Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments
I get the logic, but Tennessee didn't really get blown out by Vandy. Lost by 11, and took a lead into the 4th.
But yes, there's an argument for GT to be ranked. But that's true of a lot of 3 to 4 loss teams.
Middle name is Foster.
If we have a third, I'm going with Budediah. Boy or girl.
I love Frank.
I named my son after Bud.
We have one bad loss. Losses to 8-4 Georgia Tech and 8-4 Tennessee aren't bad losses.
He's also guaranteed at least another $50K, as even if we lose the ACCCG, I don't think the selection rules allow for us to fall below a Tier II bowl. It's bumped to $75K if we make a Tier I bowl, which I think we probably will.
Also, does anyone know if the $50K for winning the ACCCG is in addition to or instead of the $25K for getting to the game?
The assumption is we're going to a subscription model one way or another. I'm saying there needs to be a monthly option before that happens, because I don't think requiring a full year commitment will work in conjunction with a paywall.
Netflix, Hulu, Kindle Unlimited, Spotify, etc has everyone preconditioned to not blink at a $9.99 monthly subscription. It's not an outlandish price point, but people will also be incentivized to save the three bucks a month to do a yearly subscription if they can afford it or know they want access all year.
I understand this concern, but I've felt like it was a bit of a straw man since the switch from. PayPal to TKPC. Getting the $84 up front is the safe and certain way to do the accounting. However, I think one big reason membership is so low is sticker shock. $84 is not an insignificant purchase. Excluding mortgage, car payment, groceries and utilities, I make a purchase that large maybe once or twice a month. It's usually for a meal (family of four). For a tangible good or service (as opposed to food), I might make an $84 purchase once every couple of months. It's a purchase I have to consider.
I'll drop ten bucks without blinking.
Right now, TKPC has generated $27,888 in revenue. It's been aggressively advertised for nine months. If you charge ten bucks a month and get to a thousand members, you surpass that total in three months.
Yes, people can cancel at anytime (and will). But let's say you get a thousand people to join at ten bucks a month for the four months of football season. Then let's say you lose 50% of your membership during the offseason. Over the course of one year, that generates 95% of the stated annual revenue goal, which is way more than the current model is generating. (We're on pace to generate 44% of goal over 12 months.)
The nature of subscription services is a monthly plan. Thats just the state of the industry. Netflix would be much less successful than it is if it forced people to subscribe by the year. I'd highly encourage Joe to examine the monthly option before going full paywall, because I think he's leaving a lot of money on the table.
After pretty much a full year of advertising TKPC, we're at 33% of the stated goal. We aren't tripling active membership in one month, especially with football season coming to an end. I suppose Joe could wait until January to enact a subscription model, out of some sense of loyalty to the promise of not making the switch until next year, but just going by membership numbers, the decision has already been made, by us, the readers of TKP. Joe tried his best to use a business model that kept all content free, and it failed.
The incentive to join is simple: do you believe the content on TKP is worth paying for? I think there are a lot of people in your position, who intended to join TKPC at some point. Now they have to decide if it really is worth it to them. If this switch reduces your incentive to join, my guess is you don't really think the content is worth paying for. And there's nothing wrong with that. This switch just forces people to make a decision they were allowed to delay by the free model.
I just hope with the switch in business models, Joe converts to a monthly billing option. A reduced monthly rate for current students would also be a nice touch, but I don't know if that's really doable. (How do you verify enrollment status?)
Yabo Dabo Do.
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9 years 7 months
# | Slept On It: Hokies Win 13th Straight Commonwealth Cup by Embarrassing the Hoos I think he honestly believed he was a good coach with a good system. I don't think it ever entered his mind that in order for him to be successful, he has to be handed a steady crop of 22 year old recruits who will attend practice as if it was church. His thousand yard stare in the post game presser seemed like shell shock. He hasn't yet figured out that BYU made him successful, rather than the other way around. But another season of the wheels falling off and he should be about ready to do some soul searching. The only question in my mind is, does he leave on his own before he is fired.
