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ACC recap: Top sound bites from Charlotte

Some of the best, and most bizarre, statements from the ACC Kickoff
 
Published July 20, 2018

College football's talking season commenced this week with three Power Five conferences staging their annual media days. We were in Charlotte for the ACC gab-a-rama, where sound bites ranging from the bizarre to the brain-dead were generated.

And that was just North Carolina's Larry Fedora.

Here are some of the other notable quotes from the two-day event.

"To be honest with you, I thought I was going to come here and have a bunch of turds, and we don't. We had a bunch of really good young men that want to be great and…that have some big dreams and some big goals." — FSU coach Willie Taggart on his impressions of his team as a whole when he arrived last December

"I expect us to be better. I expect us to be more balanced, the ability to get more guys involved, particularly in the running game. I really like our receiving corps coming back." — Louisville coach Bobby Petrino on his vision of the post-Lamar Jackson era

"I thought they'd all turn pro. I don't know, I guess they like the slide." — Miami coach Mark Richt on Clemson's quartet of heralded defensive linemen (Clemson's football facility has an indoor slide)

"No, I don't feel old at all. But I wouldn't want to spend it any other place except in front of you great people." — Syracuse coach Dino Babers (Thursday was his 57th birthday)

"This conference is no joke. People talk about other conferences. I've been in the Pac-12. I've been in the Pac-12 when it was the Pac-10. I've been in the Big 12. You know, coaches come up here and they read their lines and they try to reinforce their conference, and everybody does that, okay? This is no baloney cheese for me. This conference is a real football conference." — Babers

"Thank you all for being here, man. First of all, I want to thank my Lord and savior Jesus Christ, yes indeed. I want to thank Coach (Dabo) Swinney for picking me to come up here and represent the team. This has been great, seeing all you guys, answering all the questions. A lot of the questions are repetitive. Just saying." — Clemson DE Clelin Ferrell

And we'd be remiss if we didn't include Richt's recipe for a "Hot Dog Delight:

"Two slices of bread, put 'em in the broiler. Put your oven on broil, toast one side, toast the other side. In the meantime, you're cooking your dog; I don't care how you cook it. … Slide your tray and your bread that's toasted out of the oven. Cut your dogs long way, lay them flat across there. Usually one or two dogs per (sandwich). … Then take American cheese and cover your bread completely, and your dogs. Slide it back in (the oven), melt your cheese, bring it back out. Slide it on a plate. Take your beans. It could be Van Camp's pork and beans like I had as a kid. … But however you get your beans ready, you hammer your hot dogs, cheese and bread with the beans. Then you take ketchup and you hammer it with ketchup, and then you take a fork and you…just devour it."