Fuente confirmed this morning that Hodge tore his ACL and will miss the season. Totally sucks as was looking forward to seeing him take off this year. Thin WR depth gets thinner.
Fuente says the #Hokies lost WR Changa Hodge to an ACL injury last week. He won't play this year.— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) April 15, 2021
Whether it is the start of free agency in college sports or simply the fair thing to finally do for the athletes, the NCAA is about to make a monumental change to its transfer rules.
The Division I Council meets Wednesday and Thursday, and the agenda includes voting on a proposal that would grant all college athletes the ability to transfer one time as undergraduates without having to then sit out a season of competition.
No details on the value of the deal (though, the article says its a 50% bump per student), but the part that I found most interesting is the following:
Boston College announced the deal as well on Tuesday morning. The press release said that New Balance will be the apparel company for 30 of 31 teams (football is not part of the deal). The facilities upgrade will also be significant.
Not sure what's next, I would say a trip to the ABC store is in the immediate future, after that we'll see, thanks for all the Virginia Tech fans that have followed my coverage, I hope I can find an outlet that will run the last part of my Christian Darrisaw series— michaelniziolek (@michaelniziolek) April 12, 2021
According to 247, Tyree Rodgers has entered the portal in what I'm sure will be one of many to leave this spring. Seems to be a lot of contributing factors (he left the team to focus on academics last year, potentially passed on the depth chart, lots of young safeties coming in etc.), but I wouldn't be surprised to see more with the scholarship situations across college football this year.
By: tjbhokieon April 6, 2021, 9:55 AM | 74 comments
Not trying to create noise, I just need a shot of optimism into my arm from the Patts. I'd love to hear what people are highest on going into this season.
"I was born with twelve fingers. They were cut off when I was younger. I still have six toes on my left foot and they are webbed, so there's three regular ones and three that are webbed together.
The left foot, I feel like I have a little more power pushing off it, but it's something everyone in the locker room wherever I go, they are definitely going to record it and show it on social media and post. So I'm used to it now."
"I mean, when you watch Dalton play, you just don't see a lot of things that we do," Belichick said last April after the draft. "The Virginia Tech offense didn't really translate too much to a New England Patriot offense. That's not uncommon with other players as well. It is what it is. I think the things you saw him do, which was his blocking, his effort to block, his toughness, ability to make plays with the ball in his hands, and certainly the intent of the offense to get him the ball was impressive. They did a lot of things to try to get him the ball one way or another: hand it to him, throw it to him, put him in different locations so that he could run with it or catch it and run with it. That's what you saw.
By: HokieHighlanderon March 31, 2021, 12:01 PM | 23 comments
Glad to see that VT is starting to ramp up donations to go to football because it sounds like thats going to be the expectation for all schools moving forward...
Pro day at Virginia Tech is occurring on Friday March 26th and these are the participants.
I'll try and keep it updated with any reps, times etc that are posted.
Here's the list of the #Hokies' Pro Day participants tomorrow: LB Rayshard AshbyP Oscar BradburnOT Christian DarrisawS Divine DeabloCB Caleb FarleyRB Khalil HerbertDT Jarrod HewittK Brian JohnsonWR Henri MurphyDE Justus ReedLB Austin RosaQB Ryan Willis— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) March 25, 2021
Virginia Tech announces it will not hold a spring game this year due to COVID-19 precautions. The decision was made after consultation with campus officials and using local and state guidelines. #Hokies will instead just have a 15th spring practice.— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) March 23, 2021
Live look at Fuente when he realized he could get out of all that pesky fan interaction and "opening up the program for the fans"
Was looking at Mel Kiper's most recent Draft Board and he had Farley going 12th to the 49ers, but at the bottom mentioned Farley is scheduled for back surgery this week. Going to be interested to see if it impacts his stock any.
Darrisaw in that Draft Board was 19th to The Washington Football team.
For those who don't know, Kevin Kelley is a high school football coach in Arkansas who kicks onside kicks after every score, almost nevers punts, and often opts for 2 pt conversions over PATs. In 18 years as head coach, he's 216-29-1.
Andy Staples is lobbying for him to get the Kansas job, and had him on the show to talk about his coaching style, how he uses analytics, and all sorts of stuff:
There are too many great life lessons and anecdotes to summarize, so it's worth watching the entire interview. From a football perspective, it was interesting to hear Frank's assessment of why the Hokies came up short against Florida State in the national championship.
With a salary cap hit of $20M, this was always a possibility. Now, reality. Kyle Fuller immediately becomes one of the top free agents available. https://t.co/nWDYDOXLHF— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 18, 2021
He is one of the best free agency options out there. Maybe he can get on an all around competitive team.
By: ThunderingHokieon March 17, 2021, 2:49 PM | 2 comments
I've always liked Cornell. When I was a third grader, I got to go to Beamer's house after a game and hangout with a bunch of the coaches. I spent most of the time there with Cornell. Great guy. Told me all kinds of stories and never acted annoyed even though I asked about a million questions.
Some things he talks about is:
- His recruitment to Tech
- Beating Texas in the 1995 Sugar Bowl
- Playing on the 2000 Ravens best of all-time defense
- What it was like coaching under Nick Saban and Frank Beamer
- Coaching and leadership tips.
