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I think, coaching success ultimately comes down to recruiting, OL development, and QB play. Pry improved recruiting but could not outcompete Franklin, S. Beamer, and the random plucking by UGA, UM, and other bluebloods. OL development was f'ed by the Rudolph/Crook experience. And Drones was the 2nd coming of Logan Thomas (but less talented).

Examining those three factors, I think resources definitely played a large role, but Pry was also deficient and bears some of the responsibility.

These factors also give me optimism for 2026 and beyond because VT will have the resources to support CJMFF and he has a track record of elite recruiting, NFL-draft-worthy OL development, and QB play that has been better than anything VT has done since Jerod Evans.

The resources will be major and luckily CJMFF will know how to make use of them. Miami, Duke, and GT are examples of how greater investment into football yields tangible improvements on the field. UNC and FSU are examples on how to waste investment.

Last tangential thought: I think Miami is the current blueprint on how to succeed in the ACC. Get elite QB play, intensely focus on OL development, and sign top 10 recruiting classes. If CJMFF can get VT back, that Miami-VT rivalry will be for ACC title, CFP entries, and must-see TV.

Franklin doesn't have time to learn how to work with new people, so he's going to hire as many people he knows to shorten the time for the staff to gel.

As far as this particular hire, in Franklin's first presser, he talked about how he had to tailor the PSU offense to the weather there (regularly colder than other places and gets more snow). I dont know how real that is but I guess it makes sense, you dont see a lot of teams in the North have pass heavy or pass often offenses. He also said he wants big get WRs because they are game changers (make 1 guy miss instead 2 for a RB).

All of these points point to running a different offense here than he did at PSU, which may let us see how good this QB coach actually is.

Are we counting Army-Navy in this thread? GO NAVY BEAT ARMY

This game is fun and I am a bit jealous of the quarterback play.

Hard to tell if 100% a marketing stunt or true and now she marketing her OF. Either way, the girl getting rich.

If I was trying to build up a mental illness case, this is the kind of thing I would do. Otherwise this is typical "rules for thee, not for me" kind of mentally that seems to run among sports stars.

The more things come out the more it sounds like Harbaugh might have employed the most corrupt coaching staff in recent history

OT but I'm not really sure where else to put it but it breaks my brain to see a decision to return to a school phrased this way. Just drives home the fact that free agency is truly here in CFB.

I built on 18 acres of which 13 was planted as a Christmas tree farm in the 70'a and forgotten. I have all the mature pines I could ever want.

As soon as he got out of jail, he texted one of the girls he followed on OnlyFans. This story just keeps getting stranger and stranger.

They want futures and prospects and that is the one thing we have gobs of. Not really sure who we would float but I don't think it would cost someone like Nikishin, but maybe a package around Nadeau or Unger Sorum, and a 1st is probably likely.

Pens have a couple of young goalies they're really high on, specifically Murashov. So Skinner isn't a huge part of their future I don't think.

They needed to trade Jarry while his stock was high.. He cleared waivers last year so getting some players and a pick back is a nice return.

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