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"All rubbish," Larry Hincker, a spokesman for Tech president Charles Steger, told the Newport News Daily Press. "There's been zero discussion among university leaders on topic. Just not on radar."
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/06/11/rumors-of-sec-invite...
is another bad football school. couple that with the fact cuse is a small, poor traveling one ... not good. b1+10 can absorb one of those, ACC can not .. unless for survival reasons.
RUTSgers, UConn, Louisville, etc are bigger public schools, where fan interest can at least be built up.
imagine the hate from c-ville if Tech left for the $EC. i'd like to see it.
The question at hand is whether Syracuse can ever be *good* at football again.
I still don't get why they aren't making a move for Syracuse and Uconn. Two schools with heavy basketball tradition and a desire to be good at football. They can be friends with BC and we can move to sensible North South divisions.
First off Ferg great thoughts.
- I'd have to assume we'd play in the SEC East and off the top of my head the trips to Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina and Vanderbilt are pretty close to our current divisional mileage. I agree though, heading out to the SEC West will be a haul.
- I'm assuming with two eight team division teams would play 7 divisional opponents and 2 rotating non division opponents each fall. So, I believe, you'd play non-division teams team twice every five years. There's a bit of a disconnect there. Is that what you mean?
- They stepped their game up.
joined the ACC in 1978.
if VT is involved it will be awesome. no longer a need for poorly concealed SEC jealousy. good point regarding the new media market opportunity that is available for the SEC to exploit. hopefully they take advantage.
the ACC's willingness to sit back and watch as their conference gets raped is scary. just 6 years ago the conference added VT, GT, Miami, and BC in an effort to beef up football while maintaining the basketball history. it didn't exactly work out that way. if they just sit back and watch now they are pretty much giving up on football. hopefully we aren't around to be a part of that.
i live in florida, so if it somehow works out that VT, GT, FSU, and Miami are added to the SEC i will be extremely happy.
TL;DR.
but if the SEC came a'callin', and they were going to blow up the ACC anyway, then I would say we should say yes if we were offered.
I live in Greensboro, NC. I can get to 7 ACC schools (including VT) in less than a 4 hour drive. (you could add Maryland and GT in 6 hours). The ACC hoops tournament is here a lot. We just hosted the ACC baseball tourney and will have it back in 2012. So like I said, I like being in the ACC. I don't really want to go through a whole expansion saga like we did a few years ago.
Random thoughts:
1 - Blacksburg is pretty close to the heart of the ACC geography wise, and would be somewhat of an out post in an expanded SEC.
2 - I wonder if a 16 team league wouldn't end up being diluted and a bit unruly?
3 - No offense the the PAC 10, but I can't believe it is them that is actually making this first big move.
i've had it on the wii for awhile pretty sweet with the old school controller layout too. def will be checking out the 360 version.
I think it is available for 360 too. I'm not sure if it has launched yet or when it comes out, but I'm definitely going to try it out.
saw this saturday on ps3 network. my god, my free time has just been pwnd.
you seen this yet joe?
Long live the newly dubbed rivalry TECHmo Bowl!!!
Can't wait to see the photoshop work this fall. When you publish the article give me a footnote at the bottom!
.... now... how do we convince the schools about the trophy??
Yes, BS beat TCU and Oregon, and TCU did beat UVA and Clemson, so one is tempted to draw conclusions there. But come on, if that was our resume we would barely be in the top 25. It's very en vogue to rank these guys high, but I'm not buying the hype, and #2-3 pre-season is completely outrageous.
As a follow up, my pick that we lose this game got me thinking about games I "knew" we would lose but ended up winning. I'm gonna go backwards here: on the trip to Blacksburg for the Miami game last year, the topic of discussion was Miami's hype. Everyone was talking about Harris's amazing passing game and the speed of the defense. Everyone agreed we would lose this game, but would enjoy the ambiance in the rain anyway. The result was a 31-7 humping by VATECH. The other game last year I "knew" we would lose was Bama. That feeling turned out to be correct. So many people were talking about the O-line of Bama and how we would strike fear in McElroy...so much for that. Going back to two years ago, at Bank of AMerica stadium, I "knew" we would lose to ECU. Friday night in Charlotte was a lot of fun, but I had this weird feeling and every fan of ECU knew it was their year too. They had a good team that was overlooked and well coached, gained momentum by beating WVU and I thought they would remain a top 10 team through the season until they became the definition of "choke" in October. I think most of us thought LSU would hand it to us when we traveled down to Baton Rouge 3 years ago, but I actually thought we would win that game. But I degress...the topic was supposed to be "games i thought we'd lose but ending up winning". I started freewriting this entry and I'm coming up shy with another game that I thought we'd lose. I rarely think that. Probably 95% of our opponents I truly believe we will beat, no matter who they are or where we play. I can't seem to get rid of this feeling that this will be a loss. I'm completely aware of the WAC's weakness and even the "quality" wins against Oregon and TCU last year are nothing compared to the gauntlets that we go through. I'm not scared of UNC this year....I don't think I have the capacity inside to be scared of UNC at all...whether they have the best defense in the history of college football or not, I truly believe we will hand it to them this year. But Boise...I just can't kick this feeling, man. Tyrod and Williams need to have a great day, the defense needs to be sharp...it can't be a game where have poor tackling...we're gonna have to really come together. We don't seem to do that against top 5 teams, for whatever reason that team is top 5, it just doesn't happen.
