The Daily Roundup: Monday's ACC Football Kickoff (with a touch of Vick)

The BEST ACC Sports Coverage!!!

Getting your mind right:
Lennox Rawlings of the Winston-Salem Journal: Season to Remember: But Deacs looking ahead

Some serious scheduling: "Mr. College Football: Tony Barnhart takes a look at the ACC's best non-conference matchups."

Vick will need a replay of Lewis' major image rehab: Ookey has a long, long way to go.

David Steele of the Baltimore Sun: Guilty or not, Vick deserves everything coming his way

ACC teams gather to discuss new season: "It's the time of the year when the impossible seems possible, when any team can beat any other team on any given Saturday."

ACC Kickoff Ken Tysiac

ACC football hasn't made the big time:"Come we now to the annual midsummer soiree of 5-irons and idle chatter otherwise billed as the ACC Football Kickoff."

ACC Insider Blog, Andrew Jones from Pinehurst:
Live from Pinehurst: ACC Football Kickoff
First round of notes from Pinehurst, where the ACC Insider blog gets two guest bloggers, sports editor Neil Amato and assistant sports editor Dan Spears.

Live from Pinehurst, Part 2
More notes from Pinehurst, including one on Wilmington's Connor Barth

Live from Pinehurst, Round 3
More tidbits from ACC players
Get over there!!!


The conference headlines:
Wake Forest
Wake Forest Ignored: Prognosticators Not Quite Ready To Embrace 'Little Old Wake Forest'

Deacs eyeing a tough repeat: "As it unfolded last season, college football fans and experts were unanimous on Wake Forest's run to the ACC football championship: improbable, impossible, impressive."


Georgia Tech
A star is made: "Jackets' running back Tashard Choice learns how to be a football star from Calvin Johnson. "

Choice ready to step into leadership role: "Georgia Tech's Tashard Choice considers himself among the nation's top running backs, right there with Arkansas' Darren McFadden, West Virginia's Steve Slaton, Rutgers' Ray Rice and Michigan's Mike Hart."

SAFETY TRIES TO MAKE SAINTS


Virginia Tech
Hokies ready for Saint-like season: "Several of standout tackle Duane Brown’s friends in his hometown of Richmond, Va., had paid no attention to where he played college football."

Media Follows the Hokies

Hokies discuss shootings

Fans, Tech supporters react to Vick's troubles

Fans say Vick's scandals shouldn't reflect poorly on Virginia Tech or the Hokies program

Smith proud of Tech


Clemson
Tigers not expecting same ole ’Noles: "Hiring the tag team of a proven offensive coordinator and hard-nosed offensive line coach did more than display that Florida State’s administration would open its wallet for Bobby Bowden’s staffers."

Freshmen prepare to work hard

This season, Bowden hopes to ‘finish the job’


Florida State
Athletics are Wetherell's business: "T.K. Wetherell's fingerprints can be found all over the changes coming at the top level of the Florida State athletic department."

Floyd likes FSU's changes: "Master of ceremonies Terry Bowden likely knew the answer to his question for new College Football Hall of Fame member Bennie Blades during Saturday night's enshrinement ceremony."

FSU recruitment camp draws past, future 'Noles

Smith's time at FSU has arrived »

FSU's Fluellen draws notice »

Footballin' with the stars »

Carr, Overton resign at FSU »

All 'Noles fall out »


Miami
UM loses recruit: "Tyreese Breshers, a 6-6 power forward from Los Angeles who committed to the University of Miami two weeks ago, reportedly changed his mind and decided to stay closer to home and attend Washington."

University of Miami finds itself in unfamiliar role heading into '07 : "It is something that was unexpected when Miami joined the Atlantic Coast Conference three years ago."

Sour taste lingers: "Players, coaches, alumni and fans are still 'embarrassed' by last year's 7-6 record. The team wants to use that as motivation to excel. The season from hell seems surreal to University of Miami senior guard/center Derrick Morse, who once earned the nickname ''D-Nasty'' and whose on-field demeanor has been compared to, among other charming characters, the Tazmanian Devil."

Incoming UM quarterback Robert Marve may miss 2007 season after accident

Incoming Hurricanes QB Marve, 2 teammates hurt in crash


Maryland
ACC football pseudo-report [Tracking the Terps] : "Here are some odds 'n' ends from the posh Pinehurst…"


Virginia
Cavaliers support their coach: "Virginia's co-captains defend Al Groh against the jabs of outside critics."

Glass is half full for Cavs


North Carolina
Building Trust: "The Tar Heel players are developing chemistry with the coaching staff."

Dailey pokes fun at completion rate: "North Carolina senior Joe Dailey is keeping his arm in shape, but now that he's switched from quarterback to wideout, he's not sure if he'll toss any touchdowns as a receiver this season."

Tar Heels' Dailey adjusting to role: "Former QB on receiving end this fall.

ACC Kickoff: Playmakers :"New UNC head coach Butch Davis wants game-changing athletes at the skill positions. Enter wide receivers Hakeem Nicks and Brandon Tate."

Heels' Taylor seeks reversal of fortunes

Notebook: Heels open up in locker room : "Butch Davis has said he wants to instill a greater sense of openness and togetherness in his first season as North Carolina's football coach. With training camp fast approaching, one of Davis' first steps in that direction is complete."


NC State
Blackman gives preview of Pack's offense ... sort of: "One second Darrell Blackman was talking about how he expected Daniel Evans to start at quarterback for N.C. State this season."

Pack's focus on in-state recruits, but is it a change of pace? : "Tom O'Brien knows the way to David Howle's heart. N.C. State's new football coach has opened the Wendell Murphy Football Center doors to the Bunn High School football coach, allowing Howle to come over, watch film and ask questions of him or his assistant coaches about offensive and defensive schemes."


Boston College
Ryan resembles former coach : "For the last three years, Matt Ryan was O'Brien's kind of quarterback, an O'Brien creation of sorts: cool, accurate, efficient. Ryan was the ACC's total offense leader in 2006."

Bicknell leads BC Hall of Fame class: "Former Boston College football coach Jack Bicknell and seven former athletes will be inducted into the school's Varsity Club Hall of Fame this fall."