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Yes, J Batt's salary was doubled.
Idk if they'll be able to continue down the same path, but I think it's quite obvious that Batt rapidly improved the AD in just 3 years
Sticks are amazing
Not sure about blocking, but damn, you don't stop their first run easily. They'd make a hell of a fullback, but one hell of a running back, for sure.
Atleast 1, the guy from Florida state, odell hagans or sowmthing like that
No...Claremont rooftop, then my in laws backyard (Covid wedding). Then we spent the night at the Claremont hotel.
To skippypbm, zblaetz, and...Jeff. Enjoy your sticks!
Sands: And what do you do with Brent Pry?
Fanbase: Fire em! Fire em now!
Sands: What do you fire apart from Brent Pry?
Fanbase: Whit Babcock!
Fanbase: Bad coaches?
Sands (Nodding): So why does Brent Pry get fired?
Fanbase: because he's.... A bad coach
Sands: Goooooood, so how do you tell if he's a bad coach?
DC: Beating Rutgers!
Sands: Ahh but can you not also lose to Rutgers and run the ACC schedule.... Do bad coaches win football games?
Alum07: No, they lose!
Fanbase: Let's throw him into the duck pond!
Sands: And what else loses?
Horse on a Treadmill: Time of Possession!
Fireman: A leaky balloon
DC: Players to the transfer portal!
Joe: Key play memberships!
(Pause)
Mike Young: .....Justin Fuente
Sands: Exactly. So logically....
Fanbase: If Pry loses the same as Fuente.... He's a bad coach....
Sands: And therefore...
Fanbase: Fire him!
I think I heard somewhere his buyout is $5.8M (plus any buyouts for the assistant coaches). If that's true and it's still too high we really are down bad. That's almost half of what Fuente's initial buyout was (before we negotiated it down).
I think we would need to heavily invest in surrounding him with either assistant coaches who are good recruiters and/or a GM that helps coordinate that because, IIRC, the story on him at UF was that he was good at the X's and O's but got less interested in recruiting as time went on.
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(12) Clemson at GahT (C -4.5)-Clemson covers
(6) Georgia at (15) Tennessee (UGA -4.5)-UGA does too though less confident here
Pitt at wvu (Shitt -4.5)-WVU at home on the Backyard Brawl
(18) USF at (5) Miami (Miami -16.5)-Miami wins at home but doesn't cover
(16) aTm at (8) Notre Dame (ND -6.5)-Domers bounce back at home
Vanderbilt at (11) USCe (USC -5.5)-Cocks at home- though less confident
Sumrall is holding out for UK, and Alex Golesh's star is too bright, someone with deeper pockets will grab him.
Second is true, first is not. Cover 3 and Godfrey have said they heard Sumrall doesn't want UK but he is looking to go SEC/best available, turned down UNC because of their weird misalignment among admin and boosters.
Still, we have to go for the best available if we truly want to compete with the best. We'll likely only be competing with 5-6 other schools in the same category as us at worst case, by my count there's 8 ish solid prospects on the market we could go after
People used to laugh and snicker - even within the Hokie fandom - at the empty national championship trophy case. But I always thought of it as a symbol that we at least used to aspire to something greater.
There's this sort of prevailing malaise that has set in over the years about what we can realistically expect as a program. It went from "well we can't win the natty I guess, but we can expect to play in the Orange/Sugar Bowl!" to "We can expect to win the ACC!" to "We can expect to win 10 games!" to "We can beat UVA!"
Realism is well and good and I understand that we have a long way to go to ever catch up with Bama, Ohio State, etc.... but there used to be a fire in this program, that somewhere along the way we let burn out. From top to bottom, we used to have a "fuck you, watch this" attitude. We used to spank so called better teams with better resources on the regular... honestly not unlike what Vanderbilt did to us on Saturday, and has been doing to teams left and right in the Pavia/Kill era. That used to be us, and then some.
I hate the sentiment that it's just a given that it'll never happen for a program like us. Now, granted, it sure as shit won't ever happen on our current trajectory. But I want an admin, an AD, a HC, and a staff that genuinely, earnestly, hungers to hunt with the big dogs. What the fuck are we doing if we're not trying to win championships?
To quote A Knight's Tale - how did the Lords become Lords? They took it - at the tip of a sword.
How many coaches can say that they have on their resume "Interim Head Coach" at the same school TWO TIMES?!?
Please tell me your reception was at Claremont Lounge
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Definitely was the norm when we were in the basement of the ACC during the Johnson / early Buzz years. Switched when we got decent and I guess we're back to the basement now.
If memory serves correct, that's not been an uncommon occurrence.
In the NIL era on an ACC budget I'm less concerned about transient coaches than I used to be. The talented end of the roster is going to turn over every 1-2 years anyway.
UVa just showed us a run-through of what trying to transplant the BYU pipeline to a public school in the East looks like. And their fundraising arm could have replaced the money cannon if Bronco had shown any signs of getting it to take root here.
BYU starts with a unique foundation of cultural effects that you can't replicate elsewhere, and then they use the money cannon to top that off i.e. with A.J. Dybantsa in basketball. That's fine for them, but it means you have even less signal than usual to evaluate how people on staff there might do elsewhere.
LOL. They sure as hell pull hard for a solid 10 minutes, I'm sure they could be useful on the gridiron.
Smallmouth are the shit.
March on the James and New tossing big plugs and streamer flies, as well as jigs. This is when many of the big mamas are caught.
April and May on the upper New throwing streamers and poppers to imitate shad coming upriver out of Claytor. Smitty has that dialed in.
Late summer and fall on most rivers tossing big poppers (fly), dead drifting them, to look like dead cicadas falling out of trees. Fly game, in my opinion, is best for that. The big fish slurp them down.
I've also been told by several guys to fish chatterbaits for them on the James in February on warm days. My neighbor does this and has been very successful.
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