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This. All this.
Hokies trail 14-12 after 1st.
Turnovers were Duke 8 v Hokies 5
Rebounds Duke 18 v Hokies 15
Duke shot 30% to Hokies 18%
Fournier is sloppy on defense. Hokies should drive right at her until she fouls herself off the floor.
Bama best Vandy h2h. Neither of those other two teams have wins nearly as good as bama, and the losses are similar. Most advanced analytics say similar.
I admit, cfp rankings are just a reality show. But with the exception of 2023, I think the end result has been right every season.
Terrible start.
Hokies 1 for 12 from the floor in first 5 minutes
Fortunately Duke has been really sloppy with the ball.
Into the Semifinals
- Sergio Desiante! 12-1 MAJOR DEC over Elliot Humphries (PRTC)!
- Sonny Sasso with another FALL! 3-0 1:59 over Hunter Adams (App St).
- Gunner Garelli 7-3 DEC over Jonathan Hoffman (NASSAU)!
- 141 | Tampa Tom into the semis with a 19-3 4:22 TECH FALL over Matthew Martino (PRINCE)!
Vandy, Louisville, GT...all 3 have just as much of an argument as Bama does
It's possible, but I lean toward two other explanations:
1. They didn't want to leave the ACC out completely
2. Having Notre Dame ahead of Miami was a feature, not a bug, of how the weekly CFP rankings show is treated as a TV product and engagement engine. I would also file ever having Notre Dame ahead of Alabama, then flipping Alabama ahead, as BOTH being examples of them doing something for engagement. Notre Dame's resume after the OU loss for Bama, was still considerably weaker than Bama's, then they move Bama over them after they beat Auburn, both things successfully created enormous engagement for CFB media and social media. Having Notre Dame ahead of Miami despite the H2H also did this.
Patriot Open going much better for Hokies than Cliff Keen
Patriot Open Update
Into the Quarters
141 | Tom Crook TECH FALL Anthony Basile (GMU), 19-4 2:17
174 | Sergio Desiante TECH FALL Gavin Cole (NAPS), 20-5 4:36
184 | Gunner Garelli DEC Christopher Mance (DRXL), 5-4
197 | Sonny Sasso FALL Anthony Bradley (MARY), 11-0 3:00
Consolations
149 |
Chris Bacchioni loss via maj dec Kaden Cassidy (GMU), 0-9
Chris Bacchioni FALL Jonah Lugo (NASSAU), 6-0 0:58
184 | Glean Gonzalez loss via maj dec Malachi Duvall, 0-10
My wife went to Vanderbilt. I watched all of their games this year. 2 losses, at Texas and at Alabama. They needed to win one of those games (and they came real fucking close to getting Texas). They were out, and we've known that for at least a couple of weeks.
And Miami was the one with two awful losses comparably. That was why up until today they were behind Notre Lame in the CFP Rankings. I really do think Miami got the ESPN boost there considering Notre Dame is an NBC school.
SEC: It just meens moar.
We better not have considering we haven't touched the portal and probably need to take in 30+ transfers
As I argued 4.5 years ago, the answer is 8. the team ranked 9th can fuck off and should have won more games.
With the auto qualifiers and the mess this year, we have the top 10 teams (giving even more access to teams that don't deserve it) and we give conference champions access so the rest of College Football still cares.
Nick Saban on the selection show didn't know it, but he was immediately arguing to kill college football by 'making tweaks' and kicking out auto-qualifiers so (this year) Notre Dame could get in. If JMU, Tulane, (and unfortunately) VT, UVA, etc. don't have a viable path to the playoff despite the hurr-durr every loss in the SEC and BIG is a good one, so let's ignore other teams' records, then it leaves out too many people and we're not watching. That leads to the end of college football's reign as the #2 sport watching concern in America, and probably leads to the bankruptcy of ESPN and Fox.
ND had two losses and refuses to compete in a conference. They lost straight up to Miami. Miami gets in over them. Miami also has two losses, one at home to Louisville by 3. JMU's sole loss is at Louisville by 14. Those losses are pretty damn close to being the same.
But as we have seen at places like Florida, FSU, Oklahoma back in the old days ... winning can prevent people from being charged with felonies in the first place.
Wait until Pry hires Marve to coach linebackers...
JSMMFH, this is a horrible hire. I already had questions about Franklin's decision making.
They also had the best win, best collection of wins, better SOR than Notre Dame and Miami, and by far the toughest schedule of the bunch (6th). The SOS's of Notre Dame and Miami were 44th and 45th, that's a below average P5 schedule vs one of the toughest schedules in the country.
One "bad" loss doesn't overrule all that other stuff, when all three of those teams finished the regular season 10-2.
I said it multiple times... that budget was not as big as you think. It's top 10 by 2024 standards, top 15/20 by 2025 standards, and it will be top 25/30 by the time we kickoff in 2026. The arms race is real.
Did we shoot our wad on NIL already? Does it save VT any money?
Who did the team quit on this year, and most importantly why? Until that's known, how could this even be considered?
Assuming Philip Montgomery is gone, wonder what his thoughts on Pry returning as DC.
I come back to my old dream. Eliminate all the current idiotic groupings with Rutgers and UCLA in the same conference or VT and Stanford in the same conference. Reorganize into 4 geographically-defined, 16-team super conferences with 2, 8-team divisions. One in the northeast, one in the southeast, one in the midwest and one in the west for 64 teams.
Play 7 games against your division, 2 cross-over games with the other division for 9 conference games and 2 or 3 non-conference games. I won't miss Clemson-Citadel, Alabama-UAB or Miami-Troy State games if the shorten the season to 11 games. At the end of the season, the 2 division winners play for the conference championship and the winner gets an automatic bid to an 8-team playoff. If the conference winner is 8-5 and the championship game loser is 12-1, tough shit. 4 other teams are picked at large, but if the top team not in one of the conferences is ranked in the top 8 or 10 (I'm flexible on the cutoff point) they get an automatic bid too and only 3 are at large bids. I know there is some subjectivity on the at large teams, but maybe there is a computer program that can just be written that people can agree on ahead of time for the at large bids. And we know anyone beyond the top 8 has almost no shot anyway, so Eight if Enough. Who is old enough to remember that show.
I think your comment is accurate. Color me skeptical.
If you think Pry is the right hire, then do it. Don't do it because of the money.
Bama had the worst loss of anyone to FSU, a common opponent of Miami. OU's best win was Michigan. Neither team is a championship contender and struggled against mid to bad teams the last several weeks
There's actually no defensible argument against what I said
The problem I have with this is with so much SEC propaganda, how do you know what you're seeing is really the top 4 teams without proving it across conferences? Georgia tech was a Hail Mary throw away from beating Georgia while Alabama got boat raced. Georgia tech wasn't even in contention and bama is in
Fournier looks like Shaq at the free throw line