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This kid lives in America and goes to school in the southeast - well he doesn't go to any real classes. Because of those 2 things, he is entitled to millions of dollars. Plain and simple. After all, his coach gets a salary and ESPN pays tennessee to air their football games. Thus, millions for him- no brainer, totally sound logic.
Preparations are officially underway
Scraping the top of the field for the Metallica Concert pic.twitter.com/ILVVDsfuVt— VT Grounds Crew (@VT_groundscrew) April 15, 2025
i knew backups were doing this but not starters
So evidently the new norm is for players to threaten opting out of the playoffs to try to get more money out of their team
https://allfortennessee.com/josh-pate-confirms-nico-iamaleava-threatened...
Just like my post, I am pretty ambivalent about this season. Plenty of time for me to hop on the hype train, but for the time being I don't really know how to feel about the team. There are way too many question marks.
Exactly where I am.
They did a trade with Chicago Sky that gave them the #3 pick, a pick swap in 1st round in 2027 if beneficial, and Chicago's 2nd round pick in 2027
#4 was their pick
They did a trade with Minnesota for the #6
Washington is in full rebuild mode so traded away Karlie Samuelson and two time All Star Ariel Atkins
Don't do it man, it's not worth it. Prepare for 4-8 with a stagnant offense and improved but inexperienced defense. Big question is what will happen after
Anybody else wonder how Washington had three picks in the top 6 of a draft?
Yup, time to be stupidly optimistic until reality crashes us back to earth. 15-0 Baby!
John Burke was the one I remembered playing both.
On one hand, good for her.
On the other hand, unless she instructs the WNBA to list VT as where she's from in player intros or her bio like Russell Wilson did for NC State despite transferring to Wisconsin, I genuinely don't care.
There's just too many unknowns on this roster to know until August. It could be that Seldon has an APR type breakout in Bburg, the OL gets it together, the edges bring the heat, and some of the young guys surprise us. Or it could be that we have too many new faces on the roster and the staff and we look discombobulated for the first 4-6 games like we have the last 3 seasons.
This was a bit easier to throw together since I already had everyone in a spreadsheet from the Winter window. I need to see if VT has updated the roster page for Spring, I imagine some of these players have quietly moved on from football/VT.
Damn, I'll be in Vegas the following day. Loved to have gone to see that.
Rimac should be pretty good, but hard for 1 OL to look good and get noticed if the rest aren't decent.
oof. some players better surprise us, because looking at that roster, i don't think there is a single pre-season all-ACC player. hopefully at the end of the year, we have a couple sneak onto 3rd team all-ACC, that's probably the best we could expect. not good.
So far Pry is not an improvement over Fuente, we are still a .500 team at best. Right now you can't convince me that the talent on this team is better than what Pry inherited. QB and WR are better, but Oline isn't and DB is way worse. DLine and LBs all depend on transfers, but LB has been terrible under Pry. TE is a push. RB depends on Stewart being good. But even if they are all decent it's still isn't much better talent wise than what Fuente left. If Pry is fired after this season then the cupboard doesn't look great for next year, so the next coach will have just as bad a roster. Fuente was also a better in game coach. And after this past off-season you can't really say Pry is better at player retention although that's apples to oranges.
Now Pry is trying to run a program, which Fuente didn't do well. But even then we probably could have spent a lot less money and got the same outcomes with Fuente. I see a lot more resource being thrown Pry's way, resources that Fuente asked for, yet they haven't help Pry. What have the extra 30 staffers done? We aren't winning more, players retention doesn't look much better after this past season, player development still has a big question mark around it, and our roster managment might be a little better but we've cornered the marked on 5'10" QBs and 7.5 RBs (depending on the guy from Tennessee that's probably a slot reciever) is better than 10
Look what Baber left Brown at Cuse, he went out and won 10 games after getting a .500 team with out much talent. Or Mike Elko at Duke, it can be done.
Pry is a very likable guy, way more than Fuente, and I want him to do well, but nothing points to that. If you look at point differentials we were the 5th best team in the ACC behind Miami, UofL, Clemson and SMU. We weren't there on our record. And lots of the statistics in the past two seasons say we are a netter team than our record, that's a big coaching problem.
It took all I had to fight back the urge to comment "who?"
Good for her.
Randall played the year before King.
18 games played about 13 minutes a game, scored 3.1 ppg
Didn't he have an entire roster of running backs?
somewhat /s
Devin Wilson was a VT basketball player who also joined the football team.
Bryan Randall was actually on the basketball team around the same time as Jeff King.
IIRC Bryan Randall also played on the basketball team for a little bit. My memory fades as I get older though.
16 games as a Senior off the bench
Averaged about 6 minutes and 1.1ppg
The talent on the 85- or now unlimited roster- has not been upgraded in any significant way by Pry. Thus it's insanity to expect different results next year. This roster is very similar to a Fuente one. And the results have shown.