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Let me just put a check in the mail.
I think we can land classes in the 15-25 range. But it is important to consider that most of the talent we recruit from is a few hour drive, it's not like Miami where they are in our backyard
I took a cruise to St. Petersburg Russia two years ago and found Matryoshka dolls painted as VT players. (LT, Byrn, Knowles, Coles, and someone else) I bought it of course. They had a lot of other teams from other sports but thought it was really cool that they still had VT.
I watched the normal broadcast for the first half, then flipped over to the Film Room. Best football broadcast I have ever seen. I would pay to watch every game in a format like that (and I don't pay for nuthin* i don't have to).
*Except, of course, TKP
Holston River Brewery and Damascus Brewery are very good. I've heard mostly bad things about Bristol Brewery, but have not tried myself.
It's kind of strange to me that there has been that much of a disparity between us and the FSUs and Clemsons with recruiting. We are the dominant football program in a state rich with talent, in close proximity to other good recruiting areas in the mid-Atlantic, and established ourselves as a strong and highly recognizable football brand in the 90s and early 2000s. We're likely never going to consistently have top 5 or top 10 classes, but if Clemson can consistently get top 15-20 classes, why can't we? I think our worsening offensive anemia, coupled with a bad showing in some big games on the national stage, really soured our image on the recruiting trail. Negative recruiting with Beamer's age also likely didn't help.
Fuente and the new staff will really be put to the test now. Top 15-20 classes are not out of the question, and I think a clear offensive identity will go a long way in showing recruits we are serious.
That's all true. Michigan State had to beat Michigan and Ohio State in the regular season + Iowa so I don't think the situation is all that different. I'm simply saying that if you consider that Michigan State(or Oregon for that matter) had the class rankings to get into the playoffs, I don't see why we couldn't with similar recruiting rankings and assuming we have as good of a head coach.
Hadn't realized they were open already. :( I'll go try them out for you if you send me some money. You're welcome in advance.
Didn't someone break down the TOP for Memphis vs VT and show there weren't much of a difference? IE 29 vs 31 minutes? We would also have presumably less 3 and outs
Wait, Texas State isn't FCS?
This reminded me of a video, The Economics of Dating: How Game Theory and Demographics Explain Dating in D.C. It explains a bit of why that is the case since JMU is 63% female (JMU is actually specifically mentioned at 24:47). One of the things they mention is that at colleges (CalTech was the example used in the video) where there is a higher percentage of men than women, it's very common for relationships to start in Freshman year and last their entire time in college. The video included an anecdotal story from a male student at Sarah Lawrence College (85% female) who had been sexually involved with all of his female friends.
The parts talking specifically about colleges are at 11:15-13:25 and 22:00-27:00
Tasty brews, and the owners are very sociable.
If you are bringing a youngster, they do their own root beer that was a big hit with our little girl.
ETA, the pizza place right next to them (Main St. Pizza) is very very good.
I am staying with my folks up above Exit 19.
This year, making the playoffs would have included beating Clemson.
In most any year, it will include beating either Clemson or Florida State, who both recruit well.
Also consider the fact that the ACC Coastal just got an upgrade in coaching throughout the division.
That was my plan and then possibly trying to try to grab some cheap tickets last minute.
I think we'll see serious price reductions from BMS as we get closer to September in order to sell it out.
35-7 in a year we were barely .500 though. so theres hope!
That can't be a serious question, right?
In a micro sense, recruiting rankings can only tell you so much. Just because a guy is a five-star talent coming out of high school doesn't mean he'll be a five-star talent exiting college. So much of it is projection, and players fail to pan out all the time for a variety of reasons, whether it's injury, work ethic, bad fit, whatever.
But in a macro sense, team recruiting rankings are a pretty good indicator for a team's success. Here are the team recruiting rankings for all those schools listed above. I've grayed the four years before any national title game appearance to show what kind of talent acquisition these schools had right before their run to the championship game.
Can't be said any better than that.
So here we are: in the years on that chart, FSU fell out of the top 10 once. Clemson fell out of the top 20 once. And we reached the top 20 twice. We have a lot of room for improvement.
The biggest thing I took from this article...the ones that recruit well, also happen to be the ones with the most bodies on the recruiting front.
Ex. Clemsons support staff.Period.End
Virginia Tech staff I dont even think its a question why we lose out on recruits anymore...Ill stop blaiming coaches, its not even fair.
Im convinced, unless we arent listing all of the positions like other schools, we wont be able to get into top 10 recruiting classes consistently without a proper staff structure in place. I thought it was bad when I looked at Alabama's Staff once, all I want to know is, how is Clemson affording it?
I can't agree more with what you said. My first thoughts were "huh he has a weird stride" followed by "man he seems small" followed by "he really needs to work on his tackling form." He drew quite a few penalties and seemed to bully smaller guys, but the ACC has much bigger bodies than he's used to.
Johnnie Walker black label.
... and of course the hurry-up offense exacerbates that problem by wearing down your 1st string defenders. Even for the guys who escape injury, there's a big difference between playing 70 snaps and playing 90.
Gotcha. Apologies for stating the obvious. Wish I could help you out but I've never camped for a Bristol race.
True, but even making the playoffs would be a feat onto itself.
You're probably thinking of the London Sliced and Diced and Dumped Head-First in a Garbage Can.
With a side of Zima.