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Hokies!
But I bombed the bowl pool-peaked at 13 -now down at 18th; fuck the state of TN and the ACC for winning when I picked them to lose (Miami, lolUVA, Duke, Miami again,Wake-and possibly Miami-up to 2 more times) and losing when I picked them to win(Cal, Pitt, Clemson).
False.
Ugly ending to a great mayonnaise game. Miss State QB took every kind of bad hit possible in that game and left on a cart inside the last two minutes.
He prob should not have been back out there after bouncing his head off the turf. The cart was for an unrelated leg injury though
The ACC is just dominating bowl season.
Mika Zibanejad had himself a night in the Winter Classic. 3 goals, and 2 assist for the first hat trick and first 5 point game in the WC. Shame the Rangers have been an inconsistent mess everywhere except outdoor games
He must like playing for coaches on a hot seat. Playoff or not, Deboer is going to be on a short leash after losing by 35 to Indiana and 4 total losses.
I think in these scenarios, and we are all learning on the fly here, it is usually a bit of both. There are players who teams would like to keep, but only to a certain price point. If that player can get materially more elsewhere, they will probably head out, and if they wanna stick around the school at a lower number, they stay.
What's academic eligibility? I've never heard such a thing related to the portal.
chicken or egg question for people more savvy with portal ins and outs. what is the more likely catalyst in a scenario like this:
Is it more likely that Woodson sniffed around and got interest and decided to leave?
or
That Franklin has someone coming in and told him that his NIL package would be reduced/changed/not increased etc?
It's one of the shortest seasons in sports, and mega conferences allow for weak seasons more than in the past. Both Oregon (2024) and UGA (this year) had an SOS around 30th in the country. This is much the same way that UVa tripped forwards into the ACC title game this year.
The cancer here are the super conferences.
And in the absence of a governing body, the field-surgeons best efforts would be requiring a 12 team field to have 10 conference champions admitted, which is how all other team sports work.
Not sure who's powerful enough to pry TVs grasp from our sport, but that's the reason the P2 are being gorged on the rest of the sport.
That's why the "maybe not too contaminated".
I think the portal may show us if the rumor that the players were good with Pry returning to coach at VT is true or not. I don't think it'll be that bad but this isn't a great start at least.
agreed
What makes the sport unique is its personality -- the crowds, the lore, the rivalries, random trophies, the crazy traditions at the schools. That stuff won't get lost while using more objective metrics to find a champion.
That situation is a product of the conferences ditching divisions, not the CFP.
This will be year one and the roster he inherited is not a good one
We've seen so many coaches in the last three years go into a terrible situation and turn it around in a year or two.
Excluding Covid, James Franklin has never had a sub-.500 year.
There is no reason why this team cannot rapidly improve in one year.
And if it wasn't clear – I'm not saying that this team should be top 30, I'm saying that a reasonable stretch goal given the funding and the staffs previous history
I remember Richard Johnson saying this before the first 12 team playoff – college football fans are gonna have to get used to the idea that being undefeated in a regular season isn't that important. It's definitely a mindset shift for me. I don't love it.
I was just wondering if it was maybe more of us not developing LBs well. Hopefully with new coaching we'll see better development (and yes, Pry is a NEW coach since he wasn't coaching LBs while he was HC or even doing defensive coaching).
I don't feel so confident in that.
Ohio State versus Michigan effectively doesn't matter anymore. Up until 15 years ago, it was impossible for a team to lose that game and still win their conference or a national title. Now it's possible for those teams to play each other three times in a single season. It's possible for Ohio State to lose that game and then win a national title.
I understand that I'm cherry picking here, and I obviously recognize that having more games that matter makes for a significantly more interesting last five weeks of the season
But I do think that if we could redesign this sport with a blue sky vision, we could find the perfect medium.
It's kind of messed up that in both years of the 12 team CFP that we have a team (two total) that beat every team they played yet didn't win a playoff game.
This will be year one and the roster he inherited is not a good one. We had a good recruiting class, but I still feel like I want to see how all the portal action pans out before I start thinking we belong in the top 30. It seems reasonable, based on the recruiting class, that we would also do well with the portal, but we would need to replace a lot of players, especially since, even if we got some good players, we might not have depth that is good.
Yes please
I didn't watch the game, but I know it had to be weird since Kirby Moore had left to go be the head coach at Washington State and the new coordinator (Chip Lindsay) was there and sharing offensive coordinator duties with Drinkwitz.
Ball games in 2025 are unpredictable. In this situation was pretty unique as well. So I'm not surprised to hear it was underwhelming.
What would stop anybody from watching the pros?
Ah, makes sense. And I fully think he could really turn it around in 2 years, I just think this coming year might be tough. I'm guessing we'll get some nice transfers in and have a decent year next year.
I'm basically just preaching the virtues of seeing what our roster will look like before we really start guessing where we might wind up next year.