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Franklin is taking the Fuente approach. Isn't it obvious?
I dunno. I'm hoping Franklin and Co. have a plan that considers that contingency, and I'm so sold on him that I'm going to worry about it when the time comes.
Roster size is now at 105 so we will be overtaking in certain areas compared to historical expectations.
Stith and Andre Kendrick were the dynamic duo before thunder and lightning.
Wahoos advance over Duke, 6-4. Will play #1 seed GT @3pm tomorrow.
I never understood the hate on BC. Honestly, if you said I could wave a wand and pick any ACC team to win the conference in football but it could not be VT, I'd have picked BC. Hard-working, blue-collar team that did not have a lot of stars but played old-fashioned smash-mouthed football and punched above their weight. Reminded me of VT in a lot of ways. Now this is based off of the time when VT and BC were both still good teams.
I get people can criticize the fans (or lack thereof) and the small stadium, but I liked the team and coaches more than any other non-VT ACC team. Shame they did not have the fans to appreciate what that team was able to do back when they were pretty solid.
Too many variables with a new President and Athletic Director to definitively claim that. Kids are going to ask how they guarantee that.
In fairness, when it comes to athletics, I don't think there are very many programs that really pay serious attention to the academic credentials of people they accept if that person is good at a sport that the school cares about.
The guy I knew from Stanford describing the clearly bimodal distribution of the student-athletes vs. the other students comes to mind along with UNC football and basketball, and the story from my sister-in-law about papers she graded at TCU (or was it SMU, I can ask), and the story from one of VT's professors (although this was about someone at Minnesota when he was there), and 2 stories from VT people who either tutored or were roommates with the girlfriend of 2 people with names I choose to not to reveal but people on here would recognize, and ...
This is completely anecdotal, but when I was in school (~10 years ago) I think transferring into UVA may have been easier than VT. I knew multiple people that were able to transfer into UVA but not VT coming from out of state schools.
Out of high school, UVA was more difficult unless you were going for engineering or architecture, but for whatever reason VT was particular about some aspect of transfers that made it hard.
Bree Carrico named a Softball America Freshman All American
I'd love to know which coach this was
Virginia Tech
"Look, I'm just gonna say what every coach in this damn league is thinking but too scared to admit publicly. Since James Franklin got to Virginia Tech, the whole balance of power in the ACC is screwed. They've got recruiting rolling, NIL money flowing, Lane Stadium turned back into a damn war zone, and now every kid from Virginia to Georgia thinks Blacksburg is the place to be. That program's got swagger again, and honestly? That's terrifying."
"You walk into Lane on a Thursday night now and it feels like the gates of hell opened up. Our assistants are sitting there watching film going, 'How the fuck are we supposed to stop this?' They're deep, physical, fast, and Franklin recruits like a man possessed. If the rest of us don't figure something out quick, Virginia Tech is gonna run this conference for the next decade and everybody else is just fighting for second place."
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spoiler: it was chatgpt when prompted to provide an assessment of VT football from the perspective of a worried ACC coach
The general sentiment of that Pitt comment feels like it's evergreen
Yes, but based on the last couple of academic rankings where Tech has pulled ahead of UVA they might not care about the academic transfer requirements anymore.
We now have a Priest and a Messiah in the running back group.
Completely my speculation, but I think their plan is to let others "waste" money on high school recruits and to pull whoever they want from the portal. That's a tough way to build a cohesive environment and culture, but if you pay enough money and bring in the right pieces then there is a chance that the blind squirrel will find a nut every few years.
I've been surprised to see UVA become a transfer program. That was previously a struggle due to academic transfer credits. Whether it's sustainable is an entirely different question. They had a horseshoe up their rear-end the entirety of last year + a cupcake schedule.
For UVA
I've heard good things about their NIL and the way that they're structuring things. They've got a really unique incentive package for how they're gonna do stuff to be sustainable and not have to pay boatloads of money up front to anyone, even if they're a good player, but that it was still going to be able to incentivize guys to come while motivating them to get on the field
So far, we havent seen that come to fruition at least in their recruiting rankings...so their 'unique' approach might be working in reverse for them. Time will tell
I just like Steve Addazio. He's a dude.
We also have 20 more scholarships/roster spots than Fuente did.
I am straight up having a good time
Always good to see a reference to the team the ACC considers our play-every-year-no-matter-how-much-the-world-changes rival. I love playing those guys, always an exciting atmosphere. Especially at their stadium.
Stith was the guy between ox and suggs. I dont think Ox was there with Suggs as I believe suggs was redshirt in 99, but I could off a year.
Because in today's NIL game, maybe, maybe, 1 of them will ever take a snap in O&M
When we were at our best we rolled at least 2 high end RBs deep to rotate throughout games. And I mean that back to the early 2000s starting with Jones and Suggs (and I only say that because I forget if Suggs and Ox overlapped).
This is Franklin getting back to that. We're also adding high end recruits all over the field, so there isn't much to worry about in regards to roster construction. We're just going to be better.
