ESPN contributor on Webb Simpson, "He's the best American player right now by a long ways."

Meanwhile, Rutgers is spending $2.00 more than it’s making, which makes it and Wake Forest the only two BCS schools showing a loss in football.

Interesting piece about the finances of football. Speaks mainly on the Big East but also touches other conferences.

New coach Tad Boyle (12), a former star high school player in the state who built a program at Northern Colorado, is off to a blazing start. He has made the most of some talented offensive players recruited by Jeff Bzdelik, but he also has sharpened the team's defense.

UNC G is 0-8

Don't Lose Wednesday. Just sayin

J.T. Terrell, Wake Forest: In an otherwise dreadful season in Winston-Salem, the freshman guard provided a bright spot by contributing 32 points, including a last-second game-winner against Iowa in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

North Carolina has dismissed fifth-year senior Will Graves from the team.

Coach Roy Williams said Thursday that Graves didn't comply with team rules, though he says in a statement from the school that it had nothing to do with "any NCAA matters on campus."

At Wake Forest, the best AD in the business, Ron Wellman, decided enough was enough. Dino Gaudio was initially hired to keep a monster recruiting class together after the untimely death of Skip Prosser, and it showed. His teams were inconsistent, never played at a level comparable to their talent, and played their worst basketball of the season in March. It took a date with Wake Forest Central (aka Rick Barnes and Texas) to get them out of the first round of the NCAAs, and then they promptly bent over and got sodomized by Kentucky. Wellman brought in the head coach of Colorado, Jeff Bzedlik, to be the anti-Gaudio. The only reason I'm not panning this hire is because Wellman has been right more often than wrong on his coaching hires. He tries to get coaches that fit into the Wake Forest culture, something that Gaudio apparently didn't (his behind the scenes behavior was the clincher in his firing according to insiders...he wasn't a nice guy in a department where even the football coach is nice to everyone). Bzedlik was struggling at Colorado, but he did do wonders at Air Force and was pretty successful as an NBA head coach. However, just like Steve Donahue, Bzedlik is going to have to get it done in the recruiting area, and that's a tall order considering the two powerhouses an hour away.

2. Jeff Bzdelik, Wake Forest
Replacing Dino Gaudio

The only factor that keeps Bzdelik's gig from being No. 1 on this list? The level of expectations, given that he's replacing a guy who had a 61-31 record over the past three seasons and was fired for not winning enough in the NCAA tournament. There won't be any patience for mediocrity at Wake. What makes Bzdelik's situation such a good one is that he's stepping into a very stable program: He kept Gaudio's entire top-15 recruiting class (including a quartet of four-star prospects) intact, and retained ace recruiter Jeff Battle as an associate head coach. The Deacons may miss the NCAA tournament this season after losing stars Al-Farouq Aminu and Ish Smith, but they're well-positioned for success in 2011-12 and beyond.

Another ACC team with some moving parts to replace. Gone are Ike Opara, Austin da Luz, Corben Bone and Zach Schilawski to MLS. Big seasons will be needed from Austin Lubahn and to alleviate those losses, and it's a reason why the Deamon Deacons were voted to finish fourth in the ACC. By the same token, they were No. 3 in the preseason poll by NCAA.

Jay Vidovich can only hope that he's recruited well and brought in the right players to step into some of these gaps.

Panic!!!!! Nothing is well

where is the panic button when you need it!