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He's smaller than Pop Watson, which is not easy to do.
Same score and lesson for me lol
Whomever lied to that kid that he was an NFL prospect should be ashamed. Somebody told Evans- an inaccurate one read QB that he was an NFL prospect. we never learn. It's a different game. Which is why people on here that think APR is a second round draft pick are going to be disappointed.
I have beaten this drum a million times but prior to the season, I did not "love" our talent- especially on the lines and at LB. I DID however hope we would improve on beating dogshit teams, which of course we did not. We failed my only personal metric. Don't lose to fucking Syracuse and Rutgers because they fucking suck. And I was proven right. Duke fucking sucks too, and their coach laughed at how bad they played but still won. Pry fucked my one metric this year, so yeah I'm pissed. I fucking hate losing to dogshit ACC teams. But now ACC fans say that when VT beats their team, because WE are now a dogshit ACC team.
Shows you SP is fucking bullshit. When Duke is running free what does SP fucking get you? nothing. Thats the problem with "advanced stats"- watch the fucking games. Duke running untouched? where does that show in the SP? Games are played by players, momentum, emotions - not a spreadsheet. Ask Aaron Boone how the spreadsheet looks when judge hits .175 when it matters? What does WAR say as the yankees get killed by the dodgers in the series? Fuck SP. Our defense sucks- Dukes receivers were uncovered most of the night.
Maybe I am in the minority, but I am not really surprised of the incompetence on the field and record for this season. Sure we should expect to see growth/maturity from players (and coaches) year over year but we brought back 90-95% of an average 6-6 team, including majority of coaching staff, from last year. Also, beating a dwindled Tulane team should not have given anyone more hope for the next season IMO after watching the 2023 season as a whole.
Did we have the individual talent (Tuten, APR, etc.), sure... but again, we brought back almost all of what most people would say is an average, to above average team at best. Yea I'm pissed about how this season turned out. Yea I always have hope going into every new season. But no I am not surprised this is how it ultimately turned out. IMO this shouldn't be too much of a shock to others.
Agree here. VT isn't like UVA or UNC where we have a ton of donors funding and endowing the non-revs. Those sports are almost entirely dependent on the success of football for funding. You have to focus on football first and foremost since that drives the entire AD at VT.
Bud's last year looked like a defense that wasn't old enough to adjust, they looked great in the 1st half but got killed in the 2nd half when adjustments were made.
Hamilton's defenses looked like we tried to use Bud's defense but with zone and no one knew where to go, but you could easily see why it failed and it made some sense. I dont know why this defense fails, I see the player making mistakes but it's not like they're running two different defenses, they've been in the scheme 3 years, we have a number of juniors and seniors, it's just odd.
And just focusing on 1 sport (football) and ignoring all others is short sighted. Look at the strides made in track and field, women's soccer, women's basketball, and I'm sure I'm missing a few of the other ones too. Point being there are many sports trending in the an upward direction, in lock step as you say, with the academics.
My opinion, when it comes to this, is that football by far has the biggest ROI for us, so if there is a place to, at least for now, put all our eggs in one basket, it should be football. We get that program back to where it should be, where we expect it to be, with competitive teams that are at least challenging and in the mix for an ACC championship game spot every year, and we'll be bringing in enough money to fund everything else. And if we get VT back to the level that it was in the 1995-2010 range where we were perennially ranked in the Top 15 getting loads of press, regularly highlighted on GameDay, invited to big games, included on national marketing campaigns, etc, then we'll have enough money to increase our funding elsewhere two-fold.
But we can't do that if the football program is crap. Thats when our well runs dry and everything else dies in the drought.
This was a brutal week for me with only one right. I have learned through all of this picking that I pick well enough to break even but not enough to make money if I were to actually bet on sports.
Evans had the numbers, for sure. But Fuente was still a "QB guru" at that time with a few NFL draft picks to his name. All in the past now. We can only hope for a Evans to fall in our lap these days.
Nobody is quiet quitting, but it's very natural to relax and/or allow distractions when heading out the door. Details get overlooked, no longer putting in that extra time and effort, less communicative, distraction of finding and setting up that next job, etc. It's just natural psyche and takes extra effort to maintain drive and focus.
baseless and laughable comment based off what we've seen with current administration when it comes to attacks on Title IX.
I know we try to keep this forum politics free, so this is my first and last comment on it.
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ZIMA SUCKS
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# | We need good news and unfortunately, this is not it. - injury report that's a good point... I would venture to say the ladder of the situations you posed.
Oregon may not be a traditional blue blood but with NIKE money flooding in every season they have the financial freedom to buy an entire roster every year.
Oregon has 14 transfer players on its 2024 football team and many of these players have locked down starting jobs and played key roles for the Ducks this season. I believe it's 10 starters and the other four in the two-deep.
Peyton Woodyard: Safety from Alabama
Derrick Harmon: Defensive lineman from Michigan State
Dillon Gabriel: Quarterback from Oklahoma
Evan Stewart: Receiver from Texas A&M
Jabbar Muhammad: Cornerback from Washington
Dante Moore: Quarterback from UCLA
Matthew Bedford: Offensive lineman from Indiana
Jay Harris: Running back from Northwest Missouri State
Kobe Savage: Safety from Kansas State
Ja'Maree Caldwell: Defensive lineman from Houston
Kam Alexander: Cornerback from UTSA
Brandon Johnson: Cornerback from Duke
Atticus Sappington: Kicker from Oregon St
Cruz Rushing: Safety from Arizona
I was at the game and I was the drunkest I've been in a looong loong time and it was fantastic. I wouldn't have enjoyed myself if I were sober. Had a hell of a time
That A&M blunder in OT cost me being a +4.
MACtion games are usually very entertaining
Not arguing we shouldn't have had more yards. We should never have played Tuten as a distraction for 3 quarters. That game should have been Schlee and Coney rather than a hurt Drones and Tuten. When they got their chance in the fourth quarter against Clemson they made good.
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
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# | Hokies Womens Soccer: Virginia Tech beats Iowa in Sweet 16 ESPN+ 9pm The other Elite Eight Matchups
#4 Notre Dame at #3 Stanford
#2 Wake Forest at #1 USC
#4 Penn State at #2 UNC
ACC guaranteed 2 in Final Four, favored in one and Wake would need to upset USC to make it a clean sweep.
Hokies beat Notre Dame 2-0
Hokies lost to UNC 2-0 in ACC Tournament
Hokies have not faced Wake, Stanford or Duke this season.
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Whit hasn't been a strong enough AD to get everyone rowing in the same direction and on the same trajectory as the university as far as growth. No one has been putting enough pressure on the VTAD IMO
I think it's just the opposite. Most of the heavy donors are from the time when Beamer was there...as a STUDENT. They are the ones putting pressure on VTAD to keep things similar and NOT rock the boat tremendously.
he should want a VTAD that is working toward excellence in lock step with the academic side
I'm fine with it being separate. The funding is different, the donors are different, the focus on the sutdent and/or athlete is different. They don't have to be in lock step.
And just focusing on 1 sport (football) and ignoring all others is short sighted. Look at the strides made in track and field, women's soccer, women's basketball, and I'm sure I'm missing a few of the other ones too. Point being there are many sports trending in the an upward direction, in lock step as you say, with the academics.
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