The Return of the A-Line Board of Football Experts Finally! After another long, barren Dead Zone, albeit livened up in August by scandal, another football season is upon us. Soon, [very soon, actually, for some of us], it will be time to make tracks for one’s favorite football town and stadium. For a goodly chunk [...]

We are now about a fortnight away from games being played on the field instead of offices and back rooms at Carolina and Miami. What a concept! It is also about time for me to make the 2011 version of my Fearless Predictions. There are, of course, a seemingly-limitless supply of predictions floating around cyberspace. [...]

So, it turns out ‘da U’ was Back all along. Maybe not on the field, mind you, where the results never quite achieved the standards of Backness displayed by the Bad Old Canes; but certainly  behind the scenes. Despite all of the proclamations of program cleanliness, the Bad New Canes were sure up to par. [...]

It was quite the few days. It had been thought that this year’s Conference Expansion Season would contribute to a mostly-uneventful Dead Zone everywhere but Chapel Hill. That proved to be incorrect thinking. The major Expansion Wars of 2003 and 2010 that provided  roughly the same amount of movement as Churchill’s redrawing maps of the [...]

The calendar has now, finally, flipped to August. T. S. Eliot had it wrong: August is the cruelest month. Aside from yet another month to endure of stifling heat and stupendous air conditioning bills, we are in that last, agonizing month before the start of another football season. One can easily imagine full stadiums [well, [...]

Butch Davis is currently tied with algroh for most losses to Frank Beamer with eight, one behind the nine racked up by Tom O’Brien. It seems highly-unlikely that either Sgt. Schultz or the Great NFL Legend will have the opportunity to make a run at the record. While algroh continues to toil at Georgia Tech [...]