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GT was a shell of themselves against us without their starting QB and they had at least 3 critical drops where the ball hit the receiver in the hands on plays that would have kept drives alive. GT shot themselves in the foot against us. Watching that game they seemed like the better team but just kept screwing up. We didn't win that game because we were better. We won that game because GT lost it.
They were missing their starting QB, Haynes King. That was basically the only reason they couldn't score last year. If they had a reliable running threat at QB and a more mature passer, then they had plenty there for the taking. We *might* be better on offense next year, but we're losing most of our reliable playmakers like Tuten and Lane. And we're losing our biggest contributors on defense, too including Strong, Peebles, APR, and Delane.
https://theforkball.com/how-the-cardinals-are-changing-the-way-defense-is-played/
obviously, time will tell, but i like the idea of a guy that will try to innovate and scheme around what he's got.
Excellent take.
Low for Vandy- their 7th year QB is back next year
"The benefit is we've been steadily improving our roster the past 3 years"... debatable - a bunch of guys left for the P4 and were replaced by not a bunch of P4 guys.
yeah Pry hasn't proven any gimmes except maybe Wofford.
GT was missing a lot of pieces when we played them. They're a really solid team.
Curious why you have us losing to GT this year? We beat them 21-6 last year and should hopefully upgrade our O line and D. Also, Vandy, same thing, close last year, but should have a better O line and D.
And hopefully FSU is still a shit-show next year.
LOL. Totally get it. Unfortunately, I haven't watch a second of BBall. I am just hung up on an almost 100% overhaul of the roster. I feel the Identify is lost and it's now just dudes who happen to have wearing a Hokie jersey.
Depends on whether a 13 win or 3 win FSU shows up.
Well, we got two experienced transfers and a freshman transfer, so that seems like it might go a long way to being ready earlier.
Yeah, but our entire roster was dogshit when Bowen got here. We had, what, 10 scholarship RBs? Two QBs that left and two transfers in, and I think our best O-Linemen either transferred out or went pro. Our offense was going to be awful, not sure it would have mattered who we had.
The benefit is we've been steadily improving our roster the past 3 years, with the possible exception of the O-Line and LBs. We got a number of transfers in on the line, now we just need to see what we can do with our LBs.
Yeah I have also been having that thought of whether it took a while because they missed on other candidates or it took a while because Pry had to do a lot of self-work to figure out what he wants his role to be and what makes the most sense for the players VT can get and the college game today.
"DON'T USE THE F-WORD!!!!"
This is a direct quote from the wife to our children.
Here's a hot take for everyone. WE wanted the "best" DC money could buy, but there are some implications to the type of hire we wanted. After the announcement took so long, we were thinking maybe we were nabbing someone from one of the playoff teams. There are two potential problems I see with that.
First is, although we've said on here that we don't necessarily need a coordinator to be a good recruiter, it helps if they can. So, how good a recruiter are some of the guys coming from these blue blood programs vs the program or higher NIL doing the job for them?
The second, and probably most direct is, for those guys, they've got scads of 4 and 5-star talent that they rely on. If we don't have that type of talent, more than likely, we have to be innovative with how we play defense. Winning solves lots of things, so we should be able to get more talent once we start winning, but in the meantime, I think we probably do need to be somewhat innovative, or get coaches that can get the absolute most out of every recruit (develop them better than average).
So maybe Pry wasn't ever looking at who we thought we wanted, maybe he was looking for innovators the whole time. I mean, Marve was supposed to be cerebral (so innovative?). Maybe the reason it took so long is he was looking at non-standard candidates, and the criteria are a lot different, and maybe he did a LOT more background/reference checking and film watching of the candidates than we'd expect.
Thinking about it, if I was in charge, that is probably the route I would have taken. So basically the question is, if we're trying to do more with less, is when was the last time any of the "best" coordinators had to do that, or have they been trying to do "more with more?"
That's laughable. No way in hell this team wins 8.
Based just on the projected win totals and whom we are higher/lower than, here's 8-4.
SCar - W
Vandy -W
ODU - W
Wofford - W
@ NC St - L
Wake - W
@GT - W
Cal - W
Louisville - L
@FSU - L
Miami - L
@UVA - W
7.5 for the Hokies seems generous - I'd take the under
FSU at 9.5 seems very high as well - I'd also hammer that under
2.5 for Vandy seems pretty low
that is a fantastic response from Benji - I actually laughed audibly at that
agreed. I got a good chuckle out of it
ACC early O/U lines for wins
Clemson 9.5
Florida State 9.5
Miami, Florida 9.5
Louisville 8.5
NC State 8.5
Virginia Tech 7.5
SMU 7.5
North Carolina 7.5
Syracuse 7.5
California 6.5
Georgia Tech 5.5
Pittsburgh 5.5
Duke 6.5
Boston College 4.5
Virginia 4.5
Wake Forest 4.5
Stanford 3.5
USCe is at 5.5 and Vandy at 2.5
Just a reminder
Reese's Senior Bowl is this Saturday at 230pm EST on NFL Network.
East West Shrine Game is Thursday at 8pm EST on NFL Network
Hokies have players in both games.
vs SCar - L - Pry's record vs non-con P4 teams is abysmal - until he proves otherwise, I'm going to assume all non-con P4 games are an L
Vandy - L - see above
ODU - W
Wofford - W
@ NC St - L but this is a toss-up. I think NC St is vulnerable - because it's a road game I think we make a stupid end-of-game mismanagement decision that costs us a few points in a narrow loss.
Wake - W
@GT - L
Cal - L - Cal was decent last year? And they are so new to the ACC they're basically a non-con P4 team
Louisville - L
@FSU - W - this could go either way but it just seems like they've totally lost their way and I think we can beat them. Especially later in the year
Miami - L - they're going to have more talent. We outplayed them last year but they outcoached us and won.
@UVA - W - lol.
I think 5 wins is a reasonable expectation for this team next year. I wouldn't be happy with 5 wins but given what we know I think it's about what we should expect. Anything better than this will exceed my expectations but I won't be singing anyone's praises unless we win 9 or 10 games. This schedule isn't exactly murderer's row.
Take the under.
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