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♦ TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2006
Stuckey pevels in Ctemson's status
By Adam Van Brimmer
Morris News Service
PONTE VEDRA, Fla. -
Clemson’s Chansi Stuckey
revels in his team’s status
as the popular choice to sup
plant Florida State as the
Atlantic Coast Conference
favorite.
The league’s preseason
poll will be announced
Monday during the ACC’s
annual media days. Florida
State will likely top it, as it
has every year since joining
the league in 1992.
Yet Clemson is expected to
get several first-place votes
to beat out the Seminoles for
the Atlantic Division title.
“The shoe is on a different
foot this year. Usually, we
open the season trying to get
to the top. We’re starting at
the top this time,” Stuckey
said. “Now we have to go out
and prove it.”
Stuckey is confident the
Tigers are more than just
the “flavor of the month”
among ACC pundits. They
return 16 starters from a
team that won six of its last
seven games last season and
Finished with a No. 21 rank
ing.
Clemson’s off-season
motto - “BCS summer”
- sums up the Tigers’ deter
mination.
“You can’t live off the
media and where they put
you at,” Stuckey said. “When
it comes to winning, you
have to take care of that.”
GEORGIATECITSANQAI HAPPIER
AS TACKIER THAN TACKIEE: Joe
Anoai possessed two attri-
Tech's Johnson strikes a Heisman pose
By Adam Van Brimmer
Morris News Service
PONTE VEDRA, Fla.
- Georgia Tech’s Calvin
Johnson struck the Heisman
Trophy pose Sunday.
Not literally, but verbally.
The Yellow Jackets’ star
wide receiver stiff-armed
- Heisman-style ~ every
question about his chances
at Individual awards this
season during the Atlantic
Coast Conference’s annu
al media days, even as his
peers around the interview
room anointed him as the
best player in college foot
ball.
“I don’t really think about
it,” the junior wide receiver
said. “I just concentrate on
doing what I can do to help
the team out.”
And that doesn’t include
campaigning for the
Heisman or any other
award. Several hundred
sportswriters and broad
casters tried to prod the
preseason All-American
into doing so during a 90-
minute interview session
at the Sawgrass Marriott.
Johnson just smiled,
shrugged hi£ shoulders and
pleaded humility.
“I’m sitting across from
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'The shoe is on a different foot this
year. Usually, we open the season
trying to get to the top. we're starting
at the top this time. Now we have to go
out and prove it.'
- Clemson player and former Northside standout Chansi Stuckey
butes every youth football
coach longs for in a player
- size and speed.
The Yellow Jackets’ 280-
pound defensive tackle
began his football career as
a tailback, scoring 19 touch
downs his first season of
youth league.
“I was the Reggie Bush of
that league,” Anoai said.
But Anoai is glad coaches
eventually valued his girth
more than his running abil
ity.
“I wouldn’t want to play
running back now,” Anoai
said. “Those guys get
pounded. I wouldn’t want
to run the ball.”
Anoai loves tackling,
though. The two-year
starter will anchor Georgia
Tech’s defense this sea
son, assuming the leader
ship role from last year’s
seniors.
Anoai had 6.5 tackles-for
loss and three sacks last
season despite a shoulder
injury that forced him to
play at what he estimated
at 80 percent of his capa
bilities.
NO LOVE AMONG VIRGINIA
SCHOOLS: Virginia Tech’s
the best athlete in the
nation, but you wouldn’t
know it,” said Yellow Jacket
defensive tackle Joe Anoai,
who shared an interview
table with Johnson. “But
that’s Calvin. He’s been
like that since the first day
I met him.”
Johnson’s been a star
since that day too, earn
ing ACC rookie of the year
honors in 2004 and all-
American status last year.
He is a shoe-in to win the
ACC’s preseason player of
the year award when it is
announced Monday and is
on the cover of every con
ference preview magazine
at your local news stand.
The attention is sure
to build over the next six
weeks leading into the
Yellow Jackets’ season
opener against Notre Dame.
The game, to be shown on
network television, will no
doubt be billed as an early
showdown of Heisman con
tenders: Johnson and Irish
quarterback Brady Quinn.
“It’s nice to see and hear
things like that, to get that
respect,” Johnson said.
The talk means noth
ing beyond that, Johnson
insists. He’s been dealing
experience levels.
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recent success dwarfs that of
its in-state rival, Virginia.
The Hokies have won 10
or more games five of the
last seven seasons while
the Cavaliers, despite her
alded recruiting classes
since A 1 Groh took over as
coach in 2001, are 12-12
in ACC play over the last
three years.
Don’t expect Virginia’s
players to give the rivals
any credit, though.
“Part of it is the schedule
they play,” Cavalier corner
back Marcus Hamilton said.
“We could win that many
games too if we padded our
schedule.”
Hamilton’s argument is
hollow, at least when it came
to last season. Virginia’s
non-conference schedule
included Western Michigan,
Syracuse and Temple while
Virginia Tech played Ohio,
Marshall and Big East
champion West Virginia.
Virginia plays Pittsburgh,
Wyoming, Western Michigan
and East Carolina this sea
son while the Hokies face
Division I-AA Northeastern,
Cincinnati, Southern
Mississippi and Kent State.
with hype and attention
since the second game of
his college career, when he
caught three touchdown
passes, including the game
winner, in a 2004 upset of
Clemson.
He has yet to get caught
up in his own celebrity and
isn’t about to start this sea
son, one filled with high
expectations for the veteran
Yellow Jackets.
“I’m pretty sure our
defense is going to have a
good year,” Johnson said.
“It’s all on our offense.”
Johnson showed obvious
excitement over the offen
sive changes made by coor
dinator Patrick Nix in the
spring. Nix has taken over
the play-calling duties from
head coach Chan Gailey,
and while Johnson refused
to discuss specifics, he did
share one aspect of the
revamped offense.
“Hopefully, I’ll get the
ball more,” said Johnson,
who averaged less than five
catches a game his first
two seasons. “As long as I
improve my. stats every sea
son, it’s all good.
“Good for the team, I
mean.”
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Hamp.
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