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Joe & Staff,
I would like to start this by saying I am in no way trying to tell you guys how to run the site. I would like to offer a suggestion and see how the TKP community feels about it:
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Recruiting Breakdown: Do Higher Rated Players Fare Better?
Editor's Note: Bumped to the front, fun read by Sammy for Monday morning. --Joe
National signing day has come and gone. That means, unless you are an astronomer by trade or tinker in astrology, stars won't mean nearly as much to you for another year.
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The (Social) Life of a Recruit on NSD
5:57 a.m. flashes at him from a menacing sounding alarm clock. The annoyance is less from the blaring buzz going on beside him and more of having yet another sleepless night. Ten more minutes of staring at the ceiling when a knock at the door, “You up? Excited?” his mom asks with playful anticipation. He shuffles without word to show he’s up yet would rather not respond.
Of course I’m excited. I’ve been trying to make this decision since that first offer Sophomore year. With the knot growing tighter in his stomach he gets up and ready for one of the biggest days of his life so far.
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And Tyrod gets a ring!!!
Wished it had been an NC...but very happy for him!!!
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What I Want In 2013
I need to get this off my chest. I'm been a Hokie since VT's first game on a Thursday night in the rain of the Fall of 1995. The last game I saw in person as a student was @ UVA in the Fall of 1999. I was a member of the VTCC and did not miss a home game from 1995-1998. I was also on the Skipper crew and got to fire the Skipper after every score.
These are the things I want to see from our beloved team in the Fall of 2013:
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Roth and Brown among VA Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2013 Inductees
Today, Bill Roth and Cornell Brown will be honored in Richmond as members of the Class of 2013 Inductees into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. I think congratulations are in order for both gentlemen! Well deserved, in my opinion.
Congrats Bill and Cornell!
Here is the text of the official bill: HR 111
My favorite part of the bill is from Roth's bio: "Bill Roth is most famous for the refrain, 'From the blue waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the hills of Tennessee, the Virginia Tech Hokies are on the air!'" Perfect beginning to his bio by the bill drafters.
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Q&A with From The Rumble Seat
I was fortunate enough to exchange questions with Chas Plaisance from the Georgia Tech blog From The Rumble Seat about the game today. We discussed the Jackets year so far, the challeges Erick Green will face, and more. You can see my answers to his questions here. Both teams are looking for their first ACC win. The game is at 2:30 on the Raycom Sports Network.
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2012 Game Splits
Brian Fremeau, publisher of the FEI Ratings in college football and writer for Football Outsiders, has posted "game splits" for every game this season athttp://www.bcftoys.com/results/. What are game splits you ask? In short it's a statistical way to break up the total score difference in a game into contributions from the offense, defense, and special teams (in short...let's not get into the statistical details).
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Just heard an unconfirmed rumor (from reliable source)
Of course everyone says that, right...
Latest is the coaching changes are in motion.
Stiney is going to Auburn (OL coach).
Newsome going to JMU.
...as usual I'll believe it when I see an official announcement.
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2013 Special Teams
This is the last one, I promise. Not intentionally blowing up the blog feed, but figured it's all worthwhile writing about.
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2013 Offense
It's winter break. I have alot of spare time. I'll be writing a special teams piece in a few days.
The offense was horrific by most standards in 2012. The run game was virtually non-existent, and Logan Thomas was not the Logan Thomas fans saw in 2011. The coaches are expected to be overhauled, and those future changes may or may not include a new playcaller for next season. Regardless, the focus must be the running backs and offensive line. For years, Beamer has used the run to set up the pass, and that should be the scheme in 2013. Whether the motion and pistol remain to be a significant part of the offense is undetermined as of now, but statistics show that the entire offense would benefit from a simpler system.
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2013 Defense
The defense loses two starters and two key backups to graduation. With the way the unit finished up 2012, there is hope for next season, especially if starters Antone Exum and James Gayle return for their senior year.
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Letter to the fans
I'm in the Marching Virginians, and wanted to get this out before I had too much milk and cookies. Full disclosure: I typed this on my phone, so sorry for any mistakes I missed.
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Rutgers Football Primer, Photo Edition
A belated "Happy Holidays" to everyone here, as well as an early "Happy New Year." While 2012 may not have unfolded as we fans had imagined, Virginia Tech finds itself in familiar territory: a bowl game. The Hokies will square off in Orlando against an old Big East foe, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.
Rutgers, while one of the oldest programs in the nation, has a fairly small number of program milestones: 1869 (first college football game), 1976 (an undefeated 11-0 season), 2006 (11-2, win over #2 Lousiville). That's it. Really.
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An Unlikely Candidate for Offensive Coordinator but a Good One: Chris Klenakis
A few weeks ago, my brother mentioned (on another well-known VT message board) the name Chris Klenakis as a possible replacement for Bryan Stinespring as offensive coordinator. I thought nothing more of it until today as I continued to ponder the future of our offense and our dwindling options as the proven coordinators that are available have already been picked off. I started to dig, wondering who this guy was...
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If johnny Maziel wins the Heisman
If Johnny Football wins the Heisman, can we got back and give the '99 Heisman to Michael Vick? i dont think johnny deserves it over Te'o because he, well, basically dropped the ball....twice, in his own stadium, that doesnt sound like a Heisman winner to me.
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Hoops Scoring Output Redux
Thanks to a suggestion by RiVAHokie, I'm taking this opportunity to do a quick follow-up on a post I made in the February about the drop in scoring output from the 2010-11 season (70.3ppg) to the 2011-12 season (65.1ppg). The TL;DR of that post is that team scoring was down, and that the contributions of the leading scorers were down.
I updated that spreadsheet with the end-of-season stats for 2011-12 and added a line for the 2012-13 stats.
What a difference a season makes.
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What Just Happened Here?
The 2012-13 football season is a one to forget for Hokie fans. Finishing 6-6 and being bowl eligible is not what everyone had in mind in August. So what happened here? I think there are a few things that can be traced back to the Pitt game.
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The ACC is the WCW
Reading Joe's tweet over the weekend comparing modern day ACC to WCW in its dying days really got me thinking. As someone who was (is) a huge wrestling fan, it made me realize that there are some pretty uncanny correlations in the paths of both organizations.
For those not familiar with WCW, World Championship Wrestling was a major league pro wrestling organization in business from the late 80s through early 2001, although its history extends much further back than that.
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