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NC State beat both Wake and UVA but lost to Duke who lost to Tulane who just got wrecked this weekend. So there's a lot of bottom feeders in the ACC.
Romo is having a brutal day so far. 0 for 2, the first one never had a chance and he overcorrected on the second
Zero.
A big goose egg in the W column
I also predict a lot more Saturday yard work for myself, along with more fire pit and bourbon.
4 Conference wins.
I actually think we can steal the NC State game. We always save something for conference play going back to Beamer and treating non con as "Exhibitions." We will be overlooked. They are not as good as their record indicates. If we can play with any sort of passion I could see a W.
After that, no everyone will be wary. WF, Cal, UVa are the most likely Ws to round out the year.
I don't see another win on the schedule unfortunately. And when we get to thanksgiving weekend, we may loose by 30+ with the way UVA can toss it around (our secondary is absolute garbage).
Here's what we need to do as fans... We need to support and sell our program. Let's go to the games (I should be at two more)! Let's turn the TV on! Lets show our future AD, our future coaching staff, and our future conference that VT really does have the best fans in all of college football.
True there were like 3 or 4 that got declined, forgot about that. Just really tired of the undisciplined play especially from guys that have ONE job and regularly fail to do it right
Well Vandy can't have one person do too much because they're all like 30 years old...
Well in the Vandy game specifically, it's hard to have penalties when they keep getting declined.
Can we just get a team that is disciplined, especially the blockers on the punt return? We had 8 penalties for 74 yards yesterday. ODU was 12 for 113 yards. The first two games were relatively clean with 3 and 4 penalties in each. Let's do that. We have a hard enough time moving the ball so putting ourselves in a hole is a recipe for disaster.
Being practical, my hope is 3-9. Best guess is we go 2-10. If we can get to 4 wins, I'll be very surprised.
What I really want to see is a team that is not lazy and weak. They can lose, but at least show a little fire.
2 or 3 more wins this season would be a tremendous success at this point. Although having an interim coach for 3/4 of a season i suppose if Monty is a good coach he might be able to pull out one or 2 more wins. I know there were several players not playing yesterday. Id be surprised to see a mid season mass exodus but I have been wrong once or twice before.
Given where we are at this point in the season, I think .500 in conference would be a tremendous success. I can't really see us winning more than 4 of the next 8.
If we can't be good, I at least want us to be a thorn in someone side. Let's be the team that ruins GT's/FSU/Miami's undefeated season. And let's beat UVA.
I think Monty gets us a win or two that we wouldn't otherwise get.
Hate saying it but only maybes I see as potentially close games are Cal and UVA and not even sure either of those will be close either. Both are 3-1 now. Cal beat Oregon State and Minnesota soundly but then laid an egg yesterday in a 34-0 drubbing by SDSU.
UVA could still be frauds but they kept it close against NC State and blew out their other three opponents. Their QB is not a world beater but he is consistent. Blowing out Stanford this weekend doesn't tell me much because other than Stanford surprising me by beating Boston College they have been about as bad as I expected. I think Stanford, BC and the Hokies will be vying for bottom 3 in ACC this season.
Not idea if "talent" leaving will hurt or hep us. Might put kids in that want to play which could help.
Four ACC teams with one win at the moment are BC, Stanford, Virginia Tech and Clemson. Only ACC teams I am pretty sure we could beat are two we don't play. BC and UNC.
The ACC really is a dumpster fire. There are 6 teams that have not managed to score 100 points yet. Wake gets a pass as they have only played 3 games so far. The others all have 4 games so are averaging less than 25 ppg and most played subpar opponents. The Hokies are only one with two P2/P4 opponents.
Any further victories will surprise me. My expectation is 2-10 and I don't think the additional win comes against loluva. I am an eternal optimist, but this team is deeply broken and any further success will be due to encountering an equally broken opponent.
NC State isnt good, Cal just got demolished, and wakes not good. Also UVA. So my preseason prediction of 4-8 is still holding but I cant see us getting more than 4 wins and I wouldnt be surprised with no more wins.
With the way we have looked the first 4 games of this season, if we win another game this year I'll be surprised. Our offense struggled to get any push at the line against Wofford, that alone should temper any expectations the rest of the way.
I don't think it was planned out well in advance but they are pivoting very well to using the media to help get the message out now. Leaking information so that Thamel could break the news on GameDay shows someone in Merryman gets it right now.
I'm very skeptical about this process as a whole right now but at least we are getting started well.
I'm sure a lot of things were orchestrated. I am also not convinced that there is a student fee increase being considered right now. Tuition and fees are a set item for the April BOV meeting agenda since it depends on the state budget process. This month, I expect any new money to be donations and from VT core budget (remember that the subsidy for athletics is the sum of VT funding and student fees, which is a separate revenue stream).
Especially since Alabama will likely poach him.
Coming into P2 money didn't hurt!
Enjoying my first cup of coffee this morning and seeing everyone realize how badly Bret Bielema had a lot of people tricked into believing Illinois was anything other than their usual selves.
We can't afford him now
Nope. just a lowly engineer in the CRC whose co-worker's husband works in the Athletic Department.
I say we lose out and get the number 1 pick.