Now that the season is over, it finished on high notes with wins over UVa and Cincy in the bowl game, and all rumors of Bud's allegiance to Blacksburg have been quashed, let's look forward. We have approximately nine months before we'll see Brewer and Co. suit up against the Buckeyes, so there's plenty of time to kill. The Hokies have some big-time out of conference games coming up in the next few years (OSU, Tenn @ Bristol, more B1G schools). Take a look at the future schedules from HokieSports and discuss which OoC matchups you're looking forward to (or not looking forward to **cough** ECU **cough**).
Personally, I'm excited for the Michigan series in 2020/2021 so we can make it three wins in a row after that one time we played them in Louisiana. Also, WVU is on the schedule three times in the next eight seasons. Not exactly looking forward to a trip to Morgantown, but perhaps a renewed rivalry for the future?
Discuss.
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I always wonder why there is a lack of ODU. For a school so big on its Va status and it's recruiting of 757 we don't play them enough. 2017 is the next game, seriously. cancel half the ECU games. or cancel Purdue and Liberty.
It was bad enough when they weren't division 1 but now they are.
Now they are on the close scedule, so yay but still far off
ODU has always been D-1 since restarting their program in 2009. And to be fair to our athletic department, ODU has only been full-on FBS since 2014. A lot of the scheduling takes place 5+ years in advance. But you're right, playing in the 757 going forward could be a critical recruiting boost.
Same thing with the basketball program, schedule games against the schools in the 757 also try to get games against George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, in the DC area to get exposure in the DC market is something I have been asking for for years. Not sure why it seems so hard to do. Hopefully Buzz will use some of his connections to start getting us those type of games in the OOC schedule.
Would schools be hesitant to schedule teams that they know are trying to gain more exposure in their home market? I suppose any school would want to get into the DC/757 markets, so you can't think that way with everyone.
You can see it being nice for the small school as well. You can pitch in recruiting the fact that they will have a chance to play P5 schools in their schedule and also having the chance to be telivised.
We were the first Virginia school to schedule them at all and the first P5 school to schedule them when they announced they were moving up a few years back.
I have the opposite opinion. We shouldn't be playing ODU as much as we are.
Seriously, why do we have to play ECU every single year until 2021. I really enjoy playing non-scrub out of conference teams, but the enjoyment comes from seeing us match up against new teams we wouldnt normally play. Kind of takes the fun out when we play the same non-conference team every year.
I am however, PUMPED to see us play UT in Bristol. Both teams on the rise with two loyal and powerful fan bases. That has the makings of a game-of-the-decade. (Plus I live in TN and I would love to beat up on UT)
2017 has a weak OOC home schedule with WV being in Fedex but Clemson at home makes up for it!
Not more ODU. Less. Not a real program.
Looking forward to our next game and have my calendar circled for Bristol. In fact the Bristol game might be one of the ones I've ever or will ever be the most hyped for. The event itself is going to be a once in a lifetime experience.
2020 at Michigan, if they keep the data of September 19. It's just a hop across the lake to get to the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits the same weekend, or the following one. Going to start saving up for that double header trip.
Also because 19th = Danny Coale = CATCH
So UVA will still have a football program in 2024!
Good to know!
I have my doubts!
The 2019 schedule is a monster. Look at the road games.
Coming off our four consecutive national championships, I doubt it will be too daunting for our guys.
Plus it will be Bud's third year as head coach and he ain't scared of nothing!
Also by then the dome over Lane will be complete with a giant image of Corey Moore scowling down towards the field!
Wait, wuh??... I get it. Nice!
Just the thought of that
that NCST game really worries me at the end of next year! they are going to be a tough football team. i really like the way jacoby brisset is playing ball for them. big athletic QB that can actually throw the football. could kill us on scramble drills. ive got that one circled on my calender next year forsure! along with OSU!
They just list the ACC games in alphabetical order within the division, and then BC, then our rotating Atlantic opponent. It has no bearing on the date.
Next year's home schedule is kind of weak, outside of Ohio State, of course. I wish the ACC would reconfigure back so we have GT and Miami in alternating years.
For the future, I'm liking 2021. Richmond is my wife's school, so we can finally go head to head. Then, Michigan, WVU, and Notre Dame as OOC?
Can we start a Kickstarter campaign to never play ECU ever again?
Why? Its turning into a rivalry. They have more wins against us the past 11 years than the Cavs
No school in America has fewer wins against us over the past 11 years than does UVa
In fact there are annually more people at the UVA spring game than they have wins over us the last 11 years.
But it's really close
You may be correct but I wouldn't wager much on that.
I cant wait until ECU doesnt show on our schedule
Good luck on that one.
only a decade more!!!
Whenever we play at Notre Dame. My dad was born into the Irish, I'm a VT alum, and I think I'll try to take him to South Bend for [insert whichever holiday/birthday is closest to the date]
I went up there as a youngster in 1991. It is a great venue. Looking forward to getting up there in 2016 I think it is.
Yup, Nov 19th, 2016. I don't regularly travel for sporting events, but this one is probably the only one I'm circling on my calendar for a potential travel date.
I am very much looking forward to watching VT play in South Bend - I would say that game is at the top of my "get excited" list.
I don't want to play Michigan anymore.
Naw just kidding that's gonna be fun if Harbaugh is still there.
I want revenge. Not that he had any villainous moments that I remember, he just breast is the last time we played
I may catch some flak after saying this but here goes...
