Bad news for the Canes football program: Defensive end Allen Bailey tore a pectoral muscle lifting weights on Monday and will need surgery.

The Canes are optimistic he will be back soon, but I expect that he will miss the start of the season. I would hate for that to happen because - by all accounts - Bailey was tearing it up in the offseason, but that is my fear.

The Canes have some good prospects to replace Bailey with at DE - Adewale Ojomo and Courtney Harris. And Eric Moncur remains a rock at the other DE spot. But the way folks were talking about Bailey as a freak of nature, I want badly for him to return to action.