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those soccer fields are located on former RFK parking lots. If a new stadium gets built, some or all of those will have to get converted back to parking
Thugs, felons, women beaters should be banned from football and probably should be in prison. Yes, I 100% agree. But if you are a school president, AD, and head coach that signs off on giving this kid a scholarship and salary- you are a bigger part of the problem. This scenario could be solved simply by- drumroll.... not admitting felon/woman abusers into your school. We used to be a civilized society. Attending a major university and playing football is not a birthright. It's a privilege.
5th string? Sounds like that team's got a case for playing the world's smallest violin.
Lol. good one
Important distinction- coordinator - not simply coach - is the metric... Bud was 1 of 2 coordinators on staff for - 30 years....
I will say that the team seemed stronger than under Hilgart, with maybe the exception of the OL and (that might just be a blocking scheme or skill issue) but it wasn't good enough - and perhaps conditioning was neglected for strength #'s. Step in the right direction but many more steps needed.
it's one of the main reasons I was skeptical it would ever happen - for some weird reason, it just seems like VT doesn't fire assistant coaches for football. We haven't done it in over 30 years. Call me jaded.
Damn, Gina! I knew just anecdotally that it had been a looooong ass time. But I didn't realize it had been that long. Seeing it in black and white hits hard. On one hand, it doesn't surprise me that it's been that long. On the other, GODDAMN!!!
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"Fan" is short for fanatic. That basically means unrealistic. It means that texas oil men give 20 million dollars in hopes that SMU beats Wake for no other return. What VT "fanatics" were slinging at stinespring was a result of unrealistic and sophomoric logic. "Bud's defense is great, and the only reason we aren't back to back national champions is because of Stinespring"... why yes of course. No nuance, no football knowledge. When Cav got stiney good players, the offense was good. When Beamer allowed scumbag Danny Pearman to be on staff and essentially not recruit at all - that hampered the "offense"... Now to be fair, plus 100 offense in 3 of 5 years, yeah you take a hard look at the OC and what you are trying to do. But Andy Reid would run into problems when you add one fucking Olineman in a 3 year recruiting cycle.
I generally agree with you here. Although S&C I think was an issue (we simply don't as big compared to other rosters and didn't come out physically prepared more times than not), I do think there was a bit of misdirection here from Pry to gloss over the coaching/game management issues.
I also think defensive fatigue in the fourth had a lot to do with, again Pry was silent on this, a lot of 3 and outs and stalled drives from our offense down the stretch in games, leading to the defense being on the field a lot. Bowen's offense can be explosive, but it has certainly struggled with being efficient in moving the chains. That needs to hopefully be addressed with the OL coach hire - we have to get a way better conventional run game going so we can run clock and grind out wins. That was the classic Beamer/Foster blueprint - play championship defense, offense that could generate explosive plays at times but also RTDB and control the clock.
Speaking of reassigning Stinespring, the TSL podcast last week said that Pry firing Marve was the first actual coordinator firing at VT since 1992. Stiney got reassigned (demoted) from OC to TE coach when Loeffler came onboard. That is absolutely crazy. No wonder a lot of VT fans (myself included) simply didn't think coaching changes were coming. VT is just very reactive vs proactive historically and not prone to making changes.
Yep. But Reassign Brian Stinespring just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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VT football's big game of "tricker treat"
and had season trickers for years
feel like we've all had these for years now....
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My VT brother in law was at that game and had season trickers for years and attended many a game. He said that after the blocked kic, scoop and score, it was easily the loudest moment in Lane that he ever witnessed. He said the tone was surreal. That it became this single, laser type constant noise ringing in his ear.
I am in the same boat, except I will not watch anything. It's now the NFL minor leagues and I have no interest in that.
It might even help land more/better VA kids out of high school, too. We'll see.
Antitrust exemptions exist for some classes of industries to get around labor laws that are intended to prevent exploitation by owner/worker power dynamics, but they are not generally granted unless there are some guardrails that exist to prevent that exploitation. The main one that exists in professional sports is collective bargaining. Both the owner and the worker organizations collectively agree on the framework within which the sport will operate, and that collective agreement is what is used in lieu of labor laws to prevent exploitation.
What that antitrust exemption also does is to assist setting up a system that allows for a level competitive playing field, the elements of which would normally be against labor laws (e.g. delayed free agency vs restraint of trade), so I'm not arguing against the antitrust exemption. We're seeing right now what the effect of the imposition of labor laws on the competitive balance in college football, because the nominal overarching organization (the NCAA) has ceded leadership of the game to the lawyers that are actively working, using labor laws, to tear the game apart.
Before any antitrust exemption is going to be granted (or should be, for that matter), you're going to have to have some organization that represents the totality of the players, in order to create the collective bargaining needed to create a stable vision of college football. Historically, those have grown up organically for the professional leagues. (A great read on that is Lords of the Realm by Paul Helyar, which details the labor history of MLB from its beginnings, through the founding of the MLBPA, up to the middle of the 1994 strike.) But they haven't found traction in college sports, mainly due to the transitory nature of the player base. But it's something that's going to be necessary, if there's to be any antitrust exemption, and eventual levelling of the playing field.
Lords of the Realm, by Paul Helyar
The fact that no lead was safe in the 4th quarter because we just knew the defense was gassed every game was a real thing. To be fair, some of that could be blamed on the offense struggling so much to start that the defense used up all their energy going up and down the field in the first quarters.
to be fair, they just didn't want him to be calling plays
That doesn't go southbound after 7pm on weekdays.... so fuck off orioles fans....