It's Springtime!

While I sit here watching the opening day of Major League Baseball(watching the Braves beating up on the Cubs, for now), I can't help but think of what a wonderful time of year it is. I love spring time for so many reasons. Like I said, MLB has begun and for the first time in a long time I am excited about the Braves, thank you Jason Heyward. Living up in DC allows me to enjoy the cherry blossoms that make the Potomac look like a clean body of water for a couple of weeks.... The opening day for Women's Professional Soccer is this weekend, Go FREEDOM! And of course, there is spring football!

Being a Tar Heel normally makes the spring time a sadder time of the year compared to say, SEC schools. We are normally on the end of the celebrations on Franklin Street after winning the national championship or at least beating Duke at Hansborough Indoor Stadium, but unfortunately, this was not that year. Instead, all I hear about right now is people planning on tailgating this weekend for the UNC football spring football game. I remember back to my freshman year and going to what was then the "infamous" spring football game. I walked right into the stadium and amongst the hundreds(mostly family members) I sat down and wondered if there was a possibility of making it to a bowl. I don't even think they were selling concessions that day.... Now with all the commotion about our spring football game, I am hoping for more than just a bowl, I want an ACC championship! Is it too much to ask for on April 5th? Is it too much pressure to have the game being televised(thank you ESPN) and the predictions flying off the experts tongues that maybe this will be UNC's year? Let me just say two words...Marvin Austin! He's like a skinnier mount Cody that can run faster but still scare the living daylights out of any running back or QB. I say bring on LSU on opening day and bring on the ACC! I wish I could be at the spring game, but I do know I will be watching. If it can't be autumn for regular season college football, then I say let it be spring so I can go ahead and start scouting and getting excited for what is going to be another fun-filled football season(well at least I hope so, and probably so do all the UNC basketball fans)! Plus, my WPS season will fill the void of a college football-less summer so I am pretty excited about the spring, especially April 10th!


Here is my question for the spring...we need a new pack of players that "competed" for the heisman last year like Tebow, McCoy, and Bradford. Who are they going to be? Will it be more of running back year this year as we have Mark Ingram returning as the heisman trophy winner? Will it finally be a defensive person's turn to win? Give me your thoughts and let the scouting begin!