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FIrst a disclaimer: I'm not a RichRod advocate, though I'm not that strongly opposed, either. I believe VT can do better, but we could also do worse.

But doesn't Michigan's 11-2 record in the first year post-Rodriguez indicate that his recruiting abilities are not as weak as you're suggesting? If a doofus like Brady Hoke can get 11 wins with your players, then certainly you've done something right, no?

Also, it telegraphs that Houston is willing and able to spend $3M on a football coach. That's insurance in case he bolts; it becomes known that Houston can pay well for a replacement, which will attract attention from better candidates who may otherwise assume that Houston is still a lower rung on the ladder.

Sure, large market that is going to be still dominated by the flagship program in the state which is UT. Then you have the other major teams, Texas Tech and aTm. Baylor and TCU are blips on the map. Houston doesn't even register.

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I'm not sure how to take this. It says that Herman hasn't signed. If he's negotiating with another school, $3m may be an empty offer from Houston...the 'Well, we tried to keep him!' offer.

or it could be great for Herman to make $3M for a year until LSU, aTm or Texas open up. But that's some risk on his part because those schools may go to more accomplished coaches than him.

or it could be what it seems, that Houston has stepped up and Herman will stay. B12 invite a possibility, etc. That just seems the least likely scenario to me, that "Houston is Serious". It's still Houston, they still don't have any fans at their games when ranked and undefeated.

For VT, it doesn't matter that much. If Herman is coming here, we were going to pay him $3M+ anyway. If he's waiting out a bigger job than VT, he wasn't coming here anyway so this doesn't impact us. And there are a lot of other choices.

it just seems funny to me that we are all ready to run one of our coaches out of town because he can't win with the players he has which shows an inability to adjust to his personnel. That's a huge criticism of a coach. It's been said that if a coach can't adjust to his personnel and produce that's a big red flag.

Now, instead of seeing Herman's ability to win with someone else's players as a positive, we're arguing that he must only be able to win with other guys' recruits and we're not sure he can win with his own guys. It's a non sequitur.

No, I'm not concerned that Herman is winning at Houston with someone else's players. That team won 7 regular season games last year. They've won 10 regular season games this year and could potentially win 2 more. That shows improvement. Herman has also assembled an impressive recruiting class for Houston. The two knocks on our coaching staff over the last few years seem to be that we can't adjust to our personnel and get the best out of what we have to work with and that we can't recruit at a high enough level to stay competitive. Herman is currently showing that he can clearly do both of those things at a non-P5 school.

When a coach is doing something that you've been pining for in your own coaching staff for half a decade and those results are twisted into an argument against said coaches credentials it smells an awful lot like an agenda against him. I just don't understand it.

Houston metro is what the third largest in the country? Adding a team in that market would be ok.

thanks for sharing this Joe.

I leave via southbound I-81 as well. I always park at the Lutheran Church at the corner of Prices Fork and Toms Creek, just across from the university's public lots. (They're $10 cheaper than on-campus public parking, and right across the street. Added bonus, you can leave directly on Toms Creek Rd, which is nowhere near as congested as Prices Fork.) It's pretty quick to take Toms Creek Rd out to 460 Eastbound and then get off at Prices Fork headed toward Radford. (It seems like a roundabout way to go, but it avoids the massive congestion on Prices Fork between campus and 460) Take Prices Fork Rd all the way to the end and hang a right on Peppers Ferry Road headed into Fairlawn, where you can go south on 11 (Right at the traffic light at Sheetz). Once in Dublin, you head south on Rt 100 (exit ramp about 1/4 mile past Wade's) and then hop on I-81 a couple miles later at Exit 98. This doesn't sound like it should be a quicker route, but it's always worked well for me and avoids all the really congested areas on Prices Fork and 460 and gets me home quicker.

Edit: There are two lots at this church. If you're going to try this, be sure to use the upper entrance on Toms Creek Road, not the one on Prices Fork. Getting out of the lower lot is bound to be a lot more troublesome.

Actually, according to VTFencer's Google Map, the route through Radford and Dublin is a few miles shorter. I take that route every time and never knew it was actually shorter. I just like route because it avoids all the congestion.

Only joking, I'm not a huge fan of Lager either. We only recently got Yuengling in Ohio, too. I believe Ohio won't sell +10%, as some of my friends from work regularly drive to PA to stock up on higher BAC beers.

I had a roommate in the Navy who was from Lancaster, so for years that's all we had in the fridge.

My neighbor up here is a Hokie, amazingly and he has in laws in Rehoboth Beach. He doesn't like to visit them, but between his wife and my growler, he goes more often than he should have to.

Gene Chizik likes pop tarts with no icing