I will begin assembling and designing the upcoming Gnomes ACC football schedule. Any requests or suggestions? Please comment and let me know! I plan on having a similar design as last year and possibly another conference as well depending on the interest levels shown.

Stanford Cardinal big boys, Robin and Brook Lopez’s mom was expecting girls that fateful day in the delivery room.

Oh yeah as the Tigers forgot how to play ball last night, I will resort to sniping the rest of the tournament. Honestly, when the Tigers stopped applying the full court press, I turned the TV off.

Off of a complaint over at DFIG. It is obvious that there is no favoritism towards the boys in baby blue, even beyond the ACC and Swofford. I mean, look at the brackets! You have everyone in random places such as Denver, Tampa, Detroit and UNC travels all the way to…..Raleigh. Well, ok so they get the first two games right in their back yard but they move on, if they win, to the new location. Looking at the brackets again, we see that the Heels head all the way to…..Charlotte. What the HELL!! I searched the entire bracket structure and can’t find anyone, even the #1 seeds getting that much home court favor. Leading off of DFIG’s comments about UNC bandwagonners and their ticket hoarding, this does not seem anywhere NEAR fair. I hope someone in the colleges that has to put up with this crap complains as the baby blue boys have way too much going for them in terms of favor through the regular season to keep this crap going in the tourneys as well.

But I am a biased Clemson fan, what do I know.

Yesterday’s win over Duke was certainly enjoyable.

But I really want to beat these eggheads.

UPDATE: Damn it!

Or so says Yahoo Sports. When the wife pointed this out I had to blurt out the caveat; “yeah, when he runs UPfield!”. Oh well, hopefully he matured even more this year and will lower his shoulder when needed instead of dancing in the backfield trying to make some heroic plays. I love watching the guy but cringe every time his number is called with a stiff D line on the opposing side.

You heard it here first.

We did beat Maryland on Sunday night. It was certainly quite the dramatic game.

I wanted to add a few comments about that game and the season in general.

Nowadays, I’m living in Northern Virginia. Understandably, the DC-based radio station I listen to, WJFK, has a bit of a Maryland bias. So it is with some pleasure that I have been able to listen to the lamentations about the Terps season and their monumental collapse on Sunday. It’s also quite nice just to hear Clemson sometimes pop up into general ACC conversations. Instead of being just one of the faceless teams in the cellar, we show up as a legitimate 3rd place team.

The last few years, collectively, have definitely brought tremendous improvement. And we should enjoy it.

I smell the Big Dance in the oven! With the stellar comeback win in the final two seconds over Mayland Sunday night, the Tigers have all but offically locked a slot in March Madness. Hmm, the last time I joined in and gave a rats rear end about basketball in March I was 18. How sad, how very sad. More to follow on the game. Go Tigers!