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My stat was a reply to his stat, which was an individual stat of one player.

Joe Jones and Vance Vice should star in a buddy cop movie. I'd watch the hell out of that.

Yeah, man, I read the article, was just going for a laugh, given the timing of your post. Like too many of my attempts, though, it just fell flat. But not to worry, I'll try again.

"I was a GA from an old staff, and my allegiance was kind of to Bill Dooley because he was my head coach, and he kept his promise of paying for me until I graduated, and I owe a lot to him for that. Coach Beamer was so easy to get along with. He's the kind of guy you root for."

Good on Dooley for keeping the payroll running!

All joking aside, great article Alex!

I'd be shocked (and a little disappointed) if he wasn't somehow involved with the Battle at Bristol.

I would like to see Frank represent VT in some capacity at that game, since it never would have happened without the guy in the first place.

Here's the thing, though... He is from this area and all of his family is here. He's sitting on a relatively low pressure job with incredibly low expectations (one title in any sport and he's a god here) with legitimate potential to be a national big brand name program with the success that brings. At places like USC, yes there are more resources but if he goes 10 years and that football program doesn't win a crystal ball, it doesn't matter how anything else is doing, he's getting fired.

Why would you move away from family for that? I think he's with us for the long haul.

Will Stewart on TSL had a pretty good comment about Beamer a few days ago. With the potential for shaking things up a bit, he said he'd "rather see Beamer on the sidelines of a UGA practice than a VT practice." I think that sums things up nicely. Let him go see his son and his grandkids, stay in the spotlight a bit (and keep VT there by extension) and let Fuente get things rolling here in Blacksburg.

Walk on for first year would be my guess.

I actually started to consider figuring out a way to normalize for player quality, but even that's a bit subjective. We could divide offensive ranks (using some advanced metric, not simply total offense) by the average star rating of the starting offensive players, but even that has issues because it would not account for experience level. So I started considering a weighted factor (years of experience) to combine with star rating (not perfect, but at least somewhat objective) and then it just became too hard to keep track of and I gave up that line of thought. Because then you also have to factor in offensive styles, and come up with some way to calculate how good of a fit a certain player is in a given system (i.e. was he recruited specifically to perform in some way, or is he a warm body out on the field because we whiffed elsewhere). I think it could be done, though, I just don't know if I have the right information to do it.

What a handsome looking fellow! Lol that was perfect.

Diapers surely could've helped this guy:

Full story of Gator RB crapping his pants.

You're right - I'm reading $800 million to break even, $1 billion to be considered a hit.