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# | Hokie Hoops Central: Virginia Tech (5-6) at St Joes (7-4) 12pm CBSSN Wow they did call it on Hammond. Hammond had both feet set and the offensive player swung an elbow into his chest knocking him down.
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# | Hokie Hoops Central: Virginia Tech (5-6) at St Joes (7-4) 12pm CBSSN Ref just signaled a blocking foul on Hammond but announcer said it was an offensive foul. Guess we will see after the Timeout.
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# | Hokie Hoops Central: Virginia Tech (5-6) at St Joes (7-4) 12pm CBSSN That was a terrible whistle on Poteat. Poteat was two feet away from anyone.
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# | Hokie Hoops Central: Virginia Tech (5-6) at St Joes (7-4) 12pm CBSSN Hammond starting and St Joes missing one of their big three. Guard Xzayvier Brown out with an injury.
A bit of volatility in the past few days, but the Senate passed the D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act by unanimous consent at around 0115 this morning. Since the House passed the standalone bill previously in February, it's now on the President's desk. Looks like this is a go.
https://www.nfl.com/news/senate-passes-rfk-stadium-land-bill-giving-comm...
I don't have a quote, but before the comeback McDonough was basically stating that he had seen enough playoff and that going forward the committee needs to emphasize strength of record (i.e. Alabama, or at least another SEC team probably should have gotten in over Indiana).
I'm not willing to group him into the "sensible, and definitely not just hot takes & stanning the SEC" category anytime soon.
Adios Indiana. It was a fun run.
Gonna have to move that Army/Navy game up a week... or two... make that part of rivalry weekend and make it count from a conference standing standpoint.
This ^
Everything else has been modernized in the sport to the point that tradition, development, and loyalty dont matter at all. The only things that remain are the bowls and rankings, and both need to go. Drop the bowl games, focus on the playoffs, and have the national championship (or even the semifinals) be hosted at a neutral site. If you're the "home" team you should be playing at home for at least one game.
I personally think the bowls should be moved to the opening weekend of the regular season. That's basically what has started happening with these big kickoff games at neutral sites. Bowls just make no sense with a large playoff format. Ridiculous to travel to three neutral site games in the span of less than a month.
Will just leave this here...
Get rid of the bowls. Such a money drain for the majority of them. That or force the bowls to cover ALL team expenses, especially since they are non-profit organizations.
I totally agree, but the big bowls want to be a part of the playoff. I think the home environments are way more exciting for the playoffs though. Move the semis to bowls if you must but the first two rounds should be at home stadiums I agree.
Makes me wonder if we have a DC and the players/top transfers are being told. If it's Dex we might start hearing something today especially if PSU loses.
How awesome was that environment last night? You know ESPN has to love it from the presentation perspective.
This current format feels wacky that the 4 teams with byes don't get to play at home. If VT makes the playoffs Id rather be the 5 seed than 1-4 just to experience a post season Lane Stadium environment.
I would really like to see the format change to the first 2 rounds on campus sites. 3 rounds of neutral site games is too much.
There is another factor in play regarding 5 🌟 players and that is the "growth" of the Rating companies and widely different techniques or time investment by those companies. It really has changed significantly.
Two things have become true. On3 really props up scores for those that have committed to the P2 and vice versa seems to negatively score kids not going to P2 schools lower.
Point in case this year there were two 5 🌟 kids in 247Sports and Rivals at ACC schools but On3 score was so much lower it knocked them down to 4 🌟 in the 247 Composite ranking.
There are cause and effect as the raters spend very little time on ANY recruit but if a kid gets a couple SEC offers it increases the amount of time the raters spend looking at them. It's a system that feeds it's own loop.
As for kids getting paid, I don't have an issue with kids getting paid but do support a salary cap similar to the NFL. Kids that then earn real NIL I have no problem with either. It's NIL concealed as pay for play that I don't support. I would estimate 85% of current NIL deals do not return a positive return on investment for businesses. "Donations" by individuals is a lost cause but I don't really have a problem with those dollars if that's how people want to spend their money.
LB Caleb Woodson removes his name from the portal, is returning for next year
I saw Adam Sandler at VT. That was in 1997, not 2001. I tried searching to see if he ever came back and Google was not helpful.
Universities have been basically functioning as for profit institutions for a while now. The amount of money that gets pumped into endowments that are managed like large institutional investment funds all tax free has become insane. It was the Yale model for how they invested and managed their endowment that turned them into an endless oasis of cash, and now other universities have followed suit growing their endowments into ridiculous pools of tax free money.
Let's just expand the playoff to 16 and put the whole SEC in it. Come on ESPN you know you want to.
Hah, that's just cause ESPN hasn't found a way to spin it yet
And more likely it'll be used as a push to get 7 or 8 SEC teams in next year because it means so much more there
Oh yeah, I do remember that yell!
It was nice to hear the ACC being defended on national TV even if it was in the last minutes of a game that should have been a blowout.
You don't see an issue with a sport that needs to be propped up by huge donors?
Great point. This is the issue having a revenue generating sport that is tied to a not-for-profit institution. I don't see a way around this unless:
- Universities/football teams transform into truly for-profit institutions
- Football teams agree to turn down billions in TV dollars to be truly not-for-profit
You can't have half the organization function as a non-profit and the other half function as a for-profit. You can't have donors and amateurs on one hand, then billion dollar TV contracts and employees making 8 figures annually on the other. It doesn't work. Pick one, and commit fully.
Before the BOOOONE!