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It's back up and full of gems.
Yeah, this is what I was thinking :
21st century QBs Undefeated vs UVA:
MV7, MV5, LT3, K. Drones, G. Wells, B. Burmeister, R. Willis, J. Jackson, J. Evans, M. Brewer, T. Taylor, S. Glennon, and G. Noel. That's right, UVA. You couldn't beat G. Noel.
I have to say I'm coming away from the Duke and UVa games impressed with the way Pop plays. You usually expect a 3rd stringer to be a complete work in progress, and he probably is, but even though he overthrows on deep routes, he throws a very catchable ball. When he needs to put a little mustard on a pass, it's right on the numbers, and he leads receivers on deep routes which creates separation to get more YAC. And on top of that, he apparently has a knack for making something out of nothing when a play breaks down.
I love the toddler energy back there where it's just barely controlled chaos, it somehow works. I would not be shocked if he's solidified himself as QB1 going forward after games like this, he at least deserves a fair chance in the spring to claim it.
Pop with the Cup on his head. Somewhere in the last minute, maybe around 0:37?
Just one for future use on making fun of those clowns
The entire UVa sideline, led by I think #32 dancing around like idiots after they scored to cut it to 16. The overreaction to now only being down 2 scores was hilarious
You could always get rid of first names
FAM!
I'm not convinced Marve is the entire problem, or the problem at all. Our secondary has been a challenge all year long, and we happen to have a lot of young and/or less-experienced coaches (Pierson Prioleau and Gouveia-Winslow are really new to the coaching side). I'm not saying that we need to be patient and let the problems fester. I'm just saying when we look at the challenges we had this year, there needs to be a little more attention at specifically where the challenges on defense were at, and make the appropriate changes.
We need adjustments all over, and that's where I'm looking to see if Pry does the things that Fuente wouldn't and Beamer struggled with. Those adjustments I would hope result in something like 1+ more TD scored per game on Offense, and 1+ less TD allowed per game on Defense. Imagine the year we would have had with a 14pt positive swing in each game... I'll do the math for everyone - we're 12-0, and given how the rest of the FBS played-out this year we're ranked #2 going into the ACCCG, and a lock for the 12-team playoff. That's how close we were this year.
Miami has only scored 3 points, total, in their single ACC Championship appearance*
Is this somebody with AD power that's essentially closer to the street level stuff? I'm curious to see how this pans out and if it becomes common place.
Hey speaking of GMs.
Jerry Jones is a fucking terrible one.
This concludes my TED talk.
GM on CFB teams is typically the same as director of player personnel. Sounds Luck's role is a bit wider than that.
Here's a Good podcast episode on the evolution of CFB front office and what the different titles refer to
If we did this, I'm terrified Ballein would get the role and then we would be stuck in mediocre football purgatory even longer.
I believe this week was my first ever 6-0 week since doing the Pick6
That was relatively stress free, from beginning to end. PTSD had me thinking we were gonna do the thing when UVA got it to within 11, but we kept rolling. Pop looked good, D looked good. I'm happy with yesterday's results, fam.
it's beautiful, beard
Yep. Thanks Grant Wells for putting the bar so low we were all fooled into thinking Drones was good, when he was only good compared to you
This.
Guys, I can only add so many more names to the list before I hit the character limit (I found this out a month or two back when I tried unsuccessfully to add something in there about firing Whit). At some point, more than just the first 3 names are going to need to be shorthanded. But that day is not today. Here goes FAM!
The last time LOLUVA won in Blacksburg I was a first grader living outside Philly, and I only knew Virginia Tech as funky logos on my mom's sweatshirt.
FAM!
The last time UVa won in Blacksburg, this man was president:
There are plenty of problems, and I expect there have to be changes.
Everyone crying about us underachieving need to understand that part of the expectations about our season were based on a perceived weakness of schedule. If you were building expectations based on returning production, you've forgotten that with some players, no amount of polishing will stop a turd from being a turd. We started the season with a relatively weak strength of schedule. We are finishing the season in the mid 20's.
If you go back and read or listen to some of the people picking us as dark horses, they point blank said it was based on the schedule.