Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments
Is that based on anything concrete or are you just saying you believe the offer would have come regardless of LSU's offering Arnold?
I agree, once I heard it was a grayshirt offer, the likelihood of it being an insurance move went down in my mind. If Arnold flips, though, I'd imagine this would become a committable offer for this cycle.
Well, without sounding alarm bells, I would definitely say attendance is a problem right now by the levels we should expect. It's a sign of a disengaging fanbase. The stadium isn't empty and quiet...yet...but we have to put asses in seats or we will be hurting financially before long.
That would be medieval considering we then play Furman the following Saturday.
This was actually 1997. At the time we heard that it had happened before, and I think hearing about the earlier incident was what prompted this one
we haven't EARNED anything
This. So very much this.
We earn it for four quarters, and it lasts only as long as it takes for the football to leave the tee in the next game.
Our collars need to be dyed blue again.
Leg for perspective, logsign and being new.
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11 years 5 months
# | Mens Basketball: Pittsburgh (13-7, 3-4) at Virginia Tech (8-11, 0-6) 7PM ESPNU That moment you realize while everyone is talking about Mike Berman, you've been thinking of Chris Berman.
Is this insurance if Mike Arnold flips? Either way, kid has good size and not an ounce of quit in him. He was still blocking 15 yards beyond the line of scrimmage but released clean at the whistle. I think Searels can make something of this young man.
Since the NFL started playing Thursday night games starting week one, Thursday isn't THURSDAY in college football anymore. You don't have a dedicated nationwide audience with no competition anymore.
For all the people feeling slighted that we're scheduled to play on a Friday night, there are a lot of other fan bases that make fun of us for wanting to play on a Thursday, basically repeating all the things we're saying here about playing on Friday.
We made Thursday night games what they are by having an "anyone, anytime, anywhere" mentality. So why the hell aren't we applying that to playing on a Friday? If ESPN wants to schedule us at 2 AM on a Tuesday, we're gonna Beamerball the hell out of that shit and make people who love good football set an alarm to wake up and watch it.
Leave the entitled attitudes to the SEC and B1G. Tell us when we play, and we'll punch the clock and our opponents in the mouth.
We should never, ever use other ACC programs to gauge our attendance levels. We're essentially an ACC school with an SEC fanbase. There's no denying home game attendance is trending downward, and that's a concern regardless of what other ACC stadiums look like on Saturdays. We need to get back to selling out six times a season.
Usually Friday night games are teams from non-Power 5 conferences.
Yes, usually reserved for mid-majors like the PAC-12 and Big XII.
First Chizzik as DC and now a seemingly competent D line coach with special teams coverage acumen?
Damn it, man. Looks like Fedora finally realized there's another facet of the game besides offense.
GT game likely comes on 12 days rest and prep.
Or on 5 days short rest...
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11 years 5 months
# | Mens Basketball: Pittsburgh (13-7, 3-4) at Virginia Tech (8-11, 0-6) 7PM ESPNU First of many. Congrats to Buzz and the guys.
Yes, we would exchange the Sunshine for the Triangle every two years. However, the yearly matchup with Louisville would offset the SOS dip IMO, and we'd most likely get a Sunshine team in the ACCCG.
Apparently two rebuilding seasons = an era.
This blows my mind. Leg for the geography lesson.
He picked VT over some other big offers, but LSU is a lot closer to home for him. Hope he sticks.
What the hell. Here's my cure for the ACC scheduling blues.
- Keep divisional format with championship game intact
- Divisions change from year to year.
- Divisions are divided into pods. Two pods of four teams, two pods of three teams.
Three Team Pods:
Commonwealth Pod
1. VT
2. UVA
3. Louisville
North Atlantic Pod
1. BC
2. Syracuse
3. Pitt
Four Team Pods:
Triangle Pod
1. Wake Forest
2. Duke
3. UNC
4. NC State
Sunshine Pod
1. Florida State
2. Miami
3. Clemson
4. GT
A school is "married" to the teams in its pod. It will play those teams every season. Divisions are made by pairing a 3-team pod with a 4-team pod. Pairings last for two seasons, rotating a home and home with all division teams. The pairings of 3-team and 4-team pods then rotate for another two years.
The North Atlantic and Commonwealth pods are never combined to form a division, but are paired together for the two cross-divisional opponents each year on a rotating basis. Same holds for Sunshine and Triangle pods.
If my math is right, every team plays every other team a minimum of twice every four years.
Also coached the Flash. He's had a hands in shaping some memorable Hokie receivers.
By that rationale, you wouldn't want to hire Bud as your DC because he's never graduated from DC to HC.
That's what I'm saying here, though. Right now it's a short term dip we're in. Like I said above, right the ship, this was a rebuilding effort. Play three more years of ".500+bowl game" football, we're trending downward. With that comes a downgrading of credit rating, as it were.
We are at a very critical stage in our program's history, one that will probably determine a lot of our future.
Balls deep always gets a leg.