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French royalty never does very well on Bastille day.
My parents ate at Blacksburg Tavern a few summers back when they were passing through Blacksburg on the way to Tennessee for a vacation and they really enjoyed it.
They shouldn't let the door hit their lawyers' rear ends on the way out.
Also, they should start planning for a career after college.
I haven't tried it yet, but the Blacksburg Tavern on Main Street is supposedly set up the same way with family style cooking.
VMI - Big W
ODU - W
UM - As big a W as we can manage
BC - W
Pitt - W
Cal - W
GT - W
Clem - L
SMU - W
Stanford - W
Miami - L
UVA - W
I wanted to show 12 and 0 baby, but I couldn't do it. I will settle for 10-2.
My family and I were down in the Roanoke area for 4th of July and had the privilege to try out the re-opened Homeplace. It was just as good as I remember it. They actually improved the grounds around the house a bit, but the food was as yummy as ever. Lucked out they were offering pulled pork for the 4th. I think it is the first time in awhile that my teenage son left a restaurant full.
I have us tentatively at 7 so this line is aimed squarely at taking my money:
VMI - W
ODU - W
UM - W
BC - W
Pitt - L
Cal - W
GT - L
Clem - L
SMU - L
Stanford - W
Miami - L
UVA - W
I think the ref in this Spain-France game has made some mistakes early on. The challenge by Rabiot that earned him a card wasn't card worthy imo. Then, later on, there was another foul by a French player where his studs went into the ankle of the Spaniard's planted leg, no ball at all, should have been a yellow but wasn't.
Not sure if Spain realizes that the French people have a history of responding to being down on Bastille day and the response can be rather extreme
Not just held a grudge. I remember seeing somewhere that he keeps the big binder of his over-arching plan that he was going to implement once he became the Terps head coach on his shelf for motivation and has done so at every stop since.
I hope that bringing in Bell's perspective along with White's experience at AD will make for a good balance of approaches to generate funds. VT and UGA's alumni bases are very different, but I think the Hokie Club has just done a poor job identifying and engaging alum with means to donate.
I have a friend that was contacted by one of the Hokie Club's large gift representatives prior to the 2025 season for a donation that was about the same cost as two season tickets on the lower level of East stands. I don't think VT has a sustainable source of $75 million donors, but I also think we have several alum that could give more than the cost of a 1999 Civic that are either not approached to donate or are not provided with the right incentive to do so.
I think it's more personal than anything else.
Franklin was named UMD's coach in waiting when he was OC there, then the new AD yanked it away from him. He's allegedly held a grudge against the school ever since.
Agreed. Franklin is clearly an optics guy and understands that his first real litmus test is the MD game (if we lose to ODU the week before, shit is already gonna be hitting the fan).
But losing to Maryland who is a basement B1G team, has a coach who is 95% fired, and lives in the middle of one of Franklin's most fertile Recruiting Grounds would be a tough pill to swallow. I expect the team to be sharp and fired up for that one.
The overall outcome of the season really I think rests on Pitt, Cal, GT, and UVA. All are (potentially) winnable games. If we split them, probably end up 7-5. Win 3 and we are 8-4 which I think would be a good foundation for Year One and we should all be content with.
We win by 35 and Locksly is Lockslied out of the locker room...
Im curious how things go, because fundraising at vt is gonna be awfully different than at uga where alumni and non alumni eat, sleep, and breathe uga football and do not need nearly as much convincing to donate boatloads of money to being better at football
I had the same thought... going to be interesting to see.
I had to double check that he's coming from University of Georgia and not Northern Georgia University Community College....
Exciting times, indeed.
Georgia, gee have they been good both with regard to money and on field results? I guess learning something from them could be nice
In all seriousness, this seems like a good move, here's hoping hes ready to bring it. Im curious how things go, because fundraising at vt is gonna be awfully different than at uga where alumni and non alumni eat, sleep, and breathe uga football and do not need nearly as much convincing to donate boatloads of money to being better at football
I've no idea how to even begin to grade this hire, but it's exciting to see someone from a blueblood background come to us. That just hasn't happened historically; we've always been targeting up and comers or Beamer guys.
Do we? Or does everyone else that has to play us?
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My prediction is that our game against UMD can go one of just two ways:
- We win, and Locksly is fired
- We lose, and Franklin uses it to motivate the team to 9 wins.
There is no in between.
Those 4.5 wins are coming from some combination of Hampton, UConn (who made a great hire IMO), Rutgers, UCLA (who also made a good hire), Purdue, and us.
That road schedule (and travel distance) is going to be a huge challenge. Based on current info we have the toughest ACC schedule.
I support either rivalry. But a rivalry with WVU seems more natural.
I dislike Maryland because I felt like the way they sold out the ACC just for money disrespected the spirit of college football, and college athletics in general. Yeah, I know - it was all going to the highest bidder eventually. "I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one"