ACC Preseason Team Announced

The Preseason All-ACC team was announced today and Tennant and Castonzo both made it. I was bothered by HD's choice @ Center but its good to see that most other reporters disagreed with her (and to her credit she admitted to difficulty and oddly enough had Wes Davis as one of the Safeties)

As far as snubs go I think there's a small case to be made for Claiborne, Albright and Wes Davis, but Albright was hurt last year and the Safety position was stacked with Burnett and Chancellor winning roundly. The one snub that bothers me is McLaughlin here's a comparison of credentials:
Name Position Tackles/Solo /TFL/Sack/FF/Int/Misc
Mac: MLB 89 /53 / 14 / 4 / 2 / 1 /Captain, calls signals, vaults linemen
DeKoda Watson OLB 46 /28/ 8 / 0 /0 / 1 / missed 4 games, 28 tackles in last 4
Quan Sturdivan MLB 122 /87/ 5.5/ 2 / 2/ 1 /moving to MLB this year, calls signals
Alex Wujciak MLB 133 /56/ 8.5/ 1.5/ 0 / 0 / 2nd team All-ACC

One other thing to note is that Mac was also playing alongside Herzlich (110 tackles) and Francois/Toal (124 combined) and behind Brace and Raji so he has arguably less opportunity to make tackles (#5 total Defense) Watson and FSU are arguably as close (#15) but after that Sturdivan and Wujciak were standouts on relatively unheralded defenses (# 64 and #63 respectively). This shows particularly with Wujciak as he only has 56 solo stops(which is a lot, but less than half of his 133 total), meaning he had to help bring someone down more often than make a play.

When you look at it Mac has less tackles because he had less opportunity yet still had great numbers has always been a MLB, has leadership ability, calls signals and jumps over linemen to make sacks.

My only conclusion was that Mac was passed over because of the question on whether he will play and whether he will be 100% with his hobbled ankle.