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no tackling in practice is more common than people think..

there's a time and place for tackling to occur, earlier in the year yes, midway through the year not so much and then the week or so before a bowl game yeah a couple tackle practices should happen.

If this is just for fun then here we go...My wholly optimistic outlook for the regular season

Liberty: taking them to the woodshed, 52-6

Tenn: Hokies surprise College Football world and win 34-21

BC: Another trip to the woodshed, 35-3

ECU: Hokies demoralize ECU 45-10

UNC: Lower scoring than one would think, Overtime, 27-24 Hokies

Syracuse: Woodshed trip #4, 38-14

Miami: close game with Lane crazy on Thursday night, Hokies win in a thriller 31-28

Pitt: No curse this year, 24-14 Hokies

Duke: Cutcliffe coaches his butt off but not enough, Hokies 35-24

Georgia Tech: Hokies swim in PJ tears to the tune of 42-20

Notre Dame: Luck of the Irish? I think not, Hokies in OT 38-35

Virginia: Our last regular season trip to the woodshed, Hokies 49-0

12-0 going to play FSU in the ACC Championship game. I can dream can't I?

There are many stories about how the star ratings didn't equate to INDIVIDUAL on field success, but am guessing that there's a pretty direct correlation to CLASS rankings and team W-L success. If anything, depth of talent when the injury bug hits would certainly count.

Be interesting to see an analysis to see how close the mark I am.

In the article above it talks about a redshirt. Is he going to play, or just enrolled and on the team? May be based on what does this summer, but I would think a redshirt may be good.

FWIW going 4-5 years between website refreshes is an eternity. That said, for the most part I like the site. I do think there are things that could be improved though, such as easier access to news articles. The way it's currently laid out, there is no ability to immediately see the headlines of the last articles on the homepage like you can on most sites. You either need to cycle through the last 6 stories one at a time using the central graphic or click the link to 'More News' to get a longer list.

A few comments. IVY league is very different football. I would think this would encourage coaches to think about tackling less in practice, doing it only enough to be ensure good technique. Which might influence students to choose to play for the schools that adopt this first.

The fact it isn't a responsively designed website is unacceptable in 2016, especially for an engineering school. Half of all web traffic is mobile.

Liberty W : 54-10. Fuente will get a little happy and not dial it back fast enough. The last three td's will be a play action and a couple runs where liberty's defense is out of place. Bud rotates his front 4, but this defense looks nothing like what we will see vs Tennessee.

Tennessee W : 51-48, 3 OT thriller. This is out the window if Dobbs starts dropping bombs. The deep ball is his weakness, a couple sites say that's the difference between them winning the East or contending for a spot at the CFB playoff table. Fuent has shown an ability to confuse defenses, I look for Sam to be his bell cow. Carroll played this role at Memphis, he is a poor mans Sam Rogers. Our offense keeps their defense confused, their Offense breaks big plays. Our deep DT position is hailed as the game winner. Being able to drop big Timmy in a 5 man front stifles their 3rd and short game.

BC W: 17-14 we come out flat. It's 14-0 at the half, one TD is a pick 6, other is a fumble deep in our territory. Fuente gives an inspiring halftime speech, BC's offense goes back to old habits, a FG at the end of a long late drive wins it.

ECU W: 38-24. Vengeance. Not three in a row. Hype train is full steam ahead.

UNC L: 35-21. The score is closer than the game ever was. We gain a lot of yards but costly turnovers and missed field goals suck the wind out. Our defense gets out played.

SU W: 24- 14. Game is closer than the score. Team looks and plays flat, is this a trap game, or are they looking ahead.

Miami W: 30-21. Their defense get confused and starts over playing the ball. Fuente keeps them confused with the ground game, and our defense stays off the field. We have more than five players with more than five carries. Evans is 12-13 passing.

Pitt L: 24-21. It's Pitt. We lose when we shouldn't. It will be a heartbreaker, a fumble recovery or int late.

Duke L: 24-14. They play smart defense. We will lose back to back games somewhere.

GT W: 45-38. 500 yards rushing combined between the teams.

ND L: 34-21. We play well, they pull away late.

UVA W: 24-10. No way no how.

Now even I'm not sure what you mean by not belonging on the same field as OSU or Bama. We've played both in the last three seasons and didn't get blown out in any of those games.

I suppose you could call the 35-10 loss to Alabama a blowout if you really want to, but I considered those two return TD's to be the fluke there.

Either way, we haven't been getting blown out by playoff teams during our drought thus far. I think we might have even won one of those...

Man! The fakes inside... He's gonna break some ACC ankles for Hokie Nation!. Wow!

I'm not sure what you mean. Like, much better than beating us by 3? Are you agreeing with me that you think they'll win? Are you suggesting that they will be much better than last year, but still suck? I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Understood. I never said that we would be the same team this year. We SHOULD be better.

It just seems like a lot of fans look at their record last year and think "we can beat them" without knowing too much about the team.

Personally, I think we have a 20-30% chance of beating Tennessee.