2010 ACC Football Championship Game Program

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LETTER FROM COMMISSIONER 2MEET JOHN SWOFFORD 4

STAFF OF THE ACC 5

TRADITIONS OF EXCELLENCE 6FAN FEST 13

ACC BASKETBALL BY THE NUMBERS 14

POSTGRADUATE SCHOLAR ATHLETES 17

ACC MULTIMEDIA 18

HOME COURTS OF THE ACC 22

2011 ACC BASKETBALL SEASON 49

FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS 50

ACC TOURNAMENT BRACKET 51

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK 52

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 54

ALL-ACC TEAM 56

ACC PLAYER OF THE YEAR 58

ACC ROOKIE OF THE YEAR 61

ACC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR 62

SKIP PROSSER AWARD 63

ACC COACH OF THE YEAR 64

SCHOOL RECORDS 66

TEAM BOX SCORES 68

ACC VIDEO VAULT 74

ACC HALL OF CHAMPIONS 77

ACC FOOTBALL SCHEDULES 78

NCAA TOURNAMENT TITLES 82

LEGENDS OF THE ACC 84

ALL-TIME LEGENDS 106

ACC ACADEMIC SUCCESS 111

ALL-TIME ACC CHAMPIONS 112

ACC TOURNAMENT RESULTS 114

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DEAR ACC FOOTBALL FANS:

On behalf of the Atlantic Coast Conference, welcome to Bank of America Stadium and the Sixth Annual Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game.

Our Conference and the Charlotte community have worked hard all year to make this a very special and exciting time for all the players, coaches, and fans. We sincerely hope youenjoy this weekend’s celebration of ACC Football and that you fi nd your trip to the Charlotte area to be a pleasurable experience.

As a league, our schools have compiled a rich football history that includes 10 nationalchampionships, fi ve Heisman Trophy winners, 673 All-Americans, 152 bowl victories, 141No. 1 rankings, and 226 NFL fi rst-round draft picks. We hope that you will enjoy this year’s football championship game as you watch two of the leagues’ top teams showcase their talents and vie for the coveted bid to this year’s Discover Orange Bowl.

The ACC’s 12 member institutions have a tremendous tradition of academic and athletic balance. As a conference, we are extremely excited to shine the spotlight on what has made this league so strong throughout our history – our student-athletes, coaches, and fans.

It is our hope that all the dedicated followers of the ACC will continue to bring meaning to the ACC’s promise – A Tradition of Excellence…Then, Now and Always.

Sincerely,

John D. Swoff ordAtlantic Coast Conference Commissioner

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NOW IN HIS 14TH YEAR AS COMMISSIONER, John Swoff ord has made a dramatic impact on the Atlantic Coast Conference and college athletics. Swoff ord has built his career on the appropriate balance of academics, athletic achievement and integrity and is regarded as one of the top administrators in the NCAA.

Swoff ord assumed his role as the fourth full-time commis-sioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference in July of 1997. He fol-lows James H. (Jim) Weaver, the league’s fi rst Commissioner from 1954-1970, Robert (Bob) James, who served from 1971-1987 and Eugene F. (Gene) Corrigan, who held the position from 1987 to 1997.

In addition to overseeing one of the nation’s largest athletic conferences, Swoff ord has been pivotal in positioning the Atlan-tic Coast Conference for the future.

In July of 2010, Swoff ord’s leadership and negotiating skills helped the conference secure a new 12 year multi-media rights agreement with ESPN. The extensive television package begins with the 2011-12 academic year and will more than double televi-sion revenue to the 12 member institutions. In addition to reach-ing new heights fi nancially, ACC content will now be televised more, both regionally and nationally, than at any point in league history, while also best positioning the conference within the continuous, ever-changing world of technology.

Equally as historic, in 2003, on behalf of the nine league institutions and the ACC Council of Presidents, Swoff ord intro-duced Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College as the newest members of the ACC. With the expansion, Swoff ord helped bring the conference extended and enhanced television contracts in both football and basketball. Highlights included the rights to the inaugural ACC Football Championship Game and signifi cant increases in the number of televised games as well as negoti-ating an agreement with XM Satellite Radio, to broadcast the league’s football, men’s and women’s basketball games nation-ally.

In the sport of basketball, Swoff ord was instrumental in cre-ating the ACC/Big Ten Challenge that began in men’s basketball in 1999. Then in 2007, the two conferences hosted the inaugu-ral ACC/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge.

Highly respected by his peers, Swoff ord was a force in the development and growth of the Bowl Championship Series and is the only person to serve two terms as its Coordinator.

Since becoming Commissioner, Swoff ord has been respon-sible for securing increased bowl opportunities for the ACC. The past fi ve seasons, at least seven ACC teams have earned bowl bids and, in 2008, the conference set an NCAA record when 10 of its 12 teams (83%) participated in bowl play. This year, the ACC has agreements in place with nine bowls including the Orange Bowl, home to the ACC Champion since 2006.

During Swoff ord’s fi rst 13 years as Commissioner, ACC teams have won 50 national team titles and 1,337 ACC teams have participated in various NCAA championships - an average of over 100 NCAA teams per year.

A long-time advocate of the importance of academics and student-athlete welfare, Swoff ord stimulated the formation of the league’s fi rst-ever ACC Student-Athlete Advisory Com-mittee. This group of current ACC student-athletes gives the conference direct feedback on their experiences participating at the highest level of college athletics.

In 2006, the prestigious ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament was awarded out to 2015. Throughout Swoff ord’s tenure, the iconic event will have traveled to many dynamic cities within the footprint of the league including Atlanta, Ga., Washington D.C. and Tampa, Fla., in addition to the traditional stops in Greens-boro and Charlotte. The 2001 ACC Tournament in Atlanta set NCAA attendance records for single session (40,083), per ses-sion average (36,505) and total attendance (182,525).

Swoff ord placed an added emphasis on the development of women’s basketball in the ACC with the hiring of an Associate Commissioner for Women’s Basketball to oversee all aspects of the sport on both a conference and national level.

The Director of Athletics at the University of North Carolina from 1980 to 1997, Swoff ord was instrumental in building North Carolina’s athletics department into one of the country’s most respected programs. He became the school’s athletic director on May 1, 1980 and at the age of 31, he was the youngest major college Athletics Director in the nation at the time.

During his tenure, Tar Heel athletic teams claimed 123 ACC championships and 24 national collegiate titles, including two in men’s basketball and one in women’s basketball. During the 1993-94 year, the Tar Heels captured the inaugural Sears Direc-tors’ Cup, emblematic of the collegiate all-sports champion and fi nished in the Top Six of the Sears Cup standings in each year of Swoff ord’s tenure that the award was given.

Under his leadership, North Carolina enjoyed tremendous growth in its athletic facilities, including the construction of the Smith Center, a complex which includes a 21,572-seat basket-ball arena, the Koury Natatorium and the Frank H. Kenan Foot-ball Center. He initiated the idea and provided the impetus for the founding of North Carolina’s trademark licensing program.

The University chose to recognize his many accomplish-ments by establishing the John D. Swoff ord women’s athletics scholarship and naming an auditorium in the school’s football complex in his honor.

John and his wife Nora reside in Greensboro, N.C. and to-gether they have three children, Amie, Chad and Autumn, who is married to Sherman Wooden. Autumn and Sherman welcomed Maya, their fi rst child, to the family in April of 2010.

JOHN D. SWOFFORD

EDUCATIONHigh School Wilkes Central High School North Wilkesboro, NCCollege University of North Carolina, 1971 Morehead Scholarship RecipientGraduate Ohio University, 1973 M.Ed. in Athletics Administration

PLAYING EXPERIENCE1965-67 Two-time All-State QB and three-sport MVP at Wilkes Central High School 1969-71 North Carolina varsity football team quarterback and defensive back Peach Bowl, 1970 Gator Bowl, 1971 ACC Champions, 1971

ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE1973-76 Ticket Manager/Asst. to the Director of Athletic Facilities and Finance University of Virginia1976-79 Assistant Athletics Director and Business Manager University of North Carolina1979-80 Assistant Executive Vice President of the Educational Foundation University of North Carolina1980-97 Director of Athletics University of North Carolina1997- Commissioner Atlantic Coast Conference

MEMBERSHIP ON BOARDS AND COMMITTEES• NCAA Men’s College Basketball

Offi ciating, LLC Board, 2010-present• National Sportscasters and Sportswriters

Association Honorary Board, 2009-present• College Football Offi ciating, LLC

Board of Managers, 2008-present• North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

Advisory Board, 2008-present• Wyndham Championship Board

of Directors, 2002-present• National Letter of Intent Appeals

Committee, 2002-present• BCS Coordinator, 2000-01, 2008-09• IA Collegiate Commissioner’s Assoc.

(Chair), 2005-07• NCAA Football Board of Directors

(President), 2004-05• NCAA Executive Committee, 1995-97• NCAA Division I Championship Committee

(Chair), 1995-97• NCAA Special Committee to Study a

Division I-A Football Championship, 1994-95• President of NACDA, 1993-94• NCAA Special Events Committee, 1987-91• NCAA Communications Committee (Chair), 1987-89• NCAA Football Television Committee (Chair), 1984

HONORS AND AWARDS• North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, 2009• Homer Rice Award, 2005 (presented by the

Division 1A Athletic Directors’ Association)• Horizon Award, 2004 (presented by the Atlanta

Sports Council, recognizing the National Sports Business Executive of the Year)

• Chick-fi l-A Bowl Hall of Fame, 2003• Fifth most infl uential person in U.S. sports

by the Sporting News, 2003• Outstanding American Award for the

Triangle Chapter of the College Football Hall of Fame, 2002

• North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Hall of Fame, 2002

• Ohio University’s Charles R. Higgins Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1984


JOHN D. SWOFFORDCOMMISSIONER

BRIAN A. MORRISON ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER

MEN’S BASKETBALL COMMUNICATIONS

CHARLENE CURTISCOORDINATOR,

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OFFICIALS

ALLISON DOUGHTYASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

FOOTBALL OPERATIONS

CECELIA DIAMICOEXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE

COMMISSIONER

EMILY WATKINSRECEPTIONIST

NORA LYNN FINCH ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPERATIONS & SWA

LINDSEY BABCOCK ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER

COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNANCE

BRAD HECKERDIRECTOR

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPERATIONS

BEN TARIOASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

SUSAN ANTHONY ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTADMINISTRATION/BUSINESS

SHELDON BELLINTERN

CHAMPIONSHIPS

MICHAEL KELLY ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER

COMMUNICATIONS & FOOTBALL OPERATIONS

DOUG RHOADSCOORDINATOR,

FOOTBALL OFFICIALS

CHRISTINA L. TRACEYDIRECTOR

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

DONALD MOOREASSISTANT DIRECTOR

CHAMPIONSHIPS

TRACEY HAITHADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTSTUDENT-ATHLETE WELFARE/COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE

CHARLOTTE ZOLLERINTERN

PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING

JEFF ELLIOTTASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

AMY YAKOLAASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER

PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING

SHAMAREE BROWNDIRECTOR

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROGRAMS & COMPLIANCE

LINDSEY ROSSASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

COMMUNICATIONS

HEATHER C. HIRSCHMANWEBSITE COORDINATOR

SETH BARWICKINTERN, COMPLIANCE &

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROGRAMS

KARL HICKS ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER

MEN’S BASKETBALL OPERATIONS

KRIS W. PIERCEASSISTANT COMMISSIONER

CHAMPIONSHIPS

KATHY C. HUNTDIRECTOR


GEORGIA DAVISASSISTANT DIRECTOR

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLL & SWA

BARB DERYADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTCOMMUNICATIONS/PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING

NEIL SLEIGHTINTERN

WEBSITE

MIKE FINN ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER

FOOTBALL COMMUNICATIONS

W. SCOTT MCBURNEYASSISTANT COMMISSIONER

ADVANCED MEDIA

LYNNE HERNDONDIRECTOR

BUSINESS OPERATIONS

STEVE “SLIM” VOLLINGERASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

ADVANCED MEDIA

JENNIE BARRETT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

CHAMPIONSHIPS

JOANNE CANNELLINTERN

COMMUNICATIONS

SHANE LYONSASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER

COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE

JOHN CLOUGHERTYCOORDINATOR

MEN’S BASKETBALL OFFICIALS

LEE BUTLERASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

CHAMPIONSHIPS

STEVE PHILLIPSASSISTANT DIRECTOR

COMMUNICATIONS

KARRIE B. TILLEYADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT


ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE STAFF

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THE TRADITION

Consistency. It is the mark of true excel-

lence in any endeavor. However, in today’s

intercollegiate athletics, competition has

become so balanced and so competitive

that it is virtually impossible to maintain a

high level of consistency.

Yet the Atlantic Coast Conference has

defi ed the odds. Now, in its 58th year of

competition, the ACC has long enjoyed

the reputation as one of the strongest and

most competitive intercollegiate confer-

ences in the nation. And that is not mere

conjecture, the numbers support it.

Since the league’s inception in 1953,

ACC schools have captured 120 national

championships, including 64 in women’s

competition and 56 in men’s. In addition,

NCAA individual titles have gone to ACC

student-athletes 130 times in men’s com-

petition and 91 times in women’s action.

The conference had an immediate im-

pact on the national college football scene

in the fall of 1953 when the University of

Maryland captured the fi rst of what would

eventually be fi ve national football titles

for the ACC. Clemson laid claim to the

league’s second national title in 1981 while

Georgia Tech followed suit in 1990. Flori-

da State pocketed national titles No. 4 and

5 in 1993 and 1999.

Additionally, Miami has laid claim to

fi ve national gridiron titles over the past

27 seasons. Four of the Hurricanes’ fi ve

national titles (1983, 1987, 1989, 2001)

were unanimous with both the sportswrit-

ers and coaches polls, while in 1991 Miami

(AP) shared the national title with Wash-

ington (coaches).

The 12 institutions that take to the fi eld

this fall under the ACC banner have pro-

duced 558 fi rst- or second-team gridiron

All-Americas and 73 fi rst-team academic

All-Americas.

ACC Football, though, has always been

about more than just wins and losses and

individual athletics honors. ACC schools,

cumulatively, were ranked higher nation-

ally than any other conference in the most

recent rankings of American Universities

by the U.S. News & World Report, with

eight ACC institutions ranked 53rd or

higher nationally and all 12 schools rated

as “Tier One” schools.

The Conference was No. 1 with a di-

ploma in 2009 for the fi fth straight year, as

the ACC led all Football Bowl Subdivision

Conferences in the NCAA’s graduation

rate (GSR). The ACC also had the high-

est football APR as a league for the fourth

consecutive year. Miami was honored na-

tionally (AFCA) for the top graduation

rate for any football program in the coun-

try. It marked the 20th time a current ACC

school has recorded the highest football

graduation rate in the nation.

Since becoming a 12-team league in

2005, the ACC has consistently made his-

tory in the NFL’s annual professional foot-

ball draft. When Clemson running back C.

J. Spiller was chosen as the ninth overall

pick in this past year’s NFL Draft it marked

the fi fth consecutive year the ACC has had

a player taken in the Top 10 of the Draft.

The ACC is the only conference in the na-

tion to have achieved that feat, but his was

only the latest in a long line of Draft ac-

complishments.

In the 2009 NFL Draft, the ACC was

the only league with four players chosen

among the top nine selections in the draft.

It marked the second time in four years the

ACC had managed that trick, also claiming

four of the top nine picks in 2005. During

the 2006, 2007 and 2008 drafts, the Con-

ference became the fi rst college league in

the history to have two of the top four NFL

Draft picks in each of three consecutive

years.

In 2008, the ACC also set an NFL Draft

record having the fi rst defensive player

chosen for three straight years with NC

State’s Mario Williams (2006), Clemson’s

Gaines Adams (2007) and Virginia’s Chris

Long (2008) claiming the honor.

The ACC’s run began with the 2006

Draft when the Conference set an NFL

Draft record with 12 players chosen in the

fi rst round and 51 players chosen overall.

In all, the ACC is second among all confer-

ences in the last four years in fi rst round

draftees, having 34 chosen and overall

draftees with 179.

Heading into the 2010 football season,

no league in America has sent more line-

backers to the NFL, as no fewer than 56

former ACC standouts began the summer

on NFL rosters tying both the Big Ten and

SEC for that honor. The 12 current ACC

schools have had 2,221 players selected in

the annual professional football draft, in-

cluding 226 fi rst round selections.

Three ACC teams—Georgia Tech (9),

Virginia Tech (11) and Miami (15)—fi n-

ished among the Top 15 in the fi nal 2010

BCS Standings and four ACC squads—

Virginia Tech (10), Georgia Tech (13), Mi-

ami (19) and Clemson (24) fi nished the

year ranked in the fi nal Associated Press

poll.

The ACC also has a storied bowl tra-

dition, setting an NCAA record with 10

of its teams (.833) to post-season bowl

games in 2008, breaking its own record for

bowl participation (.833) set originally in

2002. Since 2005, the Conference is sec-

ond among all leagues with 41 of its teams

travelling to post-season bowl games. Ad-

ditionally, four of its teams—Boston Col-

lege (5th, 13-8, .619), Florida State (6th,

23-14-2, .615), Georgia Tech (12th, 22-16,

.579) and Miami (15th, 19-16, .543)—

rank among the Top 15 winningest bowl

programs of all-time. Four ACC schools

are also among the Top eight nationally

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in current bowl game streaks including

national leader Florida State (28 straight

bowl games), Virginia Tech (3rd, 17),

Georgia Tech (4th, 13) and Boston Col-

lege (7th, 11).

2009-10 IN REVIEW

The 2009-10 academic year saw league

teams capturing an all-time high eight na-

tional team titles and 9 individual NCAA

crowns. In all, the ACC has won 50 na-

tional team titles over the last 13 years.

The ACC has won two or more NCAA

titles in 28 of the past 30 years.

The ACC was the only conference

in America to place four of its teams in

the fi nal Top 10 rankings of the 2009-10

Learfi eld Director’s Cup Standings--sym-

bolic of the nation’s top overall programs-

-as Virginia (3rd), Florida State (5th),

North Carolina (7th) and Duke (10th) all

were ranked nationally in the Top 10. The

Pac-10 placed three teams in the Top 10,

while the SEC and Big 12 had one each.

A total of 123 ACC teams placed in

NCAA post-season competition in 2009-

10. League teams compiled a 116-64-3

(.637) mark against opponents in NCAA

championship competition.

2009-10 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

FIELD HOCKEY NORTH CAROLINA

WOMEN’S SOCCER NORTH CAROLINA

MEN’S SOCCER VIRGINIA

MEN’S BASKETBALL DUKE

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY BOSTON COLLEGE

MEN’S LACROSSE DUKE

WOMEN’S ROWING VIRGINIA

WOMEN’S LACROSSE MARYLAND

THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

The conference will conduct champi-

onship competition in 25 sports during

the 20010-11 academic year - 12 for men

and 13 for women. The fi rst ACC cham-

pionship was held in swimming on Feb-

ruary 25, 1954. The conference did not

conduct championships in cross country,

wrestling or tennis during the fi rst year.

The 12 sports for men include football,

cross country, soccer, basketball, swim-

ming, indoor and outdoor track, wres-

tling, baseball, tennis, golf and lacrosse.

Fencing, which was started in 1971, was

discontinued in 1981. Women’s sports

were initiated in 1977 with the fi rst cham-

pionship meet held in tennis at Wake For-

est University.

Championships for women are current-

ly conducted in cross country, fi eld hockey,

soccer, basketball, swimming, indoor and

outdoor track, tennis, golf, lacrosse, soft-

ball and rowing with volleyball deciding its

champion by regular season play.

A HISTORY

The Atlantic Coast Conference was

founded on May 8, 1953, at the Sedge-

fi eld Inn near Greensboro, N.C., with

seven charter members - Clemson, Duke,

Maryland, North Carolina, North Caroli-

na State, South Carolina and Wake Forest

- drawing up the conference by-laws.

The withdrawal of seven schools from

the Southern Conference came early on the

morning of May 8, 1953, during the South-

ern Conference’s annual spring meeting.

On June 14, 1953, the seven members met

in Raleigh, N.C., where a set of bylaws was

adopted and the name became offi cially

the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Suggestions from fans for the name of

the new conference appeared in the re-

gion’s newspapers prior to the meeting

in Raleigh. Some of the names suggested

were: Dixie, Mid South, Mid Atlantic,

East Coast, Seaboard, Colonial, Tobacco,

Blue-Gray, Piedmont, Southern Seven

and the Shoreline.

Duke’s Eddie Cameron recommended

THE ACCIAC is a special commitment of the 12 university presidents and the con-ference offi ce to enhance academic excel-lence. Funded by a portion of the revenues from the Dr Pepper Football Championship Game, the ACCIAC eff ort is to advance the quality of education for all undergraduate students by sharing academic and admin-istrative resources and by hosting confer-ences that bring together experts from all our campuses.

Strategies for collaboration include conferences of students from all 12 univer-sities, scholarship awards for internation-al study, academic grants to competitively judged creative projects, faculty develop-ment seminars led by experts from other ACC campuses, and exchanges of best practices among leaders with similar job responsibilities. In 2010-11 a new program will sponsor ACC student-athletes work-ing through the teaching of sports to moti-vate promising young people in developing countries to advance their own education.

The ACC’s commitment of athletic funds to the direct enhancement of the under-graduate education experience is distinc-tive among all athletic conferences and an appropriate refl ection of the centrality of academics. Among all athletic conferenc-es, only the Ivy League can claim a higher percentage of its members among the Top 35 universities in the country. Excelling both academically and athletically is both a goal and a reality.

ACC INTER-INSTITUTIONAL ACADEMIC COLLABORATIVE

WHENEVER BOBBY ROSS reminisces about Georgia Tech’s magical national championship season of 1990, the stories of buses arise.

As the Yellow Jackets returned to campus on Nov. 3 that year after a rap-turous 41-38 come-from-behind win at No. 1 Virginia, thousands of students waited.

“I said, ‘My golly; I can’t believe this,’ ” the former Tech coach recalled. “There was a guy up on the bus, on the windshield. And I said, ‘What an idiot.’ It was my son. He was a student.”

There remain many memorable moments, including the Jackets’ 45-21 win over Nebraska in the Citrus Bowl. That led to Tech (11-0-1) fi nishing atop the old UPI national rankings.

Yet members of that team recall more vividly how everyone was on the fi gu-rative bus even before the season began.

“Going into that summer [‘90] the starters on both sides of the ball and maybe 45 players stayed and worked out [voluntarily] every day,” said former quarterback Shawn Jones, a sophomore that season. “That let me know we had special guys.”

“The most disappointing thing was . . . we were all in the hotel after the Cit-rus Bowl, and to see Rocket [Ismail] return that kick and there’s a fl ag on the ground [a penalty canceled Ismail’s late touchdown],” Rudolph said.

As the Jackets celebrated the 20-year reunion of their title team before Tech’s Nov. 13 game against Miami, Ross preferred to remember the together-ness of his ’90 squad.

“We had great internal leadership . . . Ken Swilling, Marco Coleman and Wil-lie Clay defensively. Shawn and [lineman] Joe Siff ri really stood out on of-fense,” the coach said. “Commitment — from the top to the bottom — you have to have that to have that type of year.”

REMEMBERING THE YELLOW JACKETS’ CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON

that the name of the conference be the At-

lantic Coast Conference, and the motion

was passed unanimously. The meeting

concluded with each member institution

assessed $200.00 to pay for conference ex-

penses.

On December 4, 1953, conference offi -

cials met again at Sedgefi eld and offi cially

admitted the University of Virginia as the

league’s eighth member. The fi rst, and

only, withdrawal of a school from the ACC

came on June 30, 1971, when the Univer-

sity of South Carolina tendered its resigna-

tion. The ACC operated with seven mem-

bers until April 3, 1978, when the Georgia

Institute of Technology was admitted. The

Atlanta school had withdrawn from the

Southeastern Conference in January of

1964.

The ACC expanded to nine members on

July 1, 1991, with the addition of Florida

State University.

The conference expanded to 11 mem-

bers on July 1, 2004, with the addition of

the University of Miami and Virginia Poly-

technic Institute and State University. On

October 17, 2003, Boston College accepted

an invitation to become the league’s 12th

member starting July 1, 2005.

THE SCHOOLS

BOSTON COLLEGE was founded in 1863 by the

Society of Jesus to serve the sons of Bos-

ton’s Irish immigrants and was the fi rst in-

stitution of higher education to be founded

in the city of Boston. Originally located on

Harrison Avenue in the South End of Bos-

ton, the College outgrew its urban setting

toward the end of its fi rst 50 years. A new

location was selected in Chestnut Hill and

ground for the new campus was broken

on June 19, 1909. During the 1940s, new

purchases doubled the size of the main

campus. In 1974, Boston College acquired

Newton College of the Sacred Heart, 1.5

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miles away. With 15 buildings on 40 acres,

it is now the site of the Law School and

residence halls. In 2004, BC purchased 43

acres of land from the archdiocese of Bos-

ton; this now forms the Brighton campus.

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY is nestled in the foot-

hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near the

Georgia border, and the tiger paws painted

on the roads make the return to I-85 eas-

ier. The school is built around Fort Hill,

the plantation home of John C. Calhoun,

Vice President to Andrew Jackson. His

son-in-law, Tom Clemson, left the land to

be used as an agricultural school, and in

1893 Clemson opened its doors as a land-

grant school, thanks to the efforts of Ben

Tillman.

DUKE UNIVERSITY was founded in 1924 by to-

bacco magnate James B. Duke as a memo-

rial to his father, Washington Duke. Origi-

nally the school was called Trinity College,

a Methodist institution, started in 1859.

In 1892, Trinity moved to west Durham

where the east campus with its Georgian

architecture now stands. Nearby are Sar-

ah P. Duke gardens, and further west the

Gothic spires of Duke chapel overlook the

west campus.

