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# | Split Zone Duo Overtime: Bleak Situations at Florida and Virginia Tech 
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# | Split Zone Duo Overtime: Bleak Situations at Florida and Virginia Tech I mean, Fran Brown was a lowly position coach at UGA prior to Syracuse, and currently employs two first time playcallers as is OC and DC (both former co-DC who didn't call plays). Seems to be working there... so far at least 🤷
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# | College Football Playoff hires a familiar name for its Sr. Advisor job opening They must just be the best of friends. In all seriousness, there must be familial history there going back awhile.
I'm fine with Enter Sandman, but we need to drop the lunch pail until we earn it back. Our defense couldn't force a punt all game against a high school offense with one player qualified to play P4 football, yet we trot a toy prop out there every game like it means anything.
It's laughable. The defense (and team as a whole) fold under the slightest hint of adversity. Absolutely nothing resembling blue collar grit and attitude it's supposed to represent. We'd be better suited with a Paw Patrol thermos kit from Target.
I don't know the disadvantages of this model but there have been a bunch of schools that have gone ADless for awhile Cal and Duke recently. We don't need to rush into hiring an AD.
My mind read everything backwards in your post
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# | College Football Playoff hires a familiar name for its Sr. Advisor job opening His former chief of staff works there - feels like a hire of someone you know
I'm listening to today's TSL pod and they have have some good discussion about timeline for replacing an AD and HC in the same year. Ideally, you would have 5-6 months to fire your current AD, hire a new one, and give them time to evaluate and reorg the department (including taking stock of the football program). If we think there could be a coaching change this year (December at the latest), and we assume Whit can't be the one making the next football hire, then we are already woefully behind schedule. Preseason, if there was even a chance that we move on from Pry at the end of 2025, Whit would have needed to be gone this past summer.
If Pry doesn't dramatically right the ship this season, I see at least a couple options and they're all bad... 1) Pry stays on another year while VT replaces Whit, 2) we rush to fire Whit, hire a new AD and the new AD has to search for a HC on way too short of a timeline, 3) Whit gets to hire Pry's replacement.
Where's the leadership and vision from the university's top brass?
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# | College Football Playoff hires a familiar name for its Sr. Advisor job opening Damn now we'll never qualify for the CFP! /s
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# | College Football Playoff hires a familiar name for its Sr. Advisor job opening Did you also have flashbacks to Sean Glennon when the line was letting Drones take a beating in the third and fourth? Everybody in the stadium knew Vandy was bringing the house but apparently our offense.
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# | College Football Playoff hires a familiar name for its Sr. Advisor job opening Say what you want about Fuente but he's a football nerd through and through. He would be a great addition.
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# | College Football Playoff hires a familiar name for its Sr. Advisor job opening I turned to my buddy in the 4th quarter this weekend and said "I never thought I'd say this but I think I miss Cornelson."
I am consistent right now with 2 wins per week.
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# | College Football Playoff hires a familiar name for its Sr. Advisor job opening Seems somewhat out of leftfield...
Also, just what exactly does a "senior advisor" to the CFP do? And how does one get such a job?...the word deal certainly implies there is compensation involved..
I have been about as close to getting a team to the CFP as Justin Fuente
This got a legit LOL out of me.
UVA SUCKS.
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# | College Football Playoff hires a familiar name for its Sr. Advisor job opening When can Brad Cornelson start?
after the 99 season the avg GPA requirement shot up
The average GPA requirement has shot up everywhere.
This is a separate conversation, but its called Grade Inflation.
When I was in High School '02 Grad....4.0 was it.
You can't convince me the AP courses kids are taking today are any harder than the ones I took.
Welp, not going to bother paying for the day pass to watch this one.
I used to be of the mindset that you couldn't turn your back on the school because that would mean turning the back on players. But now that the football team is largely made up of paid mercenaries who will play somewhere else for more money the second they have any success I really just don't give 2 shits about them anymore.
well said! I don't feel bad about "turning my back" on the team for this very reason. The kids are just as "committed" to VT as I am to them and their craft and I think that's fair. I'm a VT fan and I will never be able to root for any other college team for any other reason - but I don't feel bad tuning out the football program - at the end of the day, it's just entertainment. If it doesn't entertain me, I'm not watching.
Oh yeah 100%. My mother went to VT, but living in NC we just never talked about it. She would watch the annual VT-UVa game but that was it. Around here it was all about NC State and UNC.
VT appeared on my radar because of the 1999 team. If not for them, I would have gone to NC State. And with the increasing admissions standards, I don't believe my high school resume would have been accepted to VT by 2010.
What exactly would you propose the fanbase do to act??
I am fully in support of a general fan boycott until the school starts playing the same game as everyone else. If UVa is maximizing their athletic fees to keep shit afloat, we should, too. If Clemson defunded the non-rev sports to bring them to absolute minimum funding in order to funnel as much money into football as they could, then so should we. Those are things we could do right now, and the fact that we aren't shows we aren't willing to play the game, and if we aren't willing to do that, why should I support them with my time and money anymore.
I used to be of the mindset that you couldn't turn your back on the school because that would mean turning the back on players. But now that the football team is largely made up of paid mercenaries who will play somewhere else for more money the second they have any success I really just don't give 2 shits about them anymore.
Yeah I don't know why i took so many words to say I don't want an AD or HC that's complacent with the status quo of our current spending and funding patterns with no urgency to get them fixed.
Obviously I'd be happy if someone got us 8 wins but I don't want to get someone in here that checks the box 'best team since 2019' and we just do exactly what got us there without being proactive to at the very least maintain a status with our peers. Otherwise we'll just be right back here again in 5-10 years.
When's the last time you actually saw that tho? Our starters haven't been good enough to put a game away in one half since like 2011
Also an anecdote: my boss told me that his sister went to VT and he wanted to follow her but after the 99 season the avg GPA requirement shot up and he didn't get in.
Football absolutely drove interest and the school took the opportunity to raise standards for better students. VT is a better institution now because of the football success of the late 90s.
That was one hell of a game for you last night then. At least one of your teams and pull off some serious magic.
True, but momma always asked "if all your friends jump off a cliff, does that mean you should too?"
Perhaps the have-nots should break free and start their own game, and return to a more traditional model with regional conferences... wish I could tell you how to make that happen successfully.
Um the same cuse that got taken to OT by Uconn?