RB Chance Black has entered the portal
Thank you Hokie Nation🙏🏾 #Hokie4L pic.twitter.com/jAJdKffrl6— chance black (@chanceblack03) December 8, 2023
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Football Forum
Because we're all Sunday morning quarterbacks.
ESPN Bowl Pool Opened
Well that time has come again. The Bowl Pool for "the Key Play" has been opened. Password #LOLuva.
Good luck everybody.
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SZD on Pry/VT and Proof of Concept
Split Zone Duo (like every niche podcast) did a ketchy end of season award show (link). Brent Pry was 'nominated' for 'best proof of concept shown by a first or second year head coach.' They go on to compare/contrast what Brent Pry is doing at VT to what Brent Key is doing at GT. Discussion starts at 50:50 and goes for close to 10 minutes.
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QB Kyron Drones announces he'll be back next year
Appearing on Big Dawg Sports Talk, the Hokie signal caller announced he will be returning to Lane for the 2024-25 season
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OL Johnny Dickson has entered the portal
3 years of eligibility pic.twitter.com/3Vh3gcWKmJ— johnny Dickson (@johnnydickson70) December 6, 2023
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2023 Non-Virginia Tech Portal News
The other portal thread was getting hard to load. Now we can have a VT portal entires, VT portal offers thread and a separate thread to talk about portal overall, argue about "the sport has changed" and other fun topics without bogging down the VT portal thread.
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2024 VT FB Portal/Scholarship/Outgoing Chart
maxANDcheese suggested the existing Portal topic had gotten unwieldy, and a new thread was warranted.
I tabulated the info from that previous thread. Please post your additions, corrections, and suggestions.
Table should be self-explanatory, and includes our incoming/outgoing roster and potentials.
I don't know if an original topic can be edited, so I'll put table in the first post so I can keep it updated.
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CB Derrick Canteen enters the transfer portal
With Love Hokie Nation . ☑️ pic.twitter.com/Qq6sMGQtVU— Derrick Canteen † (@_canteen) December 5, 2023
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DT Josh Fuga announces he'll be back next year
Thank you Hokie Nation ❤️ pic.twitter.com/9y0x7Aihnl— Joshua Fuga (@jfuga01) December 5, 2023
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WR Dawain Lofton enters the transfer portal
🚨 BREAKING 🚨Virginia Tech WR Da'Wain Lofton has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, from @EvanGWatkins247 #Hokieshttps://t.co/N4ENC2SIPP— VTScoop247 (@VTScoop247) December 5, 2023
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NCAA proposing plans to split highest revenue schools away from FBS
NEWS: NCAA president Charlie Baker is proposing the creation of a new FBS subdivision that would allow the highest-resource schools to compensate athletes directly through a trust as well as NIL: pic.twitter.com/j7q4cjZ0oW— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) December 5, 2023
It appears the FSU screwjob might have just been the beginning. Not hard to see the writing on the wall here that this is a formal plan to split the SEC and Big Ten away from everyone else, effectively leaving schools like Virginia Tech behind.
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College Gameday Oral History nod to VT
Herbstreit: The year it changed was '99, when we went to Virginia Tech. Frank Beamer was trying to build a program, from a regional program to a national program. He had a national player in Michael Vick. People in California, in Florida—they didn't know what a Hokie was. They didn't know where Blacksburg was. Well, Beamer looked at GameDay as a 48-hour infomercial on his campus.
Beamer: That's the way I looked at it. Anytime you can get your brand on national TV and show what you're all about, you can't buy that kind of advertisement.
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Tulane Transfer Portal News
Looks like Tulane will be without backup Quarterback and top Wide Receiver due to the portal. Expect quite a few more are coming so drop them in this thread as they come up.
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Hokies vs Tulane in the Military Bowl
In a throwback to some of the old Metro Conference battles in basketball, Virginia Tech will play a very solid Tulane Green Wave team in the Military Bowl.
I have not seen any Tulane footage yet this year, and they didn't play any like opponents. Tulane beat the USC Trojans in an exciting Cotton Bowl next year. Breaking yesterday, Tulane head coach Willie Fritz is leaving the program to take the head coaching job at Houston. Slade Nagle, the OC, will be the interim coach for the bowl.
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TriumphNIL PortalAThon
Notes:
Big donation push with the portal officially opening today
Coach Quinn will have dinner with the biggest donor over the next 24 hours
Five new T-shirts available for sale on Triumph for $25 each (along with the Commonwealth Cup coffee mug)
Reiterate APR announcing that he will return to the Hokies
Steve Beck from the Military Bowl joining in a minute
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Pry-ssr Selection Sunday 2023
They definitely cut this video short. I think Bitter was asking a question as it ends, so it might get reuploaded. @me if the embed breaks.
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Hokies to Military Bowl vs Tulane
Alexa play Enter Sandman https://t.co/CIkm7lFU9h— Military Bowl presented by GoBowling.com (@MilitaryBowl) December 3, 2023
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College football, where the results are made up and the games don't matter
It's long past time to have a discussion about just how much influence ESPN has on the sport. From actively destroying traditions and conferences to build a super SEC to now outright manipulation to exclude an undefeated Power 5 program with a national brand from the college football playoff to make sure the SEC didn't get left out, it's hard to ignore anymore. And, oh wouldn't you know, the program they manipulated is the one program they want to leave the ACC to join the SEC in the future, how convenient.
ESPN has killed the golden goose. You cannot ignore it anymore. They have too much power, they are too influential to the sport.
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APR IS COMING BACK NEXT SEASON!
Forever a Hokie🦃 pic.twitter.com/raZ8JwhU7y— Antwaun Powell-Ryland (@TwaunPowell) December 3, 2023
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CFP Selection: who ya got?
Best teams or most deserving? Will the committee really block out the SEC?
Let us know which four teams YOU'D pick for the CFP, and which four team you think it will be.
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