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9 years 7 months
# | Slept On It: Hokies Win 13th Straight Commonwealth Cup by Embarrassing the Hoos And that's assuming the AAU coaches in the Chesapeake area have any interest in keeping that pipeline to UVA open. London got in tight with them off the bat. I don't see Bronco maintaining that relationship. I see Fuente as much more in tune with the culture of those programs.
Basically, UVA has brought in a coach that I don't think can recruit the 757. I honestly don't know where they go from here.
With Shai on the scout team and Juice and McClease coming back from I juries, I think DJ Reid sticks around.
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9 years 7 months
# | Just when you think its not as fun to see UVa keep losing, remember stuff like this... It just never gets old.
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9 years 7 months
# | Slept On It: Hokies Win 13th Straight Commonwealth Cup by Embarrassing the Hoos UVA squandered their best chance to best us over the past two seasons. I see dark days ahead for the Hoos. Bronco is probably 1 season away from realizing all his success was predicated on a steady pipeline of 22 year old recruits who were physically developed and mentally dedicated enough to adhere to his physical scheme and bizarre coaching style. He gets neither of those things at UVA, and his players will sour quickly on his "earn it" mentality when it doesn't yield results in the win column.
I don't know what is going on in Charlottesville, but they're hanging football out to dry like Donna Shalala did at Miami. They are going to suck for a long, long time.
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9 years 7 months
# | Slept On It: Hokies Win 13th Straight Commonwealth Cup by Embarrassing the Hoos Bucky is not a complete receiver. He still has some work to do. That's not an appeal for him to come back next season; he'll project highly and I've come to terms with the fact that he's gone after this year. But I could see him struggle at the combine, fall on draft day, and struggle to adjust to the League. He has the measurables to be elite, but converting to receiver so late in his career, he just doesn't have that knack for adjusting to balls and catching with his hands that you absolutely have to have at the next level. And it'll be hard for him to develop that against NFL secondaries.
Is your life consumed by an all-encompasing rage over wanting to punch every tourist you see?
Disregarding today's game, UNC didn't lose to NC State this season.
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9 years 7 months
# | Buzzketball Central: Wooden Legacy: New Mexico Lobos (3-0) at Virginia Tech Hokies (3-0) 430pm Nov24 ESPN Holy shit we are fun to watch.
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9 years 7 months
# | GIFTORY: Frame-by-Frame Highlight Reel of Virginia Tech's 34-31 Win at Notre Dame Holy shit. I, like most people, have focused entirely on Fuente during his evisceration of the ref. But Ben Hilgart looks like he is about to straight up murder that official.
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9 years 7 months
# | "Play Better" - Analyzing Virginia Tech's Historic 34-31 Comeback Against Notre Dame Yup. Our problem isn't the running game. It's specifically RB runs between the tackles. And we're finding ways to offset that weakness. Once it's no longer a weakness, this offense is going to be really, really good.
In regards to read plays, I have a sneaking suspicion we might have to wait for Josh Jackson to see a heavy dose of that. I don't know why (I can't point to anything concrete, it's just a hunch) but I think making the right read quickly isn't going to be one of Evans' strong points. We've seen too many mesh point issues where Evan seems to wait too long to pull the ball out. Just like how Motley has trouble sending pressure in the pocket, I'm not sure those mesh point issues are something Evans can be coached past.
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9 years 7 months
# | "Play Better" - Analyzing Virginia Tech's Historic 34-31 Comeback Against Notre Dame True, but the mike spot kind of lends itself to the scapegoat role.
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9 years 7 months
# | "Play Better" - Analyzing Virginia Tech's Historic 34-31 Comeback Against Notre Dame Leg for research. These are my favorite kind of comments.
I think the difference between how CornFu is using Evans and how Lefty used Logan is that what we are seeing right now is still Fuente's scheme, adjusted to account for Evans' running ability and our struggles with RB running between the tackles. The 2013 offense was a stopgap resulting from Lefty's scheme not being able to be installed to any successful degree in one summer, and Logan not really being the type of QB Lefty wanted to run it. Meanwhile, I get the impression that this is the authentic Fuente scheme, customized to Evans' skill set
Fuck Mexico, apparently.