When does this thing start?
One of the issues facing college basketball, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said recently, is its timetable. Virtually everybody must start practice at the same time, but not everybody starts its season at the same time. N.C. A&T, for example, began this past Friday, Nov. 12. Here's the rest of the local schedules: Wake Forest, Nov. 15; N.C. State, Nov. 17; Georgia Tech, North Carolina, UNCG, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Maryland this Friday, Nov. 19; Miami, Saturday, Nov. 20. Given the NCAA's general desire to enforce equality of opportunity, as seen throughout the massive rulebook, this difference in competitive starting date is rather odd. Seems to me there needs to be uniformity in uniform.