Before I croak and drift down to Davey Jones' locker,
maybe, just maybe...
Maybe Ronald Curry will retract his decision to forego
the coming basketball season. Otherwise, considering the football
Heels' quickly fading prospects for post-season action, he's likely to be an
athlete without a game to prepare for after UNC's mid-November finale versus
Duke.
Maybe Jim Grobe will keep the new Wake Forest on
a roll long enough to crack the Top 25. Don't laugh
the Deacs have Appy State, Northern
Illinois and Maryland lined up like bowling pins the next three weeks, all
at home. Who could have envisioned the possibility that an unbeaten
and nationally-ranked Wake team might roll into Tallahassee on September 29
to challenge Bobby Bowden's ACC bullies?
Speaking of the Bowden family, maybe Tommy's Tigers are
on the verge of running out of the treasure trove of players that was
in place when he arrived in the quaint little town of Clemson (pop. 11,064).
Or is Central Florida really that good? Come to think of it,
maybe the stockpile of talent was about to run low in The Big Easy
when he left Tulane for Death Valley.
Maybe N.C. State will hurry up and play a football game
already. Inquiring minds want to know if last season's string of
fortuity was a fluke, the real deal or somewhere in between.
Maybe Steve Logan, Doug Martin and Tim Rose will figure out how to solve
ECU's running game enigma both
sides of it before the Pirates' preseason
optimism gets overwhelmed by events.
Maybe observers will take Lou Holtz seriously for once
when puts on his weekly fretting, sweating and wringing of hands routine
about the Gamecocks' next opponent because
this week, with a battle Between the Hedges on the agenda, he ain't
kidding.
Maybe Shavlik Randolph, in a stroke of master
diplomacy, will sidestep the prospect of the bruised feelings that will
occur if he picks a favorite among the 'Pack, Devils and Heels, by casting
his lot with a neutral third party say,
Calipari or Pitino... or Herrion or Lutz.
Something I've been scratching my head about:
Is East Carolina's mammoth new strength and conditioning complex being
constructed in slow motion or what?
Until the Nor'easters and tides bring my barnacled but
sturdy old vessel back this way again, may favorable winds fill your sails.
