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That was far from the most egregious gaff ACC refs have made for a potential playoff contender. Clemson had a shot at going to the 4 team playoffs as long as they won that ACC Championship Game. UNC wouldn't have. The ACC desperately wanted Clemson to win that game. There's real money on the line for these conferences in these situations.

You gotta take hiring of the refs out of the conference's hands. There's just too much conflict of interest to protect their playoff hopefuls.

It's not possible that the LT Auburn is starting is the best LT on their roster. The dude SUCKS. When he isn't getting penalized he's getting beat like a rug. He didn't allow their offense to compete today.

This entire much hyped QB class has been very meh so far this season.

The ACC protecting their potential playoff teams is a tale as old as time. I'm really surprised they didn't find a way to carry FSU last night. That game actually felt well officiated.

Welp, wake blew it. Went for two to go for the win and *sad trumbone* lol

Huge missed tackle by GT. Should've been a tackle for loss but goes for a TD.

Everything going GT's way down the stretch. Refs missed a blatantly obvious offsides on 3rd and 5 that forced Wake to punt. Then they get a 50/50 call on a pass interference. Now they've gotten a generous spot on 3rd down. He was short but I don't think it's definitive so the call will stand.

@HeelsPanthersCanes do you think duke and wake have more or less resources than Carolina and do you think they're spending more or less on their football programs? Look at them compared to us.

When you're preparing for Bryce Young at QB it provides the opportunity to spend two hours looking at a kickoff.

If it's not specifically against the rules then it's not cheating. If you're not pushing the limits of the rules then you're putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage.

Yeah, he's a perfect college QB and big part of that is him being a highly effective QB who doesn't have the skill set that NFL teams clamor for so you don't have to worry about him going pro early. You're going to get all four years out of a guy like that.

Yeah, flying an NFL team coach is just stupid. These are huge people and the team owners have massive resources. It's a good investment in your product to have your team flying comfortably.

Well, poo. Unfortunately it's all happening. The kid is 12 now and in middle school and they're still ALL IN on this baseball stuff. They're really encouraged because some of his teammates are being invited to national level teams, etc. Yeah, some of his teammates. Not him. They finally put the kid in a quasi-school that's a hybrid type thing where he goes to school a couple of days a week and the rest is virtual/home school. He's struggling terribly so they're talking about pulling him out. The family has talked to them over and over about how this prioritization of baseball has to stop and they have to start actually prepping this kid to succeed in life. Being a professional athlete is a long shot even for an elite athlete and your kid just doesn't have the genetics and you're fuging him up in life with these backassward priorities.

JStew/Chuba is about a push IMO. I love JStew but I honestly think he's one of the more overrated Panthers by our fanbase. Yeah, the '15 TEs were way better. The OL is a push. '15 was better on the interior and a lot better at specifically center but '25 is a lot better at OT, specifically at RT. Yeah, the '25 WR corps is significantly better.

You fail to grapple with the reality that Stroud has proven that he can play at a high level in the NFL and Bryce hasn't. Guys who have shown it tend to get a little more leeway because... well, they've shown it.

Which part of "Stroud has regressed" did you fail to interpret?

It's just overall a massive pain in the ass for something that may or may not happen. You see games rescheduled for hurricanes. You don't see games rescheduled for scattered thunderstorms. It's a lot better to maybe deal with the possibility of an hour or two delay than it is to move the entire operation due to the chance of scattered thunderstorms. It's just part of the deal playing outdoors in the early part of the season. We only have a couple more weeks with it being a major issue.

It's not just the corporations. Look at all the resources that go into planning for the traffic, etc. To snap your fingers at the last minute and bump a major D1 football game up a few hours is simple to say but it's a logistical nightmare. And predicting scattered thunderstorms a week out? I mean, we all watch the weather. Weather predictions a week out is like planning your finances around scratch off lottery tickets.

The logistics of that can't be simple. Putting on a high level D1 football game is a massive multifaceted operation. Pretty damn hard to just wake up in the morning and say "hey, let's bump this whole thing up a few hours".

Directly. You can indirectly help facilitate as many outside NIL deals as possible. The perks you're talking about are essentially what are now simply NIL deals not directly coming from the school and they're legal now.

Stop. I'll take this offensive roster with Cam at QB over the roster Cam carried to a SB. Straight up. Greg Olsen is the only one I'd be losing off the 2015 roster that would have me saying "damn, that's gonna be hard to replace". *I should add Ryan Kalil to that list too but overall, I honestly think our current OL is at least as good as that one. That one had an edge inside and this one has an edge at OT.

I don't see how this is hard to understand. Folks are dunking over Stroud regressing to Bryce levels while seemingly failing to understand that it's a lot more about Stroud regressing, not Bryce improving and at least Stroud has shown that he can be a high level NFL QB. And there's still that inconvenience of the reality that a LOT of Bryce's stats production comes in garbage time against soft zone defense because our opponent is nursing a big lead. The level of cope for some is just comical.

The early games today don't look like much but there's some good games starting at 3:30.

Two really good games last night. I fell asleep during halftime Oregon State/Houston but randomly woke to catch the last couple minutes and OT. I was hoping Oregon State would pull it off to get a W instead of falling to 0-5.