Monday Madness.....

Game week is finally here! So much to do, so little time. First we'll get caught up from the weekend:

• These are the team's goal's for 2010 courtesy of Arball on the Hive. It will be a great year if we reach those goals. Interesting to note who doesn't factor in to the equation....
• The staff released a new depth chart on Saturday with a couple of interesting changes. On offense, things were pretty much as we predicted: Kevin Cone has overtaken Tyler Melton at WR opposite Stephen Hill while Phil Smith is entrenched at left tackle. No one should freak out about seeing walk-on Tyler Kidney behind Smith as Claytor is the back-up at both spots while Zach Krish can also play there. On defense things changed a bit from our prediction. TJ Barnes is listed at #1 nose tackle but that's because Logan Walls was out a couple days last week with a virus. No worries, Logan will be ready to go on Saturday. Emmanuel "Too Tall" Dieke has a shoulder injury so senior Ben Anderson is backing up Jason Peters this week. Robert Hall is behind Izaan Cross but will not play against SC State due to suspension. The big shake up is at LB where Steven Sylvester is starting at the SAM spot and former starter AT Barnes is now backing up Anthony Egbuniwe at Jack. Kyle Jackson has replaced Brandon Watts in the starting line-up but I'm hearing it will be a three-way rotation at inside linebacker between Jefferson, Jackson, & Watts. As we predicted, true freshman Isaiah Johnson is starting at safety along with Cooper Taylor. Expect a rotation there, also. Scott Blair will handle all the placekicking duties. Orwin Smith & Daniel McKayhan are handling kick off returns.
• An ESPN "analyst" who we've never heard of (hard to believe the way we follow college football) gave his viewpoint on Tech & UGA football in Saturday's AJC. Said ESPN's Ed Cunningham, "I think it’s a mistake this year to have Georgia Tech ahead of Georgia. It’s nice that you get to see these teams play each other at the end of the year. I think Tech’s schedule is brutal, and the offense there is little-by-little getting figured out. So I’m surprised to see Tech higher. I certainly don’t think it’s an indication that the Tech program has passed Georgia’s." (our emphasis added). AHH, the offense is slowly being figured out....never heard that before....It's not that he likes UGA more than us or predicts them to be better, I'm actually fine with that. But the offense is getting figured out argument? Well, having no credibility in your business shouldn't be a problem.....
• Where does this fall on the pucker meter if you're a Miami fan? On one hand, we pretty well know how that program was run during those years. And Butch Davis' recent troubles at Carolina won't do anything but fan the fire. On the other hand, the guy was convicted of defrauding people of $900 million dollars. How much credibility can a convicted felon have? FWIW, there's no denying how close he was to the Miami program....

More ACC Thumbnails from Frank later.....