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Updated today to add Penn State. Teams playing: Boston College, Bryant, James Madison, Michigan, Penn State, Radford and Virginia Tech.

Hokies will face Bryant, James Madison, Michigan, Penn State and Radford

I'm so glad that I will be looking to retire, semi-retire or go freelance next year. Will see what happens. If I end up looking for another job, I will probably be searching for a little part-time thing. Wife already took early retirement at the end of 2024, and she is talking about getting that type of a job after our daughter heads off to college.

I applied to about 200 in over just a year. About 75% did send (automated) rejection emails. Honestly, a higher percentage than I thought. I had 2 actual responses. 1 was a recruiter interview and then rejection. The other I interviewed with 5 people then got rejected. 2 months later they came back saying they were opening up another position and offered it to me.

I was applying to locations in a different country, but I felt highly qualified for the positions I was going for and many that I had highly specific skills and still nothing. Thankfully, had a job but man, a 1% response rate is crazy. It literally is just throwing as much against the wall in hopes one person is having a day where they feel generous.

I don't disagree, and im sure Clemson will give him a GA position if he wants it, but every athlete is told they can't play the game any more some at younger ages, some at really old ages and they all hate the timing. So he wants to play because its his only option and the money is better than just about anything else he will do in his life. Doesn't mean he should be allowed to play.

I know it's not applicable on a global, national, or likely even a regional scale - but word of mouth and personnel connections have been the best way we've been able to hire anyone of value for the last 10 years. It's impossible for a small business to wade through all the crap you get if you post a job.

The only other ways we've been successful are to hire a recruiter and let them deal with the mess (getting less and less reliable), poaching someone from another organization ($$$$), or hiring low level based on potential and training up. Not sure what the future of hiring and networking is but what's out there now is just a mess at best.

Yeah this is a real problem and its taxing the hiring process a lot. We posted a job for 12 hours for a senior position and had over 1200 applications. Of those more than half were complete garbage just restating the JD. Half of the remainder were people wildly under qualified but we had to take the posting down just to sort through all of them because I work for a company that has less than 50 employees we don't have time to get through that rate of application.

What's frustrating is a lot of automated services that will post our jobs out to LinkedIn won't take it down if we've pause applications....I think those just end up in a blackhole somewhere?

Two thoughts:

First, this isn't about another year with UVA, it's about getting another year of eligibility. However, he's outside of the transfer window so this has the potential to be really fun to watch from the opposing fan base perspective.

Second, the article cited Trinidad and Ole Miss. I think Morris' issue is that he filed inside a state that doesn't give a damn about bending legalities to get a few extra conference wins, whereas Mississippi (and anywhere in the SEC) absolutely will do it.

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