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Glad to see you are gonna suit up for VT, looking forward to seeing you serve up some pancakes.
James Franklin be like:
Welp... There's not too much to be said that hasn't already been said, but I'll offer my thoughts...
1. I want to give a huge shoutout to Monty. He was put in an incredibly bad situation and managed to represent our university and football program incredibly well. I hope he got a bump in pay or gets some sort of bonus on the way out. He kept the team together; he was great with the media; and he had the team competing... sort of...
2. That being said, I think it's criminal what he did to/with this offense. Specifically what he did, or didn't to, do/with the QB position. Drones is awful. Flat out awful. And for those of you posting stats about the WR drops (those do exist - see below), he does not throw a catchable ball. Period. Everything about his game is bad and I think I'm most frustrated because he got his bag and simply regressed at a historic rate and level. I wish him well, but I'm very happy to see him move on.
3. I want to thank every player who stayed with it and represented Hokie Nation this season. I know it wasn't easy, but thank you. That being said, I would gladly wish every single player, with the exception of a small handful, well as they move along. I am so ready to clean house and get rid of every single part of the virus that has plagued this program for over 12 years now. I hope we bring in 50+ new players this offseason. We need a full reboot and the rot on this roster needs to be removed.
4. I also want to thank the entire coaching staff for sticking it out as well. The staff was in a bad situation all season as well, but they showed up and coached our players. That being said, I don't want to see a single person from this staff stay around, with 1 or 2 exceptions. The OL is one of the worst in the country in Pass Pro. The DL stopped playing (with the exception of one or two spots). The LBs are nonexistent. The secondary doesn't even look like it's part of a football team. The WR has talent, but grossly underperforms. The only group that shows promise is the RB room. This is an epic failure of this staff to develop talent.
5. James Franklin has his work cut out. This is a burn to the ground kind of rebuild. It seems like he's up for the task, but it is a big one. Fortunately we live in an era where a roster can be rebuilt quickly, but this is a massive rebuild. Also, fortunately, we play in the ACC... This is a conference JMU would have owned this season. We should be back sooner than later. The only thing I ask, and I know this isn't Franklin's thing, is that we find a way to not mismanage the QB room. Can we please get a remotely competent QB in Blacksburg?
We will either have a nice 3 deep or players will portal out to lower levels
Because by that point, there won't be any higher levels!
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7 months 2 weeks
# | Hokies Wrestling: Class of 2026 and 2027 recruits tournament results Glad to have someone else to cover wrestling. It can be alot when they are spread out across multiple tournaments.
Does this mean that dcwilson40 can come back, too?
found Joe's burner account
That gif. 🤣🤣🤣
Yes please! Keep the OL coming. With the difficult nature of scouting HS OL, the strategy is probably bring in 4 every year and spend 2 years developing them to figure out if they can play. We will either have a nice 3 deep or players will portal out to lower levels
So if receivers do their part that's 9/16 for 183 yards. Still not great but we probably dont lose 27-7. Regardless its over and hopefully its a complete overhaul upcoming including getting rid of Pop and Rangel.
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7 months 2 weeks
# | Virginia Tech at #17 Virginia Game Time, TV Info, and Open Thread At least on Wiggins the coaching staff at the beginning of season indicated his was a longer term issue. They never actually disclosed what it was. Adams missed all of Spring Ball as well and in July said he was still a few months from being ready.
4/16 for 78 yards. That's Grant Noel against Miami territory.
Edit: Replaced yarn gif.
We just played our 12th game. They have not played in a single game this season. Other than broken bones, what takes that long to heal? Even a pulled hamstring would have had them on the field by now.
Look at Overton. He had a major injury and now he is getting serious play time.
I'm assuming both will be in the transfer portal soon.
You're right but when you're ranked 100, you're ranked 100. Other teams have drops too and they still find a way to be top 99.
The way this season went that could easily be a 10-15% swing in completion percentage. Last night he finished 4/16 for 78 yards. There were 5 drops total. Four that hit receivers right in their hands and then the Peterkin deep ball that was a bit of both. Even if you only count the 4 that was 25% swing and about 64 yards. Add in the Peterkin drop and its a 31% swing and over 100 yards passing. That is a huge difference and all five would have been first downs so potentially add 15 more plays to the offense. Its a compounding problem.
This doesn't account for Drones running.
644 yards. 17th Nationally
9 TDs. 16th Nationally
Hamilton is good. But we are bringing in better prospects. Imo
In CC's article over on TSL, he lists the current OL commits including Aidan Hamilton, but notes that Hamilton is expected to decommit and sign with Michigan.
Is this us losing a good prospect, or is this a symptom of overrecruiting a meh OL class?
Agree, he had next to zero help from the receivers the entire year.
Genuinely, one of the worst P5 teams to ever take the field. Just a top down embarrassment that the school allowed it to get to this point.
I'm glad it's over, I'm glad the season is over, I am glad our new coaching staff was in Blacksburg recruiting rather than giving one ounce of a shit about the remainder of this season. Burn this season, clean the rot out of Merryman, ask a significant portion of the players to transfer so they can be at their FCS schools they normally would be attending and move on. Dogshit season that we moved on from weeks ago before the games were even over.
The biggest takeaway from this year is that VT with the team that put up those numbers still drew more fans to every game than either of the teams playing for the conference championship game. And with Franklin, we will be back very soon. And the conference is going to make sure we do, the ratings next week are going to be atrocious.
Not sure that team was capable of more.
Class of 2026 OT Maddox Cochrane has Committed to Virginia Tech
The 6'7 285 OT from Midlothian, VA was previously Committed to Wisconsin
Not to mention, just from a purely logistical point of view, the rankings don't come out until Tuesday.
And it doesn't help if the conference is having a year where all or most of the contending teams are out of the top 25. Which we all know is a valid realistic possibility in any given year, but the conference would prefer to just stick its head in the sand and pretend it's never going to happen.
Noel's stats from 2001... he was worse than I remembered, but better still than Drones.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/grant-noel-1/gamelog/2001/
The big difference is that the 2001 offense actually had guys that could catch (most of the time), and the 2025 offense did not.
EDIT: We also Jake Grove doing whatever the hell he wanted to to the opposing defense. The 2025 offensive line most definitely did not have Jake Grove.