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY is one of 11 universi-

ties of the State University System of Flori-

da. It was established as the Seminary West

of the Suwannee by an act of the Florida

Legislature in 1851, and fi rst offered in-

struction at the post-secondary level in

1857. Its Tallahassee campus has been the

site of an institution of higher education

longer than any other site in the state. In

1905, the Buckman Act reorganized higher

education in the state and designated the

Tallahassee school as the Florida Female

College. In 1909, it was renamed Florida

State College for Women. In 1947, the

school returned to a co-educational status,

and the name was changed to Florida State

University.

Next to I-85 in downtown Atlanta stands

the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, founded

in 1885. Its fi rst students came to pursue a

degree in mechanical engineering, the only

one offered at the time. Tech’s strength is

not only the red clay of Georgia, but a re-

stored gold and white 1930 model A Ford

Cabriolet, the offi cial mascot. The old

Ford was fi rst used in 1961, but a Ramb-

lin’ Wreck had been around for over three

decades. The Ramblin’ Wreck fi ght song

appeared almost as soon as the school

opened, and it is not only American boys

that grow up singing its rollicking tune, for

Richard Nixon and Nikita Krushchev sang

it when they met in Moscow in 1959.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND opened in 1856

as an agricultural school nine miles north

of Washington, D.C., on land belonging

to Charles Calvert, a descendant of Lord

Baltimore, the state’s founding father. The

school colors are the same as the state

fl ag: black and gold for George Calvert

(Lord Baltimore) and red and white for

his mother, Alice Crossland. Maryland has

been called the school that Curley Byrd

built, for he was its quarterback, then foot-

ball coach, athletic director, assistant to

the president, vice-president, and fi nally

its president. Byrd also designed the foot-

ball stadium and the campus layout, and

suggested the nickname Terrapin, a local

turtle known for its bite, when students

wanted to replace the nickname Old Lin-

ers with a new one for the school.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI was chartered in 1925

by a group of citizens who felt an institu-

tion of higher learning was needed for the

development of their young and growing

community. Since the fi rst class of 560 stu-

dents enrolled in the fall of 1926, the Uni-

versity has expanded to more than 15,000

undergraduate and graduate students

from every state and more than 114 na-

tions from around the world. The school’s

colors, representative of the Florida orange

tree, were selected in 1926. Orange sym-

bolizes the fruit of the tree, green repre-

sents the leaves and white, the blossoms.

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, located in

Chapel Hill, has been called “the perfect

college town,” making its tree-lined streets

and balmy atmosphere what a college

should look and feel like. Its inception in

1795 makes it one of the oldest schools in

the nation, and its nickname of Tar Heels

stems from the tar pitch and turpentine

that were the state’s principal industry.

The nickname is as old as the school, for

it was born during the Revolutionary War

when tar was dumped into the streams to

impede the advance of British forces.

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY is located in

the state capital of Raleigh. It opened in

1889 as a land-grant agricultural and me-

chanical school and was known as A&M

or Aggies or Farmers for over a quarter-

century. The school’s colors of pink and

blue were gone by 1895, brown and white

were tried for a year, but the students fi -

nally chose red and white to represent

the school. An unhappy fan in 1922 said

State football players behaved like a pack

of wolves, and the term that was coined in

derision became a badge of honor.

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA was founded in

1819 by Thomas Jefferson and is one of

three things on his tombstone for which he

wanted to be remembered. James Madison

and James Monroe were on the board of

governors in the early years. The Rotunda,

TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE

a half-scale version of the Pantheon

which faces the Lawn, is the focal point

of the grounds as the campus is called.

Jefferson wanted his school to educate

leaders in practical affairs and public

service, not just to train teachers.

VIRGINIA TECH was established in 1872 as

an all-male military school dedicated

to the original land-grant mission of

teaching agriculture and engineering.

The University has grown from a small

college of 132 students into the largest

institution of higher education in the

state during its 132-year history. Locat-

ed in Southwest Virginia on a plateau

between the Blue Ridge and Alleghany

Mountains, the campus consists of 334

buildings and 20 miles of sidewalks

over 2,600 acres. The offi cial school

colors - Chicago maroon and burnt

orange - were selected in 1896 because

they made a “unique combination” not

worn elsewhere at the time.

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY was started on

Calvin Jones’ plantation amid the

stately pine forest of Wake County

in 1834. The Baptist seminary is still

there, but the school was moved to

Winston-Salem in 1956 on a site do-

nated by Charles H. and Mary Reyn-

olds Babcock. President Harry S. Tru-

man attended the ground-breaking

ceremonies that brought a picturesque

campus of Georgian architecture and

painted roofs. Wake’s colors have been

black and gold since 1895, thanks to a

badge designed by student John Heck

who died before he graduated.

The Atlantic Coast Con-ference has seen a re-cord number of players

selected in recent National Football League drafts, but ACC success at the next level is hardly unprecedented.

The collection of alumni of current ACC schools who have made their mark profession-ally could fi ll a sizeable wing at Canton.

From Boston College’s Art Donovan to Maryland’s Randy White … From NC State’s Bill Cowher to North Carolina’s Lawrence Taylor … From Flor-ida State’s Fred Biletnikoff to Miami’s Reggie Wayne … From Virginia’s Tiki Barber to Virgin-ia Tech’s Bruce Smith …From Clemson’s Jeff Bostic to Geor-gia Tech’s Calvin Johnson … From Duke’s Sonny Jurgensen to Wake Forest’s Brian Piccolo … The legendary and star-studded list merely scratches the surface and spans genera-tions.

And it is a success story that appears destined to con-tinue.

When Clemson running C.J. Spiller was chosen by the Buf-falo Bills as the ninth overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, it marked the fi fth consecutive year the ACC had at least one player selected among the top 10 picks. The ACC is the only conference in the nation that

can make that claim.In 2009, the ACC was the

only conference to boast four NFL fi rst-round draft picks among the fi rst nine selec-tions. Incredibly, that feat wasn’t even a fi rst for the league. Four ACC players were also among the fi rst nine se-lected in 2005.

The ACC made NFL Draft history in 2006, 2007 and 2008, when two of the fi rst four overall selections in each of those years hailed from league schools. The ACC also became the fi rst conference to have the fi rst defensive player chosen in three straight years (NC State defensive end Ma-rio Williams in 2006, Clemson defensive end Gaines Adams in 2007 and Virginia defensive end Chris Long in 2008).

The total 30 fi rst-round draftees from ACC schools over the past three years also led all conferences.

Last February’s Super Bowl XLIV matchup between the New Orleans Saints and India-napolis Colts featured no few-er than 17 players who attend-ed ACC schools, and 10 of the coaches involved in the game had some connection to an ACC institution. That followed Super Bowl XLIII in 2009, when the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals com-bined for 22 players and fi ve

coaches with ACC ties.But again, ACC participa-

tion in the NFL’s biggest game has ample historical prec-edent. Former Georgia Tech player and coach Bill Curry started at center for the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Colts in three of the fi rst fi ve Super Bowls, and former Virginia Tech standout wide receiver Carroll Dale played a key role in the Packers’ victo-ries in Super Bowl I and II.

Clemson’s Jeff Bostic starred on the off ensive line for three Washington Red-skins Super Bowl champion-ship teams, and former NC State star Jim Ritcher was the starting center on all four Buf-falo teams that reached the Super Bowl in the 1990s.

As recent as November 14, 2010 former Miami Hurricane players have scored a touch-down in NFL regular-season play for 132 straight weeks.

Young and talented players such as Atlanta Falcons’ quar-terback Matt Ryan (Boston College), Detroit wide receiver Calvin Johnson (Georgia Tech) and New York Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks (North Carolina) are among the NFL’s current crop of rising stars that recently graced this conference’s stage.

The ACC’s NFL tradition carries on, stronger than ever.

THE ACC & NFL: A SUCCESS STORY

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THE RIGHT NOTES

Over the years, ACC fans have enjoyed award

winning performances from some of the biggest names in

music during the annual 48 hour celebration of ACC Football.

At the 2007 ACC Championship, award-winning Nashville recording star PHIL VASSAR wowed fans with an unforgettable show. Vassar continues to impress the country music world with his versatility as a singer, songwriter and performer with a resume that boasts six No. 1 hits for a list of artists such as Alan Jackson and Tim McGraw. At the 2008 ACC Championship, BLAKE SHELTON put on a performance that had fans dancing in the aisles. Shelton has topped the Billboard Country charts with a list of hits that include “Austin,” “The Baby,” “Some Beach,” “Home” and “She Wouldn’t Be Gone.” 2009’s festivities were headlined by CMA Award winning artist JAMES OTTO. Otto was the voice behind ACC Football’s “Ain’t Gonna Stop” campaign throughout the 2009 regular-season and his performance continued the ACC Championship Game tradition of providing fans with live concerts. Otto also sang the National Anthem as part of the pre-game festivities.

This year’s events are headlined by both Montgomery Gentry and 2010 ACC Football theme song “Loud” artist BRIDGETTE TATUM. Montgomery Gentry has recorded six studio albums that yielded fi ve #1 singles, nine more Top 10 singles and millions of albums sold. In addition, Bridgette Tatum will perform at this year’s event, as her current single “That’s Love Y’all,” just debuted at #51 on the Billboard Indicator chart and is steadily rising. In addition to the gameday FanFest concerts, contemporary jazz composer ERIC DARIUS has performed some of his greatest hits on saxophone at both the 2008 and 2009 ACC Night of Legends as well as the National Anthem during the pregame ceremonies for the 2008 game. Darius is best known for his single “Goin’ All Out” which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz chart. This year, jazz singer NICOLE HENRY will perform at both the ACC Night of Legends as well as the national anthem before kickoff . Nicole has been heralded as a jazz artist and has performed the national anthem at various Miami Heat games as well as the 2010 Orange Bowl.

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ORANGE BOWLDISCOVERING

A NEW ERA BY DAVID DROSCHAK

As the second oldest postseason game, the

2011 Discover Orange Bowl is headed for its 77th matchup Jan. 3.

However, the Bowl Championship Series matchup in Miami

is certainly entering an exciting era in its rich and memorable history.

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There is a fresh, new title sponsor in fi nan-

cial services company Discover, a renewed

push by the Atlantic Coast Conference and

its 12 schools to integrate the brands of the

two partners, and several festivals scheduled

that only a vibrant destination like Miami

can pull off in the middle of winter.

FedEx, the longest standing bowl title

sponsorship, ended its partnership with

bowl after 21 years, and Discover signed

on this summer, meaning a new logo and

some extra energy surrounding the Mon-

day night game at Sun Life Stadium.

“We’re thrilled about the prospects of the

new relationship,” said Eric Poms, CEO of

the Orange Bowl. “Discover is a very pro-

active, consumer-oriented corporation that

mirrors itself well with what college football

has to offer, specifi cally the Orange Bowl.

It certainly has a great ring to it with Dis-

cover Orange Bowl. In Discover, we have

someone who is very eager to activate their

investment and make this experience as

worthwhile and as meaningful as it can be.”

With the ACC Football Championship

Game moving out of the state of Florida

to Charlotte, N.C., for the fi rst time in four

years, a new marketing initiative called

“Represent” was launched this fall between

the ACC’s 12 institutions and league offi -

cials to help create more brand awareness

that the Discover Orange Bowl is the home

of the ACC champion.

If you follow any ACC team, you likely

saw the ads on stadium scoreboards and

websites, in game programs and heard

them on radio broadcasts in a major mar-

keting investment.

“Because our relationship is relatively

new, we needed to do a little more to con-

nect the brands,” said ACC Commissioner

John Swofford.

“It is a relationship that means much

more than just a football matchup,” added

Poms. “The game is in the ACC’s geograph-

ic footprint, it’s a destination that offers

so much to the fan bases coming from the

ACC institutions. With the brand and tra-

dition from both of the entities we feel it is

just a great marriage. We’ve got to manage

that and watch that take shape and continu-

ally work upon it. Here we are year fi ve and

it’s getting more activated in so many differ-

ent areas – on the campuses, in the ACC’s

promotional campaigns and in our promo-

tional campaigns.”

The last fi ve ACC champions have par-

ticipated in the Discover Orange Bowl, in-

cluding Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech twice,

Wake Forest and Florida State.

“In the evolution of postseason college

football, specifi cally in the BCS era, what

we’ve seen is parity that has descended

upon the game,” Poms said. “It’s a great op-

portunity for programs throughout all con-

ferences to see themselves on that stage.”

For example, Wake Forest won the 2006

ACC Championship for the fi rst time since

1970 and played in Miami.

“What we saw that night was a fan base

that was just energized like nothing I had

ever seen before because of the stage that

was provided,” Poms said. “We’ve had

some unique matchups in the sense that

programs are on these BCS stages that we

haven’t seen in many years. From our stand-

point, it is a great opportunity for confer-

ences like the ACC to get energized because

all the programs truly have a shot to win

their conference.”

“I don’t think there’s any bowl game

that’s any more prestigious or more recog-

nizable than the Orange Bowl,” said Wake

Forest coach Jim Grobe. “It really helps us

in recruiting and elevates every program in

the ACC by having the Orange Bowl as our

bowl tie-in for the champion. The atmo-

sphere at the game is second to none and I

think it’s an experience of a lifetime for the

kids. For the coaches and fans to get the op-

portunity to go to the Orange Bowl, it just

doesn’t get any better.”

Virginia Tech had the opportunity to ex-

perience the Orange Bowl and the festivities

that surround the BCS game in 2008 and

2009.

“You are talking about a class outfi t with

great leadership and a bowl that has been

recognized with greatness over a long pe-

riod of time,” said Virginia Tech coach

Frank Beamer. “You go back and talk about

the history, all the great players who have

participated in the Orange Bowl game and

all the championship games they have had

there, and I know the ACC is very fortunate

to be associated with this great game.”

New in 2011 are festivals in Miami and

Fort Lauderdale. Starting Dec. 31, Ocean

Drive in South Beach will be transformed

and renamed “Orange Drive,” offering fans

an area of entertainment, interactive expe-

riences, night life, top-notch restaurants

and all the amenities South Beach offers.

“South Beach is truly a destination every-

one seeks to experience,” Poms said.

At the same time, in nearby downtown

Fort Lauderdale, fans can experience a sim-

ilar atmosphere at the city’s “Downtown

Countdown.”

“Throughout South Florida fans will

be able to experience the Orange Bowl in

so many different ways building up to the

game on Jan. 3,” Poms said.

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Charlotte Collegiate Football

Charlotte Collegiate Football, a non-profi t organization, runs the Meineke Car Care Bowl and serves as the local organizing committee for the Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game. Will Webb serves as the Executive Director for the organization.

The Dr Pepper ACC Football

Championship Game, in its sixth year,

will be played in Charlotte, on December 4, 2010 and December 3, 2011. Th e winner of the championship earns the ACC bid to play in the Discover Orange Bowl, if not selected for the BCS National Championship Game.

The 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl will be played on Friday, December 31 at 12 noon. It features a matchup

of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big East Conference.

Fans can visit the local organizing committee’s offi cial website, w w w. A C C Fo o t b a l l C h a r l o t t e . c o m and the offi cial bowl website, w w w . m e i n e k e c a r c a r e b o w l . c o m for more information about the games and surrounding events.

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DATE BOWL CONFERENCES SITE TIME NETWORK

Dec. 18 New Mexico Bowl Mountain West vs. WAC Albuquerque, NM 2:00 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 18 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl MAC vs. WAC Boise, ID 5:30 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 18 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl C-USA vs. Sun Belt New Orleans, LA 9:00 p.m. ESPN

Dec, 21 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s St. Petersburg Bowl Big East vs. C-USA St. Petersburg, FL 8:00 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 22 MAACO Las Vegas Bowl Mountain West vs. Pac-10 Las Vegas, NV 8:00 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 23 S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl Mountain West vs. Navy San Diego, CA 8:00 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 24 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl C-USA vs. WAC Honolulu, HI 8:00 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 26 Little Caesars Bowl Big Ten vs. MAC Detroit, MI 8:30 p.m. ESPN

DEC. 27 ADVOCARE V100 INDEPENDENCE BOWL ACC VS. MOUNTAIN WEST SHREVEPORT, LA 5:00 P.M. ESPN2

DEC. 28 CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL ACC VS. BIG EAST ORLANDO, FL 6:30 P.M. ESPN

Dec. 28 Insight Bowl Big Ten vs. Big 12 Tempe, AZ 10:00 p.m. ESPN

DEC. 29 MILITARY BOWL PRESENTED BY NORTHROP GRUMMAN ACC VS. C-USA WASHINGTON, D.C. 2:30 P.M. ESPN

Dec. 29 Texas Bowl Big Ten vs. Big 12 Houston, TX 6:00 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 29 Valero Alamo Bowl Big 12 vs. Pac-10 San Antonio, TX 9:15 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 30 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl C-USA vs. Mountain West Fort Worth, TX Noon ESPN

Dec. 30 New Era Pinstripe Bowl Big 12 vs. Big East Bronx, NY 3:20 p.m. ESPN

DEC. 30 FRANKLIN AMERICAN MORTGAGE MUSIC CITY BOWL ACC VS. SEC NASHVILLE, TN 6:30 P.M. ESPN

Dec. 30 Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl Big 12 vs. Pac-10 San Diego, CA 10:00 p.m. ESPN

DEC. 31 MEINEKE CAR CARE BOWL ACC VS. BIG EAST CHARLOTTE, NC NOON ESPN

DEC. 31 HYUNDAI SUN BOWL ACC VS. PAC-10 EL PASO, TX 2:00 P.M. CBS

Dec. 31 AutoZone Liberty Bowl C-USA vs. SEC Memphis, TN 3:30 p.m. ESPN

DEC. 31 CHICK-FIL-A BOWL ACC VS. SEC ATLANTA, GA 7:30 P.M. ESPN

Jan. 1 TicketCity Bowl Big Ten vs. Big 12 Dallas, TX Noon ESPNU

Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Big Ten vs. SEC Tampa, FL 1:00 p.m. ABC

Jan. 1 Capital One Bowl Big Ten vs. SEC Orlando, FL 1:00 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 1 Gator Bowl Big Ten vs. SEC Jacksonville, FL 1:30 p.m. ESPN2

Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO BCS vs. BCS Pasadena, CA 4:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 1 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl BCS vs. BCS Glendale, AZ 8:30 p.m. ESPN

JAN. 3 DISCOVER ORANGE BOWL BCS VS. BCS MIAMI, FL 8:00 P.M. ESPN

Jan. 4 Allstate Sugar Bowl BCS vs. BCS New Orleans, LA 8:00 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 6 GMAC Bowl MAC vs. Sun Belt Mobile, AL 8:00 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 7 AT&T Cotton Bowl Big 12 vs. SEC Arlington, TX 8:00 p.m. FOX

Jan. 8 Papajohns.com Bowl Big East vs. SEC Birmingham, AL Noon ESPN

JAN. 9 KRAFT FIGHT HUNGER BOWL PAC-10 (ACC CONDITIONAL) VS. WAC SAN FRANCISCO, CA 9:00 P.M. ESPN

Jan. 10 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game BCS No. 1 vs. BCS No. 2 Glendale, AZ 8:00 p.m. ESPN

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2005

Florida State’s Willie Reid returned a punt 83 yards for a touchdown and Drew Weatherford threw for 225 yards and one touchdown as the Seminoles upset No. 5 Virginia Tech 27-22 in the inaugural ACC title game ... the victory marked the Seminoles’ 12th ACC title in 14 years … Reid, who fi nished with 210 all-purpose yards, was named the game’s most valuable player … sparked by Reid’s return to open the second half, FSU scored 24 unanswered third quarter points, snapping a 3-3 halftime tie … Marcus Vick led the Hokies to three touchdowns in the fourth quarter that cut the Seminole lead to 27-22. MVP WILLIE REID, FLORIDA STATE

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2005 ACC LEGENDS Mike Ruth (Boston College), Jeff Davis (Clemson), Leo Hart (Duke), Marvin Jones (Florida State), Joe Hamilton (Georgia Tech), Jack Scarbath (Maryland), George Mira Sr. (Miami), Roman Gabriel (NC State), Don McCauley (North Carolina), William “Bill” Dudley (Virginia), Bruce Smith (Virginia Tech), Bill Armstrong (Wake Forest)

AWARD WINNERS

Player of the Year and Off ensive Player of the Year: CHRIS BARCLAY, WAKE FOREST

Defensive Player of the Year: D’QWELL JACKSON, MARYLAND

Rookie of the Year: JAMES DAVIS, CLEMSON

Coach of the Year: FRANK BEAMER, VIRGINIA TECH

Tatum Award: BRENDAN LEWIS, DUKE & DAVID CASTILLO, FLORIDA STATE

Piccolo Award: RYAN BEST, VIRGINIA

Jacobs Blocking: ERIC WINSTON, MIAMI

2006

Wake Forest’s Sam Swank kicked three fi eld goals, including the game winner with 2:55 left to play as the 16th-ranked Demon Deacons claimed their fi rst ACC title since 1970 with a 9-6 victory over No. 23 Georgia Tech ... Swank, who made good on three of four fi eld goal attempts and punted seven times for a 42.6 yards per kick average, was named the game’s most valuable player ... freshman QB Riley Skin-ner completed 14-of-25 passes for 201 yards including a 45-yard completion to Willie Idlette that set up Swank’s game-winning fi eld goal ... Deacon LB Jon Abbate had a game-high 15 tackles and keyed a defense that limited the Yellow Jackets to a pair of fi eld goals and 272 yards in total off ense ... Tech WR Calvin Johnson fi nished with eight catches for 117 yards while Tashard Choice had his sixth-straight 100 yard eff ort, fi nishing with an even 100 yards on 21 carries. MVP SAM SWANK, WAKE FOREST

2006 ACC LEGENDS Doug Flutie (Boston College), Michael Dean Perry (Clemson), Art Gregory (Duke), William Floyd (Florida State), Marco Coleman (Georgia Tech), Randy White (Maryland), Gino Torretta (Miami), Jim Ritcher (NC State), William Fuller (North Carolina), Jim Dombrowski (Virginia), Carroll Dale (Virginia Tech), James McDougald (Wake Forest)

AWARD WINNERS

Player of the Year & Off ensive Player of the Year: CALVIN JOHNSON, GEORGIA TECH

Defensive Player of the Year: GAINES ADAMS, CLEMSON

Rookie of the Year: RILEY SKINNER, WAKE FOREST

Coach of the Year: JIM GROBE, WAKE FOREST

Tatum Award: JOSH WILSON, MARYLAND

Piccolo Award: GLENN SHARPE, MIAMI

Jacobs Blocking: JOSH BEEKMAN, BOSTON COLLEGE

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2007

Virginia Tech held the high-powered Boston College off ense scoreless over the fi nal 35 minutes of play, overcoming a nine-point fi rst half defi cit to claim their second ACC title since joining the league in 2004...Led by junior quarterback Sean Glennon, who was named the championship game MVP, the Hokies scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to pull out the 30-16 win...for the game, Glennon completed 18 of 27 pass attempts for 174 yards and three touchdowns...Hokie receivers Josh Morgan, Eddie Royal and Josh Hyman combined for nearly 150 yards and three touchdowns...the Hokie defense forced two turnovers, scoring one TD on an interception return, and the special teams unit blocked two kicks, including a PAT that was returned for two points...for BC, Matt Ryan passed for 305 yards and running back Andre Callender set a championship game record with 13 receptions in the losing eff ort.MVP SEAN GLENNON, VIRGINIA TECH

2007 ACC LEGENDS Pete Mitchell (Boston College), Jerry Butler (Clemson), Clarkston Hines (Duke), LeRoy Butler (Florida State), George Morris (Georgia Tech), Dick Shiner (Maryland), Jim Kelly (Miami), Dennis Byrd (NC State), Harris Barton (North Carolina), Joe Palumbo (Virginia), Antonio Freeman (Virginia Tech), Norm Snead (Wake Forest)

AWARD WINNERS

Player of the Year &Off ensive Player of the Year: MATT RYAN, BOSTON COLLEGE

Defensive Player of the Year: CHRIS LONG, VIRGINIA

Rookie of the Year &Off ensive Rookie of the Year: JOSH ADAMS, WAKE FOREST

Defensive Rookie of the Year: DEUNTA WILLIAMS,

NORTH CAROLINA

Coach of the Year: AL GROH, VIRGINIA

Tatum Award: TOM SANTI, VIRGINIA

Piccolo Award: MATT ROBINSON, WAKE FOREST

Jacobs Blocking: STEVE JUSTICE, WAKE FOREST

VIRGINIA TECH 30BOSTON COLLEGE 16

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2008

Virginia Tech came up with a solid defensive eff ort to defeat Atlantic Division rival Boston College 30-12 in the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Game at Raymond James Stadium...the win marked the second straight ACC title and the third in four years for the Hokies, who defeated the Eagles 30-16 in the 2007 championship game...freshman Darren Evans added 114 yards rushing on 31 carries, including a 10-yard touchdown run, and Dustin Keys set an ACC Championship Game record with a 50-yard fi eld goal...Orion Martin capped the win for the Hokies (9-4) when he recovered a fumble and returned it 17 yards for a TD. Boston College (9-4) scored a second-quarter touchdown on Dominique Davis’ 16-yard pass to Rich Gunnell, who fi nished the game with seven catches for 114 yards. MVP TYROD TAYLOR, VIRGINIA TECH

2008 ACC LEGENDS Steve DeOssie (Boston College); Levon Kirkland (Clemson); Claude “Tee” Moorman, II (Duke); Danny Kanell (Florida State); Pat Swilling (Georgia Tech); Stan Jones (Maryland); Russell Maryland (Miami); Marcus Jones (North Carolina); Bill Yoest (N.C. State); Tiki Barber (Virginia); Don Strock (Virginia Tech); John Henry Mills (Wake Forest)

AWARD WINNERS

Player of the Year & Off ensive Player of the Year: JONATHAN DWYER, GEORGIA TECH

Defensive Player of the Year: MARK HERZLICH, BOSTON COLLEGE

Rookie of the Year and Off ensive Rookie of the Year: RUSSELL WILSON, NC STATE

Defensive Rookie of the Year: SEAN SPENCE, MIAMI

Coach of the Year: PAUL JOHNSON, GEORGIA TECH

Tatum Award: DARRYL RICHARD, GEORGIA TECH

Piccolo Award: ROBERT QUINN, NORTH CAROLINA

Jacobs Blocking: EUGENE MONROE, VIRGINIA

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2009

On a night of big plays and shifting momentum, 12th-ranked Georgia Tech landed the fi nal off ensive punch to outlast 25th-ranked Clemson, 39-34. A crowd of 57,227 at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium and a national ESPN television audience saw the Yellow Jackets’ Jonathan Dwyer score what proved to be the winning touchdown on a 15-yard run with 1:20 to play...the rushing TD was the junior running back’s second of the night and allowed Tech (11-2) to answer after Clemson (8-5) had taken a 34-33 lead on Andre Ellington’s 1-yard run with 6:11 remaining in the game...though the Tigers came up short in their bid to claim their fi rst ACC title since 1991, senior RB C.J. Spiller took home game MVP honors. Spiller rushed for a career-high 233 yards and four touchdowns on 20 carries. Spiller had scoring runs of 3, 41, 36 and 9 yards, and added a 54-yard run to set up Clemson’s fourth-quarter go-ahead TD. MVP C.J. SPILLER, CLEMSON

2009 ACC LEGENDS Mike Mayock (Boston College), Danny Ford (Clemson), Bob Pascal (Duke), Chris Weinke, (Florida State), Eddie Lee Ivery (Georgia Tech), Kevin Glover (Maryland), Vinny Testaverde (Miami), Kelvin Bryant, (North Carolina), Willie Burden (NC State), Jim Bakktiar(Virginia), Bob Schweickert (Virginia Tech), Bill Barnes (Wake Forest)

AWARD WINNERS

Player of the Year & Off ensive Player of the Year: C.J. SPILLER, CLEMSON

Defensive Player of the Year: DERRICK MORGAN, GEORGIA TECH

ACC Coach of the Year: PAUL JOHNSON, GEORGIA TECH

Rookie of the Year &Off ensive Rookie of the Year: RYAN WILLIAMS, VIRGINIA TECH

Defensive Rookie of the Year: LUKE KUECHLY, BOSTON COLLEGE

Tatum Award: RILEY SKINNER, WAKE FOREST

Brian Piccolo: TONEY BAKER, NC STATE

Jacobs Blocking: RODNEY HUDSON, FLORIDA STATE

GEORGIA TECH 39CLEMSON 34

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5 HEISMAN TROPHY

WINNERS

10 NATIONAL

TITLES

19 PRO FOOTBALL

HALL OF FAMERS

20AFCA GRADUATION

AWARDS

25 COACHES IN

NATIONAL FOOTBALL

FOUNDATION & COLLEGE

HALL OF FAME

62 PLAYERS IN

NATIONAL FOOTBALL

FOUNDATION & COLLEGE

HALL OF FAME

A C C F O O T B A L L B Y T H E N U M B E R S

123COSIDA ACADEMIC

ALL-AMERCIANS

141 NO. 1 NATIONAL

RANKINGS

152BOWL VICTORIES

226 NFL FIRST-ROUND

DRAFT PICKS

673ALL-AMERICANS


BY BILL HASS / THEACC.COM

RETURN STRONG

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You could call MARK HERZLICH and NATE IRVING the ACC’s “comeback kids,”

but “miracle kids” fi ts even better.

