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Great Job Frenchie. Your college line coach would be very proud!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought Beamer was on NTelos. I haven't seen a local comercial in a while though.
Tyrod Taylor>Alex Rayner
I have often contemplated doing a film review of the Mongol conquest of the steppes of Kazakhstan and use it to diagram how Loeffler should run more speed option.
And the blackjack!
Confirmed that Billy Ray is Team Pie.
Definitely some maroon-colored glasses on today, for sure. I'm actually glad to see Tyrod getting involved in the 7-on-7 thing, because I have no doubt that he'll be a positive influence on a lot of young men. I still doubt that Beamer & Co. will get anywhere near the situation, because in my mind (and Beamer's, from what I've read), using 7-on-7 coaches to completely circumvent NCAA rules about contact with recruits and coaches (and possibly acting as agents) is something that he is absolutely against. Any player involved in these 7-on-7 leagues is allowed, and entitled, to ask their coaches' opinions about college and their future. Tyrod will be a good person to talk to in that regard, having had a lot of success at the collegiate and professional levels (not a lot of playing time, but that ring carries weight). Beyond that, I think it's completely status quo for VT with respect to these leagues/camps/academies and definitely should be.
Well I'm sorry that rangers can get the job done without thinking about whether one of a billion deities is gonna be upset about how they did it.
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# | Hokies one of 3 biggest losers of National Signing Day per CollegeFootballTalk I wish I could give you more legs.
Man, if Billy Ray and Sam Rogers ever throw a block on the same guy, that poor bastard is doomed.
Fuller is a fairly common name...
Be careful what you wish for. We must be patient and wait for the true genetic bounty of the one and only Fuller lineage.
Psh, there's a reason they're called huntards.
wasn't the best ive ever hard but its pretty hard to ruin eel, they have it on Tuesdays and Thursday its like a special....and for three $ off my meal plan...you can bet your sweet ass im gonna eat 8 pieces of eel rolls
That's already what the deal is. Vick's number is not retired, just his jersey. We stopped retiring numbers.
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# | Hokies one of 3 biggest losers of National Signing Day per CollegeFootballTalk Well done. Hooray for data mining! Hooray for Python!
Whoa there. Every good nerd knows to roll ranger.
Trash talk is only good if you back it up...and don't get burned. Trash talk is ok when you are 11-1...not 7-6 or 8-5.
To be fair, we don't retire jersey numbers anymore, just jerseys. We don't have enough numbers left in the opinions of the powers that be to retire numbers.
And Cole-Retired from football
I am troubled by your ability to spell inability...and all the downvotes over seemingly benign posts of personal opinion.
Yes, he mangled inability...but we aren't the spelling police, are we?
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12 years 5 months
# | Hokies one of 3 biggest losers of National Signing Day per CollegeFootballTalk So, I was curious about actually quantifying how our class was versus UVA's class and ended up writing a script to scrape Rivals recruiting rankings to compare our classes. Basically it sucks down all the offered recruits for two different schools, finds the intersection, and prints out some stats. Some information I found:
VT 2014
118 offers, 28 commits, 28% commit/offer
Average Offered Rating: 5.75
Average Committed Rating: 5.62
Median Offered Rating: 5.80
Median Committed Rating: 5.80
| # of Stars: | Offered: | Committed: |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 4 | 58 | 8 |
| 3 | 43 | 14 |
UVA 2014
133 offers, 16 commits, 12% commit/offer
Average Offered Rating: 5.70
Average Committed Rating: 5.60
Median Offered Rating: 5.70
Median Committed Rating: 5.70
| # of Stars: | Offered: | Committed: |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 4 | 48 | 2 |
| 3 | 60 | 6 |
VT vs. UVA 2014
This section highlights recruits offered by both schools and ended up committing to VT or UVA.
41 common offers
10 commits (VT: M. Keihn, S. McKenzie, T. McMillian, C. Phillips, C. Reavis, G. Stroman) (UVA: Q. Blanding, A. Brown, J. Kamara, S.Moss)
VT - 6 commits; Avg Rating: 5.72; Median Rating: 5.80; 0 5 stars; 4 4 stars; 1 3 stars
UVA - 4 commits; Avg Rating: 5.97; Median Rating: 6.00; 2 5 stars; 2 4 stars; 0 3 stars
It seems to confirm what we've been discussing, that UVA got a higher top end but we got more depth. Given some of the discussion in other threads about attrition, I'd be a lot more nervous about the future if the tables were reversed. Statistically speaking we got double the impact recruits (4 & 5 stars), a trend that extends back to at least 2008 (minus 2009 & 2011), which probably explains why we are fielding a more complete team. I suppose the conclusion to draw is that elite talent can be convinced they can turn a program, whereas excellent talent is more likely to go to a proven winner. I also found it interesting that out of 251 recruits we only competed for 41.
For the script jockeys among us, you can find it here. It's written in Python and requires BeautifulSoup to run. You can choose any two teams from Rivals database and select a year to compare. Use -h to see all the options, and be sure to quote "Virginia Tech". User beware though, I haven't considered all possible cases (like comparing two schools with no common offers). Also the Rivals site seems a little wonky, as it always shows VT has having 118 offers but sometimes it duplicates a recruit across page 1 & 2, so that the script only sees 116 unique names. Thus, you should take the results with a grain of salt.
Comment below if you can think of any more comparisons to add or improvements to make. For those that can't run the script themselves, I can also post results of different years or team combinations if there's interest.
I would be in favor of also honoring/retiring jerseys for player who have won ACC Player of the Year. So that gives Tyrod a yes. David Wilson 11' and Bryan Randall 04' as well.
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Fuller is a fairly common name....we need to find another family named Fuller and get to work.
i used to love to drukenly yell "LET THROCK THROW THE ROCK!" at games and annoy and confuse the people in front of me.