It's the truth, and I think Boise State knows it's the truth too. That's why they try and schedule tough non-conference teams every year, so I don't really fault them for it is just the nature of the beast. They are good though, because it just so happens that they win all of those non-conference games and bowl games. This year will be different though.
I'm feeling you on the defense, I think we can man up and stop their base offense but what really worries me are the trick plays.
You can bet your ass that I'm going to use all of my Photoshop skills to make your idea a reality during VT-GT game week.
I think that TECHmo Bowl is becoming our most heated rivalry and I do think we'll have enough firepower to beat them this year.
Loved the Hokie v Bronco vintage game. Brilliant
But would be more appropriate with GT. The game itself should be dubbed "TECHmo Bowl" as it is the battle of the top technical schools in the ACC. It's building into one of the best rivalries in the ACC too. These days TECHmo Bowl every year will be one of the biggest deciders in the ACC championship title race. And given the traded barbs between Beamer and Johnson last year about illegal tackles and plays makes it all the more compelling.
VT will get back on top this year with its loaded offense and win Techmo Bowl '10 and hopefully dominate this rivalry just like we are with the Commonwealth Cup. How awesome would it be if the winner recieved a trophy that looked like an old Nintendo game cartridge of the orginal game!
I am trying not to sound overconfident or enamored with the Hokies, but can anyone honestly refute this statement:
If Virginia Tech played Boise State's schedule year-in and year out, all meaningful stats/rankings in just about every category would be ridiculously higher.
I'll take our six 10-win seasons in a row, against the level of competition we have played, ANYDAY over beating up second rate WAC teams every week. It is true that we have choked in the past and nobody wants to go out on a limb here, but I will: Give our defense the first half to warm up, and then we'll own the second half of a blow-out win much like the CFA bowl.
We definitely haven't done well in NFL stadiums, but as you pointed out they are all independent events and don't correlate. The defense will be the weak spot going into the game, but that can change as quickly as the first snap. It's all going to depend on how hard the players work during the summer and how productive of an August camp they have. Right now their an unknown entity with tremendous upside.
I do expect Boise to get their points though and for there to be a couple of big gadget plays. But I think the game will end up being a shootout, so as long as we keep them below ~30 points we'll have a chance to win.
You will receive much credit on this blog if we end up winning because you didn't attend.
I really hate to say this, but we lose this game. Here is why. I call it the Hokie NFL stadium curse. I was present when my Hokies lost to USC in 04 in FedEx, 04 in the Super Dome, 05 in Altell stadium, 07 in the Georgia dome, 08 in Bank of America stadium, and 09 in the Georgia Dome yet again. The Hokies do not fare well in NFL stadiums...yes we have won a select few against non elite programs, but the overall record speaks for itself. We lose against top 5 opponents....in NFL stadiums. With the exception of Miami 03, who was the last top 5 program we beat? On paper, we win this game. Because everyone in America will be watching VA Tech play a top 5 team in an NFL stadium---we will lose. It hurts me dearly to say it. I won't be at the game, so I consider that a positive sign for the cosmic football gods. If we do win, I will attribute it 100% to my non attendance. I'm sorry this entry provided no substance or analysis other than this garbage, but sometimes you cannot turn a blind eye to these erie truths. We will go on to have an amazing season, losing only to Miami, and win the ACC title and then play in a BCS bowl. A 12 win season---amazing! Defense wins championships, folks. Not that we will have a weak defense, but it just won't be good enough to get us our national title.
Go Hokies. RMFW FTW.
yes
This. Wow.
http://www.obnug.com/2010/6/11/1513403/boise-state-invite-to-mountain