This week’s ACC Roundtable is hosted by Joe Ovies of AM 850 The Buzz Sports Radio and THEE Blog. He has an on-again, off-again relationship with Neil Diamond’s The Jazz Singer, a dentist approved smile and a direct line to the summer home of every coach in the ACC.

1.) Now that we’re in the home-stretch of college football, we have enough material to begin campaigns for ACC coach of the year and player of the year. Who ya got and why?

There are a lot of deserving candidates for player of the year not named Russell Wilson in the ACC. zing My vote is for Christian Ponder. He has a 12 to 1 touchdown to interception ratio, that’s bested only by Viper’s kill ratio in Korea, he’s ranked sixth nationally in passing yards and is the lone ray of light coming out of the black hole engulfing Tallahassee. My vote for coach of the year is for Paul Johnston. In under two years CPJ has been able to transform Georgia Tech into the nastiest bunch of sons-of-bitches in the ACC.

In lieu of Maverick-Viper (YouTube blockage) I give you the final dogfight.

2.) Would your 2009 ACC coach of the year stand a chance in the SEC battlefields of recruiting and gameday management against the likes of Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, and Lane Kiffin?

The jury is still out, because there’s only 20 games of data to go on. Currently CPJ is 3-1 against the SEC. The wins against Mississippi State aren’t uber impressive, while the close win, in Athens, against Georgia made a statement, it was later redacted after LSU swatted the Bees in the Peach Bowl. As for recruiting probably not, and that’s the way CPJ likes it. He wants his types of players and most of the time that doesn’t intersect with who Rivals has deemed a five star. Winfield, Dane and Bird can correct me if I’m wrong.

3.) Getting away from the breathless week-to-week win/loss reactions such as “OMGZ!1!JUAN! WE WON, BCS NEXT!” or “WTF, WE’RE DA SUX. FIRE COACH!”, where is your head coach in 5 years. If no longer with your school, how does the exit go down?

Frank is still going to be roaming the sidelines in Blacksburg. Last year when all the talk about making Foster coach in waiting came about he said he could see himself coaching for another eight plus years. Hopefully by that point he’ll have won a National Championship.

4.) Coffee is for closers only. Which means plenty of ACC teams are walking around with empty cups after failing to finish off opponents or lock up divisions. As the worst offender, who gets the steak knives?

Virginia Tech. All we had to do, to realistically, wrap up the Coastal was win in Atlanta and we couldn’t.

5.) Bob Griese wants to take you and Juan Pablo Montoya out for tacos. Where’s the best joint in town?

El Rodeo on North Main Street, not only do they have better than Taco Bell tacos, but I once saw a couple of eight-year-olds toasting margaritas (not really).