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DTH Sport Saturday COVER STORY 4 An arduous process affects football's future Miami, Syracuse and Boston College spent all summer trying to enter the ACC. When the smoke cleared, Syracuse and BC were jilted when Virginia Tech was invited to join. By Randy Wellington FEATURES However short, Pollock comes up big During a horrid game against Florida State, wideoutjarwarski Pollack was one of the few bright spots for the Tar Heels. The UNC junior looks to build on that success. By Aaron Fitt 6,7,10-12 Gameday: Previewing the ACC matchups 13 Off the Record: Jibber-Jabber withjeb DEPARTMENTS 8-9 Syracuse takes on North Carolina 15 Last Second Pass: Are Fantasy analysts just fantasy? Cover design by DTH Design Staff. Cover photos courtesy of the University of Miami, Virginia Tech, Boston College and Syracuse University. STAFF DTH Sport Saturday Editor Sports Editor Ben Couch Brian MacPherson Assistant DTH Sport Saturday Editor Chris Gilfillan Assistant Sports Editors Brandon Parker, Jacob Karabell, Michael Clarke Contributors Tyler Dancy, Jeremy Borden, Aaron Fitt, Randy Wellington. The Daily Tar Heel Editor Elyse Ashbum Production Manager Photo Editor Stacy Wynn Brian Cassella Business and Advertising: Janet Gallagher-Cassel, director/general manager; Chrissy Beck, director of marketing; lisa Reichle, business manager; Tiffany Flomo, retail sales manager. Customer Service: Amanda Taylor, senior representative, Kimberly Craven, Judy Pham and Kia Thacker, representatives. Display Advertising: Kate Bingham, Melanie Brooks, Elizabeth Crutcher, Megan Gilchrist, Annie Godwin, Matt Eagle, Andy Lunnen, Shannon Plummer, Kelsey Scott and Anne Tackabery, account executives. Advertising Production: Penny Persons, manager; Kathryn Klein and Karen Stone, assis tants. Classified Production: Cindy Henley. DTH Sport Saturday is published by the DTH Publishing Corp., a nonprofit North Carolina corporation, on home football Saturdays. Advertisers should call 962-1163 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., M-F. Editorial questions should be #10709436 directed to 962-0245. Office: Suite 104 Carolina Union Campus Mail Address: CB# 5210 Box 49, Carolina Union UJS. Mail Address: P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3257 Mm Delay of Game Beneficial booing 101 By Ben Couch Sport Saturday Editor UNCfans would do well to learn the intricacies of proper heckling You knew it was going to hap pen. You just didn’t know it was going to happen this fast. It took a mere two quarters before North Carolina fans gave up on the football season. They did give it one good shot, showing up .59,800 strong for the opener against No. 11 Florida State. But by the end of the first half, most of the fans went incognito, leaving blue and white pompoms to fill their seats. This wasn’t beyond reason. UNC was trailing the Seminoles by 27 points, Dan Omer had missed two field goals and the defense was more fragile than Kwame Brown's psyche. Those are all good reasons not to cheer on a team. But the lesson here for UNC fans is that this is not the time to leave. This is the time to boo. I know that booing one’s own team sounds a tad strange to the unpracticed boo-bird, but the art of the boo needs to find its way out of the Northeast. Let’s take a look at some examples from the booing public, starting with the stand-up fans of Philadelphia. When the Eagles drafted Donovan McNabb in the 1999 National Football League draft, Phillv fans booed quite mercilessly. Now this may not make sense at first, because McNabb has developed, as expected, into one of the top five quarterbacks in the league. But consider that the Philly Phanatics were not booing McNabb himself, but rather the fact that the Eagles passed on Ricky Williams, a running back so highly touted that the New Orleans Saints traded a slew of DTH Picks of the Week The DTH Sport Saturday staff and one celebrity/personality pick the winners of the biggest college football games each week. Today, Syracuse Marching Orange drum major Jackie Magnuson tries to find harmony in the world of college football as she joins the picks crew. After last weekend’s shellacking, it’s time to regroup. And when we say that, we mean Chris “Grace Note" Gilfillan, who must have forgotten that the idea in this game was to pick winning teams. Not that Brian “A-Flat Minor" MacPherson and Aaron “False Cadence" Fitt did much better, stumbling out to poor starts. We can only hope that the Syracuse band gets its formations less crossed than those two New Englanders. Randy “Requiem" Wellington joined Ben Ben Chris Brian Jamie Aaron Randy Sports Jackie Couch Gilfillan MacPherson Agin Fitt Wellington Assistants Magnuson Last Week 9-3 7-5 8-4 9-3 8-4 9-3 10-2 8-4 2003 Record 9-3 8-4 9-3 8-4 9-3 10-2 8-4 Syracuse at UNC UNC UNC UNC UNC Syracuse Syracuse UNC* Syracuse Maryland at Florida St Maryland FSU FSU FSU FSU FSU FSU FSU N.C. State at WFU NCSU NCSU NCSU NCSU NCSU WF CSU NCSU Virginia at South Carolina UVa. So, Carolina UVa. So. Carolina UVa. So. Carolina UVa.