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We need to be talked about like FSU is this year. People are in awe.
Aaron Moorehead?
THANK YOU. When a team has 10 wins for 8 straight seasons you expect quite a few top five and BCS wins to show for it, but we're past those days now, and now what do we hope for realistically? 8-9 wins and a Chick-Fil-A bowl bid?
He did, however this forum has gotten to the point of constantly pointing fingers and not tempering expectations. Lose one game, take Logan out of game. Lose another, fire Beamer. C'mon now.
One thing that always made me be proud I was a hokie was that we weren't like other fan bases. Maybe I'm old school because I remember pre Beamer, but we didn't put a coach on the hot seat for having a bum year. As sad as last year was, it was still a winning year. This year is a winning year, and a rebuilding one to boot. One where an offensive coordinator has to use kids that aren't set for his system.
Let's think of it this way. UVA hasn't fired London yet. He has had horrendous years lately. As a fan base aren't we better than them to the point that our coach with winning records deserves to right the ship? Aren't we better than Wahoos?
I'm not for jumping on the fire Beamer wagon, but this is the second "down" season in a row. While we can say if not for bad decisions/turnovers we would have beat Duke, we could just as easily lost games at ECU and at home to Marshall. VT needs an influx of offensive talent and our special teams are a major burden. I feel for Bud, guy flat out puts great plans together each week and has to carry offense and special teams.
It hasn't even been two full years since then, and we've made what I think are some major improvements in terms of coaching, and recruiting is picking up. I think we're closer than maybe you believe.
And point out to me a single Hokie fan who wouldn't want a national championship. Doesn't mean we have to be miserable every year we don't get one.
What about when Bobby Bowden retired and Jimbo Fisher became head coach? I do believe that Bud Foster is more than qualified to be the head coach after Frank Beamer's career is said and done.
until there's an 8 team (or more) team playoff, one loss for an ACC
team takes us out of contention for a NT. Just realistic.
We used to get 10 win seasons. It may be another couple years before we get to that point again. And for the record I wasn't talking about this year in general. I was more or less talking about the program in general. I want VT to be in the spotlight. I want this team to succeed at the highest level. And if were all not shooting for that then we have problems
I said this months ago on another thread, but in order to start thinking about national titles, a team has to be a legit, consistent conference champion. Yes, we have had the most success in the ACC in since we have joined, but I don't think we have won it consistently to develop that mentality yet. When VT fields teams that are the envy of the conference and are expected by everyone (even outside the VT program) to legitimately win it every year, I will start thinking about national titles. Until I see us consistently return to Charlotte with no fear of whoever the opponent is, I think it is ridiculous to hope for national championships. Solid, winning seasons, with good postseason trips for our teams to good bowls and maybe even a BCS berth here and there is something I enjoy.
To me, it's not complacency or settling, it's reality. In the "win now or else" culture of college football, good seasons and success are often lost in the hype.
That wave was irritating. North End Zone was full for the most part the whole game, but that wave...not cool North End Zone.
Now - Get in here for the REAL thing!!!
I would love national championships every year. Am I going to call for Frank Beamer to go, or the players to be kicked on the street if they don't make it? No. Only one team a year gets a national championship. It's not easy. And so while I hope for a national championship, that doesn't mean I expect it. So yes, 10 win seasons are fine by me, because those are pretty darn good seasons that only a handful (relatively speaking) of teams get to experience, and we get them almost every year.
It's not "settling," it's being a realistic and supportive fan who appreciates and supports their team.
Sorry, but national championship was not a goal this year. Improvement was.
No matter what team, national championship may always be the final goal, but realistically, most teams can't set that as an actual legitimate goal.
that would hard to read from a phone let alone type.
turkey leg for phone typing!!!!!
We are still going to end up in Charlotte, for better or worse.
THIS WAS MEANT AS A RESPONSE TO VTimHokie85
10 wins was a realistic goal for this season. We are rebuilding.
(not calling for anyone's head or changes even)
Its a tendency of a culture of mediocrity. I am guilty of it.. for instance: like the good/great plays cancel out the bad/horrible plays. Tech's highlight real from today is WAY better than UMD's (same goes for BC and Duke games)
The status quo should be knowing what you are getting with your team as fans. I believe the way tech plays (down/up) to the level of their opponent is indicative of an under-disciplined team that doesn't play 'their own' game.
That is the tendency of the program and if its not a recipe for disaster its at least a recipe for mediocrity.
I could be OK with that but now i dunno ,,, (ya see - mediocrity)
I will say, I am also impressed at his ability to type all of that from his phone. Dude must have an encyclopedic memory to do all that, too. I would have spent hours researching that, and I was AT most of these games...
And that was mad important for those recruits there. Even through the TV I could sense it, and realized that those recruits would think it was live.
To be fair, he gave a civil, well explained opinion.
My only thing about him being part of the wins is that these wins don't happen against good teams as often as I believe they should for a program with the amount of success we've had. I do think that Beamer lacks that 'coaches instinct' that is necessary to be an EXCEPTIONAL coach. He's consistent, but with the lack of success he's had against good-great teams that doesn't put him at the top in my book.
YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH! FRANK BEAMER IS A SAINT! (and so is Dorothy Mantooth)
Well why didn't you say so... I wasn't at the game ... Losing to MD in OT feels so much better now.
I wish I wouldve known this at half time wheh! . GREAT GAME! win or lose