Pretty sure I'm approaching some sort of personal record for consecutive days without complaining about something.
So, uh, Clemson Tigers ... let's make this ACC title thing a habit, eh? Us reporter types could use yearly trips down here.
As far as the bowls go, such a disorienting series of days. We get bowls every day, then nothing on New Year's Day. Then a virtual New Year's Day offering today, Jan. 2.
Don't know about you, but I'm a little peeved that there's so much overlap with all the bowls today after a bowl-less day yesterday.
There goes the end of my complaint-less streak...
A few links:
Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal that advocates telling the so-called "little guys" to take a hike.
The NCAA's members must do the same thing they did in 1978 when the ranks of Division I got unwieldy. They need to create a new tier for football schools with means—Texas, Florida, Notre Dame—and a lower one for wannabes. Sorry, South Alabama. Too bad, Troy.
The nation's poorer programs need to drop down because they drain money from their schools, keep bigger programs from reforming rules and often limp along academically—all while having no real shot at winning it all.
This writer from West Virginia talks about the Chad Morris hire paying off for Clemson.
In this article, a West Virginia player somehow breaks his leg on a Jet Ski.
Wha?
Freshman walk-on Connor Arlia, a slot receiver from Weirton, broke his leg Saturday in a New Year's Eve ski jet accident during a team party.
"It happened to a kid who has been riding jet skis his whole life,'' Holgorsen said.
While Arlia's absence is of absolutely no consequence as far as Orange Bowl is concerned, Holgorsen said it was still a shame, not only for the player, but because he'd been improving. While the coaches used those early practices this month to get some of the younger players some reps, Arlia was making a move.
And an interesting story on West Virginia assistant Steve Dunlap, who recalls a Mountaineers' trip to Clemson in 1975 for a practice before the Peach Bowl.
Who knew it then, but it was a future College Football Hall of Fame coaching matchup between Bobby Bowden - in his last game at WVU before heading to Florida State - and Lou Holtz.
"We went to Clemson on the way to the Peach Bowl, spent about a week there I guess," Dunlap said Sunday before WVU's Orange Bowl workout at Barry University. "We didn't have any facilities, much to speak of, in Morgantown, and it was cold.
"I thought that was a heck of an idea, and it was a great adventure for me because as a little country boy from Hurricane, we never did much of anything.
Then the second day I was there got kicked in the Achilles, then I couldn't do anything the next three days or four, so ... "
LW
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