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Virginia Tech 55-69 44.4%
California 54-69 43.8%
Nebraska. 52-67 43.7%
This surprised me, but I guess it shouldn't have.
Does Patrick Swayze have any eligibility left? Should we add him to the list?
Bold strategy, Cotton, but I think it might end up working out for them.
Congrats to Dyrell. Good to see his career progressing.
He looks like he's having the time of his life.
Roberts has done an excellent job at ECU with their WRs. Anthony Smith revived his career the last two years and might be a draft flier if he gets invited to the combine.
I keep watching that gif over and over waiting for him to get decleated (like the limu emu guy)..
The crazy thing is that our coaches just refused to build the offense around his strengths. They just utterly failed to optimize the pieces available to them. I don't think our offense was ever going to be Chip-Kelly-era-Oregon but it could have been more productive despite the deficiencies up front. The coaches exacerbated our weaknesses instead of mitigating them. 5 step drops from shotgun formations with 4 vertical routes into cover 4 with receivers that haven't demonstrated any ability to get separation or win 50/50 balls and an Oline that couldn't block a peewee team and we wonder why Drones struggled.
Drones wasn't a great college qb. He likely would have ridden the bench at most other P4 schools. But the offensive design did him absolutely no favors. These coaches would have made Tyrod Taylor look like Jameel Sewell
Must have skipped them on my pastes. Updated above.
I think Ai also removed the Covid Year from the totals above so that would change the results. Not going to dig into each team to confirm
Where is uva on this list??
Which is why his numbers as a Hokie are even more phenomenal. Go look where Drones is in our historical stats. Now imagine where he ends up if he had one iota of an offensive line protecting him.
Passing Yards: 7th in 3 seasons. 5 of 6 above him had 4 seasons (not all as the starter.)
Passing TDs: Tied with Tyrod for 4th
Total Offense: 4th behind Logan, Tyrod and Bryan Randall
Total Touchdowns: 3rd behind Logan and Tyrod
Completion %: 9th behind Evans, Hooker, Marcus, Randall, Brewer, Glennon, Willis and Wells (Not the list you would expect)
QBR: 12th
YPG: 8th
AY/A: 10th
Sadly only bottom third. Not great but 17 P4 teams with lower win % than the Hokies from 2015-2024. This list does not have 2025 season so drops us farther down but really the list shows how many teams have been mediocre for a decade. 26 teams with sub-.500 records from 2015-2024 in P4.
P4 College Football Records by School
(Last Decade, 2015-2024 Seasons)
School Record (W-L) Win %
Alabama 126-14 90.0%
Ohio State 116-15 88.5%
Clemson 121-18 87.1%
Georgia 109-26 80.7%
Oklahoma 103-28 78.6%
Notre Dame 94-34 73.4%
Wisconsin 92-36 71.9%
LSU 90-38 70.3%
Oregon 89-38 70.1%
Michigan 87-38 69.6%
Penn State 85-41 67.5%
Iowa 86-41 67.7%
Michigan State 72-54 57.1%
Utah 65-51 56.0%
Texas A&M 68-55 55.3%
Mississippi State 69-58 54.3%
Tennessee 67-57 54.0%
Auburn 66-60 52.4%
Florida 65-58 52.8%
Kentucky 65-60 52.0%
Baylor 64-60 51.6%
Oklahoma State 63-60 51.2%
Miami (FL) 63-61 50.8%
USC 62-60 50.8%
TCU 63-62 50.4%
Iowa State 62-63 49.6%
Missouri 61-64 48.8%
Kansas State 60-64 48.4%
Arizona State 59-64. 48.0%
West Virginia 58-65. 47.2%
NC State 58-65. 47.2%
Arkansas 57-67. 45.9%
Louisville 56-68 45.2%
Pittsburgh 56-68 45.2%
Maryland. 53-65. 45.0%
Virginia Tech 55-69 44.4%
California 54-69 43.8%
Nebraska. 52-67 43.7%
South Carolina 54-71 43.2%
North Carolina 53-70 43.1%
Stanford 52-71 42.3%
Indiana. 49-70. 41.2%
Syracuse 51-73 41.1%
Colorado. 51-73 41.1%
Purdue 48-71 40.3%
Georgia Tech 49-74 39.8%
Wake Forest 49-75 39.5%
Arizona 46-72 38.9%
Illinois 46-72 38.9%
Northwestern. 47-76 38.2%
Virginia 45-79 36.3%
Vanderbilt. 40-80 33.3%
Rutgers 40-80 33.3%
Kansas 31-89 25.9%
I tend to agree. This team had so many weaknesses, that it just created a vicious cycle. Maybe the perfect QB and coach could have changed this vicious cycle into a virtuous cycle, but I don't think TyGod Taylor himself could've gotten this team and this coaching staff to >6 wins.
I think a shirt is a minimal requirement.
Yeah, we all have to admit that Drones never had a lot of time to throw, and he took a lot of hits that would have ended Pop. And then got set for the next play.
Agreed. I'm very pro-player-empowerment, but I will readily acknowledge that the transient nature of the sport is detrimental to the fan experience.
towards parole?
Also this is the kind of shit that really makes me think the kids that are in middle school now are completely fucked when it comes to continuing their athletic careers after high school. Colleges are going to basically have the same pool of players cycling through for the next 10-15 years and the spigot of contributing underclassmen will choke itself off. We already see a similar situation in the NFL where outside of a couple guys in the first 10 picks every year, the influx of new QB talent has slowed drastically to the point where you are seeing the same QBs just move from team to team and the core talent base has dried up to the point where the Colts had to bring Rivers out of retirement. The same thing is going to apply to college sports as a whole where the gravy train is about to be cut off to future generations due to the current one stacking the deck for themselves.
For as much crap as Drones got all season, if he had a line that could have protected Pop, his performance would have been improved enough that the backup wouldn't have been needed.
In one of our games this year, ESPN noted he was the most pressured QB in the P4. Only a generational talent kind of guy can overcome that kind of consistent pressure and still get good results. If he had received even basic protection, he probably ends his career as a competent but not exceptional QB.
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When does it cross over into a "business casual" announcement? Can the announcements wear jeans on Fridays?
Genuinely speaking, this is the one that would crumble the system.
If the NCAA allows this, it's over. Anyone who declared early for the draft can come back to college and play out their 5 or 6 years of eligibility regardless of how much time they spent in the league. And it wouldn't be long until the eligibility years are struck down as well and we end up with college sports being another major professional organization trying to actively compete against the NFL and NBA.
That's the end game here, and it's absurd that it's been allowed to fast track itself to this end. This whole thing has been unregulated late stage capitalism on full display for the country to see.
I can appreciate this sentiment, however I do feel differently. And for me it's all about perspective.
We are one of the worst P4 teams in the country, maybe the worst. for a decade now, VT football has been in the basement. I don't think everyone understands, or appreciates, the size of the rebuild at hand. It's a complete rebuild. It is made easier by the portal, but also more challenging because it means more evaluation; a different kind of development (more so related to team cohesion); and a myriad of other things.
Franklin sticking with guys he knows makes his job exponentially easier than it otherwise might be. And remember, he's had a ton of success with this group. In his career as a P4 head coach, he averages 9 wins per season. VT can't even beat G5 schools consistently right now so I'm going to trust the man who knows how to build programs and win football games.
If he were still alive, I feel certain they'd be able to find some eligibility for him.