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That 4th string RB had 9 attempts for 96 yards against Syracuse. He had 0 carries in this game.

Syracuse's run defense was ranked about the same as Clemson's.

Oh man. He's done really well. Sorry to see him go if he leaves. And Rice is such a doormat. Yeah, I know, money talks and I'm sure he will get a lot more there than in New Haven.

The VTAD unfortunately just hasn't evolved or grown in concert with VT the university. VT academically seems to be on a major growth trajectory with some really innovative minds leading the charge and has significantly increased fundraising. VTAD seems to have dead cat smell in Merryman and a lot of legacy holdovers who are only used to doing things the 90s/early 2000s way under the Beamer blueprint. And 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 - the major athletics donors are comfortable, don't want to/don't see the need to give much more and like their perks and VIP treatment more than winning apparently; the university side has largely seemed to defer to the AD and other leadership there, not taken a more hands on approach.

Seeing our way out of this mess is going to be a litmus test for Sands. We hear he cares a lot about athletics. I'm not saying he has to micromanage or even personally care for sports that much, but he should want a VTAD that is working toward excellence in lock step with the academic side.

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I'm not saying this should be our attitude - I'm saying this has been our attitude since the early aughts.

From top to bottom VT athletics, when it comes to supporting the one sport that should be driving our revenue streams to pay for everything else, is utterly incompetent. It really is no more complex than that, we are incompetent, and we like to pretend that incompetence is not in play by bringing up a litany of excuses to blame literally everything but ourselves to why we can't turn it around.

It's really easy to find problems, but really hard to fix them. That's not an endorsement or forgiveness of anyone in our athletic department. Just a reality.

I've started looking for those midweek games to watch just for something to do at night after everyone has gone to bed, but it's 8:45 and I still want to have a drink to unwind. They're kind of fun, because it's exciting when either team does something well, or something wacky happens. Blowout are kind of boring, but if that happens I can call it quits and go to bed.

I got this text this morning:

8 FB teams with a positive point differential and a losing record. Of those 8, only 1 did NOT play any games against FCS or lower opponents

It's us, we're the one. Also have a -46 point 3rdQ scoring differential in the last 5 games.

You got to give him credit for getting Terry Williams- who a good VT team could not block at all, so they beat us. Props to him for having one player that could wreck VT's season. Hat Tip. Conference USA had no issues blocking Williams in other games if you were wondering.

Wonder if he'd be interested in leaving that NCState position for a similar position at VT, not sure I'd want to make him a coordinator but he certainly has the head coaching experience and enough defensive experience to be a great advisory addition.

Its been almost 10 years and I'm still in disbelief that they fired Ruffin McNeil, he was probably as good as that program was ever going to have and could find his way to 8 wins just about every year which apparently wasn't good enough for a school like ECU with such staggeringly large football accomplishments.

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Less than ten percent got even 4 picks right! so my 3 actually raised me from tied for 16th to tied for 10th!