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Looks like another "competitive" playoff game 🙄
Man I hope I am wrong and ASU can turn this around.
I trust this to be correct. Whenever there are questions as to what is occurring on campus TKP can usually lean on GuitarMan for the skinny. 😁
TKP be like:
Both absolute ballers.
Almost as much optimism as my dog has when the cheese drawer is opened.
Coach Young and Coach Duffy were both presented with a choice - proceed with Cassell renovations or divert the money to NIL. They both chose to divert to NIL. I don't think anyone has cut money, at least no net loss that I'm aware of. It's entirely possible that there was a cut and they were told that's how they could make it up, but that's not how it was presented to me.
Add Tony Bennett. If I'm MY, I leave after this year so I don't have to rebuild again next year. Sad state of college BB.
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Two of my favorite all time Hokies right there. Not the most talented or most celebrated Hokies, but i have both their jerseys and I don't have a lot of VT jerseys.
1. Who could do better with both hands tied behind their back?
This right here. I don't think any other coach can come into this environment at Tech and do significantly better than CMY. Firing Young and just plugging in someone else isn't going to solve the problem.
I actually hate it as I've had season tickets for hoops longer than football, but it's the reality of the situation
Agree. PSU did what Foster and Belichick famously did, which is take away the opposing offense's best player/strength and force them to try to beat you with someone/something which is not your strength.
I can remember I haven't actually seen or heard any proof of that happening.
And you won't, but that doesn't mean it isn't actively happening.
Yeah, it just happens in football. I can't think of a sport that has better parity than the NFL, and five teams won by 4 scores last week.
I don't think it's necessarily a problem with the playoff itself, the issue is the talking heads pointing to the lopsided score and saying the loser didn't deserve to be there in the first place (as long as the loser isn't an SEC team).
People who want the CFP to exclude non P2 teams will say Boise didn't deserve their slot, but I think that's a false narrative. Sometimes you just get beat. I think Boise absolutely had a chance to win, but you can't drive the length of the field twice in the second half and come away with zero points. They convert on those two drives and it's a different ballgame in the fourth quarter.
Wouldnt expect him to be announcing this early in the cycle with that offer list
The answer is "not all all". Whit hired CMY because he was able to compete with less at Wofford. I don't have proof, but just know there had to be some behind closed doors agreement that CMY gets to keep the ship afloat the best he can while Whit tries to fix football. Once Whit gives CMY a real staff and NIL budget, then the clock starts. Whit would be hosed if CMY decides to retire as he will either have to find the cash for BBall to lure a decent coach or take whomever will agree to step into a hamstring job.
Exactly. Considering the amount of his peers that have done the same (Roy Williams, Coach K, Boeheim, Larrañaga, etc) I wouldn't blame him one bit.
Which stinks, because his local ties and demeanor are awesome.
Savion Hiter is on the UA team as a junior
If this is the case, the question we should be asking is not "is Mike Young's seat hot?" it's "how much longer is Mike Young willing to put up with this and when does he just retire?"
IDK, when Boise got 2 or 3 straight stops, and scored a TD, I thought it was possible.
Back to your original point about the CFP not being fun... I think CFB is a sport of blowouts. It's routine to see 4+ TD spreads. I don't think there's anyway to design a playoff where you're not getting blowouts in ~50% of the games.
They also have not given Young the resources to hire the NCAA allowed 5 assistant coaches
This part is absolutely wild to me.
Who could do better with both hands tied behind their back?
More like gagged, hogtied and then put into a coma. Not sure if there is another coach that could do any better.
It's not just "they took away the NIL money". They also have not given Young the resources to hire the NCAA allowed 5 assistant coaches. They have not increased his recruiting staff or supporting staff commensurate with even other ACC programs, and they shelved the Cassell remodel. These aren't small things when it comes to performance of a basketball team. Young's seat should not warm up until Whit's, the Hokie Club leadership and Triumph leadership's seats are all scalding. BOV and Sands may let Whit scapegoat Young but there are two problems there.
1. Who could do better with both hands tied behind their back?
2. Who would even be willing to risk their coaching future to even try knowing they don't have the support of the administration?
Sorry, don't want that to happen. I enjoy VT basketball, men's and women's and have for 55+ years, and have many fond memories of raising the roof in the Cassell and the many fine players and exciting games we've had over the years. I truly enjoyed VT football when we sucked, but was also there for Beamer's arrival and eventually began the ascending program, but I still went to basketball games when I could. This year, for the first time in all of those years I don't attend, watch or listen to every game. I want both without sacrificing one for the other. Pipe dream though, right?
I think it all comes down to whether the rumors that they stripped the basketball program of NIL money to better support the football team, and whether that is true. If true, then CMY is doing the best he can and you can't really expect someone to craft a winning season with no NIL money these days, so he would be safe. If the rumors are false, then yeah I could see his seat getting very warm after this season.
I know the whole "they took away the team's NIL money" has been repeated a lot on here, but as far as I can remember I haven't actually seen or heard any proof of that happening.
Need to go all in on Football to try to survive the next CFB re-org. If this means letting bball stagnate for a decade, so be it. Let CMY do his thing, if he recruits some shooters he has shown he can win games.
Every penny needs to go towards winning 10 games and getting into a playoff in football. Need to start peaking soon.
This is very likely well sourced info. I trust this.