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Bosnia & Herzegovina is already confirmed now.

Predictably, the US has made 9 changes. This is a throw-away game for them. I'm certain the players that will start will play their hearts out. They want to make a name for themselves and they want to do the best they can to win wearing the American flag. I think they could still win but this game isn't about winning for the US. I think the way it goes will be somewhat dependent on how Turkiye come out. Will they come out with vigor and vim (to quote Dr. Seuss) or will they be going through the motions as they've already been defeated? That could be the difference between this game being competitive or not.

I'll take the US in a relatively boring 1-0 type of match. 9 points will feel good going into the knockouts against (in all likelihood) Bosnia & Herzegovina.

The 3rd highest paid thing lasted a couple weeks, like when we wanted Pry to have the 3rd largest budget in the ACC. Everyone passed us.

Keeping Marcus on the team is nothing when compared to those 90s teams. There is a reason a felony gets you suspended now and Franks teams in the 90s were a big part of that, though baseball added to the excitement. That was just Beamer's M.O. Peter Warrick was Karma.

Paying coaches and looking the other way doesn't mean you're serious. Lane needed upgrades and that took a while and isnt as big as it should be. Athletic dorms were subpar vs competition. Weight room and lockers took a decade to update. How many people did we have scouting highs school players? How many scouting opponents? What did those staffs look like? Beamer had a recruiting coordinator that also coached for the longest time. When the Lemichael James thing came out of oregon VT was was proud it spent like $250 on recruiting services meanwhile Nebraska fans were developing Hudl to help scout more players faster.

Tennessee altered construction schedules so that recruits for Pat Summit wouldn't have the power go out on them in the middle of night while they slept.

I don't think VT ever had the behind the scenes stuff that you could find a lot of schoola at the time.

Ever since they robbed VT at the Sugar Bowl, anyway.

OTP? Over The Phone?

Bad call that it was OTP. I lived there from 2016-2020, and I don't even remember him coming into town. The local Atlanta chapter had a Facebook group, but they weren't great at getting in touch with local alums...

Lets freaking go

Very cool! Thanks for all of your hard work on TKP. What's the monthly subscription cost?

Not sure I agree with this take. Kevin Jones commitment was after the 99 season. After the UNC flirtation, Beamer became one of the highest paid coaches in CFB with the third highest paid staff if I recall correctly. Beamer bent over backwards to keep Marcus Vick on the roster.

I think malaise (for lack of a better term) really started setting after the move to the ACC.

Ecuador up 2-1 with about 10 minutes to go right now. Ivory Coast looking very safe with a 2-0 lead.

Correction. Ecuador does what they needed to try and continue. They moved to third place with 4 points.

Checked into the hotel at Blacksburg to take my daughter for her official tour of VT on Friday afternoon. She's preferring Georgia and South Carolina followed by Clemson, College of Charleston and William and Mary all over VT. Wish the VT tour people luck that they can put on a good show to convince her to come to the good guys. Hey, VT is one of the few places that has an Advertising major!

Messi better enjoy his record while he's still has it. Mbappe is right on his heels and could play in 2 more WCs.