The ACCCG
In case you’ve been living under a rock or hiding beneath an umbrella for the last 24 hours, I’ll let you know that Wake Forest slogged its way to a 9-6 victory over Georgia Tech in rainy Jacksonville.
This game was boring to an extreme. The lack of excitement meant I was left alone with my thoughts, which I’ll try to replicate below.
I couldn’t believe that Wake and Georgia Tech were actually playing in a championship game. Take away all the extra signage, and the layperson would have had no clue that this was a game of significant importance. But not only was this particular game bad, the informed viewer realized that the two teams’ only particular trait is that they are good at not-losing.
I’m willing to put money on the table right now that Georgia Tech will be the surprise team of 2007. I don’t know who all leaves the team, but the departure of 9-for-29 Reggie Ball may be the best medicine the team could ingest.
That the game was between Wake and GT underscored the crappiness of the ACC this season as well as how bad Clemson screwed up by dropping 3 league games to teams that did not make it to the championship game.
And finally, could Alltel stadium have been any emptier? The extremely poor attendance could be attributable to a number of things: the schools playing or the weather, perhaps. But I’ll go on to say that I’m not a big fan of Jacksonville and that it just may be the case that no one else is either. Jax isn’t really far enough south to get the advantages of “Florida weather” and its otherwise not central to… well anything really. Now I don’t know that there are any cities which can draw a crowd regardless of teams, but it seems to me that Jacksonville is not that city.
I’ll finish with words borrowed (stolen?) from SMQ:
Congrats and all, good luck in Miami, but damn, this is hardly a champion to get excited about, in a league won by pure, grisly attrition.
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