After they missed the 2009 football

season, both defi ed long odds to

return and play the sport that means

so much to them.

Herzlich, from Boston College, was

diagnosed with a rare type of cancer and

Irving, from NC State, endured a terrible

car accident that he barely survived. With

ample amounts of patience, discipline,

dedication and courage, each has returned

to play – and play well.

“I think he’s probably exceeded our

expectations,” said Wolfpack coach Tom

O’Brien, “especially after looking at how he

was last year and thinking that he (might

never) play college football again.”

Moving from outside linebacker to

middle linebacker, Irving resumed his role

as a disruptive force on NC State’s defense.

Through the end of the regular season, he

is second on the team in total tackles and

leads the team in tackles for loss.”

Herzlich, the ACC’s defensive player of

the year in 2008, has started every game and

through the regular season, was their third-

leaking tackler and had four interceptions.

“It’s a miracle, that’s the way I look at

it,” said Eagles coach Frank Spaziani. “He

didn’t have any preseason. He’s played with

a broken bone in his foot, then he broke his

wrist and played with it swollen in a cast.

“He’ll be the fi rst to admit he’s not back to

where he was, but he’s certainly the best we

have at that position. He’s contributing and

making plays and doing really a fantastic

job under all the circumstances.”

Herzlich’s cancer, called Ewing’s

Sarcoma, is in remission. The tumor in his

left femur was treated with long bouts of

chemotherapy and radiation. A titanium

rod was inserted in the length of his lower

leg, and he has learned how to play with it.

Through it all, Herzlich approached

things with a positive attitude, pushing

himself to be even better than before while

knowing that might not be possible.

“I’ll be able to sit back at the end of

the season and say ‘how did it go?’” he said.

“And it will either be great or it will be OK.

But it can’t be bad because just coming

back and playing is going to be great

in itself.”

Irving’s path back was no less grueling.

The accident left him with a broken rib, a

punctured lung, a separated shoulder and a

compound fracture of his left leg.

“I never doubted that I was going to

return,” he said, “but when I began my rehab

things weren’t going the way I wanted them

to. It was a little bit slower than I thought it

should be, so that was the hard part.”

Irving was cleared for spring practice,

was ready for fall camp and has not slowed

down since.

“I believed for a long time that nothing

stays the same,” Irving said before the

season. “So instead of trying to get back

to where I was, the expectations are to be

better than I was, on and off the fi eld. You

have to work for everything you want, and I

believe in working hard for it.”

Both say their lives have changed for the

better. Herzlich is involved in raising money

for cancer research, has met numerous

cancer survivors and patients and hears

from many others.

“I think it has become, by choice,

something that I want to do,” he said. “It’s

not something that was forced on me and

I said ‘I guess I have to do this.’ Besides

football, this is what I want to base my

life around, to help people overcome this

disease and to help raise money to stop it.”

After the long rehab to resume

playing, Irving sees himself as a more

mature person.

“At the time I didn’t appreciate so

many of the small things, things I took

for granted,” he said. “Like how to make

smarter decisions and thinking about how

those decisions can affect me in the long

run instead of thinking short-term.”

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FLORIDASTATE2010 SEASON RESULTSSep. 4, 2010 vs. Samford W 59-6Sep. 11, 2010 at Oklahoma L 47-17Sep. 18, 2010 vs. BYU W 34-10Sep. 25, 2010 vs. Wake Forest W 31-0Oct. 2, 2010 at Virginia W 34-14Oct. 9, 2010 at Miami W 45-17Oct. 16, 2010 vs. Boston College W 24-19Oct. 28, 2010 at North Carolina State L 28-24Nov. 6, 2010 vs. North Carolina L 37-35Nov. 13, 2010 vs. Clemson W 16-13Nov. 20, 2010 at Maryland W 30-16Nov. 27, 2010 vs. Florida W 31-7

AT L A N T I C D I V I S I O N C H A M P I O N S


2010 SEASON STATISTICSTEAM STATISTICS FLORIDA STATE OPP

SCORING 380 214

Points Per Game 31.7 17.8

FIRST DOWNS 237 237

Rushing 106 96

Passing 114 112

Penalty 17 29

RUSHING YARDAGE 2129 1484

Yards gained rushing 2436 1904

Yards lost rushing 307 420

Rushing Attempts 428 454

Average Per Rush 5.0 3.3

Average Per Game 177.4 123.7

TDs Rushing 23 9

PASSING YARDAGE 2560 2612

Comp-Att-Int 214-343-10 239-413-12

Average Per Pass 7.5 6.3

Average Per Catch 12.0 10.9


TDs Passing 22 13

TOTAL OFFENSE 4689 4096

Total Plays 771 867

Average Per Play 6.1 4.7


KICK RETURNS: #-Yards 47-924 33-709

PUNT RETURNS: #-Yards 30-265 17-130

INT RETURNS: #-Yards 12-181 10-103

KICK RETURN AVERAGE 19.7 21.5

PUNT RETURN AVERAGE 8.8 7.6

INT RETURN AVERAGE 15.1 10.3

FUMBLES-LOST 19-10 21-10

PENALTIES-Yards 82-758 89-681

PUNTS-Yards 45-1977 61-2509

TIME OF POSSESSION/Game 29:57 30:03

3RD-DOWN Conversions 77/159 73/190

4TH-DOWN Conversions 6/6 10/21

SCORE BY QUARTERS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total

Florida State 64 162 62 92 380

Opponents 58 60 67 29 214

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING GP ATT GAIN LOSS NET AVG TD LONG AVG/G

CHRIS THOMPSON 12 101 708 22 686 6.8 5 90 57.2

TY JONES 10 77 505 9 496 6.4 2 57 49.6

JERMAINE THOMAS 11 85 522 38 484 5.7 6 70 44.0

CHRISTIAN PONDER 11 95 344 167 177 1.9 4 18 16.1

EJ MANUEL 8 23 136 21 115 5.0 1 25 14.4

LONNIE PRYOR 12 21 103 1 102 4.9 4 25 8.5

PASSING G EFFIC CMP-ATT-INT PCT YDS TD LNG AVG/G

CHRISTIAN PONDER 11 137.61 182-293-8 62.1 2038 20 44 185.3

EJ MANUEL 8 158.89 31-47-2 66.0 489 2 53 61.1

RECEIVING G NO. YDS AVG TD LONG AVG/G

BERT REED 12 52 547 10.5 2 44 45.6

TAIWAN EASTERLING 12 35 462 13.2 4 47 38.5

WILLIE HAULSTEAD 11 33 500 15.2 6 41 45.5

RODNEY SMITH 12 27 408 15.1 3 53 34.0

BEAU RELIFORD 12 15 171 11.4 1 19 14.2

JERMAINE THOMAS 11 12 134 11.2 1 21 12.2

CHRIS THOMPSON 12 12 113 9.4 0 19 9.4

|----PATS ----|

SCORING TD FGS KICK RUSH RCV PASS DXP SAF POINTS

DUSTIN HOPKINS 0 17-23 47-47 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 98

JERMAINE THOMAS 7 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 42

LONNIE PRYOR 7 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 42

WILLIE HAULSTEAD 6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 36

CHRIS THOMPSON 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 30

CHRISTIAN PONDER 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 24

TAIWAN EASTERLING 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 24

RODNEY SMITH 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 18

BERT REED 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 18

TY JONES 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 18

TOTAL OFFENSE G PLAYS RUSH PASS TOTAL AVG/G

CHRISTIAN PONDER 11 388 177 2038 2215 201.4

CHRIS THOMPSON 12 101 686 0 686 57.2

EJ MANUEL 8 70 115 489 604 75.5

TY JONES 10 77 496 0 496 49.6

JERMAINE THOMAS 11 85 484 0 484 44.0

LONNIE PRYOR 12 21 102 0 102 8.5

BERT REED 12 5 43 0 43 3.6

SHAWN POWELL 12 1 0 33 33 2.8

DEBRALE SMILEY 2 5 28 0 28 14.0

GREG REID 12 2 14 0 14 1.2

A.J. ALEXANDER 5 3 12 0 12 2.4

WILLIE HAULSTEAD 11 0 6 0 6 0.5

MATTHEW DUNHAM 11 1 5 0 5 0.5

TAIWAN EASTERLING 12 1 -8 0 -8 -0.7

ATLANTIC DIVISION CHAMPIONS | FLORIDA STATE

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1 MIKE HARRIS CB 5-11 183 JR MIAMI, FL

3 JUSTIN BRIGHT S 6-1 190 R-FR DUNCAN, SC

3 EJ MANUEL QB 6-4 234 R-SO VIRGINIA BEACH, VA

4 TERRANCE PARKS S 6-2 218 JR FAIRBURN, GA

5 GREG REID CB 5-8 185 SO VALDOSTA, GA

6 GERALD DEMPS S 5-10 206 R-FR VALDOSTA, GA

7 CHRISTIAN PONDER QB 6-3 222 R-SR COLLEYVILLE, TX

7 CHRISTIAN JONES LB 6-4 228 FR WINTER PARK, FL

8 TAIWAN EASTERLING WR 5-11 200 R-JR HATTIESBURG, MS

8 CHAD COLLEY S 5-10 183 R-JR GULF BREEZE, FL

9 CLINT TRICKETT QB 6-2 175 FR TALLAHASSEE, FL

10 NICK MOODY S 6-2 228 R-SO WYNCOTE, PA

11 VINCE WILLIAMS LB 6-0 249 R-SO DAVENPORT, FL

13 NIGEL BRADHAM LB 6-2 240 JR CRAWFORDVILLE, F

15 OCHUKO JENIJE CB 5-11 201 R-SR TALLAHASSEE, FL

16 MISTER ALEXANDER LB 6-3 237 R-SR ALDINE, TX

16 WILL SECORD QB 6-1 214 R-FR FRISCO, TX

18 DUSTIN HOPKINS K 6-2 185 SO HOUSTON, TX

19 JOSH GEHRES WR 6-3 199 R-FR TALLAHASSEE, FL

20 LAMARCUS JOYNER CB 5-8 183 FR FT. LAUDERDALE, FL

21 DEBRALE SMILEY RB 5-11 231 R-SO THOMASVILLE, GA

22 TELVIN SMITH LB 6-3 203 FR VALDOSTA, GA

23 CHRIS THOMPSON RB 5-8 185 SO GREENVILLE, FL

24 LONNIE PRYOR RB 6-0 213 SO OKEECHOBEE, FL

27 XAVIER RHODES CB 6-1 210 R-FR MIAMI, FL

29 KENDALL SMITH LB 6-0 242 SR BUSHNELL, FL

29 CHRIS FINN K 5-11 163 FR TAMPA, FL

31 TERRENCE BROOKS DB 5-11 182 FR DUNNELLON, FL

33 TY JONES RB 5-10 210 JR TAMPA, FL

35 GREG DENT WR 5-11 191 FR BELLE GLADE, FL

36 JARRED HAGGINS WR 6-1 191 FR LAKELAND, FL

38 DARREN EDWARDS CB 5-8 175 R-JR LAUDERDALE LAKES, FL

38 JERMAINE THOMAS RB 5-11 192 JR JACKSONVILLE, FL

40 MATTHEW DUNHAM FB 6-1 253 R-SR COLUMBUS, GA

41 CHAD ABRAM DB 5-11 215 FR LAKELAND, FL

45 SHAWN POWELL P 6-4 235 JR ROME, GA

46 VINCENT ZANN LB 5-10 210 R-JR PLANTATION, FL

46 JONATHAN JOHNSON TE 6-7 236 R-SO SANFORD, FL

48 JEFF LUC LB 6-0 251 FR PORT ST. LUCIE, FL

49 BRANDON JENKINS DE 6-3 250 SO TALLAHASSEE, FL

52 BRYAN STORK OG 6-4 304 R-FR VERO BEACH, FL

58 DAN HICKS DE 6-4 260 R-FR OXFORD, MS

59 HENRY ORELUS OG 6-2 300 R-FR BELLE GLADE, FL

60 RYAN MCMAHON C 6-1 285 R-SR SAVANNAH, GA

62 RODNEY HUDSON OG 6-2 288 SR MOBILE, AL

63 A.J. GANGUZZA C 6-2 270 R-JR BOCA RATON, FL

64 DAX DELLENBACH DS 6-1 224 R-SO FT. LAUDERDALE, FL

66 JACOB STANLEY C 6-1 279 R-JR JACKSONVILLE, FL

67 ANDREW DATKO OT 6-6 307 JR WESTON, FL

69 CHRIS REVELL DS 6-0 195 R-FR TALLAHASSEE, FL

70 ANTWANE GREENLEE OT 6-6 307 R-JR COLUMBUS, GA

73 RHONNE SANDERSON OT 6-2 280 R-SO TAMPA, FL

75 PHILIP DOUMAR DS 6-0 214 R-FR JUPITER, FL

76 GARRETT FAIRCLOTH OT 6-6 292 R-FR BRUNSWICK, GA

77 ZEBRIE SANDERS OT 6-6 307 JR DAYTON, OH

79 DAVID SPURLOCK OG 6-4 300 JR MURFREESBORO, TN

81 KENNY SHAW WR 5-11 165 FR ORLANDO, FL

82 WILLIE HAULSTEAD WR 6-3 213 SO TITUSVILLE, FL

83 BERT REED WR 5-10 175 R-JR PANAMA CITY, FL

84 RODNEY SMITH WR 6-6 222 SO MIAMI, FL

85 JA’BARIS LITTLE TE 6-3 237 JR TALLAHASSEE, FL

87 CAMERON WADE WR 6-5 219 R-JR CAIRO, GA

88 BEAU RELIFORD TE 6-6 254 JR CORAL SPRINGS, FL

92 ANTHONY MCCLOUD DT 6-2 302 R-SO THOMASVILLE, GA

93 EVERETT DAWKINS DL 6-2 285 R-SO SPARTANBURG, SC

94 DARIOUS CUMMINGS DL 6-1 289 FR TITUSVILLE, FL

95 BJOERN WERNER DE 6-4 273 FR BERLIN, GERMANY

96 TOSHMON STEVENS DE 6-5 232 R-SO POMONA PARK, FL

97 DEMONTE MCALLISTER DL 6-2 280 R-FR TAMPA, FL

98 MARKUS WHITE DE 6-4 265 SR W. PALM BEACH, FL

99 JACOBBI MCDANIEL DT 6-0 298 SO GREENVILLE, FL

NO. NAME POS. HT. WT. CLASS HOMETOWNNO. NAME POS. HT. WT. CLASS HOMETOWN

2010 TEAM ROSTER

COACHING STAFF

JIMBO FISHERHEAD COACH

MARK STOOPSDEFENSIVE COORDINATOR

DAMEYUNE CRAIGQUARTERBACKS

VIC VILORIAHEAD STRENGTH &

CONDITIONING COACH

D.J. ELIOTDEFENSIVE ENDS COACH

EDDIE GRANASSOCIATE HEAD COACH

GREG HUDSONASST. HEAD COACH DEFENSE

JAMES COLEYOFFENSIVE COORDINATOR

RICK TRICKETTASST. HEAD COACH

LAWRENCE DAWSEYPASSING GAME COORDINATOR

ODELL HAGGINSDEFENSIVE LINE COACH


1 MIKE

HARRIS

7 CHRISTIAN

JONES

15 OCHUKO

JENIJE

22 TELVIN

SMITH

33 TY

JONES

45 SHAWN

POWELL

5 GREG

REID

10 NICK

MOODY

19 JOSH

GEHRES

29 KENDALL

SMITH

38 JERMAINE

THOMAS

49 BRANDON

JENKINS

3 EJ

MANUEL

8 CHAD

COLLEY

16 WILL

SECORD

24 LONNIE

PRYOR

36 JARRED

HAGGINS

46 JONATHAN

JOHNSON

7 CHRISTIAN

PONDER

13 NIGEL

BRADHAM

21 DEBRALE

SMILEY

31 TERRENCE

BROOKS

41 CHAD

ABRAM

58 DAN

HICKS

3 JUSTIN

BRIGHT

8 TAIWAN

EASTERLING

16 MISTER

ALEXANDER

23 CHRIS

THOMPSON

35 GREG

DENT

46 VINCENT

ZANN

6 GERALD

DEMPS

11 VINCE

WILLIAMS

20 LAMARCUS

JOYNER

29 CHRIS

FINN

40 MATTHEW

DUNHAM

52 BRYAN

STORK

4 TERRANCE

PARKS

9 CLINT

TRICKETT

18 DUSTIN

HOPKINS

27 XAVIER

RHODES

38 DARREN

EDWARDS

48 JEFF

LUC



59 HENRY

ORELUS64 DAX

DELLENBACH62 RODNEY

HUDSON67 ANDREW

DATKO60 RYAN

MCMAHON66 JACOB

STANLEY63 A.J.

GANGUZZA

69 CHRIS

REVELL

81 KENNY

SHAW

92 ANTHONY

MCCLOUD

99 JACOBBI

MCDANIEL

76 GARRETT

FAIRCLOTH

85 JA’BARIS

LITTLE

96 TOSHMON

STEVENS

73 RHONNE

SANDERSON

83 BERT

REED

94 DARIOUS

CUMMINGS

79 DAVID

SPURLOCK

88 BEAU

RELIFORD

98 MARKUS

WHITE

70 ANTWANE

GREENLEE

82 WILLIE

HAULSTEAD

93 EVERETT

DAWKINS

77 ZEBRIE

SANDERS

87 CAMERON

WADE

97 DEMONTE

MCALLISTER

75 PHILIP

DOUMAR

84 RODNEY

SMITH

95 BJOERN

WERNER

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VIRGINIATECH2010 SEASON RESULTSSep. 06, 2010 at #3 Boise State L 30-33Sep. 11, 2010 JAMES MADISON L 16-21Sep. 18, 2010 EAST CAROLINA W 49-27Sep .25, 2010 at Boston College W 19-0Oct. 02, 2010 at #23 NC State W 41-30Oct. 09, 2010 CENTRAL MICHIGAN W 45-21Oct. 16, 2010 WAKE FOREST W 52-21Oct. 23, 2010 DUKE W 44-7Nov. 04, 2010 GEORGIA TECH W 28-21Nov. 13, 2010 at North Carolina W 26-10Nov. 20, 2010 at #24 Miami W 31-17Nov. 27, 2010 VIRGINIA W 37-7

C O A S TA L D I V I S I O N C H A M P I O N S


2010 SEASON STATISTICSTEAM STATISTICS VIRGINIA TECH OPP

SCORING 418 215

Points Per Game 34.8 17.9

FIRST DOWNS 252 206

Rushing 129 86

Passing 104 101

Penalty 19 19

RUSHING YARDAGE 2537 1883

Yards gained rushing 2858 2196

Yards lost rushing 321 313

Rushing Attempts 493 406

Average Per Rush 5.1 4.6


TDs Rushing 28 13

PASSING YARDAGE 2365 2303

Comp-Att-Int 166-282-4 183-374-20

Average Per Pass 8.4 6.2

Average Per Catch 14.2 12.6


TDs Passing 20 14

TOTAL OFFENSE 4902 4186

Total Plays 775 780

Average Per Play 6.3 5.4


KICK RETURNS: #-Yards 39-927 50-1211

PUNT RETURNS: #-Yards 19-251 21-89

INT RETURNS: #-Yards 20-316 4-67

KICK RETURN AVERAGE 23.8 24.2

PUNT RETURN AVERAGE 13.2 4.2

INT RETURN AVERAGE 15.8 16.8

FUMBLES-LOST 20-8 20-8

PENALTIES-Yards 59-518 87-734

PUNTS-Yards 51-2218 64-2611

TIME OF POSSESSION/Game 31:39 28:21

3RD-DOWN Conversions 62/148 59/174

4TH-DOWN Conversions 4/9 11/20

SCORE BY QUARTERS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total

Virginia Tech 69 136 118 95 418

Opponents 83 40 47 45 215

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING GP ATT GAIN LOSS NET AVG TD LONG AVG/G

DARREN EVANS 12 133 777 29 748 5.6 10 54 62.3

TYROD TAYLOR 12 119 793 180 613 5.2 4 72 51.1

DAVID WILSON 11 97 595 22 573 5.9 5 68 52.1

RYAN WILLIAMS 8 95 476 48 428 4.5 9 84 53.5

TONY GREGORY 9 23 107 5 102 4.4 0 24 11.3

PASSING G EFFIC CMP-ATT-INT PCT YDS TD LNG AVG/G

TYROD TAYLOR 12 156.90 154-256-4 60.2 2258 20 69 188.2

LOGAN THOMAS 7 80.72 12-26-0 46.2 107 0 24 15.3

TOTAL.......... 12 149.88 166-282-4 58.9 2365 20 69 197.1

OPPONENTS...... 12 102.31 183-374-20 48.9 2303 14 78 191.9

RECEIVING G NO. YDS AVG TD LONG AVG/G

JARRETT BOYKIN 12 45 728 16.2 5 69 60.7

DANNY COALE 12 26 497 19.1 2 59 41.4

DYRELL ROBERTS 9 21 303 14.4 2 43 33.7

ANDRE SMITH 12 17 164 9.6 5 21 13.7

MARCUS DAVIS 12 16 213 13.3 2 46 17.8

DAVID WILSON 11 9 165 18.3 2 65 15.0

RYAN WILLIAMS 8 9 104 11.6 1 29 13.0

DARREN EVANS 12 9 100 11.1 0 30 8.3

|----PATS ----|

SCORING TD FGS KICK RUSH RCV PASS DXP SAF POINTS

CHRIS HAZLEY 0 19-20 47-49 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 104

DARREN EVANS 10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 60

RYAN WILLIAMS 10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 60

DAVID WILSON 9 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 54

JARRETT BOYKIN 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 30

ANDRE SMITH 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 30

TYROD TAYLOR 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1-3 0 0 24

TOTAL OFFENSE G PLAYS RUSH PASS TOTAL AVG/G

TYROD TAYLOR 12 375 613 2258 2871 239.2

DARREN EVANS 12 133 748 0 748 62.3

DAVID WILSON 11 97 573 0 573 52.1

RYAN WILLIAMS 8 95 428 0 428 53.5

LOGAN THOMAS 7 32 22 107 129 18.4

TONY GREGORY 9 23 102 0 102 11.3

JOSH OGLESBY 11 6 49 0 49 4.5

DYRELL ROBERTS 9 3 16 0 16 1.8

MARCUS DAVIS 12 1 12 0 12 1.0

DANNY COALE 12 1 -3 0 -3 -0.2

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1 ANTONE EXUM FS 6-0 219 R-FR. GLEN ALLEN, VA

