Because we're all Sunday morning quarterbacks.
Life update!! Thankful for my time with Coach Pry and VT Football. Let's see what the NBA has in store, Go Wizards!! So blessed and thankful for this opportunity♥️ pic.twitter.com/dP3oYaaXnn— Jalyn Ballein (@JalynBallein) November 17, 2024
I'm only creating this because I feel obliged. Otherwise my interest in any college football is pretty much non-existent this week.
#Hokies pic.twitter.com/koCHxssuyE— Gabriel_williams (@8kgabe1) November 13, 2024
Brutal for him and his family.
Bye Week Returns: 2Electric 2Boogaloo The Squeakquel doesn't want this football season to ever end
I want to be pissed. I want to be outraged over this result.
But I'm just apathetic. The team gave up early in the 3rd quarter and that pretty much says it all. They don't care, so why should we?
The inconsistency from the coaching staff is just routine at this point. One week the scheme looks great, the next it's a pile of shit. The more you follow you just realize they really don't know what they're doing, they just sometimes get it right and sometimes get it very wrong, and really don't know how to adjust when it's wrong. And don't even get me started on just how poorly we come out at halftime every game. -41 point differential in the 3rd this year when every other quarter is positive.
Diego Pavia has sued the NCAA for another year of eligibility. Hokies would have to see him again next year WHEN he gets it.
Trying to fight JUCO counting because JUCO not eligible for NIL.
https://vanderbilt.rivals.com/news/diego-pavia-sues-the-ncaa-for-another...
Want to hear something crazy?
I was writing my column last night, cautiously making a case for Tech to beat Clemson on Saturday. I was about four paragraphs in when a transformer on the power line outside my house in Richmond exploded, cutting the power and wifi and not letting me finish the article.
Basically what I'm saying is that god thinks Clemson covers.
BUT, if you want to know why there's a glimmer of hope, it's this:
Last week Tech really destroyed Syracuse offensively with a backup quarterback, two backup running backs and a gimpy left tackle. The most success the Orange had on defense was a string in the first half where Tech:
"I don't like that," Brown said during his Monday press conference. "Those kids go to class. They practice every day. They doing all that. So when I seen that, when I heard that, I was really pissed about that. Like, don't nobody disrespect our band and do those things."
Love has since apologized...
What games are you looking forward to this week?
Tomorrow night I want to catch App State at Coastal Carolina. Almost guaranteed to be a shootout.
Georgia at Ole Miss is interesting.
No Interest in Bama at LSU though.
Can Indiana drop Michigan to 5-5?
Want to see Army extend the unbeaten streak to 9-0.
Pry calls Kyron Drones, Bhayshul Tuten and Mansoor Delane questionable this week. Delane went down late in the Syracuse game. Drones and Tuten didn't dress.Said backup QB Collin Schlee should be good to go this week. Nicked up a couple times last week. #Hokies— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) November 5, 2024
Dabo is actually short for dad bod
Fire Marve. Absolutely terrible coach. Fire him today.
Bowen coached himself a hell of a game and didn't deserve this result. 21-3 lead choked away by some of the worst collective defensive play that VT has seen since Bud retired.
Flat out unacceptable. Marve has to go. He's completely in over his head. A first year coaching staff abused him today.
Inexcusably awful game and clock management week after week after week after week. We will never win close games when our coach spots the other team multiple scores a game.
*Note from the author: despite my efforts to get one of these done every week, I'm in a very busy time in my life so I may not be able to finish out the year. I get married before the Duke game and that is consuming a lot of my time and energy. Below is an abridged version write up on the Georgia Tech game and my advanced preview of Syracuse.
Last weekend we went through our annual Maroon Effect, and I know I have said it before, but I just can't let this go...
This should be our field design every week of the season. Maroon VT in the middle of the field, maroon wordmarks in the end zone. It just looks right. It just looks so much better, and stands out so much more against the white field markers than the white logo and wordmarks.
I'll go one step further and say we need to paint the end zones maroon with white text. It would look perfect:
An article from 2018 I ran across that I thought would interest TKPers Seeing stars: 247Sports, Rivals, and ESPN star-rating systems explained
Got Jax St at Liberty and Kennesaw St at Western Kentucky tonight
Jax and Bibberty is a pretty decent game so far.
Kennesaw St coach playing scared. Had several 4th and short over midfield down multiple scores and punted each of them.
#Hokies coach Brent Pry is here for his weekly presser. Said Bhayshul Tuten is probable this week. "He's a tough guy."Said Xavier Chaplin is also probable, dealing with a shoulder and got leg-whipped last week. Probably the best injury news VT could have gotten.— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) October 29, 2024
All things considered, this is about the best possible news we could have heard today. Glad to hear both players are fine.
Fran Brown anagrams to Fan Brr Now, which fits because it's cold in Syracuse.
Last year a posted a week of my rankings that I have ran for about 20 years now (and correctly picked the BCS national champ in all but 1 year).
Well i went to run out this weekend and Peter Wolfe has not updated his site, which is where i got the data from.
So i spent a few hours making it work with espn (and cleaning up some code), but it's slow. I have to hit multiple pages and fo more complex finds using beautiful soup. The is very noticeably slower than the regex used to parse Peter Wolfe's site. Also parsing the teams/conference affiliations is a pain because they have the mascots attached.
