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UNC is the best team in the division for the foreseeable future. Not having to play them on the road with Miami and GT could become fortuitous.
With all the "wonderful" news we have been getting this week I feel any minute now LT3 will announce he is heading to the NFL.
Joe, your firewalls have been breached, you let a Noles fan on the site!
Just kidding man! I was actually looking forward to the rematch. And I think this is a stupid move for the ACCs PR. I mean let's be honest, the FSU-VT matchup next year is probably the most nationally recognized ACC conference game after FSU-Clemson.
I mean sure, without FSU our schedule is easier to manage, but playing tough rivals is waaaay more fun and makes game days and game weeks way more special. Maybe we will meet up in Charlotte!
I'll be back in VA for the first time in 6 years later on this year, and I wanted to go to my first game at lane stadium (never could afford it as a kid) ..I was really wanting it to be a home game against Miami. Ah well, North Carolina could be a fun one.
it sucks.
I'm thinking if Ed didn't leave we might see a drop into the 50's or 60's. Not worse than all but Buffalo, New Mexico, and New Mexico State.
when does the ND games kick in? Do they count as non-conference games as far as ACC scheduling?
You hit the nail on the head a league that is treading water and desperately wants to be included at the adult table misses a key opportunity to have a marque late afternoon or night game.
Just wondering what the general consensus was over the ACC dropping the VT/FSu game?
As a Nole fan, I had that one penciled in as a possible loss because you guys are always a tough game... but I would rather see the game played than being dropped.
Sucks for the league, sucks for both of our strength of schedules, and sucks for FSU's ticket sales for their home game slate. That surely would have been a primetime night game and depending on records, possibly even Gameday material.
Agreed.
We can't sit here one minute drooling over a guy whould would have likely only been here a handful of seasons before jumping to a HC or NFL job and then the next minute hate a guy, who may or may not pan out because we don't want a revolving door.
Everyone here just needs to take a deep breath and relax. We have no control over what happens, it's important to remember that. Sometimes I think we act like, me included, that Beamer is reading TKP and making program decisions based on our points of view.
I am confident this program will make the best decision they can for the future of VT football. All jokes aside, if we hire Long, or keep Stinespring, I will trust that it is because the program decided that that is the best move we can make right now.
Don't take this as me saying we should stop talking and debating about it. No no no, please don't, but don't start getting chippy at one another because of this.
Ok, I'm done playing Dr. Phil for the day, I'm just trying to get through my last day of work before going back to Blacksburg and getting housed on whiskey and cokes while watching Breaking Bad.
some of the "brilliant" minds in the ACC front office thought through this.
Don't step in the puddles of sarcasm, btw.
Long has no connections in our recruiting base. And Pep is from the East Coast. Notice all the top tier VA recruits going to Stanford? That's Pep.
Haha good point. However, he's getting rid of them, so I trust his judgement.
Just, bleh.
As fans, we're never going to be privy to all the behind the scenes goings-on. Nor should we. It's a personnel decision, which in most cases in business, tend to be a very private matter. And CFB has always played his cards close to the vest, so none of this surprises or alarms me.
However, as a fan, I do WANT THIS TO BE OVER WITH! (my mid-morning vent, thank you!)
My point was that, while the drop was drastic, it wasn't entirely on the OC's shoulders. He inherited essentially a new offense, only returning 4 lineman (one was injured), their #3 receiver and the TE.
But... #117 is still pretty damn terrible.
Is that really our home non-conference schedule this year? Western Carolina and Marshall? I picked the absolutely worst time to move back to Virginia....
the home schedule is Western Carolina, Marshall, UNC, Maryland, Pitt and Duke.
That's...something.
Which doubly sucks, since Miami should be pretty good next year, and Duke away games are really home games for us anyway crowd-wise, so that one doesn't even matter all that much as a home game...
This sucks.
I agree with your post, but just to play devil's advocate, Beamer trusts and likes O'Cainspring.
it means that we play in Miami two yr. in a row, and that the GT & Miami games will both be home or away games from now on.
Further, since the ACC had to switch some schedules around to accomodate the addition of Syracuse and Pitt, some games had to be scheduled in the same venue as last year. There were six repeat venue games, we get three of them....oooh, that's fair, huh?
The QB was Todd Reesing too, which is pretty much the only Kansas QB I can name from my lifetime.
That said, they still returned 7 offensive starters in 2010 and 8 in 2011 without much improvement. And the drop from 2009 to 2010 wasn't subtle...they went from the #27 offense in the country to #117 - in a year that only had 121 teams!
"Well, that's just the way it is"
Who said anything similar to that? I never said we should just take what we can get. Like I said we have to trust Beamer on this. I don't think Beamer would bring him in if that was his intentions.
And in my eyes, the longer we keep status quo and act like everything is okay, the more damage it will do. Like I said, I don't want a revolving door either, but I think the risk of having a revolving door outweighs the risk of keeping ocainspring for another season. Coaches come and go, the good ones stay. How are we to get a good one if we don't take risks. I'm not saying to treat this like it's a blackjack table in Vegas, but no matter what, with coaching changes comes risk. I'm completely ready to accept the risk.
And I'm confused as to what you guys want. If we can't get the best OC out there then nobody will suffice?
How do you guys know if he sucks? How do you know we'll lose recruits? None of us know anything. We're on this site speculating and acting like experts everyday but I'd place my trust in Beamer before I place my trust in any of you. If Beamer trusts and likes the guy, then that's enough for me to say goodbye to Ocainspring.
And UVA, GT, BC and Miami are now on the same home-away schedule, which is going to be weird... making Pitt our primary home "rivalry game" on odd years. That is going to suck.
1. We have to want someone
2. They have to want us.
That being said, it sounds like Hamilton made a decision to hold out for an offer from the 49rs, with the fall-back of staying at Stanford. Can't fault the guy for that.
Without interviewing other folks (even if Hamilton were still in the mix) how would CFB know he's getting the right person for the job?