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Bring in the beefy Turkey as disturbing as that was.
I always like Thunder Mountain more.
Classic corporate rule of being likeable is often times more important than being good at your job. I'd much rather have an asshole coach that wins than someone that is easy to like.
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
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# | Hokie Hoops Central: Virginia Tech (13-4) at SMU (12-4) 9pm ESPNU The problem isn't the buyout, the problem will be trying to hire a replacement when the entire NCAA Coaching world knows how financially hamstrung Young has been. In a recent poll of coaches the VT job was ranked 14th in the ACC. The only schools it beat out were Georgia Tech, Stanford, Cal, and Boston College. It was a precipitous drop from 11th -Wake Forest with 96 points to FSU, Pitt and VT 12-14 at 65 for FSU and 62 points for Pitt and VT. Only reason Pitt was tied with us is they are the only ACC school without a separate practice facility.
Until that changes I dont see Whit in any hurry to fire Young and have to start over.
If you give CMY a hard time about something it should be "why so many close games?" and not "CMY is bad in end of game coaching and close games". The fact is our record in these close games is still quite good. His end of game coaching has still helped us win 4 OT games and many of these closely contested games. These close games do tend to average out and that is what we are seeing. You can blame some of the coaching decisions, some of the missed FT's, some untimely TO's. But for every one of those, you can point to good coaching decisions, made FT's, clutch plays in the games we did win.
For me, CMY needs to be focused on why we are in so many close, down to the wire games. He should be figuring out how to motivate this team to get a lead and play with a lead and protect and grow a lead.
Your points on Neo are spot on though. He looks so good sometimes and looks so bad other times. The other coaches have figured it out to...SMU wanted that match-up in the lane for the tip-in, and it worked. CMY seems hesitant to take the ball out of his hands or take him off the floor in those moments. I think the assumption is that Neo is an incredible talent and CMY is painfully taking these hits because he is expecting a sudden leap in Neo's comfort level out there, his performance and ability to take over the games the way he did at Providence and the way we have seen some of these smaller point guards do to us recently (Okarie, Maltese for Wake, I know I got that spelling wrong, and Boopie for SMU). He is just trusting that Neo is going to be that player, and it just hasn't happened yet. Hopefully it does!
In-conference opponents don't exchange money to play each other; only out-of-conference teams do.
We would pay an OOC team $800k (if G5) to come to Balcksburg with the hopes that the win means something in the long run. Whether it be bowl eligibility or just an easy victory to pad the win total. There's "value" in that.
To answer your question, for a conference game we aren't starting in the hole $800k. So yes, for the day, we'd "make more from that day." But the schedule has to be filled out somehow, and this is the standard nowadays.
Kolby Crystal ball in for Hokies to land Ohio State Offensive Tackle Justin Terry
You guys singing my song, I see.
His buyout is $3M. I think we can swing it.
If we replaced them with an ACC contest, won't we make more from that than what we'd make playing JMU?
The important (and unfortunate) part is that the results are effectively the same.
Mike is just a much better person and easier to get along with, so he's not going to get the axe as quickly.
That does seem to be a pretty good trend. However I like the idea of a Roanoke native that has been on VT's staff before........ that also coached at JMU.
To be the man, you gotta beat the man.
Space mountain is the best ride in the park.
FROSTY IS A BEAR
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5 months 3 weeks
# | Hokie Hoops Central: Virginia Tech (13-4) at SMU (12-4) 9pm ESPNU Remember making a comment like this on a VT basketball thread a while ago:
So, I guess it's a good thing that I have no interest in and don't pay any attention to basketball, isn't it.
The original price of the game was about $400K because it was negotiated when JMU was still FCS. When they rescheduled it from 2025 to 2026 they conceded adjusting it to FBS rate of $800K. We rescheduled so we could do the Aflac Kickoff. JMU financially won three times now. They replaced us last year with Louisville at the FBS rate, thry get our cancelation check and still make money playing SDSU.
What you're actually saying is, we need to hire whoever is coaching JMU atm.
. I would have loved for him to have played with the three point shot, but he was a ton of fun to watch.
God yes!. He already had2389 points WITHOUT the three point shot(2nd by only 95 points to Bimbo Coles who DID have 3 point shots available). Most of his outsi8de shots were close to or well beyond the 3 point line, and often/usually with a defender draped over him. Merely having the shots he DID take count as threes would likely have added 200-300 points more (or even more ); and if the 3 point line were available during his career, the coach would no doubt have schemed for him to take even more of them! There's a reason his sons shoot well!
WHERE’S DAVE?
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5 months 3 weeks
# | Hokie Hoops Central: Virginia Tech (13-4) at SMU (12-4) 9pm ESPNU I'm a big fan of denying the ball to the best player who probably they drew the play up for in the first place.
I have to imagine the team checks out on the season now. I expect to see some individual performances just so they can go get paid somewhere else next season. I'm sick of the mediocrity with CMY.
Spot on. This team is better than the teams we have lost to, which makes it incredibly frustrating to watch. CMY deserves criticism although Im not ready to fire him over it.
However, that Vandy coach is starting to look pretty attractive.
commanders play in MD
what does it say that I understood it perfectly and I was stone cold sober....I must be fluent in BS
ACC as a whole though is getting more from the ESPN contract for the 9th games so eventually the answer is yes once VT receives its ACC payouts.