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VPN and ESPN+ are your friends.
Seriously, just turn turn off location settings and clear cache, turn on VPN so somewhere like DC and turn on location again. The NHL package on ESPN+ will now let you watch the Canes feed
Works like a charm, been doing it for the last couple weeks. I already had ESPN+ as part of the Disney/Hulu package and the VPN was far cheaper than FanDuel.
Today for sure. Source: trust me bro.
He definitely isn't going to another P5 school that could pay him more and provide more NIL. Because after all, who doesn't like working harder for less pay? Trust me bro.
If the HC is just a figure head then why even have one?
To me, starting to get the feeling Franklin's camp could be holding out for a bigger brand opening (FSU, maybe even Clemson). I think those are long shots to open this year, but I also wonder if he might just decide to do a year in TV and test his value in next year's market. There's not a ton of sense in holding out unless you're waiting on another opening, want more money (can't imagine it's that after what's been rumored we have put on the table), or just aren't convinced it's the right spot for you.
With the amount of resources we have stepped up and provided finally, I think we have likely gotten the attention of a lot of quality candidates. Even if Franklin doesn't accept, I think we will land with a really good coach - maybe someone we haven't even thought of yet.
I get wanting to do some behind the scenes recruiting and vetting for players and staff while you're still technically unemployed, but Franklin's camp has likely had several weeks to do so now since I'm sure VT has been talking with him and his agent for a while now. You're going to miss the boat on potentially a monumental recruiting weekend for our final home game against Miami if it drags out too much longer.
In short, if this keeps dragging out day by day, I think we don't hear anything until around Thanksgiving at the earliest, and it's most likely not going to be Franklin at that point.
This whole situation is giving Tavien pls vibes for those who recall
The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to hire James Franklin!
This is like saying Google or Amazon should ditch the CEO and hire someone like me for 5% of the pay package. I mean, I'm known for hiring smart people to lead my divisions and building a strong culture on my teams, and heck, I'll settle for that comp package. Sign me up!
PS - I suggest you sell the stock before I'm officially named.
DAY 23!!! GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 23!!!!!
You'd still need the rest of the organization. That's understood, I think.
The only part we're proposing cutting in this scenario is the one figurehead you have to pay $10 million a year for, with a buyout clause for after they've left.
I have a bigger question, with a coaching staff that small how do we scout our opponents, how do we self scout? Playing the best players doesn't get you a win if you opponents know what your doing. There are 10 coaches that are allowed to recruit and that's who we normally talk about for coaching, but there are another 10+ coaches doing real needed work every day for us right now. Do we have enough coaches so that during the games determine tendencies and make adjustments? Everyone else has these coaches. How do we get around not having them ?
What's Skip Holtz up to these days?
Hell, where is LOU Holtz these days...?
I was trying to craft a way to say what you just said.
To go back to his original point tho, it's not wrong. Innovation will win the day in the same way Frank made a 3rd team relevant and succeeded, the I formation was an innovation in offenses that ruled the game for a long time.
I'm just not sold that we can skimp on the head coach and go to top tier coordinators to get the job done.
I like the way the 2 of you are thinking, let's call this brainstorming and present lots of ideas, good and farfetched, and see what ideas we can generate. Something might be useful.
TLDR: Good brainstorming will win the idea war.
Nah. Today, for sure.
I went through a similar exercise, but how does Sam get "top coordinators in the game" to buy into this, over, say, a top of the line head coach who would give them similar pay?
And then how do we know Sam can perform the functions that a top - tier college football coach can perform? Recruiting, managing personnel, game coaching decisions? And would he do as well as someone who had already been exposed to these functions at a different P4 program? And then, if Sam could do all this, wouldn't he want to get paid top money to do it?
In the end, all the logic goes circular and reverts to the mean, and I'm back to the conclusion that you have to pay to play, and experience counts. After all, isn't this the experiment that we just did with Pry, except we paid him? We just didn't pay top dollar for coordinators.
Sickle cell disease
When using said cactus in the context as above, it's a Saguaro for the sheer size of the plant...
As a one time resident of AZ who ditched off his mountain bike into one, I agree with this message 100%. Fucking hate that plant with a passion.
Having lived in AZ, I'd much rather deal with a Saguaro than those damn Cholla cactus with the detachable arms with barbed hooks. Stumbled home from the bars quite a few times and bumped into mine... not fun at all.
Would #VT2SEC rank #2 on the list?
What Cignetti was doing was objectively incredible that the time though. They were not just winning, but winning every game and blowing people out, at a higher level of football. Didn't even know he had been at Alabama, but that should've sold it to anyone interested
If he can't get the type of linemen he got at Penn State he won't do as well here as he did there, that's fact not subjective.
The power ratings of the teams he beat in the Big 10 aren't significantly different than the middle of the ACC, fact. So I don't buy the step down in competition argument.
I guess you can find subjectivity if that's what you want to see, but that's the gist of the argument. I would love to see some data refuting these concerns, but so far I've just gotten "no you're wrong"
I appreciate it, likewise 🤝
I just want to not suck again. We'll see which point of view turns out to be right
I keep hearing allusions to his daughter's health, but haven't heard what any details of her condition. Does she have a chronic problem/disabilty/etc?
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Oh god, rough times. And man did we need a rb that year