ACC Media Days 2

It’s What He Didn’t Say

Louisville transfer quarterback Miller Moss has had a big change in life. He has lived his entire life in California, prior to transferring to Louisville. He said Wednesday that the city has embraced him. And then we delved deeper into why he transferred. “I think the ability to develop within a pro-style offense, like Chris (Bell) touched on previously, was important to me. And I think just being around good and decent human beings,” he said.

The decent human being theme took on a deeper level. “I think that can kind of get lost on us a lot in terms of the era of NIL and transferring and all that kind of stuff, but in sitting with Coach Brohm and meeting Chris and coming on my visit, I wanted to be surrounded by good and decent human beings that cared about the right things and cared about one another, and I think I’ve absolutely found that within the program.” Obviously, he did not mention his former school, USC, specifically. But did he really need to?

An Innovative Change

With all of the changes going on throughout college football, Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi said there is one more big picture change he could handle. “I was going to see if we could get 13 months a year. That would help. That would keep us from having to make changes anywhere else. 13 months, wouldn’t that be great? We could really spread things out.”

Coach Speak All Around

We had plenty of coach speak to call out. One of the statements was a wildly overused cliché.

Ga Tech coach Brent Key was asked what led to the Georgia-Georgia Tech game being played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium this year. Key’s response was, “Those are way above my pay grade. I couldn’t care less. We could go play in Piedmont Park. I couldn’t give a crap where we play.” Haven’t we moved past that yet? And frankly, coach, when you are making $4.1 million per year, and your new athletic director just left a job at Tennessee where he was making about $400k per year, no, not much is above your pay grade.

We also got coach speak from new Wake Forest head coach Jake Dickert. “A connected team is a dangerous team.” Hard to argue with it, but still falls into coach speak. And it is easier to get to the bottom of than is Dickert’s new mantra for the Demon Deacons, which is, “Built in the dark.” The point is that the real work gets done when no one is watching and the bright lights are not on. Still, we picture trying to build things in the dark. That can be messy.

Cows

Yes, cows. Wake Forest running back Demond Claiborne was asked what it was like to grow up in Aylet, VA, a town of just over 7,000 population. “country, country, country. Really country. We got cows at my school, chickens at my school, turkeys at my school.” Now that is a picture to take us into the next day of media and college football. He did go on to explain the benefits of that environment. “Growing up in that environment definitely was cool, but those country folks that teach you how to work and go get it, that’s definitely something that’s embedded in me, and I’m ready to continue to roll with how I was taught coming from the country.”

The last day of ACC Media Days will bring a media circus to town. Boston College, Clemson, Duke, NC State, Virginia Tech, and North Carolina are the teams.