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Shouldn't Stanford be a rSO? (Or did Sam Rogers grant him another year of eligibility?)
It looks like we have our top 3 WRs pretty much set. WR4 and WR5 is where the battle rests, and we can figure Parker to be in one of those spots.
Yeah I have to think that its a mistake. Nothing I have seen has him greyshirting.
You forgot Miami.
Yahoo is not fun to work with. I publish stuff through their Contributor Network. It used to be really well funded and the articles paid fairly well because they automatically cross leveled them on all of their platforms and had the social media share buttons on every article. They pulled a lot of the funding when the new CEO took over so now even if they publish an article I wrote on say the Wizards, if you go to the Wizards team profile on Yahoo Sports, you wont find my article and they removed the social media share buttons. They then reset quite a few peoples profiles to zero. Went from getting 10-15 thousand hits an article to hundreds of hits. It is still a great way to get started publishing write-ups if you are looking for beginner experience on publishing articles through the net.
http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/1741508/robert_peterson.html
Here is the link. I thought it was weird that it had him listed in 2014 and 2015, but it may be an error.
http://virginiatech.scout.com/a.z?s=191&p=9&c=8&cfg=bb&yr=2015
I don't think I even bothered to look at Scout as they are the bottom of my barrel when it comes to Recruiting News. Everything I see on him has 2014 listed. Can you post the link you are looking at?
i swear these jj threads
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yeah its up and should work iunno why its not
Its the Next year is going to SUCK that you and I disagree on and I can see it from your side, I just don't happen to be on it. I think that next year will have fun moments to watch. I think we will see the team we saw early on this year that was able to run it, was able to score over 100 against VMI, was able to average 74 points a game over its first 13 games. It was 79 points per game before the injuries set in at about the tenth game. Totally different team from 79 to the 64 that they finished at. I know you cant put apples to apples on it but 79 points would have won us all but two of the games in the ACC slate. We would have lost to Maryland once and Wake Forest if we had continued to put up those kind of points.
I cant give you a better idea of what I think our actual record will be until they release the schedule but once I have that I will probably give it a game by game evaluation and see where I expect us to be. I do think that JJ improving by six wins is doable when he lost 12 games by three possessions or less this year with half a team.
Lets get through the next couple of days though to see what path we are on. I have to expect that JJ and Whit are meeting today and that the latest we will have an announcement is by tomorrow.
Reason #2096 to hate yahoo:
Using Google Chome, I can't click to get rid of the stupid "this is how you fill out your bracket overlay" and therefore I cannot fill out my bracket.
Using the dreaded IE, I can click to get rid of the stupid "this is how you fill out your bracket overlay," but the drag to select teams isn't supported in IE because IE is beyond idiotic. So I can't fill out my bracket either.
Should I install Firefox and try for the middle ground?
Scout lists TJ Lang as a 2014 and 2015 commit. Does that mean he doesn't come to play until 2015?
Sure, but if we're banking on recruits that aren't even here yet, isn't that just going to lead to the argument to "keep JJ" next year, too? They're not going to make that much of an impact next year, they're freshman and will need to adjust to the game. So then next year it's going to be "well, last year was JJ's best class, he needs to see it through for at least another year."
"Oh, I know it was only 12 wins, but [someone] got injured and we were in it until the end against [three teams]. Two more baskets in each of those games and we're .500. Next year, Wilson will be an upperclassman leading the team at the point, and all of the frosh will have a season of exerpience at the college level under their belts. *That's* when we'll really be able to know how good of a coach JJ is. We just had a couple of bad breaks this year."
I know where this is going, I know how our fans work :)
I understand what you're saying, I'm just being real here. A major turnaround next year under James Johnson is highly unlikely. It's less than 50% of a chance. I'm just being real clear to all of the "save money" people that this is what we're advocating. This year SUCKED. It sucked hard. Last year SUCKED. Next year is going to SUCK. Then we're going to bring in a new guy and *he's* going to have to bloody rebuild again. So that's probably going to suck for a couple years too.
So, factoring in SG's last year...you're looking at 5 years, half a decade of absolute toilet water for VT MBB. I know we don't have any control over this, I'm just griping. I like college basketball. I want us to have a team worth watching. I like watching Tech teams better than non-tech teams in sports I like. This year was unwatchabe.
