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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. 
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. To be fair Pitt is 6th nationally in rushing defense. Seems like a lot of teams struggle running the ball, though I'm far from an expert on why that would be. Perhaps its more because their pass defense is horrendous.
Do you think Trubisky is more of a problem than Williams? Williams was super mobile if inconsistent, which is the type of qb we seem to struggle with
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# | By the Advanced Numbers: Hokies Travel to North Carolina for Coastal Showdown 27-21 Hokies. I still think Bud made the changes he did to compete against this exact style of offense. He'll be ready. The offense will score enough to win.
Yes, but, academics and athletics are generally two separate pools, unless I'm missing something. The athletic department gets its funding from various sources, such as gate receipts, conference payouts, and the "Athletics Fee" tacked onto tuition, and uses that money completely for athletics. The academic side budget consists of tuition, research grants, endowment, state funding (for public schools), and other miscellaneous sources. I'm pretty sure the two pools don't mix, so saying "I'd rather spend the money on academics" doesn't really work because you aren't going to take the ESPN money and build classrooms with it.
That actually was pretty funny and he had some gusto doing that.
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# | Virginia Tech Faces North Carolina in a Measuring Stick Matchup I did love watching that kicker do the chop to all those F$U fans. He can enjoy his 15 minutes of fame. Let UNCheat get comfortable before they get hit by a hurricane...and I think there may be some weather down there too.
LSU -2.5 at Florida
Virginia Tech at North Carolina -2.5
Tennessee at Texas A&M -7.5
Alabama -13.5 at Arkansas
Florida State at Miami -3.5
UCLA -9.5 at Arizona State
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# | By the Advanced Numbers: Hokies Travel to North Carolina for Coastal Showdown 38-24 Hokies. I think we score a little less than we would in dry conditions. UNC will score some points, but it'll feel like they got shut down because Trubisky will be on his back all day
As ready as we can be. We are far enough 1.3 miles from the ocean to not have to worry about storm surge and I got generator and supplies earlier this week.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. -Realign the divisions in a way that doesn't require a permanent crossover, while still avoiding old Big East vs. old ACC.
-Don't reconfigure the schedule so VT gets GT, Miami, and UVA all at home in even years, while also putting UNC and Duke on the same rotation.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. So the ringleader of the Carolina mafia has been just waiting for 3 non-Carolina schools to rise and lead the conference?
Now it all makes sense.
French, what's of particular concern as far as defending against UNC?
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Swofford...is that you?
LSU -2.5 at Florida
Virginia Tech at North Carolina -2.5
Tennessee at Texas A&M -7.5
Alabama -13.5 at Arkansas
Florida State at Miami -3.5
UCLA -9.5 at Arizona State
They are made to wick moisture away from the areas of the jersey that make the most contact with the football to help keep the ball dry and therefore less apt to fumble.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. That's total and pointless speculation. I like where it is now and where it's positioned going forward.
But okay, I'll play along...what realistic decisions do you think could have been taken that would have put the league in an appreciably better position than it is now? And if those decisions had occurred what would be appreciably different for the league and the individual institutions?
And please don't pull out pie-in-the-sky nonsense like getting the ACCN deal done at the same time as the SECN deal. That was never going to happen under anybody's watch.
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# | By the Advanced Numbers: Hokies Travel to North Carolina for Coastal Showdown I don't think the New Testament discussed this game specifically.
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# | By the Advanced Numbers: Hokies Travel to North Carolina for Coastal Showdown 
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# | Virginia Tech Faces North Carolina in a Measuring Stick Matchup Reminds me of when we did this to UNC a few years back. Sacks all around. I seem to remember a UNC QB having tampons in his nose and looking mighty scared of the defensive line.
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# | By the Advanced Numbers: Hokies Travel to North Carolina for Coastal Showdown Does Matthew have any impact on the air attack for both teams this weekend?
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Yep I'm in favor of getting good insurance for several reasons and am well covered there.
The only downside is that they were supposed to install the generator next week.
Having been without electricity for a week after Opal I've always had a plan B for power
Hope you're all squared away with the family-
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Given that the ACC is a mutt of small & large, public & private, northern & southern, urban & rural, football & basketball cultures (or neither) - I think that the ACC is in about as good a position as it possibly could be at present.
And, regardless of what reactionary, conspiracy everywhere, backward-facing, armchair conference commissioners may think, the conference is particularly well positioned for the critical next 15 years.
And ask yourself, why has there been no public comment by any ADs, ESPN or the league on any details of this decision? If this was some sort of forced compromise to keep FSU and Clemson happy, wouldn't somebody say something - even through backchannels? This has all of the same cone of silence earmarks that preceded most of the league's big decisions since the 2004 merger.
I promise you they are very focused on VT. Amazing how much people believe everything the media feeds them! Especially SECESPN
Well said. And the more I've thought about it, the more OK I am with status quo.
If going 8+2 or 9+1 only nets us 500k more per year, I don't think it's worth it to give up something that seems to be working. Hell, if you believe the reports, we made over $4 milion playing Tennessee this year.
Would I like to play Clemson & FSU more often? Sure. But I also don't think it's worth pissing off your two most high-profile football brands just to make sure that we do. Plus, if VT gets back to where we want to be every year, we WILL play them. And there, it will mean even more than a few extra bucks for one more ACC regular season game.
Also, I think the arms race has spread to the point where the Coastal has programs with facilities to compete against the big boys in the Atlantic. We've seen VT do it, UNC has done it, and Miami just announced their commitment to building an indoor practice facility. I think the playing field is starting to level a bit and as long as the Coastal has 2 or 3 teams in the national conversation every year, I can live with playing Clemson/FSU less in the regular season.
The biggest issue we've had in recent years is that nobody in the Coastal has really moved the needle - well if UNC stays somewhat relevant, Richt gets Miami in the conversation, and Pitt & GT provide quality games, I don't think we can ask for much more. Switch the annual crossover from BC to Louisville and it's icing on the cake.