Stone Mountain, Ga., Ball was tied for
11th with 24 tackles in 2007.
He played in nine games, had one sack and one fumble recovery.


http://nolesports.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080505/FSU03/80505011

Ball was going to be a starter (after his two-three game suspension for the computer class grade scandal), and I think that this is a real blow to their defense.

 

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FSU tackle Rose going to junior college | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat

FSU tackle Rose going to junior college

An already-thinned Florida State offensive line will be without starting tackle
Daron Rose this season.

"He will just have to dig down and get refocused on
the grades," his mother, Ann Miller, told the Tampa Tribune on Monday evening.
"He'll be back at Florida State (the next year)."

It is not clear which junior college Rose, a Tampa Jefferson product, will attend
as he seeks to earn an associate's degree needed to return to FSU. Rose started
11 games last year.

Seminoles coaches were already preparing for the season knowing Rose
would not be available for the first three games. Bowden announced after
spring practice that freshman Antwane Greenlee will enter preseason practice
as the first-team left tackle. FSU's first-team offensive line will include three
sophomores and two freshmen.



Ball then Rose. Bill, what the heck is going on over there?

 

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FSU tackle Rose going to junior college | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat

FSU tackle Rose going to junior college

An already-thinned Florida State offensive line will be without starting tackle
Daron Rose this season.

"He will just have to dig down and get refocused on
the grades," his mother, Ann Miller, told the Tampa Tribune on Monday evening.
"He'll be back at Florida State (the next year)."

It is not clear which junior college Rose, a Tampa Jefferson product, will attend
as he seeks to earn an associate's degree needed to return to FSU. Rose started
11 games last year.

Seminoles coaches were already preparing for the season knowing Rose
would not be available for the first three games. Bowden announced after
spring practice that freshman Antwane Greenlee will enter preseason practice
as the first-team left tackle. FSU's first-team offensive line will include three
sophomores and two freshmen.



Ball then Rose. Bill, what the heck is going on over there?

ESPN - Starting Seminoles left tackle Rose ruled ineligible - College Football

Starting Seminoles left tackle Rose ruled ineligible

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- School officials say one of Florida State's starting offensive tackles is ineligible for the 2008 season.

Daron Rose started 11 games at the critical left tackle position last fall for FSU. The 285-pound offensive lineman from Tampa will attend a junior college in a bid to regain eligibility.

Redshirt freshman Antwane Greenlee will move into Rose's spot for the beginning of fall practice in August.

Rose's departure is the second this week for the Seminoles, who are coming off successive 7-6 seasons as they prepare for their first season with Bobby Bowden's coaching successor, Jimbo Fisher, now formally in place.

Florida State will also be without another half dozen of its top players for the first three games because of a classroom cheating scandal in a music history class attended by a large number of athletes.

 

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ESPN - ACC considers adding ninth conference game, dropping noncon game - College Football

ACC considers adding ninth conference game, dropping noncon game

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. -- ACC football coaches and athletic directors are weighing the possibility of adding a ninth conference game to the schedule and dropping one of the four nonconference opponents -- an agenda topic the majority of coaches were opposed to at this week's spring meetings but will resume discussing Tuesday morning.

The only other BCS conference that currently plays a nine-game schedule is the Pac-10. The move would ensure half the ACC teams would have a loss -- an instant roadblock to reaching a BCS bowl -- but would ease athletic directors' budgets because of rising costs to buy Division I-AA and mid-major opponents.

"My personal thoughts are I'm against it," said Florida State coach Bobby Bowden after Monday's five-hour, closed-door meeting at the Ritz-Carlton. "I think it makes your scheduling tougher and it might keep you from being more competitive on a national scale. Your main objective is to get to the national championship game or to get into the BCS games, and by playing nine games it just makes it one more road game trying to get to the top.

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