They have started early…The anticipation of football season always gets to me and the baseball season always seems to run sooooo long.  I can’t even play fantasy baseball anymore because I feel like it makes it take longer.

After this weekend and the football spring games, it makes this all worse.  Even Marcus and his ACC Football Report has gone on hiatus until June.  So I’ve started a countdown.  127 days until the fall season kicks off on August 28th.

But in the mean time, I’m glad that some NC schools decided to have their spring games since most other schools have already played.  UNC’s got canceled so we have to wait until the fall to see the dazzling technique of Butch and his boys.  I had a hard time deciding which one to go to with Duke, State and Wake all playing last Saturday.  I think that the cure all would be to just have each spring game on a different weekend in April for all of the NC teams.  That way everyone who is going through withdrawal will have four solid weekends of college football to tide them over until next August.

BUT my synopsis of the status of the three ACC teams after last weekend would be:

Duke tried everything to get fans there.  They gave away free food, they had a band and David Cutcliffe did everything in his power short of sacrificing a ram to get people out there.  I don’t know anyone who went, but I do know that the team has lost a combined 400+ lbs before the spring game just getting into shape.  We’ll see how the season will shape up but it sounds like Cutcliffe has done everything in his power to motivate his team.

Oh man, State.  They had the opposite problem that Duke had, with 14000+ fans in attendance.  The biggest thing I was hoping to see from this game was a solution to the QB problem they’ve had ever since #17 moved on to the Chargers.  We have seen Evans at work for 2 seasons so I hope his shoulder gets better after surgery but I really wanted to see Burke, Wilson, and Beck in action.  I have just read over the highlights (or lack there of) from the scrimmage but from the sounds of it, I sure hope the Mike Glennon is the secret weapon that State needs and his recruiting class can turn the whole team around…summer can’t be long enough for them as they are still trying to regroup.

I actually went to the Wake game Saturday.  Call me crazy, but I didn’t really want to go sit through State’s scrimmage and see exactly what I saw last year at the State/MD game…minus Darrell Blackman and Demario Pressley…Skinner is looking better than ever (and even more to some people who saw his photo shoot online earlier this year)….Hodges and McManis looked decent.  The offense spent more time on the field, and I really didn’t see many of the first string D play, so I’m gonna hope that means that they are ready.  Grobe kept his low profile in his old ragged sweatshirt and hat, and blended in with the crowd.  The basketball team was in attendance, and several other players who are elidgible for the draft were in attendance after finishing out their 2007 with the Deacs, including John Tereshinski.

So until these next 127 days are over I will be on the message boards for scout.com trying to squeeze every dollar out of my subscription to the Premium Football page of PackPride.  And watching the highlights for all of the recruits for ‘09.

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