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You realize that you said "Freshman are not used to the college game" and followed that up *immediately* with "We will be better when we get a couple more recruits in." How can it be both? If "youth" is an acceptable excuse now, and next year we will still be "one of the youngest teams in the country," will "youth" be a valid excuse next year too? Then we will have to give him another year of ACC Basement play.
I have three questions for you:
1. What is the identity of this team under James Johnson. What is VT Men's BB under James Johnson?
2. What has this team shown you under James Johnson to inidicate that he is the guy who is going to help VT Men's Basketball achieve our goals? What is our ceiling under JJ and what makes you think that?
3. If the position of Men's Basketball coach were open right now, and JJ was coaching in a similar situation...say, Penn State, and had similar results, would he be one of your top targets to fill the vacancy here? Why or why not?
JJ's making something like $660k, IIRC.
Any new coach is going to have to rebuild after next year, too. So, all you're doing is delaying the "rebuild" out one more year, and thus ensuring *at least* two more bad years.
I think it's so telling that all the arguments for keeping JJ are "to save money" or "i feel bad for him." Absolutely none of them are "JJ is a really good coach who was dealt a bad hand. You can see flashes of his vision for VTBB. This is a guy who's ceiling aligns with our goals for the program - an NCAA Tournament Bid about every 3 years, and maybe the odd Sweet 16 run if things work out right."
It's never that. Never. It's "well he seems like a nice guy, and it would cost us a little bit of money to release him."
Hiring JJ was a "money saving" move to the detriment of the program. Retaining him will be a "money saving" move to the detriment of the program. Not spending money to better the program is 75% of the reason the program is where it is right now. Spend money and make basketball better, stop the madness.
Problem is, current running time average is actually shorter NOW than it was at the peak of our greatest stadiums in college football run.
there was just something about it when I went
That right there is how you know we have a Hokie on our hands
This kid's highlights are crazy good.
4-win season? That's a stretch.
I'm pretty sure one of the tipped passes he had a guy wide open deep. IIRC, he double clutched and second guessed throwing deep on the play.
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# | Bitter blog - ESPN's Kiper: If QB doesn't work out, Logan Thomas could be a TE down the line and UVA wins the National Championship.... sh** no one says hahahah
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# | Bitter blog - ESPN's Kiper: If QB doesn't work out, Logan Thomas could be a TE down the line you mean Brandon Wedone?
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# | Bitter blog - ESPN's Kiper: If QB doesn't work out, Logan Thomas could be a TE down the line No I agree, but let the kid get a chance at QB first and then start talking about the TE move. It just seems like they're trying to downplay his potential at a QB first. But I agree he needs to work on completion rating and his INT/TD ratio. But if you want to pick at numbers I bet his completion % would be up 10-15% if we had a go to receiver that could catch the ball with his hands.
Frequent drop offs and pick ups from Club 216
my attempt at a sneaky sneaky.
lol, "he knows where he got that shirt, and it wasn't the men's section"
yeah that too
Turkey legs for all!! LOLUVA
I just about spit out my breakfast over this one
I don't recall the Marcus Smart thing because I haven't paid much attention to basketball.
But I sure as hell remember the Cassell tormeting DJ Strawberry so many years ago.
Nice one!
Mike London's chauffeur was hired after the coach was shown to have significant trouble understanding how starting and stopping things worked. This weakness caused several traffic light and stop sign related accidents before the school finally took action.
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(Brie and Zima shooters not included)
Each time he was asked about his preference he clearly stated what he wanted, then said, "... but whatever is best for the team" or equivalent. That's Ut Prosim, right there.