PINEHURST - North Carolina senior Joe Dailey is keeping his arm in shape, but now that he's switched from quarterback to wideout, he's not sure if he'll have a chance to toss any touchdowns this season.

"You may or may not see it," Dailey said at Sunday's ACC Football Kickoff, grinning. "I haven't been known for many touchdowns, but I've been known for a lot of completions -- to wide receivers, and to opposing teams. I've got a great completion percentage, not always to the right guys."

The former Nebraska signal caller threw seven touchdowns but 10 interceptions as a part-time starter at quarterback last season. As a Cornhusker sophomore, he tossed 19 INTs.

And now that he has made the switch from thrower to catcher, he said he has a much better understanding of why a wideout might want to cuss out a signal caller every once in a while.

"It happens every once in a while when we're running 7-on-7, and I'll run a go-route down the sideline and he'll throw the ball over my head and 4 yards out of bounds, and I'll be like, 'Gol-ly. Dude, just throw it in my hands -- please!' " Dailey said.

HOKIES PREPARE FOR OPENER: The Virginia Tech athletics department is already planning for the Sept. 1 opener against East Carolina, which is expected to be packed and emotional.

The game will be the first for a community passionate about football and still coping with a tragedy in April that saw a Virginia Tech student kill 32 people and wound 25 others before killing himself during a shooting rampage on the Blacksburg, Va., campus.

Assistant AD for media relations Dave Smith said he is expecting a large crowd of media, both on the sports and news ends, to cover the emotional day.

ESPN will bring its GameDay crew to town. The Hokies' press box, one of the biggest and newest in the ACC, can seat 130.

CHUCK'S CLEAN MANDATE: Former N.C. State head coach Chuck Amato has already instituted a new rule in his new position as Florida State linebackers coach: Players must keep their locker room organized correctly, or be banished to the visitor's locker room for a week.

The mandate -- which includes keeping towels in a certain place, ankle braces in a specific cubby, and pads flipped to a particular side -- is meant to teach the players to do the "little things" right off the field, so they'll do them correctly on the field as well.

SLIMMING DOWN: Duke's Tielor Robinson lost 15 pounds this offseason to get quicker. He was preparing for new duties like more touches at tailback and plays where he'll line up as a slot receiver and go against linebackers and faster defensive backs.

"It was only 15 pounds so my blocking wouldn't take a hit," said Robinson, who now weighs 235. "I have the same strength and my speed has improved."

(Staff writers Luciana Chavez and Caulton Tudor contributed to this report.)