2 DAVON MORGAN ROV 6-0 196 SR. RICHMOND, VA.

3 LOGAN THOMAS QB 6-6 242 R-FR. LYNCHBURG, VA.

4 DAVID WILSON TB 5-11 200 SO. DANVILLE, VA.

5 TYROD TAYLOR QB 6-1 210 SR. HAMPTON, VA.

7 MARCUS DAVIS FL 6-4 229 R-SO. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA

9 CRIS HILL CB 5-11 180 R-JR. RICHMOND, VA.

11 DYRELL ROBERTS FL 6-2 189 JR. SMITHFIELD, VA.

12 JU-JU CLAYTON QB 6-1 220 R-SO. RICHMOND, VA.

14 TREY GRESH QB 6-0 200 FR. BLACKSBURG, VA.

15 EDDIE WHITLEY FS 6-1 195 JR. MATTHEWS, N.C.

16 ZACH LUCKETT OLB 6-3 216 R-SR. MAYS LANDING, N.J.

17 KYLE FULLER CB 5-11 178 FR. BALTIMORE, MD.

18 D.J. COLES SE 6-3 225 SO. MAIDENS, VA.

19 DANNY COALE FL 6-0 200 R-JR. LEXINGTON, VA.

20 JAYRON HOSLEY CB 5-11 170 SO. DELRAY BEACH, FLA.

21 RASHAD CARMICHAEL CB 5-11 186 R-SR. CLINTON, MD.

22 TONY GREGORY TB 6-0 182 R-FR. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.

24 TARIQ EDWARDS LB 6-3 228 R-FR. CHERAW, S.C.

25 JOSH OGLESBY FB 5-11 211 R-JR. GARNER, N.C.

26 JAMES HOPPER ROV 5-9 180 R-FR. FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.

28 ALONZO TWEEDY OLB 6-2 188 R-SO. RICHMOND, VA.

29 XAVIER BOYCE SE 6-4 220 R-SO. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.

30 BRIAN SAUNDERS P 6-0 198 R-SR. ROSELAND, VA.

31 KENNY YOUNGER FB 6-0 228 R-SR. RICHMOND, VA.

32 DARREN EVANS TB 6-0 220 R-JR. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

33 CHRIS DRAGER DE 6-4 255 R-JR. JEFFERSON HILLS, PA.

34 RYAN WILLIAMS TB 5-10 202 R-SO. MANASSAS, VA.

35 AUSTIN FULLER FL 6-2 221 R-SO. RICHLANDS, VA.

37 JACOB SYKES CB 6-1 190 R-JR. GOLDSBORO, N.C.

39 MARTIN SCALES FB 5-11 211 R-SO. MARTINSVILLE, VA.

40 WILEY BROWN ROV 5-10 194 R-SO. BRANDYWINE, MD.

42 J.R. COLLINS DE 6-2 254 R-FR. STAFFORD, VA.

43 JERON GOUVEIA-WINSLOW OLB 6-2 207 R-SO. ASHBURN, VA.

44 LYNDELL GIBSON LB 5-11 232 R-SO. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA

45 JOEY PHILLIPS FB 5-11 216 R-SO. BLACKSBURG, VA.

48 JUSTIN MYER PK 6-1 214 JR. MANHEIM, PA.

49 RON COOPER FS 5-10 189 R-SR. RICHMOND, VA.

50 COLLIN CARROLL SN 6-3 248 R-JR. HOPKINS, MINN

51 BRUCE TAYLOR LB 6-2 246 R-SO. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.

52 BARQUELL RIVERS LB 6-0 236 R-JR. WADESBORO, N.C.

53 DWIGHT TUCKER DT 6-1 277 R-SO. OVIEDO, FLA.

54 NICK BECTON OT 6-6 311 R-SO. WILMINGTON, N.C.

55 ISAIAH HAMLETTE DT 6-4 270 R-SO. STAFFORD, VA.

56 ANTOINE HOPKINS DT 6-1 302 R-SO. HIGHLAND SPRINGS, VA

57 TELVION CLARK LB 6-1 217 R-FR. NORFOLK, VA.

58 JACK TYLER LB 6-1 228 R-FR. OAKTON, VA.

60 BEAU WARREN C 6-4 286 R-SR. CLIFTON, VA.

62 BLAKE DECHRISTOPHER OT 6-5 320 R-JR. MIDLOTHIAN, VA.

63 BO GENTRY C 5-8 237 R-SO. BLACKSBURG, VA.

64 JEFF WARDACH DE 6-3 245 SR. ROANOKE, VA.

65 JOE ST. GERMAIN SN 5-11 215 FR. LOS ALAMITOS, CALIF.

66 TYREL WILSON DE 6-2 220 R-FR. HAMPTON, VA.

67 MICHAEL VIA C 6-7 300 R-SO. MCLEANSVILLE, N.C.

68 JAYMES BROOKS OG 6-2 296 R-JR. NEWPORT NEWS, VA.

71 VINSTON PAINTER OG 6-6 298 R-SO. NORFOLK, VA.

72 ANDREW LANIER OT 6-5 275 R-JR. MOORE, S.C.

74 ANDREW MILLER C 6-4 283 R-FR. BASSETT, VA.

75 GREG NOSAL OG 6-6 293 R-JR. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.

76 DAVID WANG OG 6-2 300 R-FR. ASHBURN, VA.

81 JARRETT BOYKIN SE 6-2 215 JR. MATTHEWS, N.C.

82 STEVEN FRIDAY DE 6-4 250 R-SR. HAMPTON, VA.

83 SCOTT DEMLER P 6-0 184 R-SO. WASHINGTON CROSSING, PA.

85 ROB STANTON TE 6-5 234 R-SR. RICHLANDS, VA.

86 ERIC MARTIN TE 6-2 268 R-FR. WOODBRIDGE, VA.

87 PRINCE PARKER TE 6-6 262 R-SR. NORFOLK, VA.

88 ANDRE SMITH TE 6-5 272 R-SR. GERMANTOWN, MD.

91 JOHN GRAVES DT 6-3 278 R-SR. RICHMOND, VA.

93 KWAMAINE BATTLE DT 6-1 294 R-JR. SPRING HOPE, N.C.

95 GEORGE GEORGE TE 6-4 266 R-SO. SALEM, VA.

96 JOSH EADIE DE 6-4 231 R-SR. LYNCHBURG, VA.

97 CHRIS HAZLEY PK 6-1 196 R-SR. WEST CHESTER, PA.

98 DERRICK HOPKINS DT 6-0 289 FR. HIGHLAND SPRINGS, VA.

99 JAMES GAYLE DE 6-4 248 R-FR. HAMPTON, VA.

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FRANK BEAMERHEAD COACH

MIKE O’CAINQUARTERBACKS COACH

BRYAN STINESPRINGOFFENSIVE COORDINATOR

CHARLEY WILESDEFENSIVE LINE COACH

CURT NEWSOMEOFFENSIVE LINE COACH

JIM CAVANAUGHSTRONG SAFETIES/

OLB COACH

BILLY HITE ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH

TORRIAN GRAYDEFENSIVE

BACKFIELD COACH

BUD FOSTERDEFENSIVE COORDINATOR

KEVIN SHERMANWIDE RECEIVERS COACH


1 ANTONE

EXUM

11 DYRELL

ROBERTS

19 DANNY

COALE

28 ALONZO

TWEEDY

35 AUSTIN

FULLER

45 JOEY

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5 TYROD

TAYLOR

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LUCKETT

24 TARIQ

EDWARDS

32 DARREN

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COLLINS

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THOMAS

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GRESH

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CARMICHAEL

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SAUNDERS

39 MARTIN

SCALES

49 RON

COOPER

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18 D.J.

COLES

26 JAMES

HOPPER

34 RYAN

WILLIAMS

44 LYNDELL

GIBSON

53 DWIGHT

TUCKER

2 DAVON

MORGAN

12 JU-JU

CLAYTON

20 JAYRON

HOSLEY

29 XAVIER

BOYCE

37 JACOB

SYKES

48 JUSTIN

MYER

7 MARCUS

DAVIS

17 KYLE

FULLER

25 JOSH

OGLESBY

33 CHRIS

DRAGER

43 JERON GOUVEIA- WINSLOW

52 BARQUELL

RIVERS

4 DAVID

WILSON

15 EDDIE

WHITLEY

22 TONY

GREGORY

31 KENNY

YOUNGER

40 WILEY

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54 NICK

BECTON58 JACK

TYLER56 ANTOINE

HOPKINS62 BLAKE

DECHRISTOPHER

55 ISAIAH

HAMLETTE60 BEAU

WARREN57 TELVION

CLARK

63 BO

GENTRY

72 ANDREW

LANIER

85 ROB

STANTON

96 JOSH

EADIE

67 MICHAEL

VIA

81 JARRETT

BOYKIN

91 JOHN

GRAVES

65 JOE

ST. GERMAIN

75 GREG

NOSAL

87 PRINCE

PARKER

98 DERRICK

HOPKINS

71 VINSTON

PAINTER

83 SCOTT

DEMLER

95 GEORGE

GEORGE

64 JEFF

WARDACH

74 ANDREW

MILLER

86 ERIC

MARTIN

97 CHRIS

HAZLEY

68 JAYMES

BROOKS

82 STEVEN

FRIDAY

93 KWAMAINE

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66 TYREL

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76 DAVID

WANG

88 ANDRE

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99 JAMES

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09/02/10

Wake Forest 53 Presbyterian 13Miami 45 FAMU 0

09/04/10

Florida State 59 Samford 6Boston College 38 Weber State 20Georgia Tech 41 So. Carolina State 10Clemson 35 North Texas 10NC State 48 Western Carolina 7Virginia 34 Richmond 13Duke 41 Elon 27LSU 30 North Carolina 24

09/06/10

Maryland 17 Navy 14Boise State 33 Virginia Tech 30

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

T.J. Yates, North Carolina, QB

CO-OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Zebrie Sanders, Florida State, RT


Sean Bedford, Georgia Tech, C


Oday Aboushi, Virginia, OT

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Joe Vellano, Maryland, DL

DEFENSIVE BACK

Kenny Tate, Maryland, FS

SPECIALIST

Dawson Zimmerman, Clemson, P

ROOKIE

Lamar Miller, Miami, RB

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Sean Bedford, Georgia Tech, C


Oday Aboushi, Virginia, OT

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Joe Vellano, Maryland, DL

DEFENSIVE BACK

Kenny Tate, Maryland, FS

SPECIALIST

Dawson Zimmerman, Clemson, P

ROOKIE


T.J. YATES

09/11/10

Kansas 28 Georgia Tech 25Wake Forest 54 Duke 48James Madison 21 Virginia Tech 16Boston College 26 Kent State 13Clemson 58 Presbyterian 21Oklahoma 47 Florida State 17Ohio State 36 Miami 24Maryland 62 Morgan State 3NC State 28 UCF 21USC 17 Virginia 14

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

Marshall Williams, Wake Forest, WR

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Joe Torchia, Virginia, TE

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Luke Kuechly, Boston College, MLB

DEFENSIVE BACK

Audie Cole, NC State, LB

SPECIALIST

Travis Benjamin, Miami, WR

ROOKIE

Tanner Price, Wake Forest, QB

09/16/10

NC State 30 Cincinnati 19

09/18/10

Georgia Tech 30 North Carolina 24West Virginia 31 Maryland 17Virginia Tech 49 East Carolina 27Alabama 62 Duke 13Florida State 34 BYU 10Auburn 27 Clemson 24Stanford 68 Wake Forest 24

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

Russell Wilson, NC State, QB

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Rodney Hudson, Florida State, OG

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Izaan Cross, Georgia Tech, DE

DEFENSIVE BACK

Rashad Carmichael, Virginia Tech, CB

SPECIALIST

Scott Blair, Georgia Tech, K

ROOKIE

Mustafa Greene, NC State, RB

09/23/10 Miami 31 Pittsburgh 3

09/25/10

Maryland 42 FIU 28NC State 45 Georgia Tech 28Virginia Tech 19 Boston College 0Virginia 48 VMI 7Army 35 Duke 21Florida State 31 Wake Forest 0North Carolina 17 Rutgers 13Stanford 68 Wake Forest 24

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK


OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Orlando Franklin, Miami, OL

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Nate Irving, NC State, MLB

DEFENSIVE BACK

Bruce Carter, North Carolina, LB

SPECIALIST

Chris Hazley, Virginia Tech, PK

ROOKIE

Danny O’Brien, Maryland, QB

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Travis Benjamin, Miami, WR

ROOKIE

Tanner Price, Wake Forest, QB


ROOKIE

Mustafa Greene, NC State, RB

SPECIALIST

Chris Hazley, Virginia Tech, PK

ROOKIE


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10/02/10 Florida State 34 Virginia 14Miami 30 Clemson 21North Carolina 42 East Carolina 17Virginia Tech 41 NC State 30Maryland 21 Duke 16Georgia Tech 24 Wake Forest 20Notre Dame 31 Boston College 13North Carolina 17 Rutgers 13Stanford 68 Wake Forest 24

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

Leonard Hankerson, Miami, WR

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Ryan McMahon, Florida State, C

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Marcus Forston, Miami, DL

DEFENSIVE BACK

Jayron Hosley, Virginia Tech, CB

SPECIALIST


ROOKIE

Christian Jones, Florida State, LB

10/09/10

NC State 44 Boston College 17Virginia Tech 45 Central Michigan 21 Georgia Tech 33 Virginia 21 North Carolina 21 Clemson 16 Navy 28 Wake Forest 27 Florida State 45 Miami 17

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

CO-OFFENSIVE BACK

Anthony Allen, Georgia Tech, RB

CO-OFFENSIVE BACK


OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Rodney Hudson, Florida State, LG

CO-DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Kevin Reddick, North Carolina, LB


Bruce Taylor, Virginia Tech, ILB

DEFENSIVE BACK

Brandan Bishop, NC State, S

SPECIALIST

Greg Reid, Florida State, CB

ROOKIE

DeAndre Hopkins, Clemson, WR

10/16/10

Clemson 31 Maryland 7East Carolina 33 NC State 27Florida State 24 Boston College 19Miami 28 Duke 13Georgia Tech 42 Middle Tennessee 14Virginia Tech 52 Wake Forest 21North Carolina 44 Virginia 10

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

Dwight Jones, North Carolina, WR

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Brandon Washington, Miami, G

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Da’Quan Bowers, Clemson, DE

DEFENSIVE BACK

Vaughn Telemaque, Miami, S

ROOKIE

Josh Harris, Wake Forest, RB

SPECIALIST

Andre Ellington, Clemson, RB

WEEK

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710/02/10

Florida State 34 Virginia 14Miami 30 Clemson 21North Carolina 42 East Carolina 17Virginia Tech 41 NC State 30Maryland 21 Duke 16Georgia Tech 24 Wake Forest 20Notre Dame 31 Boston College 13North Carolina 17 Rutgers 13Stanford 68 Wake Forest 24

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

Leonard Hankerson, Miami, WR

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Ryan McMahon, Florida State, C

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Marcus Forston, Miami, DL

DEFENSIVE BACK


SPECIALIST


ROOKIE

Christian Jones, Florida State, LB

10/09/10

NC State 44 Boston College 17Virginia Tech 45 Central Michigan 21 Georgia Tech 33 Virginia 21 North Carolina 21 Clemson 16 Navy 28 Wake Forest 27 Florida State 45 Miami 17

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

CO-OFFENSIVE BACK

Anthony Allen, Georgia Tech, RB

CO-OFFENSIVE BACK


OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Rodney Hudson, Florida State, LG


Kevin Reddick, North Carolina, LB


Bruce Taylor, Virginia Tech, ILB

DEFENSIVE BACK

Brandan Bishop, NC State, S

SPECIALIST

Greg Reid, Florida State, CB

ROOKIE

DeAndre Hopkins, Clemson, WR

10/16/10

Clemson 31 Maryland 7East Carolina 33 NC State 27Florida State 24 Boston College 19Miami 28 Duke 13Georgia Tech 42 Middle Tennessee 14Virginia Tech 52 Wake Forest 21North Carolina 44 Virginia 10

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

Dwight Jones, North Carolina, WR

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Brandon Washington, Miami, G

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Da’Quan Bowers, Clemson, DE

DEFENSIVE BACK

Vaughn Telemaque, Miami, S

ROOKIE

Josh Harris, Wake Forest, RB

SPECIALIST


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DA’QUAN BOWERS

10/23/10 Virginia Tech 44 Duke 7Maryland 24 Boston College 21Clemson 27 Georgia Tech 13Virginia 48 Eastern Michigan 21Miami 33 North Carolina 10

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK


OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Tyler Horn, Miami, OL,

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Allen Bailey, Miami, DL

DEFENSIVE BACK

Antwine Perez, Maryland, DB

SPECIALIST

Terence Fells-Danzer, Virginia, FB

ROOKIE


10/28/10

NC State 28 Florida State 24

10/30/10

Boston College 16 Clemson 10Virginia 24 Miami 19Duke 34 Navy 31Maryland 62 Wake Forest 14North Carolina 21 William & Mary 17

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK


OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Cooper Helfet, Duke, TE

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN


CO-DEFENSIVE BACK

Chase Minnifi eld, Virginia, CB

CO-DEFENSIVE BACK

Corey Mosley, Virginia, S

SPECIALIST

Will Snyderwine, Duke, K

ROOKIE


11/4 /10

Virginia Tech 28 Georgia Tech

11/6/10

Clemson 14 NC State 13 Miami 26 MarylandDuke 55 Virginia 48Boston College 23 Wake Forest 13North Carolina 37 Florida State PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

T.J. Yates, UNC, QB

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN


DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Bruce Taylor, VT, LB

CO-DEFENSIVE BACK

DeAndre McDaniel, Clemson, S

SPECIALIST

David Wilson, VT, TB

ROOKIE

Stephen Morris, Miami, QB

WEEK

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9WEEK

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Virginia Tech 44 Duke 7Maryland 24 Boston College 21Clemson 27 Georgia Tech 13Virginia 48 Eastern Michigan 21Miami 33 North Carolina 10

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK


OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Tyler Horn, Miami, OL,

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Allen Bailey, Miami, DL

DEFENSIVE BACK

Antwine Perez, Maryland, DB

SPECIALIST

Terence Fells-Danzer, Virginia, FB

ROOKIE


10/28/10

NC State 28 Florida State 24

10/30/10

Boston College 16 Clemson 10Virginia 24 Miami 19Duke 34 Navy 31Maryland 62 Wake Forest 14North Carolina 21 William & Mary 17

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK


OFFENSIVE LINEMAN


DEFENSIVE LINEMAN


CO-DEFENSIVE BACK

Chase Minnifi eld, Virginia, CB

CO-DEFENSIVE BACK

Corey Mosley, Virginia, S

SPECIALIST

Will Snyderwine, Duke, K

ROOKIE


11/4 /10

Virginia Tech 28 Georgia Tech

11/6/10

Clemson 14 NC State 13 Miami 26 MarylandDuke 55 Virginia 48Boston College 23 Wake Forest 13North Carolina 37 Florida State

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

T.J. Yates, UNC, QB

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN


DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Bruce Taylor, VT, LB

CO-DEFENSIVE BACK

DeAndre McDaniel, Clemson, S

SPECIALIST

David Wilson, VT, TB

ROOKIE

Stephen Morris, Miami, QB

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11/13/10

Boston College 21 Duke 16Miami 35 Georgia Tech 10NC State 38 Wake Forest 3Maryland 42 Virginia 23Virginia Tech 26 North Carolina 10Florida State 16 Clemson 13

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

EJ Manuel, Florida State, QB

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Brandon Linder, Miami, OL

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN


DEFENSIVE BACK


ROOKIE


SPECIALIST

Dustin Hopkins, Florida State, K

11/20/10

Boston College 17 Virginia 13NC State 29 North Carolina 25Georgia Tech 30 Duke 20Clemson 30 Wake Forest 10Virginia Tech 31 Miami 17Florida State 30 Maryland 16

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

Ryan Williams, Virginia Tech, TB

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Brandon Washington, Miami, OL

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Luke Kuechly, Boston College, LB

CO-DEFENSIVE BACK

Mario Butler, Georgia Tech, CB

CO-DEFENSIVE BACK

Nick Moody, Florida State, S

SPECIALIST

T.J. Graham, NC State, WR

ROOKIE


11/27/10

Boston College 16 Syracuse 7USF 23 Miami 20 (OT)Virginia Tech 37 Virginia 7Florida State 31 Florida 7Maryland 38 NC State 31North Carolina 24 Duke 19South Carolina 29 Clemson 7Wake Forest 34 Vanderbilt 13Georgia 42 Georgia Tech 34

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE BACK

Torrey Smith, Maryland, WR

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

Rodney Hudson, Florida State, G

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN

Brandon Jenkins, Florida State, DE

DEFENSIVE BACK

Antwine Perez, Maryland, S

SPECIALIST

Shawn Powell, Florida State, P

ROOKIE


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12WEEK

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THE ROAD TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP

09/25/10 WAKE FOREST W 31-0

10/02/10 AT VIRGINIA W 34-14

10/09/10 AT MIAMI W 45-17

10/16/10 BOSTON COLLEGE W 24-19

10/28/10 AT NC STATE L 28-24

11/06/10 NORTH CAROLINA L 37-35

11/13/10 CLEMSON W 16-13

11/20/10 AT MARYLAND W 30-16

09/25/10 AT BOSTON COLLEGE W 19-0

10/02/10 AT #23 NC STATE W 41-30

10/16/10 WAKE FOREST W 52-21

10/23/10 DUKE W 44-7

11/04/10 GEORGIA TECH W 28-21

11/13/10 AT NORTH CAROLINA W 26-10

11/20/10 AT #24 MIAMI W 31-17

11/27/10 VIRGINIA W 37-7


ATLANTIC DIVISION CONFERENCE OVERALL

FLORIDA STATE 6-2 9-3MARYLAND 5-3 8-4NC STATE 5-3 8-4BOSTON COLLEGE 4-4 7-5CLEMSON 4-4 6-6WAKE FOREST 1-7 3-9

COASTAL DIVISION CONFERENCE OVERALL

VIRGINIA TECH 8-0 10-2MIAMI 5-3 7-5NORTH CAROLINA 4-4 7-5GEORGIA TECH 4-4 6-6VIRGINIA 1-7 4-8DUKE 1-7 3-9

2010 RECAPFINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS AND STATISTICS

SCORING OFFENSE G TD XP 2XP DXP FG Saf Pts Avg

1. Virginia Tech 12 52 47 1 0 19 0 418 34.8 2. NC State 12 48 47 0 0 18 1 391 32.6 3. Florida State 12 47 47 0 0 17 0 380 31.7 4. Maryland 12 47 47 0 0 13 0 368 30.7 5. Georgia Tech 12 41 36 2 0 15 0 331 27.6 6. Miami 12 42 35 1 0 12 0 325 27.1 7. Virginia 12 39 37 0 0 11 0 304 25.3 8. Duke 12 34 32 1 0 21 1 303 25.2 9. North Carolina 12 36 35 0 0 16 0 299 24.9 10. Clemson 12 36 34 0 0 12 0 286 23.8 11. Wake Forest 12 34 31 0 1 12 0 273 22.8 12. Boston College 12 24 23 0 0 20 0 227 18.9

TOTAL OFFENSE G Rush Pass Plays Yards Avg/P TD Yds/G

1. Miami 12 2285 2786 872 5071 5.8 38 422.6 2. Georgia Tech 12 3924 1050 850 4974 5.9 39 414.5 3. Virginia Tech 12 2537 2365 775 4902 6.3 48 408.5 4. NC State 12 1500 3380 925 4880 5.3 43 406.7 5. Virginia 12 1672 3186 862 4858 5.6 37 404.8 6. Florida State 12 2129 2560 771 4689 6.1 45 390.8 7. North Carolina 12 1483 3198 796 4681 5.9 34 390.1 8. Duke 12 1320 3256 872 4576 5.2 33 381.3 9. Maryland 12 1499 2610 762 4109 5.4 41 342.4 10. Clemson 12 1757 2297 798 4054 5.1 33 337.8 11. Boston College 12 1599 2104 756 3703 4.9 22 308.6 12. Wake Forest 12 1902 1726 762 3628 4.8 32 302.3

Gained LostTURNOVER MARGIN G Fum Int Tot Fum Int Tot Mar Per/G

1. Virginia Tech 12 8 20 28 8 4 12 +16 1.33 2. Maryland 12 8 17 25 4 8 12 +13 1.08 3. Boston College 12 11 19 30 6 17 23 +7 0.58 4. NC State 12 16 8 24 7 14 21 +3 0.25 5. Florida State 12 10 12 22 10 10 20 +2 0.17 6. North Carolina 12 5 16 21 13 8 21 +0 0.00 Wake Forest 12 6 11 17 7 10 17 +0 0.00 8. Georgia Tech 12 13 8 21 17 6 23 -2 -0.17 9. Clemson 12 4 14 18 9 12 21 -3 -0.25 10. Miami 12 12 16 28 9 23 32 -4 -0.33 11. Virginia 12 5 11 16 6 17 23 -7 -0.58 12. Duke 12 9 8 17 9 19 28 -11 -0.92

