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I'm hearing that DVD may not be able to come back from his injury. 50/50 at this point that his playing career is over. We need him badly, so I hope he can make it back.

The better one to look at:
Big East/ACC Total Defense/Scoring Defense
2013 - 2nd/2nd
2012 - 2nd/2nd
2011 - 2nd/2nd
2010 - 8th/4th
2009 - 2nd/1st
2008 - 2nd/1st
2007 - 1st/1st
2006 - 1st/1st
2005 - 1st/1st
2004 - 2nd/1st
2003 - 4th/3rd
2002 - 4th/2nd
2001 - 2nd/2nd
2000 - 2nd/4th
1999 - 1st/1st

Foster only has three seasons, THREE SEASONS, where his Total Defense wasn't in the top 2 in either conference. The same is true for Scoring Defense.

It was detailed in the ESPN Magazine article on him to start the 2000 season. I know this because its sitting on the shelf next to me

this one

I'm a Panthers fan and I remember when Hall and him were on the Falcons I absolutely hated having to pull against them so much.

This is what I meant. Obviously no one did any homework on the "new management" before writing that - just spit it out real quick.
The 1st sentence even says the hiring was a big Buzz in the NCAA B-ball world over the weekend (after the tourney).
So, that justifies doing the real work before writing. BUT,... Nope,... CBS FAIL!...AGAIN

Total Defense/Scoring Defense
2013 - 4th/11th
2012 - 18th/32nd
2011 - 10th/7th
2010 - 52nd/26th
2009 - 12th/9th
2008 - 7th/9th
2007 - 4th/3rd
2006 - 1st/1st
2005 - 1st/2nd
2004 - 4th/2nd
2003 - 51st/45th
2002 - 32nd/21st
2001 - 2nd/2nd
2000 - 27th/45th
1999 - 3rd/1st

Sorry bro. If he ate the dogs would it be ok? Is he allowed to eat a dog? Why not? We kill and eat cows, pigs, and chickens everyday. Veal, aka, poor defenseless baby cow. Boo freaking whoo. Veal is tasty, and so is lamb. I also like to eat unborn chickens. Scrambled eggs. Ahhh yeah!

Ever think about how those animals you buy in the store get there? Guess what, they don't go to sleep on a down comforter and wake up on the plate. They are "electrocuted, shot, and hung" - yep all three in one instance or another. Pass the bacon please. Get over it.

I see a stat much about the number of wins and the number of seasons with more than 10 wins.

Anybody have the stat with the number of #5 or 10 ranked defenses by VT in the Bud Foster Era.

Oh, and how many other defensive coordinators can somebody call, "their era" and not have people question the phrase?

The whole sentiment that we're such a bad program just annoys me. No, historically, we've not been one of the better programs in the country, but under Greenberg we took that step from awful to respectable. We went from a program that was dreadfully awful and turned it into one that could go into anyone's house during any given season and knock them off. We were always a bubble team, even during the years we had no business being there. We have more wins over #1 teams in the 10 seasons since joining this conference than many teams have in their program's history. Greenberg rose the expectations of this program, and its why we did not settle for allowing Johnson to continue going about it the ways he had.

Under Greenberg, you'd be hard pressed to convince me we weren't knocking on the door for a top 5 team in the ACC. If we didn't have a first round bye in the ACC Tournament, we were knocking on that door. And then, after a class of senior laden talent graduated, we struggled badly, which you'd expect from any program (ahem... Marquette) but had a great recruiting class primed to come in before our AD went full on senile loony-bin and fired our coach almost 2 months too late and replaced him for a bargain basement hire. That was a mistake. It was a mistake that was just rectified and then some.

For those saying we're the worst program in the ACC, we're only the worst if you ignore the direction we're trending and completely ignoring that we're under new management who has an agenda to turn things around after running things on the cheap for decades. We have guys in place that know what they're doing, who are willing to spend the money to compete, who have great reputations with their staff, and are backed by a fanbase that is chomping at the bit to be rabid about more than just football. This fanbase is energized, we're excited, and we're going to show it tonight.

For too long we have been a sleeping giant, just allowing everyone else to throw their chips into the pile while waiting for our time to make a move. Sometimes, when you're dealt a straight flush you have to throw into the pot. We just went all-in.

Welcome to the game, Hokies.

Well, given Weavers track record, can you really blame them for being surprised? I think Whit is going to change a lot of peoples' opinions of VT athletics over the next few years. I'm excited to see it happen :D

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