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Dammit, I'll drink
This feels like an early Christmas present. Looking forward to listening to French's insights. Always so very insightful. And the teaser of
I rant for more than an hour
just adds to it all.
I'll let someone else make the thread looks like we got the 5'9 220 bowling ball from bowling green. Breaks a lot of tackles not as much top end speed but a great pick up imo.
great interview!
After firing Crook, (and what Pry said in the presser about recruiting), I started wondering if the reason we're not bringing in more linemen isn't because there isn't a desire to, it's because Crook is doing a shit job recruiting, so there's only a small number to, so the rest of the team are taking recruits they can bring on board (including the skill positions - despite what someone said about how the line should be top priority).
And I remind people about that bit about fan being short for fanatic. I think it does really apply to some other schools more so than us. Like you say, when people are willing to dump huge sums of money into a program just because of how much they love the game (true fanatics).
I honestly have no idea how wealthy our donor pool is, or whether an IPTAY would work here, especially if the school did a good job a socializing/promoting that (or 20 or 50 or 100 a year).
God was just granted an extra year of eligibility, so he will be taking his talents to Mississippi State next season. Greg Sankey's plan.
Thanks for posting this. French was an awesome guest as always. The thoughts on the OL opened my eyes a bit. I knew it was bad, but perhaps it was so bad that Bowen is actually good? Something to ponder.
Thanks for listening, y'all!
The stark parallel here is that in 1992 VT was in every game. Played a tough schedule and lost many 4th Q leads. Dave Brain- an ex football player and coach, BTW- told Beamer that his coaches weren't good enough so hire better ones or leave yourself. It had nothing to do with sanctions- it had to do with seeing that the talent was getting better, the team just couldn't win close games. Beamer was forced to do it, and made the right moves- starting a 20 plus year bowl streak the following year. The chief culprit was Mike Clark- a terrible DC that Beamer brought with him from Murray State. Sound familiar? That had to be tough for Beamer, but he made the right call. He also decided not to fire some dude named Mike Gentry, not buying into the logic that the team got tired at the end of games. 2 brilliant decisions.
Leg for French referring to himself in the third person. Known by a single name to all Hokie fans like Madonna, Prince, Eisenhower. Baller move.
I saw a tweet that said "nope it is not gods plan for you to transfer 8 times" lol
Always like listening to Pete great episode here.
With 3 star home grown kids like Mose Phillips leaving simply for more bag, Lane Stadium is totally going to be full in 5 years. Totally. VT fans love not knowing who is on the team year to year. /S - this is going to kill the sport without major changes. People can disagree, but the mega donors- and there are a shit ton fewer of them than their are "normal" fans are keeping the sport alive right now. That is not scalable. Losing money/giving money away is what rich people hate the most. We all have friends that drive BMWs and are VPs that want the check split at lunch. There needs to be sensible action.... 1. Dial back the TV deals or spread them out- this is what they did with March Madness. They have never eliminated an auto bid- never- they have just expanded the field when new conferences were added. 2. Mandate that you must sit a year before transferring- OR you can transfer 14 fucking times, but you are a walk on if you do. Very soon people like Tim Sands are going to push back hard on having to build an entire football team every offseason. That is what it will take.
That was basically my reaction as well. Nailed every nail in the coffin.
Damn!
(But in the voice of Homer Simpson, 'Its funny because it's true!)
You will be missed 💔 pic.twitter.com/AcrC1Xp2Ha— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 19, 2024
Agreed. Had to use the Jaguars that drove themselves to get around.
I thought that was with Tech coming off sanctions. Hard to imagine mandating firings when you've been hamstrung until about then.
Edit: read that the sanctions were 10 less scholarships for 3 years, presumably running from 87-90. 92 would then only be 2 years after the sanctions, so still like a difficult place to be in. And yes, Dooley was successful, and maybe they wanted to get back to that, but part of his success may have been because he was giving scholarships above the maximum (why Tech got sanctions).
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Awful. Mass trans in Phoenix is basically non existent. This is a drive your car city.
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How's mass transit at Chase Field? ;^)
This is why crackstreams exists.
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Ok French. Please explain
Have I missed something? Have I forgotten something?
And I will gladly take another "Cedric Humes" in the backfield.