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Good for him. If the last couple of games had ended up like he started the season, he might have been 1st.
I'd say that's the start of the problem compounded by guys bouncing from school to school that may all run different schemes and they never spend enough time in one spot to actually get good at any of it.
Now this is speculation on my part, but I think the kids that have the size to play FBS OL are probably bigger than most of their competition and can get away with not having good fundamentals. Then once they get there they spend a year or two in their first stop learning the basics and if they show any signs of being good, they bail for $$$ and stunt their own development for the NFL.
Note to self, buy a mega millions ticket for Friday.
Gaelic football sounds like a good time. Though it seems the 'irish' would have a leg up in it already.
Absolutely. Hell, ASU is in the goddamn playoffs.
They should end the bowl games and have all-star games in the postseason.
No, not in the current landscape.
My wife will undoubtedly be happy to have Saturdays in the fall back in play as college football becomes increasingly uninteresting to me.
But hey, we go a cool entrance. I'm just glad I got to experience the most significant years of VT football.
Looks like OL, LB, and DB are priorities. As they should be.
Could we get the ghost of Tom Landry? /s
Fucking ridiculous. If you aren't P2 or have absurd oil or
religiouspepsi money backing you, you cannot compete anymore.
ftfy
Not that worried. UNC Football had only $4m in NIL last year. Their total athletic donations was only $24m last year.
I'm far less afraid of him eating our lunch on the recruiting trail. Far more afraid that he can actually develop talent.
Obviously it's a bit annoying because we know he had the potential for more, but since he never developed, is it really that big of a loss?
Depends who replaces him and how he performs at his new spot.
I don't think it's just going to be us struggling in the future.
With 105 scholarship spots, more of the top talent can go to the deeper pockets.
What I see, going forward, is fewer and fewer bowl eligible teams.
That's gonna cut into the overall budget because no sponsor wants a bowl with 4-8 teams.
I agree on Vandy and Indiana- they will be total ass soon enough again. SMU? nah, they can compete with money and talent in texas in a weak acc. They aren't going anywhere, IMO. Tulane can certainly compete in the G5 and in the American- a bad conference. I don't put them in this category. they are what they are
Is Tom Brady going to be his QB? I think we all saw what happened when they parted ways
I think VT has a chance to be good. Good as defined by perhaps a 9-10 win season every 4 or 5 or 8 years and a chance appearance I'm the ACC championship. Any realistic chance of winning a national title are gone. Let's be honest and admit that chance was barely above zero before this changing landscape.
Yea, this is where I'm at and have been for about half a decade. Just look at Utah - no reason we can't be Utah:
| Year | W | L | Pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 0.417 |
| 2023 | 8 | 5 | 0.615 |
| 2022 | 10 | 4 | 0.714 |
| 2021 | 10 | 4 | 0.714 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 11 | 3 | 0.786 |
| 2018 | 9 | 5 | 0.643 |
| 2017 | 7 | 6 | 0.538 |
| 2016 | 9 | 4 | 0.692 |
| 2015 | 10 | 3 | 0.769 |
And just like with societal issues, hoping that a billionaire comes along and wants to fix it just isn't a realistic strategy that you can go and implement without having a miracle occur.
Might as well start depending on me to hit the PowerBall as step one of the plan.
The middle is a trough for sure.
ok ill stop you here. jerod has a special needs brother that he supports and had someone in his ear telling him he would get drafted. he should have known better but, as a parent of a special needs kid with the same diagnosis, under the circumstances i can get it.
bad situation all around, he should have surrounded himself with better people. doesnt mean we need to curse him. youre out of line.
That was my immediate reaction as well.
I think a lot of people forget how frequently we pulled from Fork Union
Leg for the reference
I wont go that far with Jerod, but he's not the person to be calling out any player for leaving early
Are you playing the official FPL game?
I don't believe for a second that Bill is gonna croot, wine and dine boosters and NIL collectives, or probably even call plays. I do believe he's going to take a real shot at building a program that can pipeline the NFL with coaches and players.