Between the Two Little Posts, Ideally

Three for eleven on the year.

You see, at this point your more insightful sports blogs would have a comment on this. Advice. Analysis on whether this is effecting the team, coaching strategies, or the headspace of the nineteen year-old who's foot has sent eight oblongs in the wrong direction this year. (And if the blog in question was a fan of the red and white, there would also be calls to fire the athletic director, but that is neither here nor there.)

This is not an insightful sports blog. This is a sports blog who's kicking record at Kenan is 0 for 1, and I didn't have 50,000 people screaming as I did it. (Of course, I was trespassing, which I'd argue adds a little bit of pressure, but still.) So all you get here is a plea to please put the ball through the uprights. That and a facile analysis of the upcoming game:

Miami will be looking ahead to Virginia Tech. Miami will be more concerned with their special outfits. Miami is a beatable team, and Carolina is a team that beat them. Their stadium is banged up, and despite the name, they don't do to well in games after a hurricane's been through. Our defense has held three teams to their lowest point totals of the season. And gave up more points to a Big East team than in those three games combined.

Those are the optimistic points. And none of them involve what's likely to happen between the goal posts on Saturday. N.C. State can walk into a game looking to avenge an embarassing loss and trip over their own feet. With Miami, that's a lot less likely. Miami over the Tar Heels by a couple of touchdowns.

(Where's the incurable homer gotten to? I'm saving it up to pick the upset over Virginia Tech. No, really.)