Kaleb Smith Enters the Portal
Proverbs 3:6π€ππ½ pic.twitter.com/lAlrkR68GRβ Kaleb Smith (@kaleb11smith) December 5, 2022
This one hurts.
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Football Forum
Because we're all Sunday morning quarterbacks.
Armani Chatman enters Transfer Portal
#Hokies Love forever π€ I'll be entering the transfer portalπ€πΎ pic.twitter.com/ACbEKx4tn8β Armani Chatman (@iamarmani9) December 5, 2022
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Meta: hokie football portal entries are getting individual threads
This is the way we're moving forward with this rather than having portal entry discussion megathreads with 500+ comments that needs a part 2 or a part 3, people making individual threads anyway, info getting lost in the shuffle, and so on.
If you want to provide a support for a megathread, you can do that IN THIS THREAD. Don't go into every single portal thread and rehash the same comments, same pushback to those comments, etc in each one. We'll lock those subthreads -- you're not in trouble, it's just distracting clutter. And for the love of god, some of you need to stop the petty bickering about it.
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DL Desmond Mamudi enters trader portal.
Thank you Hokie nation I am excited for the next chapter π open to all schools and I'm ready to work. pic.twitter.com/Qpjx8ZA46mβ Desmond Mamudi (@DMamudi) December 4, 2022
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Lakeem Rudolph enters Transfer Portal.
Lakeem Rudolph, a 6-4, 234-pound redshirt sophomore from Virginia Beach (Green Run), has entered the transfer portal. Third #Hokies player to do so, joining cornerback DJ Harvey and defensive end Mattheus Carroll.One tackle in eight appearances over three years for Rudolph. https://t.co/Zd4vuCuAmFβ David Cunningham (@therealdcunna) December 4, 2022
He moved around a lot it seemed.
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2022 CFP is set
Here's your Playoff, gonna be a fun one! πΆπ°πΈγ½οΈ pic.twitter.com/rT2JyekR43β RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 4, 2022
Semi-finals on New Year's Eve.
1 Georgia vs. 4 Ohio State in Peach Bowl, 8 PM
2 Michigan vs. 3 TCU in Fiesta Bowl, 4 PM
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Championship Week Open Thread
Utah is currently bringing it to USC, after the reverse being true for the early part of the 1st half.
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Mattheus Carrol enters transfer portal.
3 years of eligibility left... lets talk! pic.twitter.com/CcMtN1EO1dβ Mattheus "Stretch" Carroll β₯ (@mc4mvp) December 2, 2022
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non conference/future scheduling
The topic of our less than stellar non conference schedule has come up in a few different topics recently. I didn't want to derail any of those any further, but I wanted to put our non conference scheduling into context. If nothing else, to create a timeline. We all know that there are a lot of moving pieces with the non conference schedules, and we seem to have a history of certain series getting cancelled or rescheduled on us. I'm not trying to justify any decisions, but I am trying to see when they were made/announced.
(Apologies, some of these links may not work due to free article limits, but they're primarily just used as cited sources. Most of them are news stories from years ago.)
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Brennan Armstrong somehow has more eligibility and is entering the transfer portal.
Virginia QB Brennan Armstrong has entered the transfer portal as a grad transfer, @247SportsPortal has learned. Armstrong has thrown for more than 9,000 yards in his career.https://t.co/hmusmXavaGβ Chris Hummer (@chris_hummer) December 1, 2022
If he had a year like 21 I'd take him in Blacksburg
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Hokies Shut Out of All-ACC Teams
No VT players on the first, second, OR third team All-ACC. That's the first time this has happened in the ACC or the Big East.
Sorta highlights the anonymous coach commentary from over the summer, from this post: https://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2022/august/3/acc-coaches-talk-anonym...
"It's not a stretch to say the offense doesn't have a top-half-of-the-league-level skill player at any position. They haven't signed a single player in the last two years that a high-level ACC program wanted."
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Praise Portal: VT Transfer Portal Winter 22
And we have our first portal entrant:
Gods Plan π€π€πΎ pic.twitter.com/1HaUp1JSnnβ DJ Harvey (@Dharv02) November 28, 2022
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DJ Harvey Enters Transfer Portal
[mod edit: reopened thread to share news of Harvey's commitment to San Jose State]
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OT - Liberty's Hugh Freeze to Auburn
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Pry Post-Season Presser 11.28.22
Pry on the offensive approach this season: "Who we thought we wanted to be initially, we struggled to be that. Now where do you go?" #Hokiesβ Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) November 28, 2022
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Week 13 (other) Games Thread
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Pre-championship week - other games
Didn't see an other games thread. Figured we needed one.
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SP+ Prediction/Post-season Comparison
For all my analytics nerds out there, our season is over, so I thought it would be interesting to compare our post season standing against our preseason projections.
A quick definition for those unfamiliar:
In a single sentence, it's a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. [Bill Connelly] created the system at Football Outsiders in 2008, and as [his] experience with both college football and its stats has grown, [he has] made quite a few tweaks to the system.
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2022 Virginia Tech football season Retrospective
Now that the season is officially over, it's time to take a look back at what went well, what didn't go well, and where we think we can make the biggest strides of improvement going into the Spring practices.
Personally, I liked what I saw defensively the majority of this year. I think our biggest problem there is depth. We get a competent 2 deep that doesn't tire out late in games and I think we'll have some solid foundation to work with next year.
Offensively, we need a ton of work. For a variety of reasons on and off the field that probably will be a few years in the making to resolve.
What say you?
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Jason Brown seeking extra year of eligibility
Interesting for sure. If he gets it, I wonder how it would affect whether we go into the portal for someone else.
Pray I get it ππ½ https://t.co/LUxMAat7Vaβ Jason Brown (@JasonBrown_QB) November 21, 2022
I double he would win out for the starting job over wells next year, but anything can happen between now and next September.
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