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read about this the other day apparently dallas has had a bunch of draft picks get hurt in their rookie ota's
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d829455be/article/danny-coale-suffe...
nope
The fact he offers to commits means he has no respect.
SEC will continue to eat our lunch even if we move. Connference affiliation (envy) will not help us.
Bowl games are about money. Money for the schools and money for the bowls. Lately many, if not most, schools have been losing money on bowls even though almost everyone else is making money (especially ESPN).
The traditional powerhouses use their leverage (fan base and connected alumni) to squeeze the up and coming schools out of opportunities for increasing revenue. They get in the way of a real playoff system, even making up new bowl games to directly compete for revnue with a playoff system. VT is not one of the traditional powerhouses and does not have the leverage to sway the direction of where college football is headed. Right now it is a battle of the haves versus have nots and the haves driving the train. The NCAA has no power to create a playoff system or equitable conferences. It is free market versus government control. Should college football be this way?
Local guys that were being recruited by several ACC schools have made commitments to ODU. They like the idea of staying near home since ODU is now FBS (bowls, TV coverage). That gives ODU an advantage over the FCS schools in Virginia who traditionally recruited these players. They have a very good coach and have been winning.
The big recruits will still likely go to the big schools and out of state. For now the local media likes ODU and there is a lot of excitement. Those are key in getting attention from recruits. If there is success on the field it will feed itself. The excitement can fade, but for now there is momentum. If they aren't already, I think ODU will become the second or third choice of Virginia schools behind VT and Uva. If they consistently lose the next few years the excitement will probably fade. But for now ODU has the FBS fever.
TOTS IS CLOSED.
Good article. Can't stand most the comments left by bloggers though. VA isn't good for recruiting? We lose recruits to the SEC every year. Even a QB to Vandy. Please don't leave comments if you have no idea what you are talking about. One guy even thought Maryland is the best area for football recruits on the east coast!
looks like the swagger is finally back
exactly, in every team sport at every level of NCAA sports (including DIAA, DII, and DIII football), if you win your conference, you enter a tournament for the national championship. If Big East, ACC, MAC, MWC, sun belt, etc conference champions don't get to play, then they are not playing DI football. For the folks who say those weaker conferences can't compete, then the favorites shouldn't have any problem drilling them in round 1.
My format, which I will detail more in a blog post:
16 team tournament with 9 conference champs and 7 at-large games
Top seeds get a home game for opening round
The reason it won't happen is the expansion. Schools are forming superconferences designed to take the TV money pie and divide it up into the fewest pieces/most money per school possible. Also, divisions in bigger conferences make it almost impossible to eliminate games (you would need an 11 game season and no conference championship game for a 16 team playoff to work.)
I am not sure how DIAA and DII schools do it, but the DIII champion and runner up plays a 15 game season.
Yikes, when Foster is the lead recruiter, the track record for VT isn't good, although everything I have heard was that this kid was a South Carolina lock as long as they wanted him.
in that video ಠ_ಠ
they do it at every other level of college football
NCAA football 16 team tournament will never happen, and there is hardly a chance for an 8 team as well. Football is not basketball, and teams cannot play that many games in such a short period of time.
"the ACC is trying to develop a bowl game similar to the one recently announced by the SEC-Big XII."
Whats even the fuckin point?
The best the ACC can hope for at this point is the 4 team playoff being so successful and popular (it will be) that they expand it to 8 and then 16. Then they'll be assured a spot every year. Just keep pluggin away with the Orange Bowl, maybe lower the ticket prices.
I don't think many people are enamored. Most people like the ACC and thing that it is the best fit for us...unless FSU or Clemson leave. Many people are hoping for ND to join the ACC and then we can win the respect for the conference in the next 4-5 years.
What do you mean by "half of these teams aren't worth anything in a supposedly weak"? What teams?
no disrespect but as enamoured as everyone seems to be with leaving the ACC, half of these teams aren't worth anything in a supposedly weak acc. sure its big fish eat little fish, but have fun lining your pockets whilst still playing for 3rd-5th in your new conference
No more hockey coverage. Used to be the only place you could watch the NHL, then the strike, then no more NHL coverage. For the longest time, couldn't watch hockey because my family only had basic cable (and I was too young to go sports bars).
...to the 2013 Orange Bowl featuring Rutgers and Wake Forest. In Joe's words: "Woo?"
it would be for purely domestic relationship reasons...(see: Virginia Tech will host Iowa in the 1th Annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge). A VT/Iowa matchup would make for an interesting week!
On a semi-related note, my dad was an official Keebler elf for many years. Cookies helped put me through college.
Although I agree for the most part, their statements don't say they are looking, just that they will listen to conferences that come. Either way, it is pretty much the same thing, but with less political impact.
Good fan base, good history...NOT who I want the ACC champion to play every year. They haven't even produced much since the mid 90s, and, as everybody should know, teams are cyclical and that would put a HUGE weight on ND to be good, or else the ACC looks even weaker.
Hokies and ACC fans, Bad press is still good press. If ACC fans continue to follow, click and comment what HD writes, then she will continue to be the ACC rep writer. To execs, hating on HD is just as good as praising. If you want a change, unfollow @ESPN_ACC and don't click or comment. If her site goes dead, maybe we can get that Matt Fortuna guy. He seemed to have a clue.
Not a chance. I like ODU, but their BRAND new football program will not take any recruits from VT that aren't easily replaceable (most likely, none at all). VT/UVa/JMU/UofR then maybe ODU.
Moot point, but it will never happen.