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I dont care about our resources those gloves looked amazing.
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" And there's having to answer to the BOV as well. A lot times the wording or messaging isn't directed at the people that take offense to it. There was backlash over his proper quote, but it was a dog whistle to the BOV that he wasn't frivolously spending funds on little things.
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" Yep...NIL just brought the under the table stuff above the table. There's always been a bag, but some bags have just been bigger (and grown faster) than ours. We've put some toward our NIL bag in recent years, and we might be somewhat competitive in football NIL, but not championship caliber level funding at all.
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HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" I think our greatest example was Ace Custis for basketball especially after you read the featured article on Sports Illustrated that talked about how they struggled to pay the road tolls to get him back and forth to practices growing up. Then you see him rolling around campus in brand new SUVs, living in the best off campus housing and always had a cash roll downtown when he was out.
ATLIEN
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" This the most MGoBlog post I've ever seen on TKP.
If you think the Beamer administration was above paying players and high school coaches then I have a bridge to sell you. Did you not go to school with Tyrod and David Wilson lol?
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" Woulda coulda shoulda.
We didn't sign those guys because we weren't willing to play the same game in recruiting as them. We weren't willing to get dirty, thinking we were above it. And to a certain extent we are still there.
Part of the whole thing that we need to come to grips with is that if we want to win, we have to accept the fact that you need people willing to operate in the seedy shady side of recruiting. You need guys who are going to go out and buy a recruit who has already committed elsewhere. You need to be able to grease some palms and make a few cash payments to entice decisions. And now, we need to be willing to pay a QB a 6 figure NIL deal before he's stepped foot on campus. That's just the world we are in now.
We can bitch about it til the end of time, but it won't change the fact that the only way you will have success going forward is to play that game.
CONSIDER IT DONE
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" This is the way, along with Tables other point below, "as long as it shows...."comment.
He has so eloquently stated in these two comments what I have failed to do in the number of mine on this topic.
If I had a one word descriptor of "my pause" in all this mess, it would be "Speculation". There's way too much of it.
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" Agree - when Dabo took over, they invested in some recruiters, dropped some bags, hired an innovative/cutting edge OC, and poached one of the best DCs in the nation from Oklahoma.
Meanwhile, we hired a HC who apparently thought it a good idea to hire a DC with no experience (with the HC sort of still running the defense and not focusing on being a HC), and three offensive guys as a brain trust to sort of work things out on offense, all of which ended in disaster. Had Pry started off with a Siefkes-type DC hire and Montgomery-type OC hire on offense, we might be having a different conversation.
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" Ill repeat what I said on here multiple times..... If Beamer in his last 5 years signed fucking Sammy Watkins, Nuke Hopkins, DeShaun Watson, Tee Higgins, etc we aren't having this conversation. If Fuente signed Trevor Lawrence, we aren't having this conversation. IF Pry flipped some 4 and 5 star ballers from Penn State, he wouldn't be 0-50 in 1 score games. Clemson went out and got fucking DUDES... a bunch of them and then proceeded to kick alabamas ass. Not rocket science.
It's certainly not an easy job, but it's in a significantly better spot than it ever has been. Barry Odom just got them to the Mountain West championship game and the school is more invested in football than ever before. To me, 8-4 shows that he still has it. 3-9 suggests that maybe he has been away too long and can't handle the changing landscape.
And I agree that he is a solid, but not great coach. He wouldn't be in my top 3 for next HC, but I wouldn't be upset if he was the guy.
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" The best ones also back up their investments with results. Clemson invested a bunch in their program around 2009/2010, which led to a wave of good performance and growth. That then won them more investment/buy in from donors and the school, which then vaulted them from ACC Champs to National Champs. It's like a snowball effect.
To me, if this staff can't do anything this year, you kind of have to reset and start over with a blank slate. That would just be throwing more good money after bad when Pry and Co would have then proven they can't maximize our current budget. I think this year will signal whether we double down and invest heavily in this staff, or start over with a new cast and invest heavily in them.
MEH. 😕
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" I would think the black weight with the nicks on it speaks more to the blue-collar image we've projected over the years, like with the lunchpail. Especially if they can point to specific nicks and say, "Lombardi winner Corey Moore created that dent in the weight when he tossed it into a column in anger."
True story- he uses an AI "heat diagram" for key words. He does a little research and probably knew about VT a bit from scouting here... but for the show he literally uses AI to create a heat map of VT football words... like Beamer man, special teams man, they have this walk out song, man. etc.
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" At the same time, just paint the damn weights
MEH. 😕
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11 months 1 week
# | Whit: "If VT doesn't radically leap forward now, our fate is likely sealed for generations to come" Fair point, so long as it's an actual balance, and not a "let's spend some more because theoretically we should make more money" type of balance.
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