The 3rd episode of SET IN STONE dropped today. Those of us wishing for a longer episode will not be disappointed. Great inside look into the off-season training. Interview with Aiden Greene is great. I like the shirts that say "Re-Established 2026".
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"And I also want the Penn State guys to know this as well. The James Franklin you knew at Penn State? This ain't the same fucking James Franklin! Because we all must be learning and growing and evolving. If I didn't learn from the last experience then shame on me."
- JMFF
I love this mindset. Always strive for improvement. Complacency will be the end of you in an ever evolving market, and VT got complacent toward the end of the Beamer years allowing the following 10 years to happen after he retired.
And the kicker is, Franklin getting a kick in the pants and a newfound energy to get to the top after playing in the final four and having a Top 2 ranked program over the last 13 months, well that will just pay off in spades for us.
Ooo perfect length
Yeah I'm about ready to run through a wall
Live look at our new shared experience of VT football.
LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!!!!
I vote that a new part of the entrance is Hokie Bird leading the way, plowing through a hokie stone wall.
You win with that graphic.
All this does is make me irrationally angry that our end zones aren't maroon in real life
We got LED lights coming, so why not fully painted end zones? It's a new day people!
OT: Your screenname is ELBIDERCNI.
What's my profession? HOKIES!
Just love that.
I'm going through the wall with you!
Luke Reynolds is a giant
Why the Beamer Barn doesn't have heating and cooling is representative of how poorly made the decisions of the "planning" board were in those days.
So strange seeing coaches with stocking caps on their heads in our INDOOR practice facility
Football used to be an outdoor sport. The thinking used to be that the players should be prepared to play in different temperatures.
the decision wasn't poorly made, the specific purpose was to keep the rain off of practice. The temps were not a concern because practicing at outside temps = learning to endure cold/heat = being ready to play in cold/heat
Practice priorities are different these days, with roster turnover resulting in many more key contributors needing "quality" reps at the fundamental elements of the offense/defense playbook. In the past they'd have picked that mastery up over a couple years in the system. Now they often only have a couple of months. So playbook mastery & execution becomes a much higher priority for practice than matching possible weather conditions, etc.
nope. it was shit decision making. you don't need to be inside to learn how to prepare for cold weather. that's what outside is for. ridiculous.
The reason you build indoor practice facilities is so you can practice year round in a controlled environment. it's the same the world over. Now some places may not need it because the temp doesn't get too high or low. Blacksburg is not one of those places. Poor decisions were made.
I tend to agree. There wasn't a single person at VT in 2010 who had the faintest idea of what college football would like in 15 years. Not one.
Lol. Very true, leg for that, but also true in 2010.
I think you all are forgetting the shitshow the planning board went through in confirming the Beamer Barn, then confirming the location and then finally the design itself. I'm not criticizing the designers and engineers that built it. I'm criticizing the group of non-experts that was put together to make these decisions and how ridiculously poor the process, determinations and ultimately decision were.
It appears the board may be learning from their mistakes so, there's that.
The people the board selected for the football search committee appear to have gotten their stuff all crammed into the sock and made decisions to be prepared, recognized opportunity and swiftly and decisively acted in a positive manner.
This is unusual behavior for a committee. I applaud it.
exactly! very well done, by a group that know their stuff. the results speak for themselves.
Ah, I was. I remember the stadium tree controversy. I didn't realize you were talking that specifically; I thought you just meant all of the decision makers back then.