Oh no, the board's Uncle Rico said it again, I'm so hurt. Still not over the coach not putting you into the title game back in high school, since you could throw a football a quarter mile, Lec?
Diver, the bowl game is important for 2 reasons. One, as you mentioned we get extra practice time and that can only help our younger guys. Two, it's a big deal to the players to make a bowl. In fact, maybe it was too big a deal to them since we seemed so content with just making a bowl. This season was frustrating, to be so close to what our ultimate goal of winning the ACC, is tough. However, I'm glad we're getting to play another game, regardless of where it is. Saying we've been to bowls 4 out of the last 6 years, sounds a whole lot better to recruits than saying we haven't been to a bowl since 2008.
I agree next year will hinge on the OL. If the young guys are more talented than we'll be in good shape and maybe even better up front than this year, as the season goes on. Defensively, up front we've got to get bigger. I love
Nikita to death, but we need bigger guys up front with him. I think we'll be solid at LB and the secondary should be better, provided we get Kevin Johson and Dom Tate back. Quarles will be missed, but I think we've got talent to step in.