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I went to auburn my freshman year so I can attest that they're terrible. They had a shirt "I wear this since I went to auburn, you wear your bama shirt since you went to walmart." I would argue that Miami fans are worse. At least bama fans show up to the games
The MV tubas used to chant:
TAKE OUR TESTS
TAKE OUR TESTS
DO OUR HOMEWORK
DO OUR HOMEWORK
And
WE SUPPORT BUTCH
So... Duke will go back to being Duke?
#41Unanswered
Yet Kentucky is pulling in recruits this year despite going 2-10 last year. Jeff Tedford at Cal could always get recruits even though the Bears were consistently mediocre. It seems to me the problem is with the staff, but there isn't an easy fix since the staff is good at coaching football.
I will be in Atlanta wearing a Cam Newton Auburn shirt for this game. If we can't win, I want to piss off as many of those degenerate fans as possible. I know every program has its lousy fans, but never have I encountered such widespread arrogant, uneducated and obnoxious fans as the University of Alabama. When we played Auburn in New Orleans I had a great experience. I can chronicle countless negative episodes with Bama. Not looking forward to this game to be honest but have already committed to going.
I noticed a lot of that too (Especially the seam route. Can you say "Loeffler likes to use his tight ends?") I guess that with Tyrod, Logan, and focus on guys like Bucky and Cornwell, I've been spoiled/come to expect and prefer guys with a howitzer attached to their shoulder.
I watched his junior film highlights over on 247 and thought his arm was comparable to Park's and showed some good pop. BCS-ready from day one? Of course not, but they rarely are. He throws a nice down-the-field seam route, which is indicative of an ability to climb the pocket, throw over LBs and under safeties. Deep ball looks nice, too. Doesn't seem to radar-lock on one receiver, either, though it's obviously a highlight tape, not a low-light tape, so take that for what it's worth. Overall, looks like he can play and would do well in the kind of system Loeffler is trying to install for us. Hope he gives us a look.
Unfortunately, until we stop losing high-profile OOC games that we should win, it's going to continue.
The list of big games against "name" opponents that we came ever so close to winning but that we somehow ended up losing anyway is a long and sad one.
FSU in 2000 for the national championship
Auburn in 2004
USC in 2004
FSU in the ACC title game in 2005
Georgia in 2006
Kansas in 2007
#2-ranked Boston College in 2007
Alabama in 2009
Boise State in 2010
Clemson (twice) in 2011
FSU in 2012.
Granted, we've had some nice wins. Beating Nebraska twice, Texas A&M twice, and LSU all count. Our 2010 shellacking of FSU in the ACC championship game was one to remember.
But more often than not, we've come up short in the really big games. Until we can find a way to start winning these types of games, it's going to be difficult to sign the nation's highest-rated players.
I'm hoping that our new offensive staff can get us over the hump.
The best players in the country want to play for the best teams and contend for national championships. Right now, that group of programs doesn't include VT.
What is it, exactly, that is "on him"? Failing to sign a recruit that every single program in the nation was after?
Can you elaborate on that "best live arm" statement a bit? After just now watching some of his film, it seems to me like he doesn't exactly have a cannon and I didn't even see him throw a deep out on any of his highlights. Just doesn't seem like he's able to put the zip on the ball that is required to be successful at this level. That said, he throws touch passes extremely well and looks pretty accurate too.
There's something on 247 that tracks how long an insider is correct about a recruit's destination so it's to their advantage to change their picks once they feel more than 50% confident about something.
Maybe its partly that, and partly recruitnicks wanting to be the "first" to predict it to validate their "sources". Who knows. Just as long as we don't have CNN prognosticating recruiting...
Agreed. I started reading about Ford a week or so ago when Park got offered by UGA and I had this weird feeling something bad might happen. I really like what I see and read about Ford, and the Elite 11 invite validates some of the rumblings about his "under the radar" quasi-hype. And for what its worth, he attends the same High School as Adam Breneman, who was one of (if not the) top TE recruit in the nation last cycle and is at PSU.
When's the last time one the the running backs we put the NFL actually produced? Wilson looks to have a bright future, Ru's fell to the injury bug, but Jones and Suggs were busts.
We're, with 99.9% certainty, getting all under the radar offensive line recruits this cycle. That's what happens when you bring in a new coach in January. Grimes hasn't been able to develop the relationships.
Florida hired Brent Pease from Boise and that worked out for them (LOL).
Hokies lobbied and hollered for change, got it, but failed to realize there'd be growing pains.
Give the new coaches a chance. They were just hired in January. You can't expect them to turn around our recruiting, which has been lackluster for the past decade, in such a short time. Most of us, myself included, thought there'd be a quick fix with these five star recruits' sudden interest and we got a serious reality check last week in regard to where our program is viewed by that level of recruit. It's going to take time to change the perception and it will start on the field.
Take a deep breath and chill :)
Precisely. I'm going to the Georgia Dome to see the game and I've been telling everyone who asks me, "Why? We're gonna lose." that I'm going to support my team and that it should be fun either way. Now, I see this game becoming more and more important for off-the-field reasons. We need to prove to OUR recruits, fans and donors that this program is going somewhere as well as improving the national perception of VT. Even if we lose, this needs to be a game. I think the coaches can work with that. It's not too difficult to sit a recruit down and say, "Look how close we were to beating Alabama, even with all that talent they've got stockpiled down there. You could help take us to that next level and be a legend here at VT." If we win, gravy. And prepare for the bandwagon/fairweather fans to start showing up in droves. Here's to a strong showing in Atlanta.
I asked French what he thought about Ford, "The best live arm of any quarterback that the Hokies have recruited this cycle." I feel much better if we offer him. He may have a paltry offer sheet (at the moment) because it seems like he was a second or third option for a lot of schools, but he earned and Elite 11 invite and a 3-star / 4-star.
The title wasn't what I had an issue with it was the substance of the post that is pissin' me off. I don't understand why we keep losing out on these high profile players. How many RB's have we put in the NFL in this decade alone yet I don't see us bringing in any 4 or 5 star RB's. Or anything better than a 3 star OL prospect. Dabo isn't really the best coach I've ever seen but he is smart enough to surround himself with assistant coaches who know how to win. And while I am more than happy Steinspring isn't the OC any longer. The best we could do is get an OC from a failing SEC school who was getting the boot anyway? Why didn't we go after an OC from someplace like Boise or NIU and actually try to put points on the board? This problem is far reaching and all encompassing from the HC wanting to "kill the clock" vs SCORE POINTS to the lack of OL talent.
It's interesting because he seemed to be all Dawg, but then there was a quiet shift, and some UGA fans seemed unsure. Then he went silent on twitter about recruiting and oddly the crystal ball got a bunch of VT predictions. Reminds me of when Hand all of a sudden got a bunch of Bama predictions and then dropped us, and Park got a sudden batch of UGA predictions and went that way.
I feel like some of these predictors get the inside track somewhere...
He points out that it isn't Shawn Payne in a later tweet. Plus I don't think Payne would be hyped up as great news.
Amen to that.
neither are footballs, but ....
I was at vt before you had to pay to get into the games, you could just walk in and stand somewhere and nobody would say anything to ya.
It's pretty simple when it comes to recruiting. The equation looks like this
: #Beatbama=bigtime recruits coming in
Coincidentally that sounds so UVA...