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God Bless Texas

Its mostly about coaching and partially about recruiting

Like the kid's attitude. Gives the ball to the ref after scoring. Always credits the guys on his team for helping him succeed. That's the kind of person you want on your team.

Was his a grey-shirt offer? He may have been on that line where he may have been deferred a semester if the class filled up as we hope.

if that's the case, then you can certainly understand finding something else.

I agree completely. It used to be a handshake was all it took to seal the deal, but now, not even signing the NLI is as ironclad.

i thought that pic was hilarious, as well as the one where a few of them were laying on the ground, put their chins on their hands and kicked up their heels.

And I am glad they get along. The first thing I thought of was when Marcus Lattimore was in the pic with Stephen Garcia or something and it kinda looked liked he was giving an HJ.

I'll take camaraderie over locker room brawl any day, but a lot of co-workers will be saving this pic for later too. No big deal.

Agree 1000%, just switch the division names at the top. The re-alignment is minimal, as this only entails UVa and BC trading divisions. The only loss is the South's oldest rivalry, UNC-UVa. But, neither team has been relevant for a while, so this is OK too.

Tech in the upper left, FIRST quadrant of that collage. Overanalyze .... now.

Love the concept. I think it's great for the ACC because it creates more quality match ups, which would be better for TV and (perceived) strength of schedule.

That being said, I think the divisions should be tweaked so each team's main ACC rival is their crossover game:

Atlantic/Coastal
VT/UVA
GT/Clemson
Miami/FSU
UNC/NCst
BC/Syracuse
Duke/Wake
Pitt/Louisville

UNC/NCst, VT/UVA, Miami/FSU, and Duke/Wake are all inner-state rivalries. I arranged the Carolina rivalries this way because Duke and Wake are both private schools, and UNC and NCst are both public schools; I thought it made sense. BC/Syracuse is a regional rivalry, I'm sure they can give it some cold/winter/northern name.

Pitt/UL are roughly 400 miles apart, BUT they are the only schools that are located in states that do not touch the Atlantic Coast, despite both being in the Atlantic Coast Conference... This is a natural rivalry.

I like revisiting the schedule every few years to pair up the best-performing teams. This type of consideration would be a lot like the NFL, where you get similarly-achieving teams matched up the following year.

I would add a caveat, though, as it seems likely at this point that VT would tend to get matched up against Clemson and/or FSU every two years, if the teams perform in the league how they have historically. This would mean that bottom feeders (Duke/UVA and Wake/BC) would rotate through each other, which is great for parity but adds little to the fact that we'd continually be paired against the same teams (not that I'd mind getting rid of BC for a while, but I would still like to play all of our conference opponents at least occasionally).

With a human touch to this idea, I think we'd be in good form. Perhaps add the caveat that you can't play the same crossover opponent more than one or two cycles in a row (2-4 years). So even if we got Clemson/FSU two cycles in a row, we'd at least be guaranteed two other crossover opponents in the following cycle. Switching one opponent in every year would stagger the crossover opponent, meaning that we'd get a new opponent every year (still maintaining that the previous opponent could not be replayed).

I like your idea, Joe.

Lmao, I thought someone else had this picture....I've been trying to find a picture of the VT Mining and Minerals Engineering logo....but I can't.....I'll work on it today....

I think you are thinking of the media day picture like 3 or 4 years ago where the linemen all jumped and did the hand hold picture.