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I have @hokiesbaseball and @hokiessoftball on X as a regular check this time of year. Knew weather was questionable for Friday so was checking.
That was a major factor in his decision. Felt they saturated his spot which would have reduced his playing time.
Seen inklings Drones is on their short list if they walk away. SEC rules mean they can't target other SEC QBs in Spring Portal.
Maybe he is looking for somewhere else in Virginia 😂 I thought it was a bit weird because all 4 guys they had picked up were guards.
Thanks I thought I was losing my mind when the Friday game just disappeared, chalked it up to ESPN being worthless for college baseball. Pray tell, how is it you are so wise in the goings on of collegiate baseball?
Yeah I agree with bar, there is not a whole lot of substance to the article beyond its main point. Guy was clearly just trying to make word count by the end.
That said, I'm to the point now where maybe more negative press is a good thing. The more attention we call to these problems, the more likely a change is to be made.
Regardless, it's been abundantly clear for a while that the thing Saban says you need to win - total alignment from all parts of the university - is not present at all in Blacksburg. This is just more evidence of that.
I mean, we've had this discussion hundreds of times on this board, with similar conclusions, and about the same amount of actual facts. Let's hear some solutions.
It's pretty obvious we didn't continue to get the same results Beamer got. And the wheels were coming off even before he left.
I feel like Pry is on the right track, but performance is measured by results.
It's more like "mail room material" if anything, but I doubt it will have the intended effect.
Those are nice! I'd like to purchase one.
Good point with locker room material. Although these days I'm not sure if it'll motivate or demotivate the athletes. One upon a time we would get angry and then take it out on the next opponent. Prove something. I'd love to see that again.
Should be a fun weekend. Weather not a factor and lots of likable players in the mix. We could see multiple players go on hot streaks today and tomorrow. The -3's probably have too many folks to get past but Morikawa and Aberg can go crazy low.
I don't think he'll win but I'm kind of becoming a Terrell Hatton fan...he's brutally honest, not full of himself, and has a pretty dry wit (Are you starting to like this course? "Do I like any golf course?").
My gut (and I have had a stomach bug this week) says Rose will stick around the lead. The course clearly suits him and his putter is hot. [I'm also kind of pissed at Chamblee going so far out of his way to explain why Rose can't possibly win.] Augusta also suits Conners very well; not sure he can make enough putts. Scheffler looked out of sorts on the range last night. We'll see if he can get the drive on 18 out of his head.
Media would love a DeChambeau, Scheffler, McIlroy race Sunday afternoon. If that's the case, I'll be pulling for Rory.
Never heard of her or the Ark show. I watched everything on tv until I went to VT in '68, but not that one.
Is the Spring game televised? I did not think it was. Do the coaches need tape of the players?
UVA lost one of their top portal commits today. Duke Miles decommitted.
Thank you, I've always loved that quote because at face value it makes you think he is so proud of mediocrity, but it's worse when you realize that $90m in 1998 was the sames as $132m in 2016, so only making $94 means he shrunk the company's significantly instead of growing it.
If you were planning on watching baseball or softball tomorrow on ESPN you can forget it. All broadcasts tomorrow have been cancelled in favor of the Spring Game. Hope no critical plays that could have been challenged go against our teams just so we have a couple more cameras at practice.
If you were planning on watching baseball or softball tomorrow on ESPN you can forget it. All broadcasts tomorrow have been cancelled in favor of the Spring Game. Hope no critical plays that could have been challenged go against our teams just so we have a couple more cameras at practice.
Heck, as old as am and if I'm on a deserted isle, I wouldn't kick Lovie (the millionaires wife) to the curb! lol
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McNealy's brother (caddie) shaking his head on that last made putt, lol
Beamer was at the tail end of the era where knowing and teaching football meant you could win a lot.
I mean none of the following as direct attributes of Frank, just of what coaches did in that era.
In the 80s and 90s head coach was the end all be all. They had all the power, they controlled the players as they could pull the scholarship, they could deny transfers, they could do so much. So you didn't have to be a player coach you could just be an asshole and it didn't matter because players couldn't do anything about it. You could yell and scream and do what ever you wanted. You didn't have to be likable. Recruiting was easier because less teams were looking at players you couldn't just email video links to everyone with 1 click of a button. Beamer was good a recruiting what he needed but he wasn't a good recruiter. Bama, UGA, OSU all have single classes that are better than our all time list. Players like Kam probably would be a QB today, but he had to find a place at VT if he wanted to play. There were like 14 people in the football department, only 9 total football coaches, a S&C coaches, and a handful of staffers. Now there's like 50 people in the football department. Also no social media which probably would have gotten frank fired with all the player issues in the 90s. The job of a head coach is way different and it's not about x's and o's like it once was. I feel like Synder from KSU benefited a lot in the same way Beamer did, they got players in and taught them how to play and then played sound football.
The job Pry has to do is not the job Beamer did and VT was not ready for that change.
Oh yes. From that era of TV, I'd have been very happy with any of:
1) Maryann
2) Jeannie
3) Ruth from an old, short-lived kids show called ARK II that a lot of people have probably never heard of
4) Uhura
Looks like Healeava all right.