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posted by LW, Wednesday, September 30, 2009
We'll lead today's entry with the topic of all caps, and I'm not talking about the lower half of Da'Quan Bowers' grill.
You know those e-mails you get, or message-board posts you see, or Facebook status updates.
It's becoming quite the movement.
And it seems that, quite often, the all-caps crowd is also very insistent about the non-use of other keys like commas, periods and such.
IT REALLY DRIVES ME CRAZY WHEN PEOPLE DO THAT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN LOL IT'S LIKE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO SCREAM OR SOMETHING LIKE DO THEY KNOW THEIR CAPS LOCK IS ON SHEESH
Something like that...
Well, today is a special day for the all-caps proponents. Because in The Miami Herald, an actual story is written in all-caps. From beginning to end.
This thing is catching on. Us anti-all caps folks need to stick together and mobilize, because the fear of an all-caps world is very real.
Anyway, the story is about former Clemson DC John Lovett showing his current Miami defense a horror film from last week's loss at Virginia Tech.
If the 'Canes don't clean up their tackling, Oklahoma will provide him with a sequel for next week.
If you want to study up on Maryland, there's probably no better place to do it than by going to the blog run by Patrick Stevens of The Washington Times. He updates it multiple times a day with good info and insight.
Here's a dispatch about Maryland's defense under new DC Don Brown.
And another post about QB Chris Turner, who's been sacked 14 times already this year.
I'm thinking Ricky Sapp and Da'Quan Bowers might be looking forward to Saturday.
Stevens will take part in this week's "Enemy Lines" segment, by the way.
The Washington Post reports that Ralph Friedgen's future appears unclear.
In other news, my coffee is brown.
Things are not looking good for Wake Forest's defense. Remember Jim Grobe's practice of mass redshirting? His secondary's struggles have forced him to throw some some freshmen into the fire.
The Deacons practiced Monday with full pads but without Alex Frye, a redshirt junior from Fayetteville who started the first four games at free safety. Coach Jim Grobe said yesterday that Frye will remain sidelined while the staff takes a good long look this week at safeties Daniel Mack and Duran Lowe and cornerback Dominique Tate.
All three are first-year freshmen who were expected to be redshirted this season to preserve their season of eligibility.
"We went into the season hoping some guys that were older guys and hadn't played much would be the guys," Grobe said. "It just hasn't happened that way.
"The thing you don't want to do is you don't want to play freshmen. But the thing you don't also want to do is play a junior or senior who hasn't ever played before and have them not be very good. You might as well go ahead and take the young guys and say ‘Here we go.'
Wonder if Grobe wishes he'd have taken that Arkansas job two years ago? Rebuilding is difficult at most places, but it's doubly difficult in Winston-Salem.
Peter Warrick is not happy with the current state of affairs in his old college stomping grounds.
"Florida State right now lacks leadership," Warrick said. "I think they don't have nobody on their team that's stepping up saying, 'OK, I'm going to be that guy. I'm going to run the show. We're going to do this and we're going to do that.' And that's what's it's all about. You've got to have somebody that's going to be a leader."
Warrick, a two-time consensus All-American in 1998 and '99, was a player like that for the Seminoles. And since he left, FSU hasn't had another like him. Or anyone even close.
While Warrick witnessed what was perhaps FSU's most disappointing loss since the 30-0 defeat against Wake Forest in 2006, he noticed not only a lack of leadership but also a lack of playmakers.
"I think it's the players, man," Warrick said. "People sit back and say, 'Coach [ Bobby] Bowden should leave.' I don't feel like that. I feel like it's the people that you have out there. Coach Bowden is not running no plays ... And I think that for the players to have a great coach, they have to go out there and back up the coach.
"You know, they've got to go out there and step it up. Somebody's got to make some plays."
In Clemson yesterday, a run-of-the-mill press conference became quite interesting in the last few minutes.
Dabo Swinney took offense to the notion that the first four games have been little more than an extension of Tommy Bowden's "one play away" travails.
I can see why some fans aren't happy because they see no difference between the present and past. The Tigers were extremely close to beating Georgia Tech and TCU, and the fans have been there and done that.
The fans are frustrated, and I think most of the fans are realistic. They're not expecting national titles. They expect their program to win an ACC title every now and then, and that's a reasonable expectation -- an expectation that doesn't seem as realistic now as it might've before the season.
On the other hand, I can also see why Swinney might be miffed that some fans are disgruntled a mere four games into his first full season. I don't think he's saying "this problem isn't going to be fixed overnight" or "rebuilding isn't an easy process" or any of the typical phrases you hear from coaches who are trying to buy time.
If this team doesn't win its division this year, I'm guessing you won't hear many excuses from Swinney. You won't hear that they need the oculus or museum or whatever built before he can be expected to challenge for the Tigers' first ACC title since 1991. You won't hear any griping about the administration, the AARC or whatever.
You'll probably hear him say he's bitterly disappointed, that it's on him, and that the Tigers absolutely have to get better.
More on Dat Boy's stay-the-course mantra in The Post and Courier.
And The Poster Boy nears another milestone.
Kyle Parker says he's accountable for the red-zone sputters.
And here's Swinney's account of the alleged guarantee to Willy Korn.
And here's the story on Richard Mounce leaving Clemson's baseball team.
