College football is great because it offers its fans the most exciting week-to-week regular season of any sport. I spend nearly every Saturday during the fall either tailgating outside Carter-Finley or watching far too much SEC – and, this season, Big XII South – football on TV. But unlike college basketball, which builds over the […]
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A View from the Cheap Seats
My extreme, near-sinful hatred for Carolina could only be eclipsed by the even more intense jubilation of beating those Bastards Born & Bred and then enjoying every fleeting moment of it until it is our time, as dictated by some malevolent, forbidding destiny, to lose to them once again. I can recall with striking accuracy […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the decline of ACC football over the past few years. To me, it’s an interesting topic because the whole basis behind expansion was on increased football revenues from restructured television contracts and the multi-million dollar payout from that much-coveted, yet ever-elusive second BCS bowl. In its simplest […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
Tom O’Brien may be an Ohio native who’s spent the past decade in Boston, but he’s got a certain nature about him that seems distinctly southern. In a way not entirely different than Sidney Lowe, O’Brien has unified a fan base that hasn’t been completely united across the board in twenty years, a refreshing change […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
I was wrong. Way back in November, before teams were playing in Maui or Anchorage and March Madness was still nothing but a distant idea, I wasn’t a complete believer. I had begrudgingly offered my support for the new coach that I had, admittedly, felt was simply the guy that we knew would say yes. […]
