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FRIDAY BLOG: Injury loves company, and links

Larry_Williams

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Oct 28, 2008
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The hits keep coming for Miami's linebacker corps, which lost leading tackle Raphael Kirby in last week's win over Virginia Tech.

Here in the Palm Beach Post, defensive coordinator Mark D'Onofrio reflects on the mixing and matching that's had to be done as a result.

Though his linebacker unit was light in depth and experience heading into this season, Hurricanes defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio thought he was reasonably prepared for injuries.

If senior captain and middle linebacker Raphael Kirby or backup Juwon Young went down, he would plug in sophomore strong-side linebacker Darrion Owens.

If junior weak-side linebacker Jermaine Grace went down, he would start sophomore Marques Gayot, a converted safety.

If senior strong-side linebacker Tyriq McCord went down, he would add sophomore rush end Trent Harris to the mix with Owens.

Those plans blew up when Owens (knee), Gayot (neck) and, most recently, Kirby (knee) suffered season-ending injuries in the first six games.

“It’s been crazy, really, to be honest with you,” D’Onofrio said.

From what I saw against Virginia Tech, Young looks like a capable replacement. Didn't appear scared or lost or anything like that. But ... well, it was Virginia Tech's offense. Which is not Clemson's offense.

Young, a 6-foot-2, 250-pound native of Albany, Ga., had four tackles, one for loss, and an interception in 22 minutes of action.

“He was perfect on those plays he made, and that’s really what we’re trying to teach our team,” D’Onofrio said. “Be ready for your moment. You make plays by being prepared. You don’t make plays because you’re a so-called playmaker.”

What helped Young prepare, coincidentally, was an injury. He said his sprained foot, which kept him out of action three weeks in August and September, gave him the chance to “sit back and watch everything.”

“Instead of being out there and messing up, I could just learn. … I was just studying and studying. Then when I got out here, I didn’t miss a beat.”

In addition to standout quarterback Deshaun Watson, Clemson (6-0, 3-0) has the ACC’s third-leading rusher in Wayne Gallman (584 yards, five touchdowns on 106 carries). Clemson averages 448.5 yards per game, which ranks second in the ACC.

But Young has no fear of that.

“It’s time. It’s time, baby,” he said. “It’s time to make a difference. Kirby went down, so I’ve got to not come back as good as him, but come back better. Pick the defense up, everybody huddle around me and let’s win this Coastal [Division].”

A few Friday links:

-- A Dabo Swinney spiel makes Stewart Mandel's Top 10 moments of the first half of the season, and it's ... not his epic rant??

Oct. 3: Notre Dame and Clemson play in a monsoon — This game was so epic that within a week you forget it was completely one-sided for three quarters. But the Irish rally from a 21-3 fourth-quarter deficit to come within a last-second, two-point conversion of sending the game to overtime. The Tigers stop it, after which Clemson coach Dabo Swinney delivers a phenomenal postgame interview that gets cut off for guys with iPads.

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Jeff Schultz gives his weekend predictions and says these aren't exactly fun times for the ACC.

The ACC expanded in 2013. It took Notre Dame, but only in basketball, so that was kind of dumb. It took Pitt, for reasons that remain a mystery. It took Syracuse, which stinks in football and is good in basketball but was slapped with NCAA probation in March for academic fraud and improper benefits, which made Jim Boeheim (more) miserable. It took Louisville, which showed they’re ready to lead the youth of America by rehiring Bobby Petrino in football and reportedly using a dorm as a makeshift Club Boom Boom for recruits. (Headline on the satirical website, The Sports Pickle, “Louisville Unlikely to Fire Pitino After Top 700 Recruits Schedule Official Visits.”)

But hey, at least North Carolina hasn’t done anything wrong.

Oh. Wait a minute.

This ACC football season has been a mess. Only seven of 14 teams have winning overall records, which is difficult after seven weeks when you should have fattened up on Elon, Alcorn State and all of their cousins. The biggest bust: Georgia Tech. The Jackets have lost five consecutive, as well as several engine parts.

Oh yeah, his Clemson pick:

I really like the whole white shirt-and-tie thing that Miami coach Al Golden has going on. And he won’t have to buy a new wardrobe when he’s selling term-life policies after the season. Clemson covers 7.

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Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News has an exclusive interview with Coach K.

On the occasion of birthday No. 69 this February, Krzyzewski will be coaching the Duke Blue Devils in an ACC basketball game against Virginia. Let us be honest: This is an unusual way for someone that age to be spending his time. He is not the oldest coach in Division I basketball. He’s not even in the top two. But he is closing fast on the age when the government forces citizens to begin withdrawing money from Individual Retirement Accounts, and he’s not an individual pondering retirement on any account.

“The main thing is, I love what I do,” Krzyzewski told Sporting News. “It’s what I wanted to do since I was 16. I wanted to be a coach, and then who would have known you could be a coach at Duke? And the U.S. team? So that’s pretty good. What I like about basketball is it’s different for me every year. You get a chance to be creative, how you adapt to new personnel. And it’s now new with more frequency.

“I’m a really good rearview mirror guy. In other words, whatever we’ve done, it’s done. I try not to take, good or bad, with you – except the experience of what you’ve learned from it. It doesn’t take away from the seeking of accomplishment.”

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Jason Lisk of The Big Lead rips ESPN for its pimped-out interview of Ray Lewis.

I was found guilty of obstruction of justice, which is because the police who came at me and said, ‘yeah, n-word, it doesn’t matter what you do, we’re gonna find you guilty of this.’ I defended myself, stupidly, because you don’t speak directly to the police about nothing. If you’ve never been through anything like that, listen, man, you don’t know the protocol of that, ‘don’t say nothing; wait for your lawyer.’ I don’t know all that. So I immediately said, ‘what are you talking about, I don’t know everybody in the freaking car.’ That’s what I’m found guilty of, that’s the line of obstruction of justice, that says ‘what is Ray Lewis guilty of, how did Ray Lewis’ image get tarnished, because they found him guilty of saying ‘I don’t know everybody in the car.”

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Finally, some old-school funk from Curtis Mayfield:



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