"ACC Cellar Dwellers" Meet Under the Lights

Folks, this one will not be pretty. Tonight’s matchup against ACC cellar dwellers North Carolina and Virginia on ESPN is going to be bad. Not bad as in good, bad as in bad. However, it’s going to be so bad…it will be good.

You know those movies that are so bad they are entertaining? Well that’s what this debacle is going to be. ESPN is skowering Charlottesville right now for filler. But Kirk Herbstreit and gang should have plenty to talk about examining two prominent state universities who can’t seem to get this whole football thing down.

North Carolina coach John Bunting couldn’t be on a hotter seat. There are numerous financial reasons for the school to keep Bunting on. The salaries of Bunting and his assistants would definitely hit the light blue wallet hard should they have to be bought out.

This season started out with high hopes, but unfortunately for Bunting, he is 16 games below .500 for his North Carolina career and as big basketball fans as they are, the Tar Heel natives are getting restless. A nationally televised beating may be the straw the breaks the ram’s back, if it isn’t already broken.

Virginia’s fall from grace seems almost overnight. Just a few years ago Al Groh had the Wahoos rocketing toward the upper echelon of the ACC. Groh has already been assured he’ll return next season, as of right now, and beating the Tar Heels is always good for morale.

The Heels have not won a game in Charlottesville since 1981. 1981. Eventually that has got to change, you would think. And that may be the only thing going for the Tar Heels. It could also be the only thing going for the Cavaliers.

By the way, it’s supposed to rain. Are you kidding me? This is going to be good TV, no matter how bad it is.