SCORING DEFENSE G TD XP 2XP DXP FG Saf Pts Avg

1. Clemson 12 23 21 0 0 18 0 213 17.8 2. Florida State 12 23 22 0 0 18 0 214 17.8 3. Virginia Tech 12 27 26 0 0 9 0 215 17.9 4. Boston College 12 24 24 0 0 22 0 234 19.5 5. Miami 12 27 26 0 0 16 0 236 19.7 6. Maryland 12 32 29 1 0 15 0 268 22.3 7. NC State 12 35 28 1 0 10 0 270 22.5 8. North Carolina 12 31 27 1 0 18 3 275 22.9 9. Georgia Tech 12 41 41 0 0 9 0 314 26.2 10. Virginia 12 43 37 1 0 14 0 339 28.2 11. Duke 12 56 50 3 0 11 0 425 35.4 12. Wake Forest 12 55 50 1 0 16 0 430 35.8

TOTAL DEFENSE G Rush Pass Plays Yards Avg/P TD Yds/G

1. Boston College 12 962 2758 839 3720 4.4 20 310.0 2. Miami 12 2050 1756 797 3806 4.8 26 317.2 3. Clemson 12 1580 2305 801 3885 4.9 22 323.8 4. North Carolina 12 1606 2456 797 4062 5.1 29 338.5 5. NC State 12 1356 2730 775 4086 5.3 32 340.5 6. Florida State 12 1484 2612 867 4096 4.7 22 341.3 7. Virginia Tech 12 1883 2303 780 4186 5.4 27 348.8 8. Maryland 12 1586 2651 896 4237 4.7 29 353.1 9. Georgia Tech 12 2036 2508 782 4544 5.8 38 378.7 10. Virginia 12 2444 2309 784 4753 6.1 42 396.1 11. Wake Forest 12 2310 2858 884 5168 5.8 53 430.7 12. Duke 12 2499 2902 848 5401 6.4 51 450.1

KICKOFF RETURNS G Ret Yds TD Avg

1. Virginia Tech 12 39 927 2 23.8 2. Clemson 12 40 936 1 23.4 3. Virginia 12 51 1107 2 21.7 4. Duke 12 68 1419 0 20.9 5. Georgia Tech 12 50 1033 0 20.7 6. Wake Forest 12 69 1420 0 20.6 7. North Carolina 12 41 831 0 20.3 8. Florida State 12 47 924 0 19.7 9. Miami 12 37 721 1 19.5 10. NC State 12 43 802 0 18.7 11. Maryland 12 45 813 0 18.1 12. Boston College 12 49 862 0 17.6

TEAM STATISTICS

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICAL LEADERS

RUSHING Team G Att Yds Avg TD Long Yds/G

1. Montel Harris BC 12 269 1243 4.6 8 72 103.6 2. Anthony Allen GT 12 217 1225 5.6 6 48 102.1 3. Joshua Nesbitt GT 9 166 737 4.4 10 71 81.9 4. Johnny White NC 9 130 720 5.5 7 76 80.0 5. Damien Berry UM 11 181 865 4.8 5 42 78.6 6. Andre Ellington CU 9 118 686 5.8 10 71 76.2 7. Keith Payne VA 11 160 749 4.7 14 49 68.1 8. Josh Harris WF 11 126 720 5.7 7 87 65.5 9. Lamar Miller UM 10 103 633 6.1 6 47 63.3 10. Darren Evans VT 12 133 748 5.6 10 54 62.3

INTERCEPTIONS Team G Int Yds TD Long Int/G

1. Jayron Hosley VT 11 8 110 0 42 0.73 2. Chase Minnifi eld VA 12 6 80 0 65 0.50 3. Da’Norris Searcy NC 9 4 53 1 46 0.44 4. Donnie Fletcher BC 12 5 49 0 19 0.42 5. Rashad Carmichael VT 11 4 87 1 68 0.36 6. Davon Morgan VT 12 4 95 0 28 0.33 Jim Noel BC 12 4 79 1 43 0.33 DeAndre McDaniel CU 12 4 33 0 33 0.33 Mark Herzlich BC 12 4 17 0 12 0.33 Adrian Moten MD 12 4 0 0 0 0.33

PASSING AVG/GAME Team G Att Cmp Int Pct. Yds TD Avg/G

1. Russell Wilson ST 12 482 280 14 58.1 3288 26 274.0 2. T.J. Yates NC 12 383 259 8 67.6 3184 18 265.3 3. Sean Renfree DU 12 464 285 17 61.4 3131 14 260.9 4. Marc Verica VA 12 396 233 14 58.8 2799 14 233.2 5. Jacory Harris UM 9 263 144 12 54.8 1756 14 195.1 6. Tyrod Taylor VT 12 256 154 4 60.2 2258 20 188.2 7. Danny O’Brien MD 12 315 179 6 56.8 2257 21 188.1 8. Christian Ponder FS 11 293 182 8 62.1 2038 20 185.3 9. Kyle Parker CU 12 324 185 10 57.1 2079 12 173.2 10. Tanner Price WF 11 241 137 8 56.8 1349 7 122.6

PASS EFFICIENCY Team G Att Cmp Int Pct. Yds TD Eff .

1. Tyrod Taylor VT 12 256 154 4 60.2 2258 20 156.9 2. T.J. Yates NC 12 383 259 8 67.6 3184 18 148.8 3. Christian Ponder FS 11 293 182 8 62.1 2038 20 137.6 4. Danny O’Brien MD 12 315 179 6 56.8 2257 21 135.2 5. Russell Wilson ST 12 482 280 14 58.1 3288 26 127.4 6. Marc Verica VA 12 396 233 14 58.8 2799 14 122.8 7. Sean Renfree DU 12 464 285 17 61.4 3131 14 120.7 8. Jacory Harris UM 9 263 144 12 54.8 1756 14 119.3 9. Kyle Parker CU 12 324 185 10 57.1 2079 12 117.0 10. Tanner Price WF 11 241 137 8 56.8 1349 7 106.8

TOTAL OFFENSE Team G Rush Pass Plays Total Yds/G

1. Russell Wilson ST 12 394 3288 611 3682 306.8 2. T.J. Yates NC 12 -49 3184 458 3135 261.2 3. Sean Renfree DU 12 -47 3131 515 3084 257.0 4. Tyrod Taylor VT 12 613 2258 375 2871 239.2 5. Marc Verica VA 12 -47 2799 438 2752 229.3 6. Christian Ponder FS 11 177 2038 388 2215 201.4 7. Jacory Harris UM 9 27 1756 292 1783 198.1 8. Danny O’Brien MD 12 -48 2257 346 2209 184.1 9. Kyle Parker CU 12 20 2079 369 2099 174.9 10. Joshua Nesbitt GT 9 737 674 271 1411 156.8

PUNT RETURN AVG Team G Ret Yds TD Long Avg

1. Tony Logan MD 12 30 563 2 85 18.8 2. Jayron Hosley VT 11 17 229 1 80 13.5 3. Marcus Gilchrist CU 12 23 233 0 37 10.1 4. Greg Reid FS 12 29 261 1 74 9.0 5. Lee Butler DU 12 21 181 0 33 8.6 6. T.J. Graham ST 12 19 154 1 87 8.1 7. Jerrard Tarrant GT 12 20 131 0 25 6.6 8. Travis Benjamin UM 12 21 106 1 79 5.0

RECEIVE YDS/GAME Team G Rec Yds TD Long Avg/C Yds/G

1. Leonard Hankerson UM 12 66 1085 12 79 16.4 90.4 2. Torrey Smith MD 12 65 1045 12 80 16.1 87.1 3. Conner Vernon DU 12 73 973 4 70 13.3 81.1 4. Dwight Jones NC 12 57 895 4 81 15.7 74.6 5. Owen Spencer ST 12 57 868 4 60 15.2 72.3 6. Dontrelle Inman VA 12 51 815 3 52 16.0 67.9 7. Kris Burd VA 12 58 799 5 76 13.8 66.6 8. Donovan Varner DU 12 60 736 1 39 12.3 61.3 9. Jarrett Boykin VT 12 45 728 5 69 16.2 60.7 10. Travis Benjamin UM 12 40 699 3 60 17.5 58.2

SCORING Team G TD XPT FG 2XP Pts Pts/G

1. Keith Payne VA 11 16 0 0 0 96 8.7 2. Chris Hazley VT 12 0 47 19 0 104 8.7 3. Josh Czajkowski ST 11 0 40 17 0 91 8.3 4. Dustin Hopkins FS 12 0 47 17 0 98 8.2 5. Andre Ellington CU 9 12 0 0 0 72 8.0 6. Will Snyderwine DU 12 0 32 21 0 95 7.9 7. Travis Baltz MD 12 0 47 13 0 86 7.2 8. Nate Freese BC 12 0 23 20 0 83 6.9 Casey Barth NC 12 0 35 16 0 83 6.9 10. Joshua Nesbitt GT 9 10 0 0 2 62 6.9

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TYRODTAYLORV I R G I N I A T E C H

2 0 1 0 AWA R D W I N N E R S

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DA’QUANBOWERS

A C C D E F E N S I V E P L A Y E R O F T H E Y E A R

C L E M S O N



DANNYO’BRIEN

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XAVIERRHODES

A C C D E F E N S I V E R O O K I E O F T H E Y E A R

F L O R I D A S T A T E



RALPHFRIEDGEN

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CHRISTIANPONDER

T H E J I M T A T U M A W A R D

F L O R I D A S T A T E


Ponder, a native of Colleyville, Texas, and a fi nalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, has guided Florida State this year to a 9-3 overall record, a No. 20 national ranking, the Atlantic Division championship and Florida State’s fi rst berth in the ACC title game since 2004. Ponder graduated from Florida State after just two and a half years in May of 2008 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, compiling a 3.73 undergraduate GPA. He then completed his MBA degree at FSU last May, compiling a cumulative 3.703 graduate GPA. He is currently enrolled in Florida State’s graduate program in Sports Management. A two-time All-ACC Academic Football (2008-09) team member, Ponder has been named this year as one of the recipients of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame’s Scholar-Athlete Awards. Ponder has also been to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team and is a two-time fi nalist for the Wuerff el Trophy (2009, 2010). THE TATUM AWARD

is given annually in memory of the late Jim Tatum to the top senior student-athlete (in athletic eligibility) among the league’s football players. Tatum, a two-time ACC Coach of the Year, coached in the fi fties at both Maryland and North Carolina and believed strongly in the concept of the student-athlete.

1990 Charlie Cobb , NC State

1991 not available

1992 Steve Ainsworth, Wake Forest

1993 Tom Burns, Virginia

1994 Ed Glenn, Clemson

1995 Russell Babb, North Carolina

1996 Daryl Bush, Florida State

1997 Stephan Phelan, Virginia

1998 Ebenezer Ekuban, North Carolina

1999 Noel LaMontagne, Virginia

2000 Louis Marchetti, North Carolina

2001 Kyle Young, Clemson

2002 Jeremy Muyres, Georgia Tech

2003 Chris Douglas, Duke

2004 Nick Novak, Maryland

2005 Brendan Dewan, Duke

David Castillo, Florida State

2006 Josh Wilson, Maryland

2007 Tom Santi, Virginia

2008 Darryl Richard, Georgia Tech

2009 Riley Skinner, Wake Forest

PAST AWARD WINNERS


NATEIRVING

T H E P I C C O L O A W A R D

N C S T A T E


1970 Paul Miller, QB, North Carolina1971 Jim Webster, LB, North Carolina1972 Mark Johnson, QB, Duke1973 Al Neville, QB, Maryland1974 David Visaggio, DG, Maryland1975 Scott Gardner, QB, Virginia1976 Jeff Green, DE, Duke1977 Ralph Stringer, DB, NC State1978 Rex Varn, DB, Clemson1979 not available1980 Jack Cain, DB,Clemson1981 Aaron Stewart, DB, Duke1982 Kenny Duckett, WR, Wake Forest1983 John Piedmonte, OLB,Wake Forest

1984 JD Maarleveld, T, Maryland1985 Danny Burmeister, DB, N Carolina1986 Ray Williams, WR, Clemson1987 no recipient1988 Jerry Mays, TB, Georgia Tech1989 Michael Anderson, RB, Maryland1990 Marc Mays, WR, Duke1991 Scott Adell, T, NC State1992 Dan Footman, DE, Florida State Randy Cuthbert, TB, Duke1993 Scott Youmans, DL, Duke1994 Chris Harrison, T, Virginia1995 Warren Forney, DT, Clemson1996 John Lewis, RB, Wake Forest

1997 Sam Cowart, LB, Florida State1998 Anthony Poindexter, DB, Virginia Corey Simon, DT, Florida State1999 Chris Weinke, QB, Florida State2000 Ed Wilder, FB, Georgia Tech2001 Matt Crawford, T, Maryland2002 Anquan Boldin, WR, Florida State2003 Kevin Bailey, OL, Virginia2004 Frank Gore, RB, Miami2005 Ryan Best, S, Virginia2006 Glenn Sharpe, Miami2007 Matt Robinson, DE, Wake Forest2008 Robert Quinn, DE, North Carolina2009 Toney Baker, RB, NC State

NC State’s Irving was severely injured in a single car motor vehicle accident on June 28, 2009. Irving suff ered a compound fracture of the tibia, a broken rib, a punctured lung and a separated shoulder. Irving faced a length rehab due to the severity of his injuries and the quantity of body parts that were aff ected. He has enjoyed a sometimes spectacular senior season as the 2nd leading tackler for an NC State defense which ranks 3rd nationally in sacks and 4th in tackles for loss. He ranks 4th nationally in tackles for loss with 19 and has fi ve quarterback sacks among his 85 total tackles. He set an NCAA FBS single-game record for most tackles for loss with eight against Wake Forest and he was named the Walter Camp National Defensive player of the Week for his play on Sept. 25.

THE PICCOLO AWARD has been given annually since 1972 in memory of the late Brian Piccolo to the “most courageous” football player in the ACC. Piccolo was the ACC Athlete of the Year in 1965 and played for the Chicago Bears before his career was cut short when he was stricken with cancer. His courageous fi ght against that disease was an inspiration to the Bears and the entire football community.

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MARKHERZLICH

T H E P I C C O L O A W A R D

B O S T O N C O L L E G E


In May of 2009, Herzlich was diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma in his left thigh. Ewings is an aggressive cancer which attacks both soft tissue and bone. He underwent extensive radiation and chemotherapy in the months fol-lowing his diagnosis. Once the cancer was controlled, a titanium rod was also inserted into his left leg to stabilize the bone. Still, Herzlich has responded to be Boston College’s third-leading tackler on the nation’s top ranked defense against the run. Herzlich has recorded 54 tackles this year, including 41 solo hits, 3.5 for loss. Despite the “club cast” on his hand, he has four pass inter-ceptions, fi ve pass defl ections and one forced fumble.



1953 Bill Wohrman, FB, South Carolina1954 Bill Wohrman, FB, South Carolina1955 Bob Pellegrini, C, Maryland1956 Hal McElhaney, FB, Duke1957 Hal McElhaney, FB, Duke1958 John Saunders, FB, South Carolina1959 Doug Cline, FB, Clemson1960 Dwight Bumgardner, T, Duke1961 Art Gregory, T, Duke Jim LeCompte, G, North Carolina1962 Art Gregory, T, Duke1963 Chuck Walker,T, Duke1964 Eddie Kesler, FB, North Carolina1965 John McNabb, G, Duke1966 Wayne Mass, T, Clemson1967 Harry Olszewski, G, Clemson1968 Greg Shelly, T, Virginia1969 Ralph Sonntag, T, Maryland1970 Dan Ryczek, C, Virginia1971 Geof Hamlin, FB, North Carolina

1972 Ron Rusnak, G, North Carolina1973 Bill Yoest, G, NC State1974 Ken Huff , G, North Carolina1975 Billy Bryan, C, Duke1976 Billy Bryan, C, Duke1977 Joe Bostic, G, Clemson1978 Jim Ritcher, C, NC State1979 Jim Ritcher, C, NC State1980 Ron Wooten, G, North Carolina1981 Lee Nanney, T, Clemson1982 Dave Pacella, T, Maryland1983 James Farr, G, Clemson1984 Jim Dombrowski, T, Virginia1985 Jim Dombrowski, T, Virginia1986 Paul Kiser, G, Wake Forest1987 John Phillips, G, Clemson1988 Jeff Garnica, C, North Carolina1989 Chris Port, T, Duke1990 Ray Roberts, T, Virginia1991 Ray Roberts, T, Virginia

1992 Ben Coleman, T, Wake Forest1993 Mark Dixon, G, Virginia1994 Clay Shiver, C, Florida State1995 Clay Shiver, C, Florida State1996 no recipient1997 Tra Thomas, T, Florida State1998 Craig Page, C, Georgia Tech1999 John St Clair, C, Virginia2000 Tarlos Thomas, T, Florida State2001 Brett Williams, T, Florida State2002 Brett Williams, T, Florida State2003 Elton Brown, G, Virginia2004 Elton Brown, G,Virginia2005 Eric Winston, T, Miami2006 Josh Beekman, G-C, Boston College2007 Steve Justice, C, Wake Forest2008 Eugene Monroe, T, Virginia2009 Rodney Hudson, G, Florida State

THE JACOBS BLOCKING TROPHY has been awarded annually since 1953 to the player voted the most outstanding blocker in the ACC by a poll of the league’s head coaches and defensive coordinators. The trophy is given in memory of William P. Jacobs, who served as president of Presbyterian College from 1935 to 1945.

RODNEYHUDSON

T H E J A C O B S B L O C K I N G A W A R D

F L O R I D A S T A T EOne of three fi nalists for this year’s prestigious Outland Trophy, Hudson, a 6-2, 282-pound senior from Mobile, Ala., is seeking to be one of seven play-ers in ACC history to be honored four times with All-ACC honors. A fi rst-team FWAA All-America in 2009, Hudson was a second-team All-ACC selection as a freshman in 2007 and earned fi rst-team honors in 2008 and 2009. He has been the leader of a Florida State off ensive line which has paved the way for the Seminoles to average almost 400 yards a game of total off ense, despite a rash of injuries which forced FSU to use various starting combinations upfront this year. Hudson, who was named ACC Off ensive Lineman of the Week twice during the 2010 season, has made 46 career starts at guard, has graded out to 87 percent this year with 44 knockdown blocks. He has been penalized only once in 772 snaps this year. He is also the only off ensive lineman nominated for ACC Player of the Year by the ACC’s football coaches.

FIRST TEAM

OFFENSE

QB Tyrod Taylor, Virginia Tech (77)

RB Montel Harris, Boston College (122)

RB Anthony Allen, Georgia Tech (108)

WR Leonard Hankerson, Miami (118)

WR Torrey Smith, Maryland (96)

TE George Bryan, NC State (92)

OT Anthony Castonzo, Boston College (79)

OT Chris Hairston, Clemson (69)

OG Rodney Hudson, Florida State (116)

OG Brandon Washington, Miami (50)

C Sean Bedford, Georgia Tech (91)

K Chris Hazley, Virginia Tech (100)

Spc Tony Logan, Maryland (69)

DEFENSE

DE Da’Quan Bowers, Clemson (120)

DE Brandon Jenkins, Florida State (101)

DT Quinton Coples, North Carolina (101)

DT Jarvis Jenkins, Clemson (63)

LB Luke Kuechly, Boston College (112)

LB Nate Irving, NC State (105)

LB Alex Wujciak, Maryland (78)

CB Jayron Hosley, Virginia Tech (112)

CB Chase Minnifi eld, Virginia (57)

S DeAndre McDaniel, Clemson (99)

S Kenny Tate, Maryland (78)

P Matt Bosher, Miami

SECOND TEAM

OFFENSE

QB Russell Wilson, NC State (75)

RB Damien Berry, Miami (37)

RB Keith Payne, Virginia (30)

WR Conner Vernon, Duke (70)

WR Owen Spencer, NC State (41)

TE Dwayne Allen, Clemson (31)

OT Orlando Franklin, Miami (65)

OT Blake DeChristopher, Virginia Tech (39)

OG Jaymes Brooks, Virginia Tech (41)

OG Omoregie Uzzi, Georgia Tech (35)

OG Jonathan Cooper, North Carolina (35)

C Ryan McMahon, Florida State (47)

K Will Snyderwine, Duke (38)

Spc David Wilson, Virginia Tech (61)

DEFENSE

DE Allen Bailey, Miami (51)

DE Steven Friday, Virginia Tech (42)

DT John Graves, Virginia Tech (46)

DT Joe Vellano, Maryland (33)

LB Bruce Carter, North Carolina (43)

LB Bruce Taylor, Virginia Tech (41)

LB Sean Spence, Miami (37)

CB Xavier Rhodes, Florida State (49)

CB Brandon Harris, Miami (45)

S Davon Morgan, Virginia Tech (48)

S Ray-Ray Armstrong, Miami (25)

P Brian Saunders, Virginia Tech (48)

HONORABLE MENTION

OFFENSE

WR Dwight Jones, North Carolina (20)

OT Jake Vermiglio, NC State (34);

Paul Pinegar, Maryland (27)

OG Thomas Claiborne, Boston College (34)

C Beau Warren, Virginia Tech (22)

TE Cooper Helfet, Duke (24);

Andre Smith, Virginia Tech (23)

RB Johnny White, North Carolina (22)

QB TJ Yates, North Carolina (21)

PK Casey Barth, North Carolina (20)

SP Marcus Gilchrist, Clemson (24)

DEFENSE

DT JR Sweezy, NC State (26)

LB Colin McCarthy, Miami (34);

Abraham Kromah, Duke (30)

CB Greg Reid, Florida State (20)

The 2010 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team as voted on by 61 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. (TOTAL POINTS)

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TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP GAME RECORDS

TOTAL OFFENSEPLAYS 83 Virginia Tech vs. Florida State (376 yards), 2005 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson (469 yards), 2009YARDS 469 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson (83 plays), 2009AVERAGE 5.65 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson (83 for 469), 2009

RUSHINGCARRIES 65 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson (333 yards), 2009YARDS 333 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson (65 attempts), 2009TDS 5 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009

PASSINGATTEMPTS 52 Boston College vs. Virginia Tech (33 completions, 305 yards), 2007; Virginia Tech vs. Florida State (26 completions, 335 yards), 2005COMPLETIONS 33 Boston College vs. Virginia Tech (52 attempts, 305 yards), 2007COMP. PERC 63.6 Virginia Tech vs. Boston College (21 of 33), 2007YARDS 335 Virginia Tech vs. Florida State (26 of 52), 2005TD 3 Virginia Tech vs. Boston College, 2007

FIRST DOWNSTOTAL 28 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009RUSHING 23 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009PASSING 16 Boston College vs. Virginia Tech, 2007

PUNTINGMOST PUNTS 8 Florida State vs. Virginia Tech (340 yards), 2005FEWEST PUNTS 0 Clemson, Clemson vs. Georgia Tech, 2009 0 Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009AVERAGE 50.0 Georgia Tech vs. Wake Forest (5 for 250), 2006

PUNT RETURNSYARDS 98 Florida State vs. Virginia Tech (3 attempts), 2005AVERAGE 32.7 Florida State vs. Virginia Tech (3 for 98), 2005

KICKOFF RETURNSYARDS 122 Boston College vs. Virginia Tech (6 attempts.), 2008AVERAGE 26.0 Wake Forest vs. Georgia Tech (3 for 78), 2006

SCORINGMOST POINTS 39 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009MOST TDS 5 Clemson vs. Georgia Tech, 2009MOST FGS 4 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009

DEFENSELEAST POINTS ALLOWED 6 Wake Forest vs. Georgia Tech, 2006LEAST RUSH YARDS ALL. 41 Florida State vs. Virginia Tech, 2005LEAST PASS YARDS ALL. 91 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009LEAST TOTAL YARDS ALL. 272 Wake Forest vs. Georgia Tech, 2006MOST INTERCEPTIONS 2 Virginia Tech vs. Boston College, 2007, 2008; Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009MOST TURNOVERS FORCED 4 Virginia Tech vs Boston College, 2008MOST PENALTIES 17 Virginia Tech vs. Florida State, 2005MOST PENALTY YARDS 143 Virginia Tech vs. Florida State (17), 2005TIME OF POSSESSION 37:17 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson, 2009ATTENDANCE 72,749 Virginia Tech vs. Florida State, 2005

WHAT GAME RECORDS WILL

FALL THIS YEAR?


INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME RECORDS

TOTAL OFFENSEPLAYS 69 Marcus Vick, VT (52 pass, 17 rush) vs. FSU, 2005YARDS 346 Marcus Vick, VT (335 pass, 11 rush) vs. FSU, 2005AVG/PLAY 6.3 Joshua Nesbitt, GT (38 for 239) vs. CL, 2009 (minimum 10 plays)TDR (TIE) 3 Sean Glennon, VT (3 pass) vs. BC, 2007 Marcus Vick, VT (2 rush, 1 pass) vs. FSU, 2005

RUSHINGCARRIES 31 Darren Evans, VT (114 yards) vs. BC, 2008YARDS 233 C.J. Spiller, CL (20 rushes) vs. GT, 2009AVERAGE 11.65 C.J. Spiller, CL (20 for 233) vs. GT, 2009 (minimum 10 carries)LONG RUN 54 C.J. Spiller, CL vs. GT, 2009

ALL-PURPOSE YARDS 301 Willie Reid, FSU (79 receiving, 98 PR, 33 KR) vs. VT, 2006

PASSINGATTEMPTS 52 Matt Ryan, BC (33 completions, 305 yards) vs. VT, 2007 Marcus Vick, VT (26 completions, 335 yards) vs. FSU, 2006COMPLETIONS 33 Matt Ryan, BC (52 attempts, 305 yards) vs. VT, 2007CON. COMPLETIONS 8 Matt Ryan, BC (4th quarter) vs. VT, 2007COMP. % 66.6 Sean Glennon, VT (18 of 27) vs. BC, 2007YARDS 335 Marcus Vick, VT (26 of 52) vs. FSU, 2005TD PASSES 3 Sean Glennon, VT vs. BC, 2007INTERCEPTIONS 2 Matt Ryan, BC vs. VT, 2007 Reggie Ball, GT vs. WF, 2006 Dominique Davis, BC vs. VT, 2008 Kyle Parker, CL vs. GT, 2009LONG PASS 70 Joshua Nesbitt to Demaryius Thomas, GT vs. CL, 2009PASS EFF. 150.06 Sean Glennon, VT vs. BC, 2007 (Min. 20 attempts)

RECEIVINGREC. 13 Andre Callender, BC (92 yards) vs. VT, 2007YARDS 128 Josh Morgan, VT (7 receptions) vs. FSU, 2005AVERAGE 24.3 Willie Idelette, WF (3 receptions, 73 yards) vs. GT, 2006TDS 1 Chris Davis, FSU vs. VT, 2005; Josh Morgan, VT vs. FSU, 2005; Josh Morgan, VT vs. BC, 2007; Eddie Royal, VT vs. BC, 2007; Josh Hyman, VT vs. BC, 2007; Rich Gunnell, BC vs. VT, 2008; Demaryius Thomas, GT vs. CL, 2009

SCORINGPOINTS 24 C.J. Spiller, CL (4 TDs), vs. GT, 2009TD 4 C.J. Spiller, CL vs. GT, 2009FG ATTEMPTS 4 Sam Swank, WF (3 made) vs. GT,2006; 4 Scott Blair, GT (4 made) vs. CL, 2009FGS MADE 4 Scott Blair, GT (4 attempts) vs. CL, 2009LONG FG 50 Dustin Keys, VT vs. BC, 2008.PAT ATTEMPTS 4 Jud Dunlevy, VT (4 made) vs. BC, 2007; 4 Dustin Keys, VT (3 made) vs. BC, 2008; 4 Richard Jackson, CL (4 made) vs. GT, 2009. PAT MADE 4 Jud Dunlevy, VT (4 attempted) vs. BC, 2007; 4 Richard Jackson, CL (4 attempted) vs. GT, 2009POINTS/KICKING 15 Scott Blair, GT (4 FGs, 3 PATs) vs. CL, 2009

PUNTINGPUNTS 8 Chris Hall, FSU (340 yards) vs. VT, 2005YARDS 340 Chris Hall, FSU (8 punts) vs. VT, 2005PUNT AVERAGE 50.0 Durant Brooks, GT (5 punts, 250 yards) vs. WF,2006 (min. 5 punts)LONG PUNT 61 Durant Brooks, GT vs. WF, 2006

PUNT RETURNSPR 4 Eddie Royal, VT (23 yards) vs. FSU, 2005YARDS 98 Willie Reid, FSU (3 returns) vs. VT, 2005AVERAGE 32.7 Willie Reid, FSU (3 ret., 98 yards) vs. VT, 2006LONG 83 Willie Reid, FSU vs. VT, 2005

KICKOFF RETURNSKICKOFF RETURNS 6 Orwin Smith, GT (117 yards) vs. CL, 2009YARDS 117 Orwin Smith, GT (6 returns) vs. CL, 2009AVERAGE 30.5 Alphonso Smith, WF (2 returns, 61 yards) vs. GT, 2006LONG 31 Eddie Royal, VT vs. FSU, 2005

INTERCEPTIONSINTERCEPTIONS 1 Pat Watkins, FSU vs. VT (0 yds), 2005; Aaron Curry, WF vs. GT (30 yds), 2006; Riley Swanson, WF vs. GT (0 yds), 2006; Vince Hall, VT vs. BC(6 yards), 2007; Xavier Adibi, VT vs. BC (40 yds), 2007; Jamie Silva, BC vs. VT (0 yds), 2007; Stephan Virgil, VT vs. BC, 2008; Brett Warren VT vs. BC, 2008; Paul Anderson, BC vs. VT, 2008; Jerrard Tarrent, GT vs. CL (50 yds), 2009; Dominique Reese, GT vs. CL (0 yds), 2009YARDS RETURN 50 Jerrard Tarrent, GT vs. CL, 2009; TD 1 Xavier Adibi, VT vs. BC (40 yards), 2007LONG RETURN 40 Xavier Adibi, VT vs. BC, 2007

FUMBLESLONG RETURN 50 Jerrard Tarrent, GT vs. CL, 2009;RETURN/TD 1 Jamie Silva, BC vs. VT (51 yards), 2007; Orion Martin, VT vs . BC (17 yards), 2008

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The Queen City has rolled out the

red carpet on numerous occasions

during the last 57 years, including

hosting bowl games, dozens of

NCAA and ACC basketball tournaments,

and several of the league’s golf

championships.

The ACC and area sports fans are now

looking forward to the Dr Pepper ACC

Football Championship Game, which will

be played at Bank of America Stadium in

2010 and 2011.

It’s the fi rst time Charlotte will host the

ACC title game since its inception four

seasons ago. The previous title games were

staged in Florida in the cities of Jacksonville

and Tampa Bay.

“Bank of America Stadium has housed

the Panthers for over a decade and will be a

great setting for our teams and fans,” said

ACC Commissioner John Swofford.

“Charlotte is within a 300-mile radius of

eight of our conference schools and also has

a fi rst class airport that offers many travel

options. In addition, the Uptown area has

impressive hotel, dining and attraction

THE QUEEN CITY AND THE ACCCharlotte is no stranger to hosting Atlantic Coast Conference Championships, or other big games involving conference schools.

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options for everyone.”

Later this month, Bank of America

Stadium will also host the Meineke Car

Care Bowl, which features the ACC against

the Big East Conference. The bowl game has

averaged 60,000 fans in its fi rst eight years

and has had three sellouts since its inception.

The fi rst was played in December 2002

with Virginia beating West Virginia 48-22.

Other ACC schools to have played in the

game in Charlotte include North Carolina,

NC State, Boston College and Wake Forest.

The city of Charlotte has seen its share of

ACC title winners throughout the years –

and historic events.

The fi rst time the ACC men’s basketball

tournament was played in Charlotte it was

without a shot clock, producing a game that

would forever change the sport.

During the 1968 semifi nals, NC State beat

Duke 12-10 in the lowest scoring game in

tournament history.

Duke coach Vic Bubas did not want to

play NC State man-to-man and sat back in

a zone. In a cat-and-mouse matchup,

Wolfpack coach Norm Sloan countered by

not attacking on offense as the game slowed

to a glacial pace. The score was 4-2 at

halftime.

Charlotte has played host to the men’s

tournament 11 times, while the ACC

Women’s Basketball Tournament was

played in Charlotte four times in the late

1990s.

In addition, ACC teams have a long

history of success in Charlotte in the NCAA

Tournament. The city has hosted NCAA

basketball 20 times, dating to 1958. That

includes the 1994 Final Four, in which Duke

and senior Grant Hill were gunning for

their third championship in four seasons,

but fell to Arkansas in the title game 76-72.

The Charlotte Coliseum also hosted the

popular North-South Doubleheaders in

men’s basketball starting in the 1960s. The

winter mainstay ran for 27 consecutive

years, and once the North-South ended,

North Carolina and NC State alternated

playing host to the Diet Pepsi Tournament

of Champions for several seasons beginning

in 1988.

Meanwhile, Duke won the ACC Women’s

Golf Championships at Carmel Country

Club in 2005 and ’07, going on to win

national titles each of those seasons. The ’05

ACC crown was the 15th championship

captured by coach Dan Brooks.

“The City of Charlotte has been a

longtime partner of the Atlantic Coast

Conference and we appreciate the

excitement that continues to be generated

for our teams,” Swofford said. “Over the

years, Charlotte has done a terrifi c job

hosting events and our league has benefi ted

from the success of the annual bowl games

and postseason basketball tournaments.”

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ATLANTIC DIVISION FOUNDED 1863 ENROLLMENT 14,500 HOME CHESTNUT HILL, MASS

HOME FIELD ALUMNI STADIUM CAPACITY 44,500 NICKNAME EAGLES

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BOSTON COLLEGE was founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus to serve the sons of Boston’s Irish immigrants and was the fi rst institution of higher education to be founded in the city of Boston. Originally located on Harrison Avenue in the South End of Boston, the College outgrew its urban setting toward the end of its fi rst 50 years. A new location was selected in Chestnut Hill and ground for the new campus was broken on June 19, 1909. During the 1940s, new purchases doubled the size of the main campus. In 1974, Boston College acquired Newton College of the Sacred Heart, 1.5 miles away. With 15 buildings on 40 acres, it is now the site of the Law School and residence halls. In 2004, Boston College purchased 43 acres of land from the archdiocese of Boston; this now forms the Brighton campus.

REV. WILLIAM P. LEAHYPRESIDENT

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ATLANTIC DIVISION FOUNDED 1889 ENROLLMENT 18,317 HOME CLEMSON, SC

HOME FIELD MEMORIAL STADIUM CAPACITY 81,500 NICKNAME TIGERS

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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in South Carolina near the Georgia border, and the tiger paws painted on the roads make the return to I-85 easier. The school is built around Fort Hill, the plantation home of John C. Calhoun, Vice President to Andrew Jackson. His son-in-law, Thomas Clemson, left the land to be used as an agricultural school, and in 1893 Clemson opened its doors as a land grant school, thanks to the eff orts of Ben Tillman.

JAMES F. BARKERPRESIDENT

LARRY LAFORGEFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

TERRY DON PHILLIPSATHLETICS DIRECTOR

DABO SWINNEYHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

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COASTAL DIVISION FOUNDED 1838 ENROLLMENT 6,340 HOME DURHAM, NC

HOME FIELD WALLACE WADE STADIUM CAPACITY 33,941 NICKNAME BLUE DEVILS

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DUKE UNIVERSITY was founded in 1924 by tobacco magnate James B. Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. Originally the school was called Trinity College, a Methodist institution, started in 1859. In 1892, Trinity moved to west Durham where the east campus with its Georgian architecture now stands. Nearby are Sarah P. Duke gardens, and further west the Gothic spires of Duke chapel overlook the west campus.

RICHARD H. BRODHEADPRESIDENT

MARTHA PUTALLAZFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

KEVIN WHITEATHLETICS DIRECTOR

DAVID CUTCLIFFEHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

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Succeeding at the highest level.

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salutes its Official Corporate Partners: AT&T, BB&T, Food Lion, Gatorade,

Geico, Havoline, Pepsi, Progress Energy, and Toyota. These partnerships

support ACC Championship events, provide student-athletes with scholarship

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ATLANTIC DIVISION FOUNDED 1851 ENROLLMENT 38,886 HOME TALLAHASSEE, FL

HOME FIELD BOBBY BOWDEN FIELD AT DOAK S. CAMPBELL STADIUM CAPACITY 83,000 NICKNAME SEMINOLES

FLORIDASTATEFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY is one of 11 universities of the State University System of Florida. It was established as the Seminary West of the Suwannee by an act of the Florida Legislature in 1851, and fi rst off ered instruction at the post-secondary level in 1857. Its Tallahassee campus has been the site of an institution of higher education longer than any other site in the state. In 1905, the Buckman Act reorganized higher education in the state and designated the Tallahassee school as the Florida Female College. In 1909, it was renamed Florida State College for Women. In 1947, the school returned to a co-educational status, and the name was changed to Florida State University.

DR. ERIC BARRONPRESIDENT

JOSEPH C. BECKHAMFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

RANDY SPETMANATHLETICS DIRECTOR

JIMBO FISHERHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

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COASTAL DIVISION FOUNDED 1885 ENROLLMENT 19,393 HOME ATLANTA, GA

HOME FIELD BOBBY DODD STADIUM AT HISTORIC GRANT FIELD CAPACITY 55,000 NICKNAME YELLOW JACKETS

GEORGIATECHNext to I-85 in downtown Atlanta stands GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, founded in 1885. Its fi rst students came to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering, the only one off ered at the time. Tech’s strength is not only the red clay of Georgia, but a restored gold and white 1930 model A Ford Cabriolet, the offi cial mascot. The old Ford was fi rst used in 1961, but a Ramblin’ Wreck had been around for over three decades. The Ramblin’ Wreck fi ght song appeared almost as soon as the school opened, and it is not only American boys that grow up singing its rollicking tune, for Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev sang it when they met in Moscow in 1959.

G.P. “BUD” PETERSONPRESIDENT

SUE ANN BIDSTRUP ALLENFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

DAN RADAKOVICHATHLETICS DIRECTOR

PAUL JOHNSONHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

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ATLANTIC DIVISION FOUNDED 1856 ENROLLMENT 36,014 HOME COLLEGE PARK, MD

HOME FIELD CAPITAL ONE FIELD AT BYRD STADIUM CAPACITY 54,000 NICKNAME TERRAPINS

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND opened in 1856 as an agricultural school nine miles north of Washington, D.C., on land belonging to Charles Calvert, a descendant of Lord Baltimore, the state’s founding father. The school colors are the same as the state fl ag: black and gold for George Calvert (Lord Baltimore) and red and white for his mother, Alice Crossland. Maryland has been called the school that Curley Byrd built, for he was its quarterback, then football coach, athletic director, assistant to the president, vice-president, and fi nally its president. Byrd also designed the football stadium and the campus layout, and suggested the nickname Terrapin, a local turtle known for its bite, when students wanted to replace the nickname Old Liners with a new one for the school.

WALLACE D. LOHPRESIDENT

CHARLES WELLFORDFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

KEVIN ANDERSONATHLETICS DIRECTOR

RALPH FRIEDGENHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

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COASTAL DIVISION FOUNDED 1925 ENROLLMENT 15,520 HOME MIAMI, FL

HOME FIELD SUN LIFE STADIUM CAPACITY 74,424 NICKNAME HURRICANES

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI was chartered in 1925 by a group of citizens who felt an institution of higher learning was needed for the development of their young and growing community. Since the fi rst class of 560 students enrolled in the fall of 1926, the University has expanded to more than 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students from every state and more than 114 nations from around the world. The school’s colors, representive of the Florida orange tree, were selected in 1926. Orange symbolizes the fruit of the tree, green represents the leaves and white, the blossoms.

DONNA E. SHALALAPRESIDENT

CLYDE B. MCCOYFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

KIRBY HOCUTTATHLETICS DIRECTOR

JEFF STOUTLANDINTERIM HEAD COACH

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COASTAL DIVISION FOUNDED 1789 ENROLLMENT 17,895 HOME CHAPEL HILL, NC

HOME FIELD KENAN STADIUM CAPACITY 60,000 NICKNAME TAR HEELS

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34343434343434343434343434THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, located in Chapel Hill, has been called “the perfect college town,” making its tree-lined streets and balmy atmosphere what a college should look and feel like. Its inception in 1795 makes it one of the oldest schools in the nation, and its nickname of Tar Heels stems from the tar pitch and turpentine that were the state’s principal industry. The nickname is as old as the school, for it was born during the Revolutionary War when tar was dumped into the streams to impede the advance of British forces.

HOLDEN THORPPRESIDENT

LISSA BROOMEFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

DICK BADDOURATHLETICS DIRECTOR

BUTCH DAVISHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

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ATLANTIC DIVISION FOUNDED 1887 ENROLLMENT 33,815 HOME RALEIGH, NC

HOME FIELD CARTER-FINLEY STADIUM CAPACITY 57,583 NICKNAME WOLFPACK

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NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY is located in the state capital of Raleigh. It opened in 1889 as a land-grant agricultural and mechanical school and was known as A&M or Aggies or Farmers for over a quarter-century. The school’s colors of pink and blue were gone by 1895, brown and white were tried for a year, but the students fi nally chose red and white to represent the school. An unhappy fan in 1922 said NC State football players behaved like a pack of wolves, and the term that was coined in derision became a badge of honor.

RANDY WOODSONCHANCELLOR

SAM PARDUEFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

DEBORAH A. YOWATHLETICS DIRECTOR

TOM O’BRIENHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

NC STATEWhere do tomorrow’s engineers go to learn how to drive the global economy? NC State.

Locally responsive.Globally engaged.

Learn how our leadership in the fields of engineering and technology improves our state and the world at ncsu.edu.

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COASTAL DIVISION FOUNDED 1819 ENROLLMENT 21,057 HOME CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

HOME FIELD SCOTT STADIUM CAPACITY 61,500 NICKNAME CAVALIERS

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THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jeff erson and is one of three things on his tombstone for which he wanted to be remembered. James Madison and James Monroe were on the board of governors in the early years. The Rotunda, a half-scale version of the Pantheon which faces the Lawn, is the focal point of “the Grounds” as the campus is called. Jeff erson wanted his school to educate leaders in practical aff airs and public service, not just to train teachers.

DR. TERESA A. SULLIVANPRESIDENT

CAROLYN M. CALLAHANFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

CRAIG K. LITTLEPAGEATHLETICS DIRECTOR

MIKE LONDONHEAD FOOTBALL COACH


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COASTAL DIVISION FOUNDED 1872 ENROLLMENT 30,000 HOME BLACKSBURG, VA

HOME FIELD LANE STADIUM/WORSHAM FIELD CAPACITY 66,233 NICKNAME HOKIES

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VIRGINIA TECH was established in 1872 as an all-male military school dedicated to the original land-grant mission of teaching agriculture and engineering. The University has grown from a small college of 132 students into the largest institution of higher education in the state during its 138-year history. Located in Southwest Virginia on a plateau between the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains, the campus consists of 125 buildings and 20 miles of sidewalks over 2,600 acres. The offi cial school colors — Chicago maroon and burnt orange — were selected in 1896 because they made a “unique combination” not worn elsewhere at the time.

CHARLES. W. STEGERPRESIDENT

LARRY KILLOUGHFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

JIM WEAVERATHLETICS DIRECTOR

FRANK BEAMERHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

With a research portfolio nearing $400 million, Virginia Tech is more than just Virginia’s leading research university.

We are an economic engine that is fueling growth throughout the commonwealth. For example, Virginia Tech,

the University of Virginia, and Rolls-Royce have partnered to create the Commonwealth Center for Advanced

Manufacturing (CCAM), a center dedicated to applied research in manufacturing technologies, surface engineering,

and other areas. That’s ingenuity. It will border the Rolls-Royce Crosspointe manufacturing campus under

development in Prince George County, where the company will invest $500 million in the next few years. And that’s

impact. Providing research power, intellectual capital, and job creation, Virginia Tech is a catalyst of growth

and innovation, and a resource to help businesses be more competitive.

To learn more, visit www.vt.edu/impact.

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ATLANTIC DIVISION FOUNDED 1834 ENROLLMENT 4,476 HOME WINSTON-SALEM, NC

HOME FIELD BB&T FIELD CAPACITY 31,500 NICKNAME DEMON DEACONS

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WAKEFOREST 111111111111111111111111111111WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY was started on Calvin Jones’ plantation amid the stately pine forest of Wake County in 1834. The Baptist seminary is still there, but the school was moved to Winston-Salem in 1956 on a site donated by Charles H. and Mary Reynolds Babcock. President Harry S. Truman attended the ground-breaking ceremonies that brought a picturesque campus of Georgian architecture and painted roofs. Wake’s colors have been black and gold since 1895, thanks to a badge designed by student John Heck who died before he graduated.

NATHAN O. HATCHPRESIDENT

RICHARD CARMICHAELFACULTY REPRESENTATIVE

RON WELLMANATHLETICS DIRECTOR

JIM GROBEHEAD FOOTBALL COACH

T H E W A K E F O R E S T M B A . A V A I L A B L E I N C H A R L O T T E .

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t o w o r k w i t h t h e b u s y s c h e d u l e s o f s t u d e n t s w i t h f u l l - t i m e j o b s . T h e Wa k e F o re s t U n i v e r s i t y

S c h o o l s o f B u s i n e s s p ro g r a m s i n C h a r l o t t e o f f e r y o u b o t h t h e a b i l i t y t o e a r n y o u r M B A a s a

w o r k i n g p ro f e s s i o n a l , a n d t h e n a t i o n a l p re s t i g e y o u n e e d t o s t a n d o u t i n t h i s h i g h l y c o m p e t i t i v e

j o b m a r k e t . R e c e n t l y, U S N e w s & Wo r l d R e p o r t r a n k e d o u r p a r t - t i m e M B A p ro g r a m a s t h e t o p

p ro g r a m o f i t s k i n d i n N C , a n d i n t h e t o p 1 0 % n a t i o n w i d e .

Whether hitting the fast lane at the NASCAR Hall of Fame or teeing off from one of 40 perfectly manicured public golf courses, there’s never been a better time to visit. The nationally-acclaimed U.S. National Whitewater encourages adventure seekers to try their hand at the class III-IV rapids, 11 miles of trails, climbing walls, ropes courses and more. Meanwhile, special events throughout the year embrace everything from symphony concertos paired with salsa-dancing to the fruits of labor from regional wine producers.

Proving that NASCAR’s past, present and future are as colorful as the sport’s logo-emblazoned stock cars, the 150,000 sq. ft. NASCAR Hall of Fame boasts interactive exhibits, a 278-seat Belk High Octane Theater, over 40,000 square feet of monumental

memorabilia from the sport’s illustrious history, celebrated cars from famous drivers along Glory Road, and much more. The high-tech venue, designed to educate and entertain race fans and non-fans alike, includes artifacts, interactive exhibits, Hall of Honor, Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant, Sports Avenue retail outlet and NASCAR Media Group-operated broadcast studio.Get swept away in the ultimate home to honor the sports heroes with racing simulators that put you in the driver’s seat, pit crew experiences, and so much more showcasing the excitement of NASCAR.

For foodies, Charlotte is home to culinary leader Johnson & Wales University, which has had a fl avorful impact on the city’s burgeoning dining scene. City staples range from Mert’s Heart and Soul touting

Never before seen masterpieces on display at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, exquisite entrees from world-renowned chefs at new restaurants, and a shrine for NASCAR’s legends are among the debuts the city is welcoming. You’ll fi nd a lot to your liking in the Queen City…not to mention plenty of Southern comforts along the way.

unforgettable Southern fried suppers to a new “farm-to-fork” bistro called King’s Kitchen, a not-for-profi t employing and training those in need. Meanwhile upscale options fuse fl avors that crisscross the globe like the sophisticated small plates at Mez or the new Asian concept Kalu featuring tastes from Korea, China, and Japan. As for nightlife, venues with everything from boisterous rockabilly tunes to sophisticated wine lists are sure to have a night out with you in mind. Don’t miss the after-fi ve happenings at The EpiCentre and NC Music Factory. More than a dozen dining and nightlife options at each of these destinations make them the hottest places to see and be seen.

With a community so rich in captivating culture, colorful cityscapes and cosmopolitan character, the thriving quality of life here is abundantly clear. Find out more about Charlotte by calling 1-800-231-4636 or visiting to charlottesgotalot.com.

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BOBBY DODD STADIUM AT HISTORIC GRANT FIELD

Built in 1913 by members of the student body, it was named Grant Field after a gift from a member of the Board of Trustees. In April 1988, it was offi cially named Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field in honor of the legendary coach. It is the oldest on-campus facility in Division I-A. In 2003, a $75 million expansion project at the stadium increased the seating capacity to 55,000. Tech has won more games in its current stadium than any team in college football.

WALLACE WADE STADIUM Known as Duke Stadium when it opened on October 5, 1929, it was renamed Wallace Wade Stadium in 1967 for its legendary coach. The stadium is a part of college football lore—it’s the only facility outside of Pasadena, Calif., to host the Rose Bowl. The stadium’s current capacity is nearly 34,000.

ALUMNI STADIUM Built originally for $275,000, Alumni Stadium opened on September 26, 1957, with an original seating capacity of 26,000. The stadium accommodates 44,500 fans. Alumni Stadium is unique in that it connects with Conte Forum, home of the BC basketball and ice hockey teams.

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CAPITAL ONE FIELD AT BYRD STADIUM, nestled in the corner of the Universi-ty of Maryland’s campus, has been home to the Terps for over half a century, but remains in state-of-the-art form. The recently completed $50.8 million upgrade to Byrd began in 2007 and included the expansion of Tyser Tower. There were 64 suites added to the structure, as well as close to 500 mezza-nine seats and a University suite for 200 guests. In addition, the expansion, which was completed prior to the 2009 season, included a state-of-the-art scoreboard and increased the stadium’s capacity to 54,000.”

BOBBY BOWDEN FIELD AT DOAK S. CAMPBELL STADIUM

Opened on October 7, 1950, the stadium is named for the former FSU president; the playing fi eld is named for the legendary coach Bobby Bowden. Original capacity of the stadium was 15,000. Fourteen expansions later, Campbell Stadium holds more than 83,000 fans.

MEMORIAL STADIUM Clemson’s Memorial Stadium opened in 1942 and is currently the 14th largest on-campus facility in the country. It was built originally for $125,000 with a seating capacity of 20,000. Known as one of the loudest stadiums in the world, more than 80,000 fans attending a 2005 Miami Hurricanes-Clemson matchup hit 126 decibels, louder than a jet engine at takeoff .


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LANE STADIUM / WORSHAM FIELD Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium/ Worsham Field is named for university benefactors Edward H. Lane and Wes and Janet Worsham. The stadium opened in 1965, but was not fully fi nished until four years later. More than $85 million has been spent on improvements and expansions to Lane Stadium in the last nine years.

CARTER-FINLEY STADIUM Jointly named for textiles executives Harry and Nick Carter, along with Raleigh philanthropist A.E. Finley, the stadium was built for $3.7 million and opened in 1966 on land donated by the N.C. Department of Agriculture. Today, Carter-Finley boasts a seating capacity of 57,583 and continues to invest in the facility, including the recent opening of Vaughn Towers.

SUN LIFE STADIUM Sun Life Stadium is home to not only the Miami Hur-ricanes but also the Miami Dolphins. The stadium has been host to the 2009 BCS National Championship Game and the 2010 Super Bowl, and will continue to host the Discover Orange Bowl. Sun Life Stadium boasts one of the largest hi-defi nition video boards in professional sports and the world’s longest LED ribbon display. It was opened in 1987 and currently has a 72,424 seating capacity for ‘Canes games.”