* UVa. Auburn at Georgia Tech Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Furman at Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Western Carolina at Duke W. Carolina W. Carolina Duke Duke Duke Duke Duke Duke Wash. St at Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Notre Dame Wash. St.* Notre Dame Florida at Miami Miami Miami Miami Miami Miami Miami Miami Miami Bowling Green at Purdue Purdue Purdue Purdue Purdue Bowling Green Purdue Purdue Purdue Boston College at ftnn St Rain St BC BC Penn St Penn St Penn. St Penn St BC UCLA at Colorado UCLA Colorado Colorado Colorado Colorado Colorado Colorado UCLA Saturday, September 6, 2003 Kickoff draft picks to select him. McNabb recognized this and held no grudge, correcdy using the nega tivity as motivation to succeed. “All we have to do really is get everything going back the way it used to be, get back on the winning track,” McNabb said at the time. “Then (the fans) will believe it was the right pick.” A look at the fans of the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees shows how good booing can occasionally force the hand of team officials. The Red Sox signed outfielder Manny Ramirez to a 10-year contract in 2000, and despite his hitting prowess, the Fenway faithful quickly tired of his baserunning lapses and general laziness. The fans are making it hard for management to sign anoth er such enigma because such blunders are likely to impede Boston’s title run. And the bleacher bums of Yankee Stadium were at least partly responsi ble for Jeff Weaver’s short leash this season during his progression from potential ace to mop-up reliever. And for an example of bad booing etiquette, let’s look at the Cleveland Dawg Pound, who sent Browns QB Tim Couch over the edge last season by cheering when a concussion sent him to the sidelines. “If fans don’t like the way I’m play ing or the way we’re playing, they have a right to boo us or boo me,” Couch said at the time, choking back tears. “But to cheer when 1 got hurt, that’s a whole other level with me. I don’t agree with that at all. I’ve laid it on the line for this team and city.” Couch is a man who understands. There’s acceptable booing and there’s “Crescendo" Couch and Jamie “Arpeggiated" Agin, just one game back of the leaders. We can only hope that the trio refuses to lose interest and continues the dynamic of success. But all sections trail the dominant “Soprano Sax" Sports Assistants, who correctly pegged Northern Illinois’ off-key upset last week. We ll see if the wonder boys can keep up the tempo they set the coda to their minuet of glory may be near. NOTE: * denotes split picks between sports staff. 3 m a line that’s not to be crossed. What are the UNC football fans supposed to take from all this? That booing one’s own team is done not out of spite or hate, but love. True fans want, and expect, their team to succeed, and there’s no better way to remind a team or a player that they’re not playing up to their caliber. It’s not being mean, it’s showing you care. Contact Ben Couch at bcmtch@email.unc.edu. AP Top 2$ Team Record Pts Pvs 1. Oklahoma (30) 1-0 1,566 1 2. Ohio State (25) 1-0 1,538 2 3. Miami (2) 1-0 1,482 3 4. use (6) 1-0 1,389 8 5. Michigan (2) 1-0 1,351 4 6. Texas 1-0 1,302 5 7. Kansas State 2-0 1,241 7 8. Georgia 1-0 1,135 11 9. Virginia Tech 1-0 1,094 9 10. Pittsburgh 0-0 9% 10 11. Florida State 1-0 930 13 12. Tennessee 1-0 883 12 13. 1-0 828 14 14. N.C State 1-0 815 16 15. Virginia 1-0 641 18 16. Purdue 0-0 533 19 17. Auburn 0-1 524 6 18. Wisconsin 1-0 512 21 19. Notre Dame 0-0 507 20 20. Arizona State 0-0 309 22 21. Florida 1-0 268 - 22. Washington 0-1 222 17 23. Nebraska 1-0 204 - 24. Colorado 1-0 188 25. 0-0 131 25 Others recieving votes: Oregon State 78, Alabama 77, Maryland 66, Penn State 62. Northern Illinois 43, KarabetTs Pick 36, lowa 30, Minnesota 28, Scamper and Coda 24, Arkansas 18, Empty Seats 18, Manedit -3.
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