Originally Posted by
dukemomLA
Was thrilled to see NC State beat VT tonight! (...although as my niece graduated from VT, and my nephew may be attending there in the fall, or perhaps GT, it pains me).
BUT I'm weary of the thugs and the thug play that the expansion schools have brought to the ACC. Yes, I love a hard-hitting physical game as well as the next person, and yet when I watch game-after-game where I feel that players are deliberately out to injure opponents, I draw the line.
In no way, do I limit this opinion to the ACC. And, IMO, the NCAA needs to step in (....duh...have they EVER done that?) and curb this abuse.
I know for years they called the Big East as a 'rough & tumble' conference. But I went to school in the Big East, and so did my sister, and we never experienced this football-is-just-like-basketball type of play.
Currently refs are calling endless ricky-ticky fouls which do NOTHING to stem this tide -- it just makes games tedious to watch.
We need early Technicals and Flagrants and Rejections. Enough. It's gotten ridiculous and someone -- from any team -- is going to have a very serious injury soon. Let's hope we can send a message to the refs and the NCAA and the ACC before it's too late.