After I watched that game and got over my emotions I realized that Jim Harbaugh is the real damn deal. We had never really gotten outcoached like that like we do now. It was rare. It was befuddling. It was honestly amazing to watch. I was a fan of his teams and his playing style.
It's hard to tell what kinds of directions both VT and Michigan are going to go between now and then. Hopefully we both go up. I have no beef with him or Michigan.
Have never disliked Harbaugh. He coaches with a "step on their necks" mentality that I respect the hell out of. And he is all about coaching his players to be upstanding young men. He's intense and focused and doesn't take any crap. In a lot of ways he reminds me of Bud.
It was like Al Groh's chess/checkers comment came to life that night. Of course, Al had nothing to do with it.
Only thing I don't like about him is his ridiculous ref histrionics. Although he has definitely GIFted the Internet with a surplus of those clips (see what I did there)
The only thing I still holds against Harbaugh in that game was that he had them still running multiple shifts at the line of scrimmage late in the game long after the outcome was decided. At a point it reeked of rubbing Bud Foster's nose in the fact he couldn't stop them. Other than that, didn't really have anything bad to say about him, wish we could land someone like him after Beamer retires.
If you pwn the best DC in the game, you celebrate it. Any animosity I had over those shifts evaporated when I actually heard him discuss Tyrod and our program afterward. Nothing but respect out of his mouth.
Harbaugh was definitely mocking Bud repeatedly with his formations, shifting, etc. I am amazed that so many people admire him as much as they do when he did that so blatantly to us. With all the grudges held for years over minutiae, yet that blatant exhibition is forgotten, quite odd.
IIRC didn't they run a trick play when the game was clearly in hand?
Play action was the trickiest play I remember from Stanford in that game. They just hit us in the mouth.
I don't remember any trick plays by Stanford. I do remember Dabo running one with the outcome already decided. Then he decided to strut down the sideline like an idiot after it worked. No class.
they ran a trick play late. it got stuffed.
"Oh I hate Jim Harbaugh because he ran a billion shifts when they were up big."
Sounds kind of lame. It's a formation, not a middle finger.
I dont hate Jim Harbaugh but at the time I took it as a giant middle finger right in Bud's face.
Yep, I took it that way too.
And I bet Bud did too, watching his reaction on TV.
I'm sure he'll have the next U Mich/Harbaugh game circled on his calendar.
I don't think it's unreasonable to think that at the time. I totally thought that way when it happened. I was a basketcase of emotions and wanted something to fued over but now I think it's kind of silly.
I didnt remember the details, so I looked it up. At the start of the 4th quarter Stanford had the ball and a 14-point lead. At the 12:28 mark they went up by three touchdowns, but with that much time left no lead is safe.
We had the ball for the next 5 minutes, but ended up punting. So they took over at their own 28 yard line with a 21-point lead and 7:38 on the clock. A run for 34 yards followed by a run stuffed at the line, and they had the ball at our 38. On the third play of the drive they scored a touchdown on a pass.
So we got the ball back. Tyrod got sacked, threw an incomplete pass, and got sacked again. We punted, and Stanford got the ball back on their 46 with 4:25 left. Three runs and a punt, lost 4 yards but took half the remaining time off the clock. We got the ball back on our own 11 with 2:10 left, drove 36 yards on 5 plays until time ran out.
They ran the ball 7 times in the 4th quarter: one run went for 34 yards, and the other 6 totaled 22 yards. Luck also threw three passes, all complete, of 2, 58 (TD), 38 (TD), As mentioned above the 58-yarder came at the beginning of the 4th Q with a 14-point lead.
No facts to back this up but didn't he do that sort of thing with most teams? By that I mean, playing as if the game is on the line the entire 60 minutes. I know he did that with USC at least once. Seems like that's just his way of coaching, when it happens often, to multiple teams then it hardly seems like a personal attack to me.
Which is specifically what I like about his style. The opponent and the scoreboard are irrelevant. He coaches his players to play each snap at 100% effort. Hr has a tremendous respect for the game of football.
I agree Illinois. While I don't like it, the fact was we were not physically capable of stopping their run game for 60 min. They utilized their strengths to dominate our weaknesses. That is what our fan base, myself included, have been screaming we wanted. To me there is nothing sweeter than pounding the ball on your opponent until they are completely demoralized. Alabama did it to us in the 4th qtr in 2009.
One of my favorite coaches in the business. He coaches with a "if you don't like it, be good enough to stop us" mentality and I love him for it. Great hire for Michigan.
is anyone else annoyed at the home/home with Purdue? kinda similar to ECU, if we win its expected and if we lose it makes us look bad. Purdue doesn't get me excited.
check that - we don't even get them at home. Just seems like a head-scratcher to me.
We get them at home, but it's a long way off - 2023. It's a better situation than ECU, though. It's a P5 opponent. Doesn't matter if it's a supposed cellar-dweller, it's a team from a major conference so it's good for the strength of schedule.
Like playing Vandy so you can say you beat an SEC team.
It's all about perception, especially now in the era of the playoff.
I for one like the Purdue scheduling. It's a P5 opponent which is easier to beat than most others (I think a Purdue loss looks better than an ECU loss to voters), it's in the midwest recruiting area which we have been targeting recently, and it's where President Sands was at prior to coming here.
I forgot about #vtsandsman. I just thought of it as a strong engineering school, sort of a "we can beat anyone smarter than us, and we're smarter than anyone who can beat us" challenge.
I'm actually excited for this game as I will be going with my roommates dad (who went to Purdue). If the Hokies win, I get his beach house for the week. :) It is a P5 opponent, so that's better than nothing.