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Agree on the Storm. I've caught more stripers on them than anything else, but if I'm jigging in depth and the fish are near the bottom, I do like a Spro jig with a trailer. For night fishing, I like the Storm croaker color, for daytime, depending on the cloud cover, I like the chartreuse, and with the Spro, I like the white green or white chartreuse jig with a contrasting curly tail trailer. Like you said, though, I almost always have a pack or two of Storm in the bag just in case. It's also good to have a couple of different sizes as well. Sometimes, you need a heavier jig for tide management, and sometimes they're keying on small bait and a bit smaller bait can catch even the bigger fish. Calcutta makes an excellent pre-rigged swim bait, and I've used it to catch stripers and walleye also. They have raised gill covers and maybe a bit more action or vibration than the Storm.

caught fish AND you learned a new fishing strategy!

just get a 3 pack of Storm wildeyes in your target size/color
and keep it in your tackle box

perfect stocking stuffers

So you're saying the same thing as me then?

So, FAU had two 10 win seasons under lane, and they now think that should be the norm.

Charlotte's plan was 'if we build it they will come' but after spending a shit ton on facilities, they didn't have money left to pay staff competitively

Sounds like addition by subtraction to me.

Preach it, Timothy

I'm pretty sure Poggi's odd personality pissed a lot of people off at Charlotte. The guy seems like a know it all and very good at coming off like an asshole when he doesn't mean to. Otherwise his record wasn't that bad there for what he inherited. Incoming class wasn't that good and they were relying heavy on the portal.

Herman ditto on pissing people off, although his record stunk too. They got significantly worse while he was there, makes me wonder if the game just passed him by because he was very good at the Houston hc and did a decent job at Texas

Nailed it.

Things ain't getting better any time soon
There is substantial rot in our program and it's going to take a long long time to sort it out, if ever we do. There is no magic bullet for what ails VT. Pry can hire a new DC in the off season and that'll dial back the noise a bit for a year or two longer but eventually he's going to reach the end of his line and Whit (or somebody) is going to have to hire another coach who will come in and continue the trend of struggling more than we think they should.

Get rid of Ballein. That's a start but it's not a fix. Get rid of Whit. Same story. The AD needs to be completely overhauled top to bottom and finding the right mix of people is going to take a lot of years and there will be painful missteps. Beamer is a once in a lifetime type of coach. VT won't replicate his success for at least another 50 years. Like catching lighting in a bottle.

Not trying to be a downer. I just think we need to recalibrate expectations.

Our cheerleaders know as much about jenga as our coaches do about football

I get that the Transfer Portal has made it possible to turn around a Program quickly, but FAU and Charlotte firing coaches after a year and change has me questioning whether expectations are officially reaching insane status.

These weren't healthy programs and weren't going to be destinations for any of the better players in the Portal.

I just don't see how burning up some buyout money and then bringing in the next guy to wash, rinse, and repeat is in any way beneficial for Programs like this.

Um, she's breaking the rules, she needs to pull out lower down

"Let's play a game called: What will crumble first? The football program or this Jenga tower?"