Keeping Perspective

Jed Williams

As former Pittsburgh Coach Walt Harris (can someone please put out an APB for him, by the way?) so wisely mused after shouldering a Cavalier whoopin’ in the 2003 Tire Bowl, “hindsight is 50-50.” Yoga Berra couldn’t have said it better if that AFLAC duck came sauntering through his barbershop.

Wahoos, we can’t change our football past, no matter how hard we try. Nor should we attempt to. But to dismiss it is equally dangerous (isn’t there some pithy axiom about “those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it”?). Anyway, here’s the upshot – as you read this column in mid December of 2007, you’re also contemplating dolling out holiday cash on a New Year’s bowl trip to watch the ACC Coach of the Year Al Groh lead his 85 charges, chief among them Chris Long , who is arguably the most dominant player in recent vintage to sport the orange and blue.

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