This is one of the more interesting games of the day. This is a game that Oklahoma quarterback Marshal Dillon Gabriel will have to win, driving his prairie schooner over the horny toads until they are all squashed in the cactus. This week won’t be any easier because the Christian Horny Toads have mobile quarterbacks, including Chandler Morris, the son of Chad Morris. in a game which the defense stayed back at the hotel, then let slimy little Jimbo Fisher use NIL dollars to buy a recruit right out from under them. UNC 37, HILL FOLK 24īrent Venables and his bunch of prairie people had a rough week. But the hill folk just aren’t good enough on both sides of the ball to score enough to stay with the Muffy and Devin. The Hokies will come down out of the mountains in their moonshine trucks, complete with keys and turkey legs, and descend on that sweater-wearing bunch of yuppies with bad intentions. The wine and cheese crowd up there loves it because it reminds them of basketball. The Heels are good on offense, but are absolutely horrific on defense. It will be close for three quarters, but the elephants stomp the pigs in the pigs’ own mudhole. The bad news? Bama can stop the run, and that is what Arkansas does best. This one won’t be any easier because this Arkansas team needs a win after a gut-punch last week in Aggieland. The last time Nick Saban took his team out on the road, they were almost upset by a mediocre bunch of cows manned by a backup quarterback. The white kid will ride the horse out and throw his flaming spear, and the fans will go crazy, and the one guy will read his book during the first quarter, and then both teams will score and score and score. FSU is playing well under Mike Norvell, but this one will see a lot of points scored. This is a must-win if Wake wants to stay in the ACC Atlantic race. This week, the Gamecocks get SC State, from down the road in Orangeburg, and we’ve heard that Bulldog head coach Buddy Pough has agreed to take buses to Columbia (but only if the doors are locked). The Gamecocks were ready to fire Mayo Boy after the loss to Georgia, but The Clapper is back in their good graces after a win over Charlotte’s Web. We will jet right into them, Dave Doeren style. He was informed the buses would pick them up at the stadium, and he grinned, awash with new ideas, and promptly smoked a big old cigar out of a red solo cup. No, old Dave is used to flying everywhere, so when it was suggested that the team DRIVE if the weather was too bad to fly, he looked at the reporter and said, “We all just take our personal cars? The golf carts we use at practice? Are those used at practice?” When he was informed the team had 10 buses at their disposal, he asked, “Then how will the band get there? And can I fly to the bus stop?” The family has a very nice car sitting out in the driveway, courtesy of NC State athletics, but it has never been unlocked or driven because no one knows how. He flies from his home to work every day. His sons? They take private jets up the street to school. His wife takes a helicopter to the grocery store. I found out that Doeren has a unique lifestyle. By the time you load up buses, get to an airport, unload and load, fly, get to an airport and unload and load, and get a hotel and unload and load, you gotta be knocking on the door of four hours. in Greenville, so really it’s only four hours.
And I could be wrong, but I think they stay off Pelham Rd. Sure, five hours on a bus isn’t ideal, but if you do it Friday afternoon, then everyone is refreshed come Saturday. Raleigh to Clemson is five hours via this crazy thing we have called an interstate. That had me a little perplexed, which is easy to do.
That’s why it was no surprise earlier this week when he admitted that if the hurricane interfered with his air travel, he didn’t think his team could make this weekend’s contest at Clemson. Even NC State fans admit that if he wasn’t their coach, they wouldn’t like him. I gotta admit that no one has figured out Dave Doeren.