ACC to adopt injury reports

GREENSBORO, Ga. — The ACC will look more like the NFL in one way this football season — injury reports.

The conference will adopt a standard guideline for reporting injuries during the week, associate commissioner Mike Finn said Monday at the ACC Kickoff.

Teams will issue a report twice a week. On Monday, season-ending injuries and pending surgeries will be announced by the school's sports medicine staff. On Thursday, an NFL-style report with categories of "Out, Doubtful, Questionable and Probable" will be released.

North Carolina coach Butch Davis said N.C. State coach Tom O'Brien suggested the new standard. Previously, each team could release as much, or as little, information about injuries as it deemed necessary.

"It's a good thing," O'Brien said. "Anything that unifies it; some [coaches] would play with it one way or another."

Unlike the NFL, teams won't be fined, for leaving players off the report.

"There is no punishment," Finn said. "It's a guideline, not a policy. We're trying to create a minimum standard for sharing information."