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I made an absurd amount of money betting trends on VT hoops the past 2 years. It's easy really. We aren't winning at Conte Forum or JPJ...you start there. Bet 500 dollars plus money on BC to beat us in hoops up there, and then bankroll that into other obvious scenarios like us making Brad Brownell look like a competent coach. Easy money. Others- Louisville will beat us in mens hoops 98% of the time. Pitt football will beat us in Pitt 100% of the time. Easy money. You may not like it, you may say its DC being DC, but laugh to the bank. Seriously. You think VT football is beating a non con P4 team this fall? Do you really? That's my teaser. Make yourself some money.
You happy with VT football losing to Cuse every single time in the carrier dome? I thought so. I know you were giddy after that loss (again) last year. Kudos. All is well. and 2. My post had nothing to do with VT. If you don't like the fact that BC is a bigger brand than app state. Oh well. Its fact.
This is a great point - we've never really been reaching for a high bar - the lower bar might be easier to clear, but once cleared, there's no fight to continue.
shoot for the stars, land on the moon
shoot for the toilet bowl, land in the tub. That's kinda where we are at the moment
UVa is who we benchmark ourselves against. I've watched it play out year after year within the fanbase and even within the AD. We might suck on the field, we might not be invited to a bowl, but we beat UVa and end up higher than them in the standings, so in the big picture that's ok.
We've been benchmarking ourselves against the shittiest program in the ACC for the past 25 years and we wonder why we slip into complete obscurity watching us get passed by schools that 15 years ago we all would have thought were below us. But we have never felt the fire under our feet because UVa is a complete dumpster fire that is incapable of challenging us.
Shit, at this point we'd be better off benchmarking ourselves against Liberty or JMU than UVa. Some would argue those 2 are better overall programs than we are right now.
Not that I don't believe you. But I'm surprised no one has collected your "This will happen, Mark it down, Bet on it" posts and tracked your success rate.
LOL - this was my point exactly. DC loves to trash our team/coaches whenever we don't completely pound one of those teams into the dirt
and yet, they're somehow a league above the likes of App State and Marshall - feels like a double standard to me
I'm gonna quote you on this next time we lose to Cuse, BC, Wake and/or Duke.
The mere fact that we're associated with a list like that should be enough to spur some action. This is pretty bleak, and this will not improve unless there are dramatic changes.
Based on that list, uva will for right in! B1G is the most represented conference.
We also have a chance to get ranked and get off the list entirely.
St Marys is going to beat VT by 20 unless we shoot 80% from 3. Mark that down and bet accordingly. They are typically long/big/tough inside and have great shooters.
Saying it's the biggest game every year isn't all that actually matters in the end, but for many of us it is maybe a bit more important than for others is that we have to live with, near and familiarly in proximity with those entitled pricks all around us, and it at least gives us something we're just better at than they are, regardless of our team's accomplishments, or lack thereof, in any given year. They now own basketball and baseball and about all of the Olympic sports and it rankles. But no, I don't believe that a significant portion of the fanbase thinks that game "is all that actually matters in the end."
We have a chance to add Cal this year
What's the deal with Duquesne being an exhibition? Is that something new? First time I can remember seeing an actual opponent advertised.
We get Colorado State which is a so so opportunity, St Mary's is pretty solid and would be a great win (but they're also pretty good and probably beat us, given the youth of our team). Everyone else in that tournament is extremely mid.
So it's basically St Marys (if we get them), Providence and maybe South Carolina as good opponents, Colorado State being a half decent one. So for quad 1 wins that's max 4 but most likely 1 maybe 2. You can't do that if you want to make the tournament.
I'd say ideal number of quad 1 games you want to play in the noncon is 5, to allow you to lose a couple and still be in good shape. Right now I'd set the over/under at 1.5. St Mary's is the only guaranteed quad 1 game, but we aren't even guaranteed to play them.
And we have lost to half of these bottom feeders during this drought.
Fucking Embarrassing. gif
I, too, was confused, so I looked at the archives.
WVU Poll History
UVA Poll History
WVU ended the 2018 season ranked, so I guess they consider that 2019 since the 2018 season goes into the 2019 calendar year? IMO it should list WVU at 100 weeks/2018.
Not So Fun Fact: Rutgers' poll drought going back to 2012 is coincidentally the last year VT beat them (granted, we went 11 seasons without playing).
An event almost two decades ago
Low bar
The casual college football fan didn't know App St existed until they upset Michigan
The b10 is striving to be the most pretentious conference ever.
Dastardly...