Distance runners in the house! I was also a 16/32 guy in high school. I thought I was pretty decent, but then I raced against the likes of Matt Tebo and Shadrack Kiptoo, and now I don't.
Edit: Posting my PRs since this is a track thread now
5K: 16:58
3200: 10:13
1600: 4:41
If things go as you propose, and Whit does his thing, then after everyone cries throughout the ACC schedule, everyone will be doing backflips and somersaults as we speculate on who Whit will bring in. It should also remove the stigma at that time that we wont spend money. I just suggest not spending money we don't yet have. Get it in the bank than spend it and spend it BIG if the right guy is available.
I haven't read these comments but here are my thoughts:
We were not a very good team this year or last year, that much is obvious. However, in JJ's first season the team got worse as the season went along and that's never a good sign. This year we got noticeably better even though our record didn't show it. The defense improved and even though the offense was still stagnant at times, it was still improved by the end of the season. The sign of when a bad team should fire a coach is when that team starts to quit, this team showed no quit this year. Against UNC we were down 8ish a couple times, most teams that are 2-100 in conference play would roll over and die, this team fought back every time and pushed UNC to the brink. Against Duke we went down 20 in the first half and brought it back to within 7 by just chipping away at it. The players are playing hard for JJ and that to me buys him another year.
Also, bringing in kids like Justin Bibbs and Jalen Hudson should keep him around, I don't want another situation like with Harrell where we fire our coach and all of a sudden one of those guys is playing for a national championship somewhere else. Everyone needs to keep in mind that we were without our 2 best recruits from last year (Dante Clark couldn't qualify and Mueller was ineligible) so it's not like JJ has been a terrible recruiter. He got unlucky in his first run at it, hopefully this time everyone gets here with no problems because these kids we have coming in are gonna be great.
Where in most of the arguments from those of us that said keep JJ do you see us supporting that?
No one here is saying that. That's what people will say about us, or continue to say about us. This is what they are already saying about us. We are doing nothing to change that. Continuing to drive every basketball decision based on running on the cheap. It's fine, it's what everyone's advocating. "Save money." It's great. We're the most fiscally responsible consecutive 9-win team in the conference. And we're getting what we pay for. Hard to think we won't continue to get what we pay for next year, but hopefully all of those dollar signs will keep everyone on here happy during conference play in 2015.
Me too. Nearly killed me. I think I'll stick to browsing TKP on the computer all day.
With a 3.98 GPA last term and an average SAT practice score of 2,000, Karafa is no ordinary athlete. He maintains a high drive to major in business or finance and puts academics high on his list of college requirements.
I hope he keeps that drive, it will serve him well regardless of where he chooses to go to school or what sport he plays.
Hey, make sure you guys also fill out a bracket over on Yahoo. Pick a perfect bracket and win a cool $1 BILLION dollars. That could go a long way towards making a donation to improve the basketball program and to allow Joe to operate TKP as a full time operation. Give us all kinds of bells and whistles. Be in the top 20 brackets, win $100K.
High school pole vaulter from 1976 - 1978. Personal Best was 13 ft. Bayside High (Va beach). Our track team back then was State Champ contenders for several years and we won VA AAA Indoor State Championship in Winter 1978. Our coach was great, his name was Len Greenwood. He taught me a lot.
I ran a mile once
Same. I pick Kansas every year (I would pick VT but it wouldn't be the wisest thing to pick a non-tournament team) and then knock out teams I hate. If I had it my way Missouri, KState, UVA, WVU and Duke would never win a game.
Yeah we got about the same in Loudoun County, at least the power is back on so I can telework. Too bad I wont get my annual wear all kinds of crazy Irish gear to work though. Had a new hat and a new pair of pants basically just for today.
Do you think this team is going to average 79 points against the ACC next year? That strikes me as unrealistic.
Averaging 79 points against teams like USC-Upstate, whoops, I mean UMDES is one thing...but you're talking about a 20 point on average turnaround in conference play. Even when you consider injuries (And assuming there will be no injuries next year) and "fresh bodies" (all will be freshman and/or completely unexpeirenced in conference play) a 20+ point turnaround in conference scoring feels....optimistic to me.