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Help us UNC, you're our only hope
I'll admit, my fandom didn't really start till my freshman year (2010). I didn't know we had so much rankings respect just a short while ago. 7-6 really made my short term memory pretty depressing.
I agree 100% with top of the ACC, top-10 nationally being a reasonable goal for the coming years (especially with the way the 2014 recruiting class is looking). I also agree that the biggest step is just beating the teams we're supposed to.
Nope. Wyatt Teller will pancake whoever lines up in front of him.
Gayle's gonna eat whoever plays quarterback for the Hoos.
Mike London will quit at halftime.
This is the kind of thing we reap when we fire O'CaiNewSpring about 3 seasons too late, once the dumpster fire has already burnt out.
#VT4SEC!
Cut our ties with this cancer of a conference and head over to the SEC, who is waiting with open arms.
UNC's schedule is USCe, MTSU, GT and ECU before playing us this year. If they can win all 4 of those then they could very easily be top 15. I don't think USCe is that good, but the pollsters will overrate them as an SEC team so if UNC can win that one then they're setting themselves up nicely for a top 15 ranking by October 5th. Obviously we would need to beat Alabama to be up there with them. But if we do win over Bama then we're probably top 10 by the time that game roles around. I could see a 6:30 start or later for a game that big in the ACC. Who knows, maybe even Gameday will show up.
S-E-C!
S-E-C!
S-E-C!
S-E-C!
S-E-C!
I haven't looked close enough at the whole schedule but at least this snooze-fest can't be as brutal as last season where 6 opponents (7 if you count the opener) had more than a week to prepare before playing VT. 5 of those ended as losses; Pitt, Cincy, Clemson, FSU, and Miami. Want a home Thursday night though.
Our sellout streak will likely come to an end on September 7, when we host Western Carolina...
Those loathsome bastards that slighted us like this...
Say, for example, that we play them middle of October.
Looking back, we were in the top 10 sometime during October in each of the following seasons:
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2005
2007
2009
Granted, the first 6 of those seasons we were unbeaten while in the top 10, and 2007 we had only lost to #2 LSU and 2009 we had only lost to #5 Bama, but it just means getting back to the front of the ACC and beating the teams we're supposed to beat. I'd say those are reasonable goals for 2-3 years down the road when we may be hosting ND in Lane.
EDIT: and we used to perennially start the season in or near the top 10. A list of top 10 starts:
2001
2003
2005
2007
2009
2010
And since 1999, we have only started the season outside the top 17 once, and that was the 2004 season, when we were fresh off of a 2003 season that saw us limp home with an 8-5 season on the strength of a 2-5 finish... and we were moving to the ACC, where we were obviously going to get trounced annually.
They don't have a snowball's chance in hell now.
I want out. I want out now.
This is pathetic.
Thanks, Swofford, for ensuring that the ACC has zero viable Top 25 teams. Awesome. Let's just bust some more holes in the bottom of the sinking ship that is the ACC. Let it sink faster. Maybe Weaver will jump ship sooner.
After the season we just had, I will not be surprised if more people drop their season tickets and Hokie Club memberships.
Once we #BEATBAMA, its a pretty easy road to the NCG. If the team is good enough to beat the twice defending national champs, every other game is very winnable. Because that always means we come out on top, right?
I think this just fuels the fire for #VT4SEC.
Ordinarily I would say that should be the case, but looking at the ACC overall schedule, GT also has 5 days to prepare, after what will be a much tougher UNC team compared to our preceding Marshall game.
While playing GT on a shortened timetable always sucks, I think we get the better side of the draw here, since they'll hopefully be more burned out after UNC vs us after Marshall.
Unfortunately, how often will that happen? We'll have to be undefeated or noe-loss after a sufficiently difficult stretch of schedule. So either middle of the season including a big OOC win, or late in the season after several ACC wins. I'm not up on my history, but have we ever opened a season in the top 10?
Man, this schedule has really put a damper on my normal offseason optimism. I'm not trying to upset any of you people
before playing UVA?????? Genius.
They'll get after 'ya
Dear Liver,
It looks like another year of 10 noon kickoffs on our favorite network.
FUCK!!!!!
One of those two games is homecoming. Probably Pitt, which is the worse matchup anyway. If UNC has a hot start, I could see a 3 PM kick, but no night game unless we're both undefeated.
If we're in the top ten, count on it.
The thing is, we don't have many marquee matchups because we're in the lesser division of a relatively weak conference. So there aren't many opportunities for our Saturday games to be flexed into primetime slots. Thursday night games at home give us national exposure, and a chance for ESPN to drool over how loud our stadium is, and how magical a Thursday night in Blacksburg feels. Even once ND half-joins the conference, I don't think we can count on them to give us a national tv game every time we play them.
This is such a big pile of #RollTide, it's not even funny anymore.