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Another one of my common criticisms of the ACC hoops bunch. Being a showboat (1) is poor officiating mechanics, and (2) is unprofessional. When a story on officials is the lead story (Karl Hess) it just detracts from the game. I had the PRIVILEGE of working games with a guy named Chase Vaden (son of NBA VP, Dir of Officials Don Vaden) in the Lynchburg area, and it was an amazing experience just by osmosis. Be friendly but not familiar, smile, laugh, know your rule book inside out, watch your own film to get better every game, and use really good positioning and mechanics. That's all it takes to be a superior official.

So Kylo Ren's story seems inconsistent. He was trained by Luke at a young age and apparently powerful enough to wipe out the entire Jedi training camp by himself. Then he trained under the new emporer for some period of time with the dark side. However he struggles in a light saber duel with Fin (who never even turned on a light saber) and is held in check by a girl who figured out she had the force for like 4 hours.

A bit disappointing the dark side is not as bad ass, as in prior films - Darth Maul, Anakin and Vader were all pretty ruthless warriors when it was time to fight - Ren, not so much.

And Obi Wan's excuse for his style is what? Don't say old age because if anything, Yoda is proof that age is just a number when you watch him flying around in the prequels. The meek appearance of Yoda due to his age is just deception. Luke proved he was nimble as you watch him above the Sarlacc pit. He has the ability to jump, flip, and do all the stuff from the prequels, but in a lightsaber battle, it's not about that as told by the original trilogy.

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I hate to break it to you....but the ACC is weak as shit. I would not be at all surprised if Clemson loses in spectacular fashion to OU.

I do think that, at least in the Coastal, the ACC did vastly improve the coaching pedigree this off-season. Let's see if it pans out. I think right now, and over the last 5 years, the ACC is and has been the weakest or second weakest of the P5 conferences. What really hurts the ACC is not having a national power. FSU 2 years ago and Clemson this year have been blips but the league lacks a consistent national contender (think OSU, Bama). I think the coaching up-grades could lead to better teams and more OOC wins for the league in a few years but only time will tell. As of right now, the ACC is garagegarbage. It's tough to argue otherwise.

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