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Going for it on 4th down in OT (when you go first) is questionable at best
I agree, just the perspective of "This is how the big boys do it" would be very valuable for a few years. Someone needs to come in and wake the sleeping giant that is VT football.
We play JMU next year so maybe he could help us out in that game too. But if we are hiring him, that means we missed out on a bunch of other coaches. Hopefully, we are aiming a lot higher than him and get a much better and more proven coach than him.
Don't count your chickens just yet.
Their next two games are at Ohio State and home against Indiana
So there may be more chickens in a row
Go Big Blue! (only because I don't want another coaching vacancy this year)
Dabo won a couple national championships which helps his relationship with the fanbase.
Dabo is also very much a 'Clemson guy' in a way that Franklin was never a 'Penn State guy'. He has a very similar world view to the typical Clemson fan, and I think that's given him the opportunity to be significantly active in the community, in turn endearing the community to him.
Obviously, winning matters most, but it certainly doesn't hope if your fans see you as one of them.
Happy Valley will come up with 49 million reasons it is
Kentucky and Texas headed to OT after a nice drive from Kentucky to tie it
It's a bloodbath out there. good week to be on bye
Hey Logan. do like many who married someone from SW Ohio and move on back to the area and send your kids to Moeller, St. X, or Elder. All football powerhouse schools (all Catholic unfortunately) but the boys would have a chance to shine in some of the biggest games in the state. The Cincinnati Alumni chapter would welcome you with open arms.
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9 months 16 hours
# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed So Shane having a worse year means he is more likely to come to Tech? WTF?!?! I hope the hiring committee is taking this as a point of caution and not talking themselves into scratch and dent lot is as good as new
BOOM....Pedo loses FOUR in a row
So it wasn't Franklin's fault?
Must be a Hoo graduate. It honestly sounds like nobody is actually following the law based on the available information and sadly that includes the judge.
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9 months 16 hours
# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed 1000%
Do not want Shane. I think it would be a weak hire and I don't have a ton of confidence that he would be able to turn things around. I think we need to completely overhaul the entire AD and hire someone with no previous ties to VT. We need a full reboot. Anything else is just repeating what we've been doing for decades and, news flash, it ain't fuckin workin
I've never been a fan of Franklin at all either honestly. But I'm seriously really coming around to the idea of him coaching at VT. For one, it totally shakes things up (which I think culturally we need at VT) and would be a huge shot across the bow of college football that we are serious now about football again.
And secondly, the recruiting staff he would bring and put together at VT would likely be incredible. I think they would be absolutely dominant. Would make us instantly relevant and have us in back in the national conversation again on ESPN.
List of candidates I want to be considered: Franklin, Kingsberry, Mullen, the USF guy, Kiffen (I have it on good authority that the athletic department is sniffing around Kiffen but they know its a long shot)...and a few others (Indiana and Georgia's DC, Brian Hartline, JMU's coach who's name alludes me, sorry I'm 11 beers deep).
I'd take Jerry Kill in a heartbeat as Football GM / Associate Athletic Director / Fuck you Whit stop fucking with the football program you fuck, I'll take care of it CEO.
Shane hasn't proven anything outside of identifying good coaches to work for. It's not hard to convince Caleb Williams to play for Lincoln Riley, it's not hard to convince VA kids to spurn VT and UVa to play for the northernmost SEC school. He hasn't accomplished anything in the SEC outside of exceeding modest expectations.
I'd be upset but would stomach it if Shane became the HC. I would actively vomit if it was Vick and would probably quit my fandom. I would also vomit if the fucktards in Merryman hire someone because he's a good ole boy from Lexington and he makes the alumni feel warm and happy before getting curbstomped by a regional G5 program that doesn't even have a fucking working elevator in their coach's box.
Hire a real fucking coach this time around, that's all I ask. Fuente sucked but at least the logic was sound, especially coupled with keeping Bud. Don't hire someone because he speaks with a southern twang and thanks the fans for showing up after every losing press conference.
I'd take Sheldon fucking Cooper as head coach if it guaranteed us 10+ wins and legit playoff contention. Stop with the personality nonsense, give me an X's and O's nerd all day.
Rant over, sorry I don't remember what post I'm responding to but hopefully this was helpful.
I believe PSU is delusional in thinking that they can do better than Franklin. They may, time will tell, but my opinion is that their ceiling is second fiddle to OSU (or third fiddle behind OSU and UM) regardless of whose neck the head whistle hangs around.
And just because he has done well for PSU doesn't mean I have to want him in Blacksburg. Have never been a big fan of Franklin. I will readily admit a lot of that is tied to his association with PSU. Not a fan of that place or that fan base at all.
However if at the end of the day VT hires Franklin, or some other coach who is not my preference, I will support and rally behind him.
We've lost bye weeks before. By not firing underperforming coaches
If PSU loses to Iowa...wowser
Why did Iowa call timeout on a running clock?
BOOM....Pedo loses FOUR in a row
I want Bob Chesney. Absolutely hammered odu today and that's what I want VT to do
Yeah, I just don't see how hiring him right now is a wise move. It looks like the wheels are coming off at SC, there are a number of other coaches that I feel would be a better get right now, jumping to him feels foolish.
Maybe if the carousel gets even crazier and we are still looking for a guy in late December, I could see if getting there, but going after him now. I'm a little worried of that is the push from the committee at this point (compared to just an idea among many)
I really wish Bud wasn't on the hiring committee to be honest. He recommended Hamilton which was a disaster, he advocated for Pry which was an unmitigated disaster, and he's been reported to be heavily advocating for Shane this time. And also apparently Mark Stoops is on his list. Is he just naming people he personally likes?
Thanks for all you have done Bud but man, please don't screw this one up for the sake of the fan base.
They won't be able to sell me on it. Will just skip football and wait for basketball. Will give me back alot of Fall weekends.
If we do end up hiring Shane, man there's going to be some serious mental gymnastics to hype the fan base up on a coach who conceivably could only win one more game this year. I know the schedule is absolutely brutal, but they look pretty listless in these losses, especially today. The offense is brutal to watch. I don't think he would have any other serious P4 interest if he's let go from South Carolina at this point, other than VT.
Shane is going to be a very rough sell given all the hype and the budget IMO. I hope we have our sights set higher.
The whole last series was malpractice.