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Stumbling Out Of The Gate

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With 15 ACC teams it would be difficult to go through a series of season openers without a stumble or two. Or three, as it turned out these past few days.

Debut games rarely pit ACC clubs against the game’s elite. There was one such contest on November 10, Georgia Tech against UCLA in Shanghai, China. The story of the contest was overshadowed by the bizarre tale of three Bruins who were arrested for shoplifting at three different stores, their sense of American exceptionalism apparently extending to their view of abiding by local laws.

The trio of sidelined UCLA players nearly matched the pair of Yellow Jackets left behind in Atlanta after the school self-reported improper gifts from a friend of coach Josh Pastner.