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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules 
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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules 
Been calling it the Teet for years. Glad to know we're on the same page.
Agree to disagree, having part of the comment as an bold header in every comment is annoying. Have comments load separately from the article for those sites. Then places like Le Sabre and TSL where each comment loads an entire new page. They are all juvenile to the glory that is TKP.
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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules Hopefully, we drop ECU, or at least play them not every year.
agree
Dino Babers expected Dusty Baker to actually win in the postseason.
Speaking of Garbutt, it would be cool to get more players like
him that can play straight away.
Sure, I agree it absolutely could contribute to his decision. And your point about getting to the 2nd contract is a good one, that definitely factors in as well. He should absolutely submit his name to receive a draft grade at any rate. If he's projected 1-3, go. 4 or 5.....that's a tough one. Like I said, I think at that point you should stay but as you pointed out there's a lot to consider. Anything below 5? Nah.
Let's not forget there's job security in being a higher pick. Teams will and regularly do cut 6th and 7th round picks if they don't perform well. Some teams are more willing to keep projects than others, of course, but being limited to 53 hurts. And I do think Wyatt would be a project at the NFL level. That run blocking has to have people salivating but his pass blocking....not so much. There's always the possibility of a spot on the practice squad but man, if you left early only to wind up on the practice squad....
But I will say I think there's a disturbing trend in the NFL draft. A lot of underclassmen are receiving higher/high enough draft grades to entice them to leave early and many of them end up dropping to the late rounds or udfa. I don't know how they assign draft grades but that process needs to be reevaluated badly. Not so much to force underclassmen to stay but to give them an honest and legitimate expectation. Like I said, leaving early only to wind up on someone's practice squad has to hurt.
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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules I went to the ODU/Hampton game this year. I don't know how it's going to handle a Virginia Tech game. It's so small and from my understanding the only people allowed to tailgate are season ticket holders/donors who get a pass to the small parking lot outside the stadium.
THIS. I thought the exact same thing when I was watching it live
Hey that truck and I get along just fine.
gets pretty warm in there since they don't have ac. I think players were cramping during Louisville game earlier this year and it wasn't even packed.
Clemson
Alabama
North Carolina
Ole Miss
Colorado
Ohio State
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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules It would be nice, but we don't really have that much control over which ACC opponents we play
looked like the main reason the running play worked so well in clip 4 was that the linebacker(52 or 55?) took himself out of the play. I know it's hard to comment on someone else's defense; but was he supposed to have outside contain or should he have been filling the gap the running back come through? It looked like he was going upfield outside the defensive end; then tried to get back to the play after the RB was through the line.
Thanks jollyman for the update. The way I see the rest of the recruiting picture playing out if we keep in the 9-3 to 11-1 range and win the Coastal is:
Offense: RB: Holston will commit to give us depth and give him a redshirt year while McMillan,Williams, McKenzie,McClease, and Peoples tear it up.
OL: Hopeful we can bring in OT prospect Becton or recently offered Tucker. Need some big bodies to groom while Nijman and Moore/others hold down the edges for now.
We are full at WR,QB, and TE so that should round out offensive recruiting.
Defense: DE: Hopeful we can get Garbutt to reccommit, he will be immediate two-deep help behind Hill and Mihota.
LB: Proctor would be a HUGE pickup consdiering his versatile skillset (LB or DE potential, I think Tech is recruiting him as a DE) and the type of elite front 7 recruits we need to land on a consistent basis. We are also trying to flip Dylan Rivers, which would be a major win sin Bud is high on him but I am focused on nabbing 5-star and high 4-star 2018 recruits Teradja Mitchell and Dax Hollifield.
DB: Good to hear we are on the rise for Hand, if we can land either him, Donovan Johnson, or Amir Speed, it will help complete an overall thin DB class.
S: Everybody and there mom know Hunter is the prize possesion of this recruiting class as he could plug in for Chuck Clark and start at FS as a True Freshman. Looks good that we are trending as the favorite and have kept as his leader his entire recruitment.
There is a potential to grab another DT prospect to round out the class but if we can get most of the players above to commit, I think that will put us about 15th nationally and set us up for many more playoff runs in the near future!
Fair question, we haven't seen how the committee would react to this, but we do know that the committee favors late season results over early season. If UT finishes as a consensus top 5 team, and VT finishes with wins over a top 20 team, a top 10 team, a top 5 team, showing improvement over the year, and Baylor's best win is over a top 20 Oklahoma, I think VT gets the nod. Who knows though?
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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules Me too. Living in Richmond where all my friends are VCU grads, they really hate those guys, so I think it could be a fun matchup for the fans. I'm impressed with what they've done with their football program in such a short period.
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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules Playing at ODU will help with our recruiting in that area. I am not gonna fight you on the ECU part. Bloody Pirates
That is so cute, putting a big flag pole on such a little truck. :)
Nice flag though, Joe should be selling those to make some $$$
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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules "I wouldn't expect a lot of drastic changes," Babcock said.
I was hyped until I read this. I agree , I like playing different P5 teams. I would not mind ecu if it was just every 3-4 years. What was Weaver thinking? Please dump them Whit!
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# | David Teel: Babcock, Fuente, & others to re-examine future football schedules Less ECU. All I'm asking.
Dino Babers waves Jason Werth home when the shortstop has the ball in hand with an easy 120 foot throw to home plate.
On Fleek
Don't get me started on TSL. They're literally holding onto that format to desperately keep around their existing base knowing full well its driving away new customers. They went to vBulletin about 5 years ago, and while their traffic actually started to grow, they received enough complaints from the old base that they scrapped it after a year, completely deleting the database of the vBulletin system after begging people to switch over for a year. And they basically told everyone who adapted to vB to fuck off in the process.
Agree with you on those two.