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."

PLENTY OF OPTIONS AT QB FOR WOLFPACK: Tom O'Brien's never had to choose from five potential starters at quarterback. The second-year coach is not in a hurry to name a starter, or even a favorite, for the Aug. 28 opener at South Carolina.

"It's better to make the right decision than just make a decision," O'Brien said. "You name the quarterback when we're comfortable with who it's going to be. Now we're going to have to name one to play South Carolina, that's the drop-dead date."

Senior Daniel Evans started eight games in 2007 and junior Harrison Beck started four. The ESPN spotlight in front of 80,000 fans at South Carolina might not be the ideal for setting for a first start for sophomore Justin Burke or freshmen Russell Wilson and Mike Glennon, but O'Brien said the environment would not determine the starter.

"I know it's a tough place to play, if it's got to be a freshman, he's going to have to play in that situation anyway, you might as well start right away and go after it," O'Brien said.

In other Wolfpack news, O'Brien said, incoming freshman William Beasley (linebacker), Marty Everett (defensive lineman) and Tobais Palmer (running back) did not qualify academically.

BASKETBALL DAYS NUMBERED FOR LITTLE: UNC coach Butch Davis called Greg Little's time as a walk-on with the basketball team "a good experiment," considering it kept the starting tailback conditioned and other football players had tried it before.

But it sounds as if the sophomore won't be returning to the hardcourt next season.

"We'll talk about it,'' Davis said. "If he was a fifth guy, sixth guy, playing 20, 25 minutes -- I'm old school. I love basketball, I played basketball in high school -- but for him to be the 12th or 15th man, and for him to play 20 seconds at the end of five games, I think he's smart enough to make that decision. I don't have to make it for him."

Little appeared in 10 games, averaging 1.5 minutes, for the basketball team.

QB PLATOON HISTORY FOR HOKIES: Frank Beamer said Virginia Tech needed Tyrod Taylor and Sean Glennon at quarterback to win the ACC title last season, but he'd prefer to use just one this season.

"We've got to get that figured out," Beamer said. "All of us would like to get it down to one quarterback. We made it work last year, but it's still hard [to use two quarterbacks]."

Beamer said he has not discussed the possibility of redshirting Taylor, a sophomore, and thought it was unlikely to happen if Glennon, a senior, beats him out for the starting position.