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I agree with this assessment for Pry's classes up until now. This year feels like a significant drop off so far, especially with two 4 star decommits.
Academic requirements are totally different for athletes and non-athletes at places like Stanford and GT and any other place that claims they are an "elite" academic institution but that plays in a conference that is able to send teams to bowl games. Might be the same at Army, Navy and Air Force (not sure), but that is probably about it.
The outlier in that dataset is GT. How did they get ranked that high with their supposed academic requirements for entry and staying in.
I'm with you on the remote. The two features that make it worthwhile are the spot lock/anchor feature and the "heading" feature where it stays in the same direction it's currently pointing. You can drift a flat for an hour and never need to touch the remote. I think foot pedals and saltwater are a no-no or I've at least heard about shorting out/fires. I'm able to "control" the motor with the fish finder, but after trying it this morning it took a lot of time away from actual fishing. And any sudden movements needed to avoid grass were not happening.
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Maybe Vick will bring him on staff in a few years here at VT...
Oh, God, no.
🧦🧦🧦🧦
A friend and coworker fished out of Oregon Inlet a few weeks back and they killed the yellowfin out on the shelf. There was only two of them fishing and they got almost a dozen fish up to the boat and had their limit and were back at the dock at 10:30. He said once the first hookup happened, there was at least one fish on until they called it quits and he never left the fighting chair. Would've been nice to have had a full boat of anglers.
Old man take here: I have fished a fair amount with people and their remote trolling motors, I'm not so big a fan as most seem to be. The remote takes your hand and eye off of the water and the business at hand, other than when you're on spot lock. I personally prefer a foot controlled motor, mainly because I'm familiar with the operation, but I've not had a saltwater troller so maybe I'd feel differently now I'm strictly saltwater fishing. The price for a saltwater troller, however, is prohibitive for me at this stage of my life, so I'm just musing, but I'd be pissed to have an expensive motor and an easily fried remote rendering it useless and therefore unpredictable.
Mobile; plays a little hoops; I saw him keep his feet moving after contact at least once.
Buttgers
Kind of like a booger except from the butt...
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The good old days of "RUTSgers."
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Unless we get into a P2 program, we have to accept the fact that we're a (high) mid-major program masquerading as a blue blood. Sad to say, there's not that much separating us between us and the JMUs of the world.
Not necessarily a bad thing - instead of trying to beat Goliath at their own game, we need to start acting like David again. Beamer found inefficiencies in recruiting (757) and in the X's and O's (special teams). Pry (or the next head coach) needs to find the modern equivalent of those things.
We're not going to be a playoff team going head to head with Clemson, Penn State, OSU, Bama, Georgia etc. in recruiting battles and losing (over and over again). We will if we find 10+ Bhayshul Tutens and Xavier Chaplins in each recruiting class (and keeping them). Easier said than done but it's the truth.
Definition of Insanity- The SEC and B1G have a structural monopoly on top 25 recruiting classes that we simply can't break/penetrate into. It is what it is- the SEC has 15 schools in the top 25 classes. Yet, we expect to win at VT not recruiting inside the top 30. Definition of insanity.
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I think that's a huge factor when we keep having these discussions on Pry's recruiting. Clearly a different time in football and Pry could be putting us in a better position if he could figure out how to win on the field but when you're constantly kneecapped by an AD that's playing the reactive game in continuously changing landscape you're never going to punch above your weight-class.
Top 25 classes are more difficult to ask for than they used to be. The SEC gets between 10-12 of the top 25 classes on average each season, and the now expanded B1G + Clemson/FSU/Miami + ND account for most of the rest.
For the 2025 Class: Top 3 were SEC, 4-6 were B1G, 7-11 were SEC, 12 Notre Dame, 13 USC, 14 Miami, 15 Penn State, 16-18 SEC, 19 FSU, 20 Mizzou, 21 GT, 22 Nebraska, 23 Washington, 24 TCU, 25 Maryland.
So only 5 slots for non-B1G and SEC teams, and one of the usuals, who will return into that mix this season, is Clemson, who finished 26th. We finished 40th last year, and I do think there is expectation for improvement there. We did finish behind Duke (30), SMU (31), NC State (34), and UNC (36).
were we not at the bottom of the P5 in spending and NIL?
The whole idea of NEMA is that its universal so that should all translate over to whatever new motor you get when/if you get one. As for prices...yeah good luck, they come out with a new motor for $10,000 and for some reason that raises the prices of all motors by $500.
Thanks. Just found out about this. Pretty bummed. I love my xi3 and have it wired to my lowrance so if I switch brands not sure if my gateway/NMEA stuff will still work. Also "comparable" simrad/lowrance is more than double the price so that's a nonstarter.
I'd buy a few you if you plan on keeping the trolling motor longer since the motorguide brand is transitioning to lowerance.
Dave had a foot control pedal on his boat which is all inshore. But definitely seems to be the norm for remote.