The 2008 All-ACC Football team was announced today and let record show not one Miami Hurricane was named to the squad. Placekicker/punter Matt Bosher was named to the second team and somehow safety Anthony Reddick was named to the Honorable Mention list, despite a very average season.
There are many ways one can digest this information.
First and foremost, if you can’t even earn All-ACC honors in such and up and down conference, you’re definitely not going to have an Parade All-Americans on your squad. Further proof that the talent level at The U has dropped tremendously.
Now that said, Miami was 7-3 two weeks ago and still had a shot at reaching the ACC title game, before dropping it’s final two games and going 7-5 on the year.
ACC Coastal winner Virginia Tech had five players named to the first and second team, while Atlantic Division winner Boston College had six players honored. Ironic that both schools are Big East rejects who the ACC invited on board along with Miami, to sweeten the deal.
The Canes are yet to sniff a conference title game in four season while the Hokies have won it twice and are playing for it again this year. The Eagles are headed to their second straight ACC Championship game, where they lost to Tech last December.
Anyone who said the move to the ACC is what killed Miami, think again. It’s a lack of talent that’s done the Canes in. How else can you explain Boston College and Virginia Tech repping the ACC’s best two years in a row when both were Big East teams that Miami used to beat on?
You hear that sound? That’s Randy Shannon and staff getting back on the recruiting trail…