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I like to think this is at least a small endorsement of the new RB coach. Glad to see Overton on board. I hope he is a key part of the offense next season.
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Only if we fill it up the same way.
Our guys knew that the VMI cadets were looking for that kangaroo before we had a chance to blow it up. So they made a second one, and filled it up. Knowing the history of our university, you can probably guess what fine material they used in it.
Of course, our cadets aren't really trying to guard it that well. They want VMI to find it. When they do, one goes high and rips the head off, one goes low, and another charges the middle....and as the fourth one starts coming in, he smells it and stops just in time.
And then we bring out the other kangaroo and blow it up.
Apparently during the game, you could spot the cadets who found that kangaroo because there was quite a large radius of empty seats around them in the stadium.
So I've heard this story a bunch from my dad. At the last few Corps Homecomings, I even heard it from some of the guys who procured the innards of the kangaroo.
But then there's an epilogue that happened just a couple of years ago....
My dad is shopping at a Wal-Mart in the Richmond area, and he sees a guy about his age with a VMI hat. He strikes up a conversation, and that kangaroo story comes up. For the first time in 50 years, my dad finally hears the story from someone on the VMI side -- and it turns out that it's that fourth VMI cadet, the one that just avoided diving into the mess.
We could have a nice little run game next year with feature backs returning and another offseason under Moore for the OL.
We should have a solid run game again next year, and maybe even better than this past season. If we can do two things I think we will be a very competitive ACC team. I can't say how many wins that will turn into, but we should be incredibly competitive if we can do these two things:
1. Actually complete a forward pass. I mean, dang... Any passing game at all helps move the football down the field and opens up an already good ground game even more.
2. Play any sort of defense at all. We've been so incredibly bad from the LB position back for so long. If we can put together an even remotely cohesive unit (one that plays well together with some physicality) that should help us not be one of the worst TD% defenses in the country.
You had to believe that if James Franklin wanted him here he would be here.
We will have a run heavy offense with 1 to 2 feature backs. I'm sure this was "sold" to Overton.
To be fair to Cole, he was basically processed even before signing and was told to find somewhere else to go, James Franklin wanted Troy Huhn as his QB.
Great news
Hell yeah
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6 months 3 weeks
# | Senior Analyst Hire (Rumor) - VMI Head Coach Resigning to Join VT Staff If we play VMI do we get to put a paper-mache Kangaroo in front of Skipper like Col. Roszak said we did in the 60s-70s?
HOKIES
LET'S GO....
Decommitting from us and signing with a team we play rarely works out well for the player
Hope this holds true for him as well
It looks like there are four allowances for playing in Week Zero:
-Play at Hawaii during the season.
-Overseas games.
-Nationally televised FCS games.
-If the NCAA grants a waiver for reasons.
FSU had a week 0 game in 2002 against Duquesne, taking advantage of the FCS rule, and apparently ACCN counts as nationally televised.
Hoping we can go 5-4 in the ACC with that schedule. Obviously would like better, but will be pretty happy with 5-4 with (1) what we have been the past several years, (2) the huge proportion of players changing over and (3) assuming none of the true freshmen we signed will be able to have a substantial role.
I'd much rather do that. At least you get to go somewhere cool, unlike Fort Worth or whateverp
As far as I'm aware, it is.
The only neutral site game involving the ACC that I see so far is Ole Miss/Louisville in Nashville, but that's penciled in as Sat/Sun.
Two things I'm impressed by with this schedule (and not necessarily in a good way):
-We don't play a single NC school.
-We have 4 Virginia teams on the schedule (for now) and all of them are coming to Blacksburg.
If I'm reading Google correctly, both uva and NC State will have 9,000 mile round trips for the Brazil game. NC State then has to go to Stanford, which is a 5,600-5,800 mile round trip.
But we probably take the crown for miles without leaving the country.
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6 months 3 weeks
# | Senior Analyst Hire (Rumor) - VMI Head Coach Resigning to Join VT Staff Edited for clarity, but I had not heard that Hollins has the same rap as JMU/Radford so I won't be besmirching them with a comparison to uva football
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Are the other teams complaining that too many Hokies show up for the road games? The only good thing about being in the ACC is that we are close proximity to half the conference. THAT benefit went out this window with this damn road schedule. We basically got the 4 corners of the conference all on the road. WTF?!?!
Miami has made it to the game -- remember, we had that stretch where the entire Coastal division (plus Notre Dame) did a round robin visit to the ACCCG and lose. They do hold the record for fewest points scored in an ACCCG (3).
And technically, the VT @ Miami game in 2004 was a de facto conference championship. We won the conference with the outright best record, but if Miami had won, it would have been a three way tie where they had beaten the other two teams.
Ours is roughly 12,000 miles round trip
Also, special teams where we don't shoot ourselves in the foot.
It doesn't have to be beamer ball to be a big improvement