Why is the ACC Conference so good?
I think it’s the players that have made it so good. What we have done as a league in the non-conference games against other very good opponents is proof of how strong the league is. Once you get into league play and start to beat on each other, it’s hard to stay up there in the top three or four because you’re going to have some losses. I can’t see anybody having a stronger league than what we have-Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Duke, Maryland–it’s a heck of a league. Q: What does the team need to do to win on Sunday? A: After last Saturday’s game, I was as frustrated as I have ever been as a coach, and yet, we had good meeting and practices, and in the Miami game we showed tremendous effort. I can live with a lot of things, but I can’t live with bad effort and that is something that we have got to understand and have a total commitment to playing with that kind of intensity and concentration, and if we do that we can beat anybody. I’m hoping that we learned from that. The way that they p
