One source of tension between ACC football coaches and the media was relieved earlier this week, when the coaches agreed on a set of injury guidelines for the 2008 season.

"This is not an ACC rule subject to enforcement," the ACC said in a news release, but no coaches seemed opposed at the ACC Football Kickoff in Greensboro, Ga.

Basically, the coaches will address injuries only twice a week, the first time on Mondays, when they will identify any players who are out for the season or are slated for surgery.

Within 90 minutes of the end of practice Thursday, schools will be asked to provide the playing status of injured players for upcoming games.

The five categories are definitely will play, probable, questionable, doubtful and out.

If a team has a Thursday game, theoretically the information would be available within 90 minutes of the end of practice Tuesday.

North Carolina State coach Tom O'Brien liked the new guidelines because "as coaches, sometimes you get into guessing games [over] whether a guy will make it or not," he said. "By Thursday, with what we've seen on the field, we're much better prepared to say whether a guy's going to play or not."

But let's say the Wolfpack was playing Virginia Tech, which they aren't this year. Could a team overhaul its game plan for an opponent like Tech that has two quarterbacks with radically different skills sets?

"When you play a team like that, you always put together two game plans anyway, regardless of whether they're healthy or not," O'Brien said.

"I think you always plan for guys to play."

The proposal mirrors the NFL's policy, so it's no surprise that longtime NFL assistant and one-year New York Jets coach Al Groh endorses it.

However, Texas coach Mack Brown was a driving source behind this plan, which was discussed at the winter coaches' convention.

"It's fine with me," Groh said.

Quote-unquote

O'Brien says of 6-7 quarterback recruit Mike Glennon from Fairfax County: "In my opinion, he's the best quarterback coming into the college ranks this year, for what we do."

Glennon's older brother is Virginia Tech senior quarterback Sean Glennon.

Immovable objects

Offensive guard Nick Marshman, a 6-foot-5, 357-pound redshirt senior, is one of 10 players listed at 300 pounds or more in Virginia Tech's media guide. Five are 320 or more, including former Northside High School tight end Brandon Holland, a 6-4, 330-pound junior. Sports information Dave Smith says the highest weight he can remember was 358 for offensive lineman Brandon Gore in 2006.

Virginia does not have a player listed at more than 315 pounds, the weight given for each of the Cavaliers' starting offensive tackles, Eugene Monroe and Will Barker. The Cavaliers' other projected starters are guard B.J. Cabbell (6-6, 304), guard Zak Stair (6-6, 300) and center Jack Shields (6-5, 296). Like Holland, Shields is a former tight end.

Recruiting

Georgia Tech has taken an oral commitment from Mfon Udofia, a 6-foot-2 point guard from Stone Mountain, Ga., who had Virginia high on his list before the Cavaliers took a commitment last week from Jontel Evans from Bethel High School in Hampton.

Udofia was the third player to commit to the Yellow Jackets for 2009, along with Oak Hill Academy forward Brian Oliver and Kammeon Holsey, a 6-7 power player from Sparta, Ga., who picked Georgia Tech over Clemson and Florida State.

Cadairian Raines, a 6-foot-10 post man who was described as a 2010 Virginia Tech men's basketball recruit, is entering his senior year at Petersburg High School and actually has committed to the Hokies for 2009-2010.

Moving on

Cave Spring High School football coach Tim Fulton reports that 2007 Knights linebacker Matt Siemonic is headed to Division I-AA James Madison as a non-scholarship player and that Nathan Dodson is planning to play for Ferrum.

One-time Rockbridge County coach Billy Mills, now at Dinwiddie, is sending three of his players to Ferrum. Included in that group is all-region running back and free safety Wilkie Cox.