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2026 #Hokies QB commit Peyton Falzone opens up his recruitment https://t.co/oFM2Aplicd— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) November 27, 2024

Yeah got a feeling he'll go for 20+ tonight

I would doubt it.

First come first served rv parking next to lot 18.

Double zero's.

Let's Go!

Drones needs to spend less time around the Sanders and more time actually working on being a QB.

he was hand picked to run Pry's defensive scheme.

yes, it's one reason I don't have high hopes for Pry, even if he does hire someone else. But I think it's important for a HC to be able to identify underperforming coaches and make moves to replace them. Fuente couldn't do it. If Pry can at least show that he's able and willing to make necessary changes that's a plus for me. His hiring record ain't great though, lets be honest. So if he does fire Marve (huge plus) the replacement is going to be the make-or-break decision for Pry and his HC career. Which leads to....

he'll either bring someone else in to run his exact same scheme (which seems unlikely) or he'll change schemes and hire someone to run something different (seems even less likely).

1. I don't know that there's really anyone else Pry could bring in to run the same scheme so if he's going to make this change I think he has to hire someone who will run a different scheme (agreed, seems unlikely)
2. If he does, we, the fans, need to give that guy some time. If Pry fires Marve and brings in another coach he buys himself a couple more years because, especially assuming a new scheme, that new coach will need time to coach up and bring in players who can execute his scheme. I wouldn't expect immediate results but hopefully the defense shows some growth and by the end of year 2 we can feel good about where it is headed. The defense is in pretty bad shape, so a good coach should be able to get more out of the current players, even in a different scheme. I think if Pry makes a good hire we'll see that relatively quickly (by end of year 1) but it'll take a couple years to get to where we want it.

I think we're most likely to see staff changes on the offensive side of the ball.

We could definitely use some upgrades on offense but I just don't buy that the offense is the biggest problem with our team. I think if Pry decides to leave his defense mostly as-is and change the offense that would be a HUGE gamble. It doesn't make sense to me to change the one unit that has been improving. Could the offense be better? Absolutely. Is Bowen a rockstar OC? No. But he's serviceable and he's gotten more out of the offense than Marve has gotten out of the defense. Dressing a cut on your right hand while your left hand his broken tells me your priorities aren't in order. Fix the biggest problem first.

Also while I get your reasoning of giving him time you also have to see that the roster will be worse next year. Hiring a new offensive staff and especially new OL coach will set the group back for a bit. Same with running a new defensive scheme. Then if it doesn't work out they bottom out and the team gets raided in the portal, and year 1 of the new rebuild in 2025 is a wasted year.

It's interesting that you bring up this logic because I think it's higher risk to try fixing both units simultaneously. We know what we've got with Bowen. It's not great but it's not bad either. He can manufacture some points. He could use a new OL coach, and the maybe an upgrade at WR too. But to assume that a new OC could come in and do a substantially better job is bold, IMO. We know the offense is serviceable. We know the defense couldn't stop a fly stuck in a web. The defense needs to be overhauled. Why overhaul the offense too? Having two units in complete upheaval at the same time is going to be a disaster and there's no guarantee that a new HC would be able to fix both offense and defense at the same time.

So, I pretty flatly disagree with your thesis. Schumann coming in would mean new coaches across the board which likely means huge steps backwards for both offense and defense. I don't think that is better than taking a big step backwards on defense for a year while the offense continues to improve. Add in the fact there is no guarantee that Schumann would be able to bring in better DCs or OCs than we currently have and I just don't see how moving off Pry now helps us. This all assumes that Pry will make changes. If he doesn't then of course we need to fire him ASAP

We should seldom lose to those teams you mentioned. Sure the bad game happens, a lesser team gets on a streak, whatever. The fact that I have zero confidence in beating Marshall or ODU or or or or or...is exactly why this program needs a reality check...WE ARE NOT GOOD AT FOOTBALL and haven't been for nearly a decade.

Back in the day...I didn't worry about Temple being on the schedule (eek '98). "I've never been so embarrassed in my life," Virginia Tech defensive end Corey Moore said. "I'm shellshocked. We're the laughingstock of college football right now and deservedly so." I wonder how embarrassed our guys are these days.

Yeah, beat loluva. That'll turn things around.

Donate more money. That'll do it.

For fun, I looked up some series leads:
VT 14 -3 Temple
VT 19 - 12 Duke
VT 22 - 11 BC
VT 12 - 5 Rutgers
VT 6 - 4 Vanderbilt
Syracuse 12- 9 VT
VT 12 - 3 Marshall
VT 4 - 2 ODU
VT 15 - 7 ECU
VT 6 - 1 JMU (barf)

IMHO this staff really missed a chance not preparing Watson to be the starter for Duke. 2 weeks to install him in and tailor the offense for his play. I told a few people that I wished this was going to happen but I want holding my breathe. This isn't a big league staff and that'd be a big league staff move.

By all accounts drones is either gone or done. Schlee is gone no matter what. Should've ran with Pop and seen what he had. If he blew it big time you put Schlee in to limp through the rest of that game.

Even if drones comes back next year. He needs some serious competition because he regressed significantly this year.

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