A N T I C C O A S T C O N F E R E N C E

BB&T FIELD Groves Stadium took a new name—BB&T Field—in the fall of 2007, only months after the Demon Deacons became the smallest school to participate in the Bowl Championship Series. BB&T Field opened in 1968 after a $1.5 million investment in its construction. Deacon Tower houses a new press box and luxury suites as well as an improved grandstand.

SCOTT STADIUM Built in 1931 with an original capacity of 25,000, The Carl Smith Center and David A. Harrison, III, Field at Scott Stadium is the oldest Division I football stadium in the state. Its name refl ects the three major benefactors behind its construction. A donation in 1995 for grass to be reinstalled on the fi eld allowed the team’s Cavalier mascot to once again ride into the stadium.

KENAN STADIUM Named for Carolina alumnus and benefactor Frank H. Kenan, the circa 1927 Kenan Stadium is considered one of the most beautiful college football stadiums in the country. The original seating capacity of 24,000 has grown to 60,000 over the last 80 years. The latest change to Kenan is a $70 million renovation of the west end zone to include the Carolina Student-Athlete Center For Excellence and premium seating options.

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LARRY

HOPKINS WAKE FOREST

STEVE

FULLER CLEMSON

TONY

THURMAN BOSTON COLLEGE

PETER

BOULWARE FLORIDA STATE

RANDY

RHINO GEORGIA TECH

JAY

WILKINSON DUKE

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The group of 12 former gridiron

standouts includes fi ve former

players who earned recognition as

an ACC Player of the Year honors,

three members of the ACC’s

prestigious 50th Anniversary

Football Team, a former NFL

Defensive Player of the Year

and NFL Defensive Rookie of the

Year, eight former All-Americas

including four consensus

All-Americas, eight players

who combined for 58 years of

professional football experience

and eight who were drafted into

the National Football League,

including fi ve fi rst-round picks.


















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BROWN VIRGINIA TECH

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BROWNNC STATE

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HORTON NORTH CAROLINA

OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE

Former Boston College safety Tony Thurman has

plenty of reasons to look forward to this year’s ACC

football championship weekend. Maybe the biggest

of all is close to home.

“Probably it’s bringing my family, because they never

really experienced and they don’t know about my time

playing football,” Thurman said. “Just introducing

them to that type of atmosphere will be great.”

He certainly has a remarkable history to share

with them.

Thurman was a consensus All-America pick as a senior

in 1984, when he led the Eagles to a 10-2 fi nish and a

rout of Houston in the Cotton Bowl.

It was Boston College’s fi rst bowl victory since the

1941 Sugar Bowl, capping a season in which Thurman’s

play helped the Eagles pull off road upsets of Alabama

and Miami. Boston College completed the season ranked

No. 5 in The Associated Press poll, matching the school’s

highest fi nal ranking.

Thurman had a school-record 12 interceptions

that season, and also established a career mark of

25 interceptions – fourth-best in NCAA history. He

twice had three interceptions in a game — in 1982

against Holy Cross and at Alabama in ‘84.

Thurman also holds the school record for career

interception return yards (335).


THURMANLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE

WHAT WAS YOUR GREATEST

ATHLETIC MOMENT IN COLLEGE?

Probably being named a consensus All-American in 1984.

OTHER THAN YOUR HOME FIELD, WHAT WAS

YOUR FAVORITE ROAD VENUE AND WHY?

Going down to play against the University of Alabama. It was a hostile crowd, we won the game and I had three interceptions.

WHAT OPPOSING PLAYER DID YOU

RESPECT THE MOST DURING YOUR

COLLEGE PLAYING DAYS AND WHY?

Bernie Kosar. He was a talented quarterback to say the least. He was very crafty back there. I was a safety leading the nation in interceptions, and he did a good job of looking me off .

WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW AND

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I’m a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the Justice Department, living in Lynn, Mass.

TONY THURMAN / DEFENSIVE BACK / BOSTON COLLEGE / 1981-85 / LYNN, MASS

BY THE NUMBERS

3INTERCEPTIONS COMPLTED

IN A SINGLE GAME(SCHOOL RECORD)

12INTERCEPTIONS COMPLETED

IN SINGLE SEASON (’84)

25CAREER INTERCEPTIONS

(FOURTH-BEST IN NCAA HISTORY)

Follow your team wherever you are.

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Generations of quarterbacks in pass-happy systems have passed Steve Fuller on

various statistical lists in ACC history. In one category, the former Clemson QB

stands alone. Fuller is still the only ACC quarterback to play for the winning team

in a Super Bowl while playing for one of the most acclaimed club in history, the 1985

Chicago Bears. His champion’s ring is a reminder of a career-capping achievement.

“That has always been a source of great pride for me,” Fuller said.

More than 30 years after he graduated, Fuller remains fourth on Clemson’s career

total offense list and sixth in passing yardage. His total of 1,737 rushing yards is the

seventh-highest by an ACC quarterback.

Fuller fi nished sixth in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1978 – he tied with

another 2010 ACC Legend, NC State’s Ted Brown – and held every major Tiger

passing mark when he played his fi nal game. Successors in an era friendlier to the

pass have overtaken him, but nobody has shoved Fuller aside altogether.

Fuller is a two-time ACC Player of the Year, a distinction he shares with four others,

and he’s a member of the league’s 50th anniversary team.

Fuller led the Tigers to the 1978 ACC title, the school’s fi rst in 11 years, and earned

All-America honors on the fi eld and academically. He became a fi rst-round NFL draft

pick – he was taken 59 picks ahead of Joe Montana – and a starter in the league.

After the 1983 season, however, Fuller was unsure where his career was headed. He

had been on the Los Angeles Rams’ roster but didn’t get in a game. Shortly before

training camp in 1984, the Bears called.

In 1985, Fuller started fi ve games for the injured Jim McMahon.

The Bears went 4-1 in those contests, earning the wins by an average

of 27 points. The dominant defense, “Super Bowl

Shuffl e” and other side acts caught the public’s

attention, but Fuller, a native of Oklahoma who

grew up in Spartanburg, S.C., witnessed his career

highlight when he got into the fi nal stages of a 44-

10 defeat of the New England Patriots.

At this year’s Super Bowl, he reunited with his

teammates as they remade their shuffl ing video.

LEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



The 1977 South Carolina game, which a lot of people still think is the best game in a series that’s more than 100 years old. We came back and scored late to win it.

OTHER THAN YOUR HOME FIELD,

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE ROAD

VENUE AND WHY?

My two choices would be South Carolina or at Georgia. We didn’t necessarily have great success at Georgia, but it was fun.




I played against Randy White at Maryland for a year and Lawrence Taylor for a year. Also, Lloyd Burruss at Maryland. I had the chance to play with him in Kansas City, and Lloyd was always such a great player and nice guy.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Bluff ton, S.C. Real-estate development, building golf courses and then selling the land to developers.

FULLERSTEVE FULLER / QUARTERBACK / CLEMSON / 1975-78 / ENID, OKLA.

1,737RUSHING YARDS (SEVENTH-HIGHEST

BY AN ACC QUARTERBACK)

27CONSECUTIVE GAMES STARTED AT CLEMSON

2ACC PLAYER OF THE YEAR

AWARDS (’77 & ’78)

WH

AT

ThlotON / 1975-78 / ENID, OKLA.

BY THE NUMBERS


Jay Wilkinson grew up in Norman, Okla., where his

father Bud was the legendary coach at Oklahoma.

He easily could have remained. Instead, he

branched out to attend Duke, where he eventually

played on ACC championship teams in 1961 and 1962,

and earned the ACC’s player of the year honor in 1963.

Overall, the Blue Devils were 20-9-1 in Wilkinson’s

three seasons.

“It was a marvelous experience to have the opportunity

to go to Duke,” Wilkinson said.

While in Durham, Wilkinson played running back for

the Blue Devils. As a senior, he scored 12 touchdowns

(then a Duke record), fi nishing second in the ACC in

rushing yards and earning fi rst-team All-America

honors from multiple outlets. He also fi nished ninth in

the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1963.

He did more than just carry the ball. Wilkinson

returned three punts for touchdowns in his career and

had 160 punt return yards in a 1961 game against N.C.

State. Both remain school records, and his 761 career

punt return yards ranks second in Duke history.

Now semi-retired, Wilkinson is spending time

crisscrossing the country to visit his four children and

their families, as well as work on a book that will include

letters he received from his father during his college

career. He’s also grateful for the chance to be part of this

year’s ACC Legends class.

“I feel very honored to be part of the group,” Wilkinson

said. “I have great admiration for the ACC and certainly

for the Duke tradition. I knew all the other players that

had been honored before me. I just consider it a very

special privilege to be a part of that group.”

WILKINSONLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



I’ve always been taught football is a team sport. I was very proud of that fact. I didn’t play as a freshman, but my fi rst three years we won the ACC all three years.



Grant Field in Atlanta. I always felt it had a special atmosphere and kind of a spirit to it.




My senior year, the year [Navy’s] Roger Staubach won the Heisman, he had a great game at Duke. I remember watching the fi lm and I just didn’t think he’d do to us what he did to the other teams. He was so very consistent.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Oklahoma City. For the last 35 years, I’ve been an executive manager for retirement programs, but am now semi-retired.

kinson grew up in Norman, Okla., where his

Bud was the legendary coach at Oklahoma.

asily could have remained. Instead, he

ut to attend Duke, where he eventually

CC championship teams in 1961 and 1962,

the ACC’s player of the year honor in 1963.

he Blue Devils were 20-9-1 in Wilkinson’s

ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



BY THE NUMBERS

2PUNT RETURNS FOR A TOUCHDOWN

IN A SINGLE GAME (DUKE RECORD)

3PUNT RETURNS FOR

TOUCHDOWN IN A SEASON

(DUKE RECORD)

160PUNT RETURN

IN A SINGLE GAME (DUKE RECORD)

JAY WILKINSON / HALFBACK / DUKE / 1961-63 / NORMAN, OKLA.

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BOULWARELEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE


ATHLETIC MOMENT?

Winning a World Championship with Baltimore Ravens.


WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE

ROAD VENUE AND WHY?

Clemson. It was fun playing in South Carolina, the state that I’m from. I grew up watching a lot of Clemson games. Pro Tennessee Titans. Great city, great stadium, and great fans.

WHAT OPPOSING PLAYER DID

YOU RESPECT THE MOST

DURING YOUR COLLEGE

PLAYING DAYS AND WHY?

Danny Wuerff el. A very good player and a great man of faith.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I live in Tallahassee Florida. I’m married with four children. Owner of Legacy Toyota.

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PETER BOULWARE / DEFENSIVE END / FLORIDA STATE / 1994-96 / COLUMBIA, S.C.

BY THE NUMBERS

19SINGLE SEASON

QUARTERBACK SACKS

34CAREER SACKS

(SECOND MOST IN FSU HISTORY)

70SACKS OVER NINE SEASONS,

A RAVENS FRANCHISE RECORD AT THE TIME

Only policy could keep Peter Boulware out of the NCAA record books.

The organization didn’t track quarterback sacks as an offi cial, historically

archived statistic until 2000, and that explains why Boulware, who lit up

Florida State opponents from 1994-96.

In his fi nal ACC season, Boulware amassed 19 sacks. Nobody got more than

17.5 before Boulware’s 1996 campaign, and nobody has accrued more than 16

since. (The ACC began tracking sacks in 1978.)

And there’s more to Boulware’s sack total than the number. Six of FSU’s

conference wins that season were by 31 or more points, and the margins often

gave the starters considerable time off in the second half. In that era, coach

Bobby Bowden was fond of saying he tried to combine that season’s victories

with the following year’s preparation.

Boulware was among the fi rst prominent national prospects to choose FSU

in its ACC era. In another time, he might have picked one of his home state’s

major programs — Clemson or South Carolina — but the Seminoles’

migration from independence to the ACC gave the program an entrée into

new recruiting turf.

In the spring of 1997, the Baltimore Ravens were starting to piece together a

defense, and they made Boulware the fourth overall pick of the NFL Draft.

They fi gured he’d work just fi ne with their top choice of the previous season,

linebacker Ray Lewis, and they were right. (In the sixth round of that 1997

draft, the Ravens chose another 2010 ACC Legend, Virginia Tech linebacker

Cornell Brown.)

Over nine seasons, Boulware recorded 70 sacks, a franchise record at the

time, and he was an important part of one the best defenses in NFL history. In

2000, the Ravens allowed more than 14 points in only four of 20 games,

including a dominant run to the Super Bowl title. In the process, they returned

the championship ball to a city that helped the league grow from a fringe

entity to the unquestioned king of American pro sports.

Boulware got out of the game happy and healthy, and he now serves on the

Florida board of education and as vice president of a Toyota dealership in

Tallahassee. A year after his retirement from football, the Ravens placed him

in their Ring of Honor.

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As the name suggests, Randy Rhino was a hard-charging

sort who seldom met a punt return he didn’t like. His

combination of excellence in special teams and versatile

play in the secondary made him the fi rst – and still the only –

three-time, fi rst-team All-American in Georgia Tech history.

Rhino’s 14 career interceptions – eight coming in his

sophomore season — remains tied for second in the Yellow

Jacket record books. Perhaps more impressively, he racked

them up while switching positions – from cornerback as a

sophomore in 1972 to free safety the following year, and then

back to corner in ’74.

The native of Charlotte, N.C., was just as celebrated for

returning kickoffs and punts. In 1972, a few years before the

Yellow Jackets joined the ACC, Rhino led the nation by

averaging 17.6 yards per punt return. Only fi ve ACC players

have put up better single-season averages, and only six have

eclipsed his career average of 13.1.

Rhino says he was willing to make a fair catch, but he didn’t

particularly like the idea. Asked how he’d tweak the rulebook if

allowed, he said, “No fair catching. And give the guy a 5-yard

(free) radius.”

Cooler still, Randy Rhino’s records stood until his son Kelley

Rhino broke them from 1999-2002 as an all-ACC punt returner.

Randy Rhino’s brother, Danny Rhino, also played at Georgia

Tech from 1974-76, and father, Chappell Rhino, was also a Yellow

Jacket in the 1950s under legendary coach Bobby Dodd.

Randy Rhino was with the World Football League’s Charlotte

Hornets when the league folded in October 1975. He proceed to

a six-year career in the Canadian Football League, in which he

helped the 1977 Montreal Alouettes win the Grey Cup. Rhino

played in three CFL title games in all, and his total of 170 punt-

return yards in Grey Cups is still fourth in league history.

He left football at the top of his game, having earned all-league

honors in 1981, to become a chiropractor.

RHINOLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



It would have to be beating Georgia my senior year. It was raining in Athens and it was one of those bitter, cold, rainy days. I think we had a 28-point lead at halftime and that’s what everybody remembers: that the (Georgia) Redcoat Band left at halftime because it was so miserable.



VENUE AND WHY? We were independent back then and we went everywhere. We went to Michigan State and beat them when they had Brad Van Pelt and Billy Joe Dupree. We upset them in front of about 85,000. That was pretty special.




I played Tony Dorsett when he was a freshman at Pittsburgh. Missed about 10 tackles. I knew he was going to be pretty special.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I work at Georgia Tech, in the training room taking care of all of our student-athletes.

BY THE NUMBERS

14CAREER INTERCEPTIONS

13.1CAREER AVERAGE

YARDS PER PUNT RETURN

17.6YARDS PER PUNT RETURN,

WHICH LED THE NATION IN 1972

was a hard-charging

n he didn’t like. His

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BY THE NUMBERS

RANDY RHINO / DEFENSIVE BACK / GEORGIA TECH / 1972-74 / CHARLOTTE, N.C.

Darryl Hill played two seasons at Maryland, yet his greatest

victory arguably came simply by slipping on a Terrapin

uniform. Hill became the ACC’s fi rst African-American

football player in 1963 despite brushback from other parts of

the league.

“It was a long, hard fi ght,” Hill said. “The ACC was a segregated

conference, and some of the teams threatened to leave the

conference if I came to play. There was considerable resistance

to having blacks and whites on a sporting fi eld together, not

only in the ACC but also the other major Division I conferences

in the south — the SEC and the Southwest Conference. The

ACC was the fi rst to have an African-American player.”

Hill began his college career at Navy, where he was a

contemporary of Roger Staubach, a player he respected greatly.

But his experience at Wake Forest with Brian Piccolo, who

publicly supported him in the face of angry fans, stays with him

to this day.

“I was gratifi ed,” Hill said. “Every time ‘Brian’s Song’ comes

on, it brings a tear to my eye.” In the face of venomous comments,

Hill thrived in his two years in College Park, Md. He led the

Terrapins with 43 catches for 516 yards and seven touchdowns

while also averaging 24.4 yards on kickoff returns. He was

Maryland’s primary punt returner in 1963 and 1964.

Today, Hill falls back on a simple-but-effective slogan in his

motivational speaking: “Yes I can.” When it came to making a

difference in the ACC, Hill can confi dently say “Yes, I did.”

HILLLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



When I stepped foot on the fi eld and received the opening kickoff of the opening game against North Carolina State at College Park, Md. It was the fi rst time an African-American had ever played in a football game in the ACC.



VENUE AND WHY? None of them were my favorites. I can’t say I was feeling warm and fuzzy in any of the stadiums at the time. The players were fi ne. The fans were pretty aggressive and abusive.

WHAT OPPOSING PLAYER DID

YOU RESPECT THE MOST DURING

YOUR COLLEGE PLAYING

DAYS AND WHY?

While taking abuse during a trip, Wake Forest’s star running back comes over and puts his arm around my shoulder and turns toward the Wake Forest cheering section and that quieted everyone down. That was Brian Piccolo. That took a lot of courage at the time, to befriend an African-American publicly.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I was the director of major gifts at Maryland and I retired about a year ago. I am back in business and work with corporations on issues of diversity. I’m a speaker on issues of leadership and overcoming adversity, living in Columbia, Md.

DARRYL HILL / WIDE RECEIVER / MARYLAND / 1963-64 / WASHINGTON, D.C.

BY THE NUMBERS

7TOUCHDOWNS IN TWO YEARS

516YARDS COMPLETED

24.4AVERAGE YARDS ON

KICKOFF RETURNS IN 1964

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It can be easy to ignore the defensive tackle. Often stuck in the middle

of a two-ton pile of humanity, he derives his satisfaction and

compensation from things you can’t – and maybe shouldn’t – see.

So it’s fair to say Cortez Kennedy was a breakout player, an interior

lineman so profi cient at block-shedding that he couldn’t be missed. In an

11-year career spent entirely with the Seattle Seahawks, he earned his

place on the team’s Ring of Honor — a distinction supplemented by a

national championship ring with the University of Miami.

As a senior in 1989, Kennedy registered 22 tackles for loss in leading an

oppressive Hurricane defense to the championship. The total would rank

among the top 10 in ACC history if eligible for consideration. The

Hurricanes were independent in football at the time.

Kennedy wore No. 96 for Miami and the Seahawks, and he brought

considerable distinction to the jersey. In 2007, Sports Illustrated named

him the best athlete to wear No. 96 in any sport.

The Hurricanes’ emissary in the ACC Legends celebration, Kennedy has

come close to election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame but has fallen just

short of the necessary vote total. To some, this amounts to an exclusion.

Of the 28 defensive linemen enshrined in Canton, Ohio, 17 are ends and

11 played in the interior. The 4-3 defensive alignment has been more

common than the 3-4, so the numbers suggest ends are under-represented

in immortality.

Kennedy, who played in the NFL from 1990-2000, was named to the

NFL’s All-Decade Team of the 1990s. He was the league’s defensive MVP

in 1992 even though his Seahawks went 2-14. In the award’s 29-year

history, only four MVPs have played for losing teams, and none had to

overcome as many defi ciencies around him as Kennedy did.

Getting noticed in spite of the surroundings was a general theme of

Kennedy’s career. Kennedy grew up in Osceola, Ark., and had to start his

college career at Northwest Mississippi Junior College, a winding 90-mile

trek from home that parallels the Mississippi River.

But he got his shot when Miami called in recruiting and brought him

south. In two years, Kennedy grew into a menace that helped the Canes

claim the 1989 national title.

Eight Pro Bowls representing the Seahawks followed. Kennedy’s total

of 58 sacks is 12th among tackles in NFL history.

KENNEDYLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE

WHAT WAS YOUR

GREATEST ATHLETIC

MOMENT IN COLLEGE?

When we beat Notre Dame on our way to winning the National Championship at the Orange Bowl in 1989.

OTHER THAN YOUR

HOME FIELD, WHAT WAS

YOUR FAVORITE ROAD

VENUE AND WHY?

I was fi red up every time we played at Florida State.

WHAT OPPOSING PLAYER

DID YOU RESPECT THE MOST

DURING YOUR COLLEGE

PLAYING DAYS AND WHY?

Tim Grunhard, who was a heck of an off ensive guard for Notre Dame and went on to have a long career with the Kansas City Chiefs.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I’m currently living in Orlando where I’m raising my daughter. During training camp, I help out with the New Orleans Saints Defensive Line.

BY THE NUMBERS

22TACKLES FOR LOSS

96NAMED THE BEST ATHLETE EVER

TO WEAR THE NUMBER 96 BY SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

58SACKS WHILE PLAYING IN THE NFL

CORTEZ KENNEDY / DEFENSIVE TACKLE / MIAMI / 1988-89 / OSCEOLA, ARK.

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Ethan Horton went to North Carolina as a quarterback out

of Kannapolis, N.C. He left as one of the most accomplished

running backs in school history.

Horton was The Associated Press’ ACC player of the year in

1984 while rushing for 1,247 yards, and was twice a fi rst-team

all-conference selection, leading the Tar Heels to bowl

appearances in his fi rst three seasons.

He is tied for sixth on North Carolina’s career rushing list

with 3,074 yards. Only two Tar Heels in the last quarter-century

matched his career output.

Horton was especially strong in postseason games, rushing

for 144 yards in the Gator Bowl against Arkansas after the 1981

season and 119 yards against Texas in the 1982 Sun Bowl. He

had 17 100-yard games in his career, during which North

Carolina was 31-15-1.

Horton was a fi rst-round pick in the 1985 NFL Draft and

played with Kansas City, the Los Angeles Raiders and

Washington. He eventually switched positions — again — and

earned a Pro Bowl invitation as a tight end.

Since retiring from the NFL, Horton and his wife

Lawanda have raised sons Jay and Kyle. Horton has also

remained active in the Charlotte community, and is looking

forward to welcoming his fellow legends during the

championship weekend.

“It means an awful lot to be honored as a legend of the ACC,”

Horton said. “It took a lot of hard work, and a lot of people were

part of this honor. It’s surely something I don’t take lightly.”

HORTONLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



Being able to participate in bowl games. Playing in bowl games allowed you to see another part of the world and go places and explore places you might not have had a chance to explore.

OTHER THAN YOUR HOME FIELD, WHAT

WAS YOUR FAVORITE ROAD VENUE AND

WHY? I would go with [Clemson’s] Death Valley. You knew you were going to face 80-some thousand fans and that they were going to be real loud.




Lester Lyles for Virginia. We had a running play [late in the game] and I never saw Lester. He got me pretty good. I went one way and the ball went the other. It was a heck of a play.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Charlotte, N.C. I’m involved in a variety of things --- color commentating for the Carolina Panthers, and I’m also doing broadcasting of high school football. My wife and I also started the Youth Development Football League.

ETHAN HORTON / TAILBACK / NORTH CAROLINA / 1981-85 / KANNAPOLIS, N.C.

BY THE NUMBERS

17100-YARD GAMES

1,247RUSHING YARDS ACCUMULATED IN 1984

3,074CAREER TOTAL RUSHING YARDS


After 32 years, maybe it’s time to amend the

assumption that all records in football have

expiration dates. New rule: Records are made

to be broken unless they were set by Ted Brown.

The former North Carolina State running back still

holds ACC standards for career rushing yards (4,602),

rushing touchdowns (49) and 100-yard games (27)

more than three decades after he played his fi nal

down. And the staying power of his achievements is

more impressive than you might imagine.

For context, let’s look to the air. As Brown was

wrapping up his career in 1978, the ACC’s career

passing leader was Duke’s Leo Hart, whose total of

6,267 yards had stood for eight years. Since Brown’s

fi nal game, 30 quarterbacks have surpassed Hart’s

number. Nobody has caught Brown. Hart ultimately

owned his mark for 13 years, and nobody has had it

for more than 10 years since.

Likewise, Brown’s total of 312 points scored

has remained the highest by a non-kicker in ACC

history. It took 27 years for anybody – in this case

Virginia’s Wali Lundy in 2005 – to catch up. Lundy also

fi nished with 312.

It took 30 years for somebody to make a serious

charge at Brown’s TD mark, but Clemson’s James

Davis fell two short in 2008.

Furthermore, Brown’s totals are misleading by

modern standards since today’s players have their

bowl stats counted in offi cial totals. Brown didn’t

have that benefi t. By current statistical measurements,

Brown’s career total would be 5,001 yards, 399 of

which came in three bowl games.

Brown fi nished his eligibility fourth on the NCAA’s

all-time rushing list, and he proceeded to have an

eight-year NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings

that featured 4,546 career rushing yards and another

2,850 on receptions.

BROWNLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE

WHAT WAS YOUR GREATEST ATHLETIC

MOMENT IN COLLEGE?

Rushing for over 250 yards against the number one defense in the country at that time(Penn State). They were only allowing approximately 30 or 40 yards per game.



Clemson University because they named their stadium Death Valley and all the way to the Stadium you see Tiger Paws in the street. That was a fun venue to go to and win, their fans were great. We just so happened to win the game there, that was icing on the cake. I still can remember the sea of orange in the stands.

WHAT OPPOSING PLAYER

DID YOU RESPECT THE MOST DURING YOUR


The whole entire Penn State defense because as a team we were able to rush for a lot of yards in a game we should have won, but they found a way to win the game in the end. Penn State also played a clean hard hitting game which any running back can appreciate. They weren’t call linebacker U for nothing, they produced quite a few All-Americans at that position.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I live in Apple Valley, MN and I am a Probation offi cer for Juveniles in the City of St. Paul, MN. I have worked for the county for 15 years and love what I do. I am able see young youths everyday and try to make a diff erence in their lives, through guidance and mentoring.

