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What a Charmin soft athletic department they have up there in South Bend. Incredible.
Lest we forget Virginia Tech's defensive coordinator and play caller year 1 was actually Pry, not Chris Marve. Marve took over during the Liberty game. Pry said during the offseason he was heavily involved in that room, at least in year 2.
If the room consistently did not have good linebacker play despite him being heavily involved, recruiting the players to the system and that being his specialty, I am incredibly skeptical about this hire. Throw in that the players quit on him this year and the general awkwardness of it all, and I really do not feel good about it
BRM at SOS says it pretty well. I like and agree with is take.
I wouldn't even say BYU was punished. They were not in the bracket based on the previous rankings. The only way for them to get into the bracket was winning the game and grabbing an auto-bid. They lost and stayed below the cutoff.
And really, anyone ranked below #10 might as well be in the "others receiving votes" category. Other than determining the last two conference champs, none of those rankings matter.
A guy can dream. And some of those conferences would be fire. I don't love the ACC, but I can easily hate every team we'd play, which is really all you need.
This will be moot the year after #12 ND jumps a #10 or #11 non champion ranked team to get into the playoffs. The argument for conference champions is acceptable, but that will cause mass protest especially as the sport continues to even out.
Makes too much sense. Will never happen
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Join a conference, you cowards
Seven 10 team conferences. 9 game conference schedules. Conferences are regional. 8 team playoff, 7 power conference winners, 1 conference winner from outside the P7. Every conference has a championship game, so it's effectively a 16-team playoff, you have to win your championship game to get in.
So very sorry. Although thats the natural way of things, it may be expected, but its never easy. Your parents are your anchors in this world. Losing my father was like losing my north star. Over 20 years later, and I still think "I wish my dad was here to see this" whenever I have significant life milestones. Hope you find peace.
My bad. Forgot about the signature hat.
If you're gonna make that claim, you're gonna need a cooler hat.
I'm the king of being petty.
After going through years of dementia with my Mom, I can comfortably say that he's now in a better place. Still hard, I know, and I send my condolences to you and your family.
It matters though because if it was just the one year guys then there's still support for Pry in the locker room and guys who will play hard for him. Getting portal players to buy in is obviously a needed skill, but it's clearly harder on portal reliant teams (FSU) vs teams that have a new coach and portal players follow the coach (Indiana). High school retention is still how you build championship teams. We brought in a boatload of transfers last year which, as a transfer myself, I find to be a recipe for disaster. You take a couple transfers to fill gaps and add depth, not to field your entire starting defense.
But you can quit "because" of one, but not "because" of the other.
Was just about to post the same thing.
As Franklin said plays seemed to work out better when they handed off to Barkley.
Saban said he thought he was a poor coach when he had avg players and when he has good players everyone thought he was a good coach.
You can draw up a great scheme but if the players can't ALL execute then it doesn't matter. Everyone thinks you suck as a coach. And no matter how much they do understand of your playing more talent players odds are they are winning.
Can't really quit on one without quitting on the other though can you?
Not sure, but every team will have 'mercenaries', especially VT, in the next few seasons. So even if it were 'just' those guys, it's not a good look.
Yeah. I don't think the money guys were ready to buy in for someone unproven, and Pry's management and staffing decisions as HC gave them no reason to change their mind.
https://x.com/sonsofsatvt/status/1997830724095988121?s=42
I think this is a good listen regarding Pry.
I don't view Pry as part of the Good Ole Boyz network. He wasn't here for two decades, he was a GA from 95-97.
PICK 6 BIG SHOOTS
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# | Dellenger: Notre Dame to receive playoff autobid for top 12 finish I would LOVE that level of pettiness, tbh. C'mon rankings voters, you can do it!
LOL! That's my interpretation whiff!!!
People gotta remember that coaching is 90% about having superior players. Even Bill Belichick was able to win some Superbowls when get got the right guys.
I think that was my favorite thread I saw, amongst all of the absurdity. That one poster was absolutely adamant that we in no way should have been able to go about doing things the way we did them. 😂😂😂
I was absolutely laughing my ass off at that shit.