Big Four ACC teams will have experienced hands at the helm this season

Posted Sep 3, 2009
The four men who coach ACC football teams in North Carolina all consider themselves lucky in at least one significant regard. All four -- Jim Grobe of Wake Forest, Tom O'Brien of N.C. State, Butch Davis of North Carolina and David Cutcliffe of Duke -- will start the season with proven quarterbacks, which, next to an ironclad multi-year contract, provides about as much security as their generally insecure profession has to offer. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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