Week 0: other games
We're back, folks.
Anybody watching Georgia tech Florida state in Ireland right now??
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Football Forum
Because we're all Sunday morning quarterbacks.
2024 Hokies Football Trailer
It's been a long time since we've been able to get excited about a football season in tandem with our program trending in the right direction. Suffice it to say, I could not sit idly by. Here's my 2024 VT Hokies Football trailer. Get pumped, get loud, and share this with any and every Hokie you know. Enjoy! Let's Go....
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So.WVa. and S.W.Va. peeps: ...th' mother of all scrimmages 2nite! (link)
The: -1 ex-State champ @ current State runner-up.
wowow!
And, p'ton swiped their #1 in-state De1 in the off-season on the D.L. wowow some, mo'. If there was ever a neighborly scrum that could turn suddenly real... this is the one.
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Vandy/Nashville Roll Call
Which of you TKPers will be heading to Nashville next weekend for the Vanderbilt game? I've been to Nashvegas before, so I am familiar with navigating that scene. However, I have never been to or near Vanderbilt's campus, so I have no idea what to expect in terms of parking, tailgating, and general gameday experience. Any recommendations/things to watch out for?
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Football Captains announced (all 7 of them)
Your ๐๐๐๐ Hokie Captains ๐ฆ๐ซก#ThisIsHome pic.twitter.com/pD1MIjIgcVโ Virginia Tech Football (@HokiesFB) August 21, 2024
Interesting that Brumfield made captain in his short time here - not a whole bunch of surprises otherwise. Seven seems like a whole lot of captains
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Per Andy Bitter: Colin Schlee beats out Pop Watson for 2QB
https://x.com/AndyBitterVT/status/1826341977367208006
Also, David Cunningham reporting that the Chaplin-Ghannam-B. Moore-K. Moore-Clements line combo continues to get the number one group work on OL.
https://x.com/therealdcunna/status/1826333157899338077
Note- Thomas Williams is working in the second defensive back group at corner. Note, in our TKPC film review of the secondary, I noted that Williams looked the most polished of the prospective second group of corners.
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It feels like football weather this morning
Mark your calendars, August 21 is the day a chill is in the morning air. Football season is around the corner (Hopefully this lovely air isn't localized to the DMV.) . I'm looking forward to publishing some football content next week and enjoying what stands to be an exciting season.
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College Football Hall of Fame Wikipedia Page
I went down a rabbit hole on Wikipedia earlier today when I was bored out of my mind at work (eleven days to kickoff, amirite?).
The College Football Hall of Fame Wikipedia page lists a table of "Players by School" and I looked on there and saw VT wasn't listed. I thought this couldn't be right because I remember specifically hearing about Corey Moore and Frank Loria being included. So I went on the list and did a CTRL+F search and found Moore and Loria and a total of 5 players from VT have been inducted. I'm also a little irked that loluva is on the table showing their 5 players yet we aren't on the table.
I know nothing about editing Wikipedia but I guess my questions are:
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Star Rutgers linebacker out for the year
https://x.com/EddieKalegi/status/1825967191398752543
He was on the Butkus Award watch list. With Drones ability to run between the tackles, this is a big loss.
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More Insight from Fuente on Why it didn't work at Virginia Tech
ESPN published an article about Kalen DeBoer succeeding Nick Saban and Justin Fuente shared some perspective on why it didn't work for him with the Hokies.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40858871/alabama-coach-...
Fuente said that Beamer couldn't have been more supportive but that maintaining the right alignment at the university among administrators and others in the department was the most difficult challenge.
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'25 4* WR Snook Peterkin commits to the Hokies
The 4* WR out of Mt Tabor, NC chose the Hokies over both UNC and NC State.
#Hokies โฆ@VTScoop247โฉ pic.twitter.com/hI3Tu30Wopโ EvanGWatkins247 (@EvanGWatkins247) August 16, 2024
Went into their state and got their guy. Huge get for the staff and a big pull the staff to get him to commit over the in state schools.
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Club 37/80 - Triumph NIL podcast
I stumbled across this in my YouTube feed. Triumph NIL putting out a player-led Podcast. The first came out yesterday, featuring Drones, Jennings, Felton and Lane.
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2024 Football Ticket Exchange Thread
List extra tickets you're looking to offload, or inquire about tickets you need. Do not post any tickets above face value. Understand that Orange and Maroon Media, LLC is exempt from any liability from transactions that are initiated here, and will not assist in brokering any transactions.
The best way to exchange email addresses is to encode them, for example: foo [AT] bar (dot) com.
Threads with tickets for sale found elsewhere will be deleted without warning.
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Hokies in ESPN Top 100 for CFB
Dorian Strong (88) and Antwuan Powell-Ryland (63) were the only two Hokies named to the top 100.
Ayden Greene was named as a potential Breakout Player not included on the Top 100 list.
Only surprises for me was with all the preseason hype on Drones/Tuten that neither broke the top 100.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40683565/college-footba...
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Pry on SEC Network
Make sure to tune in to Coach Pry on the Marty & McGee Show tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. streaming on SEC Network & ESPN Radio ๐#ThisIsHome | @MartySmithESPN @ESPNMcGee pic.twitter.com/bp4apJ0mAYโ Virginia Tech Football (@HokiesFB) August 10, 2024
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Virginia Tech and Metallica collaborate to release co-branded merchandise line on August 26th
๐ด.๐ฎ๐ฒ.๐ฎ๐ฐExit Light, Enter Night โก๏ธmerch collab ๐ค@virginia_tech x @metallicaโ HokieSports (@hokiesports) August 9, 2024
Who would have thought Metallica would be doing something like this 25 years ago? Pretty cool, can't wait to see what is produced.
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Pry-ssr Camp 2024
Camp is officially in full swing and the team seems hungry. My takeaways are below.
I will be attending the Vandy and Marshall games and my 2nd is due in October, so I will probably be MIA for most of Sept-Oct. Any of y'all are welcome to take up the Pry-srr mantle this season.
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Updated Football Weights
QB. Belfort up 3 lbs
RB: Tuten up 4, Thomas up 8, Coney up 4, Mason up 2
WR: Jennings up 3, Felton up 1, Lane up 4, Greene up 5, XTB up 7, Wiggins up 7, Heath down 2, Adams down 2
TE: Saint Germain up 10, Wimbush up 5, Gosnell down 7
OL: Chaplin up 11, B. Moore up 11, K. Moore up 14, Schick up 1, Garrett up 5, Meadows up 13, Ghannam up 15, Hammer up 16, Williams up 18, Lynch up 18, Givens up 36, Ricard up 2, Davidson up 4.
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