Scott Rich

The vibes check was actually bite-sized.

And lest we forget, this is not last year's ACC on top of all that.

There has been, you know, now that we're a little bit into conference play, people are starting to reevaluate the relative strengths of the conferences.

One way that they've been doing that, Jeff Goodman put out a tweet looking at the percentage of the conference's teams in the top 75 of the net.

The 78% of ACC teams are in the top 75 of the net.

The only conference above that is the Big 12, which I think everyone agrees is a tier above everyone else in terms of strength.

The SEC dominance storyline of last year

isn't what it was.

The ACC being as bad as it was in its history, that is no longer the case.

So when you say, hey, Duke is going on the road to play two quality ACC teams, that is a tough week.

Even before we talk about going out across the country, which is something that no Duke team has had to do before the last couple of years in conference realignment.

If I recall correctly, if he already had two years of eligibility remaining, including this year.

So, you know, hopefully we can get the ball rolling and get him that medical red shirt.

And this is a guy who can be that big, big body that break in case of emergency big, you know, for another two years at Duke.

It's a shame for him.

You know how vital and important it is to have that big, to have that body and practice, you know,

We've benefited from that, from having that type of guy on our roster for years.

It's a shame we're going to lose that the rest of the season.

You know, I've talked on this show in my writing before about how the net they've they've given us all the ingredients to how the net is calculated, but not told us the recipe.

So we know what goes in, but we don't know what the weighing is.