BY THE NUMBERS

27100-YARD GAMES

49RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS

4,602CAREER RUSHING YARDS

TED BROWN / RUNNING BACK / NC STATE / 1975-78 / HIGH POINT, N.C.

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WORDLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



A game against Georgia Tech in 1985. We went down there and I think I ran for 180 yards or so and we were able to beat them. That was a big deal for our program.



North Carolina. It’s a beautiful fi eld. I thought it was really cool. It had a feel to it when you were there. They had the hedges in the end zone. I grew up in southern Virginia, so I grew up a Carolina fan.




Vaughan Johnson of NC State. He broke my ribs. He was big, and he was a hard hitter. Having played with him (in the NFL) and against him, I know the type of guy he is and have a lot of respect for him.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Haymarket, Va., and I own a landscaping construction company.

BARRY WORD / RUNNING BACK / VIRGINIA / 1984-85 / LONG ISLAND, VA./ LONG ISLAND, VA.

BY THE NUMBERS

1985ACC PLAYER OF THE YEAR)

1,224RUSHING YARDS FOR THE 1984 SEASON

2,257CAREER YARDS RUSHING

Barry Word, who went on to a seven-year career in

the NFL, might have enjoyed his most scintillating

athletic moment as a hurdler.

Word was a high school track and fi eld star, and earned

an invitation to the 1984 Olympic trials after quietly

running for Virginia that spring.

“No one knows anything about that,” Word said. “I ran

in the 110-meter hurdles throughout high school and I

was allowed to run on the track team when I was at UVa.

In 1984, I snuck out to the track and coach [George]

Welsh didn’t know. I ran with the track team for a few

weeks and participated in a couple of meets, and at one

of the meets I qualifi ed for the Olympic trials.”

As a fan of Renaldo Nehemiah, the chance to make the

trials was a thrill. But he also excited Virginia fans as the

school’s football program began to emerge in the 1980s.

Word’s played in a victorious 1984 Peach Bowl and his

1,224-yard rushing season vaulted him to ACC player of

the year honors as a senior in 1985.

The chance to relive the highlights of his college career

as an ACC legend is something he is looking forward to.

“It’s a big deal to me,” Word said. “The ACC is a pretty

powerful conference. To be honored as a legend

considering all the players that played in the conference

is pretty cool. My kids are of an age where they can

appreciate it. They weren’t born when I was still playing,

so it’s good they get to see all of this.”

When former Virginia Tech defensive end

Cornell Brown learned he would be

honored this year as one of the ACC’s

legends, he knew exactly what it meant.

“It says I’m getting old,” he said recently with a

laugh. “But it’s a great accomplishment to say you

did something that was appreciated by other

people.”

Brown’s playing career corresponded with the

rise of the Virginia Tech program to national

prominence.

Brown was named the national defensive player

of the year by The Football News in 1995, a year in

which he registered 14 sacks and totaled 103 tackles.

Despite missing three games in 1996 as a senior, he

still earned All-America honors while rolling up

eight sacks, 13 tackles for loss, 19 quarterback

hurries and 58 total tackles.

Brown’s graduating class was the fi rst at Virginia

Tech to play in four bowls, and the Hokies won

both the 1993 Independence Bowl and 1995 Sugar

Bowl during his career.

After college, Brown was a sixth-round pick for

Baltimore in the 1997 NFL Draft. He went on to an

eight-year career with the Ravens, and was part of

the franchise’s Super Bowl XXXV championship.

BROWNLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



I would honestly say my fi rst game in college; just knowing I was that caliber of player, that as a young guy I was playing college football with the best guys on that level.



WHY? West Virginia was totally the favorite because it was such a hostile place. If you could pull out a win there, that was an accomplishment.




Pete Kendall of Boston College. He liked to talk a lot, so he kept the game interesting as well as being a great player.


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Blacksburg, Va., and work as a defensive line coach with the CFL Calgary Stampeders.

CORNELL BROWN / DEFENSIVE END / VIRGINIA TECH / 1993-96 / LYNCHBURG, VA.

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BY THE NUMBERS

22SACKS HIS FINAL TWO SEASONS

103TACKLES IN 1995

1995NAMED NATIONAL DEFENSIVE

PLAYER OF THE YEAR BY THE FOOTBALL NEWS


HOPKINSLEGENDS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE



Winning the conference championship in 1970. We had a reunion this year, and it was great seeing all the guys back. We were probably crazy enough to try a few plays.



WHY? I don’t know if there was a favorite place to play on the road, especially after we started winning, everybody was fi red up to play us. Death Valley was tough. Chapel Hill was tough. And even the folks in Durham didn’t like to see us coming.




Johnny Rodgers. I can recall standing on the sidelines at Nebraska and Rodgers is fl anked out wide by himself like he’s running one of those decoy routes. He goes down the fi eld and he’s gliding along by our defensive backs, and they end up throwing the ball to him. I asked myself, ‘Who are these guys?’


WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Winston-Salem. I have been practicing obstetrics and gynecology for more than 25 years.

DR. LARRY HOPKINS / FULLBACK / WAKE FOREST / 1970-71 / PANAMA CITY, FL.WHAT WAS Y

Think it’s stressful to run into an ACC defense with

the conference championship on the line? Dr.

Larry Hopkins can introduce you to something

more precious than possession of a football.

“I can’t fumble babies,” the former Wake Forest

fullback and current obstetrician-gynecologist said.

“That’s not good for business.”

In a quarter-century of helping bring life into the

world, Hopkins has displayed the same resolve he

delivered to a team that pulled off one of the most

surprising feats in ACC history. The 1970 Demon

Deacons won the ACC title to snap a string of fi ve losing

seasons. Only one other club before or since, the 2001

Maryland squad, has done that.

“We were like family, really,” he said. “We had gone

through so much and Wake Forest had a history of

perennial losing. That year, we were expected to be in

last place. But it was a different group of guys.”

Hopkins came to Wake Forest from Panama City, Fla.,

and in two seasons he amassed 2,212 rushing yards. That

includes the 984 he got in 1970, when he accounted for

36 percent of his team’s total offense.

Hopkins enrolled at Wake Forest’s medical school a

year after receiving his undergraduate degree in

chemistry. He later joined the staff at Wake Forest

University Baptist Medical Center and has been a teacher

and practitioner ever since.

“Yeah, the hours are bad, but when I get up at 2 or 3 in

the morning and I see my colleagues, they’re dealing

with bad news,” Hopkins said. “Most of the time, babies

arrive healthy and moms do just fi ne.”

BY THE NUMBERS

2,212RUSHING YARDS REGISTERED IN TWO SEASONS

19701970 HOPKINS LED DEACS TO ACC TITLE

984RUSHING YARDS RECORDED IN 1970

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As he stood before more than 100

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Kickoff event, John Swofford

rattled off an impressive list of the league’s

on-the-fi eld superlatives.

The ACC commissioner pointed to the

numerous players on preseason watch lists

for prestigious national awards, and noted

that no other conference in the nation had

more teams ranked in the preseason Top 25

– fi ve – than the ACC did.

But Swofford appeared to take special

pride when he began to detail the ACC’s

lengthy slate of academic accomplishments.

He pointed out that the ACC led the

nation in graduation rates for the fi fth

consecutive year; he explained that the

league also ranked fi rst nationally in

football APR (Academic Progress Rate) for

the fourth consecutive year; and praised

the top billing the University of Miami

received for its football graduation rate by

the American Football Coaches Association.

The AFCA, which presents academic

achievement awards each season, listed

Miami and Notre Dame as the only two

FBS programs in the country to graduate

100 percent of their freshman football

players from the 2002 recruiting class.

That was the fi rst such honor for the

Hurricanes’ football program, but it was

the latest of many for the ACC.

Dating back to 1981, league schools have

earned 20 AFCA academic awards

(including ties) – that’s more than any

other conference. Duke leads the way in

that category with 12, followed by Boston

College (4), Virginia (2), Wake Forest (1)

and Miami (1).

But those were far from the ACC’s

only academic accomplishments.

The conference continued to post

impressive results in the category of APR,

which measures the success of every

program at every school in the areas of

student-athlete retention, progress toward

earning degrees and graduation.

All 12 of the league’s football programs

fared better than the NCAA-required score

of 925, and seven schools ranked among

the top 34 nationally. Duke again led the

conference and ranked fourth nationally at

983, and Miami was not far behind at 978

(sixth nationally).

Boston College, Clemson, Georgia Tech,

Wake Forest and North Carolina also

fi nished in the top 34, and helped the ACC

post the highest composite APR in the

country.

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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

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The conference produced equally

impressive numbers when the NCAA

released Graduation Success Rate (GSR)

statistics in October. Ten of the conference’s

programs ranked higher than the national

GSR average of 79, and the ACC also had

more football programs score above the

national average than any other BCS

automatic-qualifying conference.

Three of the conference’s programs

scored cumulative scores of above 90,

which also outpaced the nation’s other BCS

automatic-qualifying conferences.

And ACC student-athletes also racked

up numerous individual accolades this

past year.

Six of the conference’s brightest athletes

were honored in 2010 with NCAA Elite 88

awards, which are granted each year to

students “who perform at the highest levels,

both academically and athletically,”

according to the NCAA’s website.

Elite 88 winners this year included North

Carolina athletes Bill Dworsky (men’s

soccer), Kristi Eveland (women’s soccer),

Meredith Newton (women’s lacrosse);

Virginia’s Lauren Elstein (fi eld hockey);

Clemson’s Allison Colberg (rowing) and

Duke’s Matt Anderson (men’s lacrosse).

The students were honored for carrying

the highest cumulative grade-point

averages into NCAA championship sites

for each of their respective sports.

The ACC also produced winners of four

of 12 national Honda Awards, given

annually to female student-athletes who

not only show superior athletic skills but

also prove to excel in the areas of leadership,

academics and community service.

Maryland’s Katie O’Donnell (fi eld

hockey) and Caitlyn McFadden (lacrosse);

North Carolina’s Whitney Engen (soccer)

and Miami’s Laura Vallverdu (tennis) all

won the top awards in their respective

sports. No other conference in the country

produced more than two winners.

The ACC led the nation in graduation rates for the

fi fth consecutive year and the league also ranked

fi rst nationally in football Academic Progress Rate

for the fourth consecutive year.

EXAMPLES OF ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP: Maryland’s Katie O’Donnell won the 2010 Honda Sports Award in fi eld hockey, designating her as the nation’s top collegiate female athlete in that sport (left ) the Florida State’s Myron Rolle (middle) was awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship; 2009 ACC Player of the Year C.J .Spiller (below) graduated from Clemson in December 2009


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A HISTORIC AGREEMENT BETWEEN

ESPN AND THE ACC KEEPS THE

CONFERENCE AHEAD OF THE GAME


“It’s an extensive package that reaches

new heights fi nancially, provides

unprecedented branding opportunities for

us, and we think strongly positions our

league within the ever-changing world

of technology as we look ahead,” said

ACC Commissioner John Swofford. “And

our institutions will benefi t tremendously

from a fi nancial standpoint from this

new agreement.”

ESPN will provide ACC fans with new

technology as well, including the network’s

fi rst use of 3D technology on its new

channel, ESPN 3D, at today’s 2010 Dr

Pepper ACC Football Championship Game.

And, thanks to the league’s dedication to

providing the latest technology to promote

its events, fans will have more access to on-

demand digital content — around the

world and around the clock. That

includes the league’s popular new iPhone

application, which allows fans to receive

fully programmable, up-to-the-minute

updates of their favorite teams and preferred

sports on mobile phones and digital

handheld devices.

The app, which launched prior to the

2010 football season, includes live scoring

of all ACC football and basketball games,

broadcasts of selected games, news stories

about league schools from The Associated

Press and other news features.

The ground-breaking television deal with

ESPN includes broadcasts of nearly 5,000

live events until the contract expires at the

end of 2022-23 academic year. ESPN will

broadcast regular-season and postseason

games for all 25 of the ACC’s sponsored

sports, both regionally and nationally.

Every football game controlled by

the league will be televised; every basketball

game between ACC opponents and

most conference-controlled out-of-league

FANS WILL HAVE MORE ACCESS TO

ON-DEMAND DIGITAL CONTENT — AROUND

THE WORLD AND AROUND THE CLOCK.

ESPN is going all-in with the Atlantic Coast Conference. The multi-

platform programming network is not only the “worldwide leader in

sports,” but it also will be the premier distributor of football, basketball

and Olympic broadcasts for the conference’s 12 member institutions,

thanks to more than a billion dollar, 12-year agreement signed by

ESPN and the ACC in July. The agreement combines football and

basketball rights for the fi rst time in league history, and provides

unprecedented coverage of the league’s 22 Olympic sports.

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contests will be broadcast. The

entire ACC men’s basketball

tournament will be broadcast

nationally, with the semifi nals

and fi nals televised on ABC,

ESPN or ESPN2.

The network will more than

double the number of regular-

season women’s basketball

games it broadcasts nationally,

from seven to 18. For the fi rst

time in league history, every game in the

women’s tournament will also be televised

for the duration of the contract. All games

in the league’s popular baseball and softball

championships will be televised, as will

league championships in lacrosse, and

men’s and women’s soccer.

And, in an important enhancement for

fans, the deal will eliminate all blackouts for

regional and national telecasts.

“We are a very fan-centric company at a

very fan-centric conference,” said ESPN

spokesman John Skipper said. “We want to

make sure … more people will be able to see

more games than they have ever seen.

Generally speaking, all of the ACC-

controlled games are going to be available

to a national audience.”

And, most importantly for the

league’s 12 schools, the contract will

double, on average, the revenue each

school receives for broadcasting rights

throughout the course of the contract.

Since it fi rst signed a syndication deal for

individual sports in the mid-1980s, the

ACC has split all of its television revenue

equally among its members. The new deal

will continue to do so.

While the new contract brings some

exciting new changes to all ACC sports,

some of the league’s most popular features

will remain. ESPN will continue to

broadcast fi ve ACC Thursday night

football games. It plans to continue the

popular ACC-Big 10 Challenge in men’s

and women’s basketball, and the full lineup

of Sunday Night Hoops, with start times

ranging between 2 p.m.-6 p.m. Those

games, broadcast on ESPNU, will reach 73

million households, a signifi cant increase

over the expiring television deal.

Unlike some of its other deals, the ESPN

contract with the ACC gives the network

exclusive rights for football and basketball

on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and

ESPN3.com, as well as the network’s

specialized packages like ESPN Mobile TV,

ESPN Full Court, ESPN International and

ESPN Classic. Combined, those networks

reach nearly 450 million households.

“This is the fi rst time we at ESPN have

done basically an all-in deal with a

conference where we worked to be able to

acquire all of its product,” Skipper said. “I

think that speaks to how much we value

the ACC.

“That was an important component

to us because we value both basketball

and football. We liked having them

synched-up.”

The ACC offi ce considered developing

its own network, as the SEC and Big Ten

have done, but decided in the end that it

would be better to partner with ESPN’s

long-term broadcasting experience, its

national exposure and its internationally

known brand.

While ESPN will own exclusive broadcast

rights to all conference-controlled events,

the league will continue its long-time

relationship with Raycom Sports, which

has owned sole syndication rights for

football and basketball broadcasts for

more than three decades.

Raycom will continue to regionally

broadcast games, including weekly football

and basketball broadcasts and the ACC

men’s basketball tournament. It will also

syndicate ACC games outside the region,

taking national the excitement of

conference basketball and football games

that had previously been unavailable

outside the region. It will also distribute

the league’s digital assets through the

league’s offi cial website, www.theACC.

com, and manage the league’s corporate

partner program.

Swofford is convinced that the deal will

offer fans of the ACC’s 12 schools

unprecedented access to see their teams in

action, on a variety of platforms, for a

dozen years to come.

“It’s critical that our conference in this

kind of relationship can be nimble and

adjust to the changing technology, and use

it to our advantage moving forward,”

Swofford said. “We are now well-positioned

for that. The world may look very different

over the next 12 years.”

“IT’S CRITICAL THAT OUR CONFERENCE IN THIS

KIND OF RELATIONSHIP CAN BE NIMBLE AND

ADJUST TO THE CHANGING TECHNOLOGY, AND

USE IT TO OUR ADVANTAGE MOVING FORWARD,”

SWOFFORD SAID. “WE ARE NOW WELL-POSITIONED

FOR THAT. THE WORLD MAY LOOK VERY

DIFFERENT OVER THE NEXT 12 YEARS.”


The Atlantic Coast Conference has

had its share of memorable

postseason basketball moments,

from McGuire’s Miracle to Valvano’s

Cardiac Pack.

Whether it was upsetting Wilt the Stilt

in triple overtime more than a half

century ago to cap North Carolina’s 32-0

season or Jim Valvano looking for

someone to hug following an improbable

dunk by Lorenzo Charles, the ACC has

always scripted a winning recipe when the

NCAA Tournament rolled around.

With sensational NCAA tournament

success already etched in ACC lore, the

league managed to turn it up a notch with

unprecedented winning formulas over

the last decade, capturing fi ve national

championships in a 10-year span.

Defending national champion Duke

won crowns in 2010 and ‘01, while North

Carolina captured championships in

2005 and ’09, and Maryland in ’02. Five

other times during the decade ACC teams

managed to make it to the championship

fi eld weekend, giving the league at least

one team in the Final Four 19 of the last

23 seasons.

The decade ended with Mike Krzyzewski

appearing in an 11th Final Four and his

Blue Devils entering the 2010-11 season

top-ranked in the polls.

“Any program that’s had continued

high-level success — especially in our

conference — a target is on you,”

Krzyzewski said. “I think we have it

and North Carolina has it in our league,

and there are other ACC programs who

have that.

“Youngsters who come into Duke’s

program have to know, and I think it’s

exciting for them to know, that every

game they play will be an exciting one.

There usually aren’t going to be any

empty seats when you’re playing. As a

result of being watched a lot, there are

going to be people who really want you to

win and really want you to lose. That

happens when any program at any level

of sport that has continued success and

high visibility.”

Duke’s 2010 national title over Butler in

Indianapolis gave the ACC as many

national titles (5) in the last decade as all

the other college conferences combined.

The victory also improved Krzyzweski’s

NCAA Tournament win total to 77 (the

best all-time) and the ACC’s overall

winning percentage to a national-best

66.6 percent since 1985.

Krzyzewski’s fourth national title

placed him in some elite coaching

company, but as he passes 800 all-time

wins with yet another top team, his drive

remains as strong as ever to win at the

highest level – for his school and the ACC.

Bouncing Right AlongACC Hoops Continues

to Set the Standard B Y DAV I D D R O S C H A K

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“It’s all about doing the thing you’re

doing right now,” Krzyzewski said. “I mean,

if we were in another walk of life, if I was in

law and was able to win a number of cases

in the past, I would want to win the next

one. If I was a doctor, performed some

really good operations, I would want to

perform another one.”

Some of the ACC’s stats when it comes

to basketball success over the years are

staggering. For example, the league is the

only conference to have each of its teams

make the NCAAs over the past fi ve years

and has a non-losing tournament record

for 23 straight years and counting. In

addition, since 1985, ACC teams have

appeared in 24 Final Fours, 36 Regional

Finals and the Sweet Sixteen 66 times.

“The thing about playing in the ACC

that prepares you for the NCAA

Tournament is the level of competition

night-in and night-out,” said Florida State

coach Leonard Hamilton. “In this league,

you are going against the best players and

best teams in the country. The ACC teaches

you that you can’t take a night off in league

play. That puts your players in the mindset

to value each possession in each game.”

Success in the ACC Men’s Basketball

Tournament, which will be played March

10-13, 2011, in Greensboro, has often

times resulted in a positive NCAA run,

considering the ACC champion has make

it to the Final four nine times since 1990.

“Greensboro has hosted the ACC Men’s

Tournament on 22 occasions, the most of

any venue,” said Matt Brown, director of

the Greensboro Coliseum. “We couldn’t be

prouder of that record. We like to equate

the Men’s Tournament to Greensboro’s

‘Superbowl.’ When the ACC Men’s

Tournament is in Greensboro it just takes

over the entire town. You can’t walk around

without seeing people in ACC school gear

and talking basketball.”

CONTINUING COMMITTMENT

THE ACC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Tournament has been staged at eight diff erent locations over its 33-year history, but no other city has captured the growth and spirit of the women’s game quite like Greensboro.

The proof is in the attendance numbers, increased interest from sponsors and the glowing praise from coaches across the Atlantic Coast Conference who value their partnership with the city and one of the nation’s best venues for a women’s conference tournament — the Greensboro Coliseum.

“The tournament has become an annual tradition for people in that area and the excitement just builds from year-to-year,” said veteran North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell. “I can’t imagine having the tournament anywhere else. It has been a perfect fi t for both Greensboro and women’s basketball.”

The ACC actually began a women’s basketball tournament in 1978 – several years before the fi rst NCAA Championship for women. With title game crowds hovering around 500 in the early years at various locations, the league moved to the Greensboro Coliseum in 2000 and drew 8,090 for

the championship tilt. Five years later, a record-setting crowd of 11,578 saw North Carolina knock off Duke for the title as interest in the competition rose dramatically across the region.

“Hosting the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament is a ‘win-win’ partnership for the ACC and the

Greensboro Coliseum,” said coliseum director Matt Brown. “The popularity of the event has continued to grow over its 11 years here in Greensboro. We help with marketing the tournament on a year-round basis and the result has become an event that the Greensboro community truly embraces.”

This season’s postseason tournament will be played March 3-6, with a contract in place in Greensboro through the year 2015.

Nine times since 2000 the women’s championship game has drawn at least 9,000 fans at the Greensboro Coliseum.

“We have pledged from day one that we would strive to provide an environment and level of service for the women’s tournament that is equal to the men’s tournament,” Brown said. “We have upheld that commitment and it’s one of the key reasons why the ACC has returned each year.”


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SCHEDULED TO OPEN IN MARCH 2011, THE ACC HALL OF CHAMPIONS

will celebrate past, present and future conference success through the design and use of interactive displays, unique institutional exhibits and multi-purpose program space that showcases the league’s 58 years. The Hall will feature a combination of content that honors the academic and athletic accomplishments and highlights the ACC’s continuing promise of “A Tradition of Excellence …Then, Now and Always”.

Located in the western portion of the Greensboro Coliseum Complex’s Special Events Center, the entrance to the ACC Hall of Champions will feature a four-foot, 360-degree, state-of-the-art video globe that will amaze and delight guests with a unique, multi-media display of conference highlights. Other features of the Hall’s fi rst phase (8,100 square feet) will include a historical timeline of the ACC’s founding in Greensboro, NC in 1953 through today; individual member school exhibits, life-size ACC school mascot exhibits, a “you call the play” interactive broadcasting booth and space to display memorabilia, trophies and historical event photos.

The ACC Hall of Champions further cements the City of Greensboro lifelong relationship with the ACC and is a dynamic platform to showcase the incredible players, coaches and fans that have been a part of the league for over 58 years.

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Today’s 2nd Annual ACC Football Offi cials Mini-Clinic brings together over 500 football offi cials with experience ranging from youth league to the college ranks. Douglas Rhoads, the ACC’s Coordinator of Football Offi ciating points out there are three teams on the fi eld at every game, and that this clinic addresses the “offi ciating team.” Just as players and coaches endeavor to improve each week, the offi cials must also maintain the same focus. This year’s clinic provides attendees with the opportunity to learn rules, mechanics, philosophy and techniques from veteran offi cials.

Offi cials that attended the clinic a year ago stated that the signifi cant volume of professional video and candid discussions were integral to providing a top caliber clinic program. Rhoads added that the ACC Mini-Clinic gives both aspiring and experienced offi cials the chance to learn. “Our philosophy is to recruit, train and develop offi cials by taking advantage of the resources and technology we have available,” said Rhoads. “This is like taking a graduate level course in football offi ciating, condensed into a two and a half hour session, then going out and watching a practical application of the course work.”

The interest and commitment to improve offi ciating skills is clearly demonstrated by the great response again this year. “By sharing this experience with youth, junior varsity, high school and small college offi cials, the game benefi ts.” Further, the opportunity to network with other offi cials and coordinators is a long-term benefi t for everyone.” The ACC Mini-Clinic serves as an outreach to offi cials of any skill level to come together for an afternoon of learning, camaraderie and the chance to enjoy the game from a diff erent angle, as a fan.

ACC YOUTH FOOTBALL CELEBRATIONA fun, interactive day in the life of an ACC football student-athleteTHE 2010 ACC YOUTH FOOTBALL CELEBRATION is an initiative that provides youth football players from four Charlotte area youth football leagues the opportunity to participate in a series of interactive pre-game activities designed to highlight the importance of classroom education and the challenging fun of college football. Following the Youth Celebration, each participant will get a chance to attend the Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game.

During the Youth Celebration, the kids will experience a day in the life of the ACC student-athletes they who will later see in action during the ACC Football Championship Game. Held on the Carolina Panthers practice fi eld, the kids will visit a simulated classroom, learn healthy tips at the nutrition station, get geared up in the locker room and be taught proper warm-up techniques. The youth football players will then participate in non-contact football drills directed by expert coaches as part of USA Football’s FUNdamentals Clinic. Youth cheerleaders will experience a clinic of their own hosted by ACC cheerleaders.

In addition to showing off their skills to friends and teammates, kids are exposed to the big-time atmosphere that surrounds the ACC Football Championship Game. Throw in some snacks, music and prizes, and the Youth Celebration is the perfect way to celebrate another successful football season! Through the Youth Celebration, the ACC aims to inspire kids to excel both on and off the fi eld, in hopes that someday these kids will take the fi eld on their own at the ACC Football Championship Game.

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