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right there with you, pal.
I do think there is going to be a bubble burst in the sport. I just don't think what is currently going on is sustainable. When that happens, it'll force a restructure and at that point we might be able to get into a situation where our football team can be on a level with peers where the competition is enjoyable and the reward for success is appropriate. That may not be at the level a lot of fans expect or want to be at, but it'll be better than where we are now.
Updated KFord stats give VT a 63% chance to finish with 3 conference wins this year so yeah that's bad, only ahead of UNC, Stanford and Wake right now...
I've always maintained that his contract should have been structured to prevent a one-year exodus.
it's not the first time VT football was used like that.
To be honest that's what I think as well. Setting aside our love for VT we are just not going to be resourced in a way that is competitive with the P2, maybe ever. There's at least a 2x gap that is growing in year over year budgets and in the long run, like over a decade, that's not going to be favorable for what is a medium sized regional brand like VT. We were punching far above our weight class for so long when the difference in height between the floor and ceiling in CFB was pretty small. Now the differences are astronomical and we have been behind for a long time. And the ACC leadership, idiots that they are, agreed to a massive unequal revenue split that will guarantee that the rich get richer before they up and leave outright. The fools.
I had always bristled when Babcock would say stuff like "the goal is to compete for an ACC championship." Dude, that used to be a given. The goal should have been to position ourselves to remain nationally relevant especially as we moved into the playoff era. But the reality is that we aren't going to be able to compete with the $70M teams with a $30M budget.
I just can't get that upset over it anymore. I've used the racing analogy many times - I can't be mad about losing a stop light race when I'm driving a family sedan and I'm competing with people spending Formula-1 money. "But they're both cars..." yeah sure. We aren't playing the same sport anymore.
Once we reach Super League I hope that we can reform regional conferences and actually play college football again. I don't know what the hell we are doing right now.
Got lucky? they had two 7-6 seasons under Golesh and now they've had two good games. In 2024 they beat a 7-6 team(bowl win), a 5-7 team and 5 eams with 3 or less wins
2023 no team they beat had a winning record their best win was over Syracuse in the bowl after Babers was fired.
We don't know how good Boise or UF are. They could have hit the jackpot in the portal like we did with Herbert or Tuten.
if we think things are bad now....just wait another 10 years - VT is headed down a very dark path - things are going to get much worse, and stay that way for a long time, before they ever get better. (And, they may never get better....)
Whit Babcock knows he should be fired, practically told the BOV that he should be, and is still employed.
Brent Pry has achieved exactly 0 of his goals in over 3 seasons, and is still employed.
I wish I could get paid as much as these guys and be as bad as they are at my job....it must be nice
Rudolph is a good coach but a terrible hire for us, like I said he was just looking for a job and left once a better one came along.
Yeah I mean we looked good for a stretch of 4-5 games beating up on horrible teams with losing records. Is the high water mark us beating up on UVA in 2023 to make it to 6-6 on the year? That's not much of a turn around. Then beating up a depleted Tulane in the bowl with their third and fourth stringers and half their coaches gone. There was no turn around under Pry at any point.
ook a complete post-Fuente dumpster fire and turned it around in year 2.
After Saturday night, I have my doubts on how much of a turn around there really was. This team is no better than the one that got Fuente fired. In fact, based on the way the Vandy game went, there's a strong argument its worse.
Leg for the quote from The Rock
At least we didn't pay Vandy to beat us....
For some reason, this reminded me of the Cat and the Hat(maybe the goldfish was the trigger...)-looking for any reason to laugh instead of cry...
I think you answered your own question, lol - because he's a bro fans guy! At least he is until he goes 5-19 in his first two seasons.
And these types of sub-threads are one of the reasons TKP is such a great place and helps us through all the challenges that come with being a Hokie fan....
has done his best
Losers try their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
I won't hate him either, but you are correct, it's over.
Maybe what he had was a Siefkes Voodoo doll, and he suck a pin in the part of the brain that makes adjustments.
I still think he did something. That crusty old fart is some kind of bad luck charm for us. It's like the Godfather, when they bring in the guy's brother to glare at the guy who was going to testify against Michael. He gave us the evil eye, and it was over.
Well, either that or they noticed that we had no defense at all in the middle. Not even a pretense.
We did OK until the half time adjustments. But they absolutely broke us in the fourth quarter.
Second
Well, we got our blowout.
Just wasn't the one we wanted.
That should have been a deal-breaker.
If you can't convince the goldfish and the secretary to come, no deal.
Whatever they're doing at USF seems to be working.
Why are so many bro fans of several teams obsessed with Gruden being the next coach for their team. I've seen numerous posts for him to UF, VT and OKST. He would be in top 10 oldest college coaches, hasn't been around a college team on staff in how long?
She has moved around a bit since leaving here (UNLV, Missouri, and currently Arizona), but does Desireé Reed-Francois have what it takes for the rebuild if given the resources?
They probably needed some luck to beat them, but that they were competitive means they've done something right.