I demand a recount
The people have spoken, but ...
Maybe democracy ain't what it's cracked up to be.
It's hard to argue against Everett Case as far as his inclusion on Mount ACCMore - our shrine to Atlantic Coast Conference sports - is concerned.
But as great a player as North Carolina State's David Thompson was, the conference would be what it is today if he had never taken the floor once for the Wolfpack.
Ditto for Michael Jordan and Ralph Sampson and Christian Laettner and ... well, you name the player.
Players have an impact on college athletics for a year or two or three - four at the most.
Coaches like Case and North Carolina's Dean Smith and Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Clemson's Frank Howard and Florida State's Bobby Bowden are the cornerstones of college sports.
I would throw television pioneer C.D. Chezley into that mix as well - for making the ACC must-see TV long before any marketing flunky ever thought of pushing a night of bad comedy as being the same.
But we have David Thompson ready to go up on our mountain.
I would demand a recount - but I'm not sure that I'm ready for a protracted legal battle involving pregnant chads and dimpled chads and the rest.
Sigh ...
- Chris Graham