SO LONG FOLKS HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT DAY PEACE OUT
LW
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We'll lead today's entry with the topic of all caps, and I'm not talking about the lower half of Da'Quan Bowers' grill.
You know those e-mails you get, or message-board posts you see, or Facebook status updates.
It's becoming quite the movement.
And it seems that, quite often, the all-caps crowd is also very insistent about the non-use of other keys like commas, periods and such.
IT REALLY DRIVES ME CRAZY WHEN PEOPLE DO THAT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN LOL IT'S LIKE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO SCREAM OR SOMETHING LIKE DO THEY KNOW THEIR CAPS LOCK IS ON SHEESH
Something like that...
Well, today is a special day for the all-caps proponents. Because in The Miami Herald, an actual story is written in all-caps. From beginning to end.
This thing is catching on. Us anti-all caps folks need to stick together and mobilize, because the fear of an all-caps world is very real.
Anyway, the story is about former Clemson DC John Lovett showing his current Miami defense a horror film from last week's loss at Virginia Tech.
If the 'Canes don't clean up their tackling, Oklahoma will provide him with a sequel for next week.
If you want to study up on Maryland, there's probably no better place to do it than by going to the blog run by Patrick Stevens of The Washington Times. He updates it multiple times a day with good info and insight.
Here's a dispatch about Maryland's defense under new DC Don Brown.
And another post about QB Chris Turner, who's been sacked 14 times already this year.
I'm thinking Ricky Sapp and Da'Quan Bowers might be looking forward to Saturday.
Stevens will take part in this week's "Enemy Lines" segment, by the way.
The Washington Post reports that Ralph Friedgen's future appears unclear.
In other news, my coffee is brown.
Things are not looking good for Wake Forest's defense. Remember Jim Grobe's practice of mass redshirting? His secondary's struggles have forced him to throw some some freshmen into the fire.
The Deacons practiced Monday with full pads but without Alex Frye, a redshirt junior from Fayetteville who started the first four games at free safety. Coach Jim Grobe said yesterday that Frye will remain sidelined while the staff takes a good long look this week at safeties Daniel Mack and Duran Lowe and cornerback Dominique Tate.
All three are first-year freshmen who were expected to be redshirted this season to preserve their season of eligibility.
"We went into the season hoping some guys that were older guys and hadn't played much would be the guys," Grobe said. "It just hasn't happened that way.
"The thing you don't want to do is you don't want to play freshmen. But the thing you don't also want to do is play a junior or senior who hasn't ever played before and have them not be very good. You might as well go ahead and take the young guys and say ‘Here we go.'
Wonder if Grobe wishes he'd have taken that Arkansas job two years ago? Rebuilding is difficult at most places, but it's doubly difficult in Winston-Salem.
Peter Warrick is not happy with the current state of affairs in his old college stomping grounds.
"Florida State right now lacks leadership," Warrick said. "I think they don't have nobody on their team that's stepping up saying, 'OK, I'm going to be that guy. I'm going to run the show. We're going to do this and we're going to do that.' And that's what's it's all about. You've got to have somebody that's going to be a leader."
Warrick, a two-time consensus All-American in 1998 and '99, was a player like that for the Seminoles. And since he left, FSU hasn't had another like him. Or anyone even close.
While Warrick witnessed what was perhaps FSU's most disappointing loss since the 30-0 defeat against Wake Forest in 2006, he noticed not only a lack of leadership but also a lack of playmakers.
"I think it's the players, man," Warrick said. "People sit back and say, 'Coach [ Bobby] Bowden should leave.' I don't feel like that. I feel like it's the people that you have out there. Coach Bowden is not running no plays ... And I think that for the players to have a great coach, they have to go out there and back up the coach.
"You know, they've got to go out there and step it up. Somebody's got to make some plays."
In Clemson yesterday, a run-of-the-mill press conference became quite interesting in the last few minutes.
Dabo Swinney took offense to the notion that the first four games have been little more than an extension of Tommy Bowden's "one play away" travails.
I can see why some fans aren't happy because they see no difference between the present and past. The Tigers were extremely close to beating Georgia Tech and TCU, and the fans have been there and done that.
The fans are frustrated, and I think most of the fans are realistic. They're not expecting national titles. They expect their program to win an ACC title every now and then, and that's a reasonable expectation -- an expectation that doesn't seem as realistic now as it might've before the season.
On the other hand, I can also see why Swinney might be miffed that some fans are disgruntled a mere four games into his first full season. I don't think he's saying "this problem isn't going to be fixed overnight" or "rebuilding isn't an easy process" or any of the typical phrases you hear from coaches who are trying to buy time.
If this team doesn't win its division this year, I'm guessing you won't hear many excuses from Swinney. You won't hear that they need the oculus or museum or whatever built before he can be expected to challenge for the Tigers' first ACC title since 1991. You won't hear any griping about the administration, the AARC or whatever.
You'll probably hear him say he's bitterly disappointed, that it's on him, and that the Tigers absolutely have to get better.
More on Dat Boy's stay-the-course mantra in The Post and Courier.
And The Poster Boy nears another milestone.
Kyle Parker says he's accountable for the red-zone sputters.
And here's Swinney's account of the alleged guarantee to Willy Korn.
And here's the story on Richard Mounce leaving Clemson's baseball team.
SO LONG FOLKS HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT DAY PEACE OUT
LW
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