By: bluehokie2006on December 2, 2022, 12:28 AM | 48 comments
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.)
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
"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."
By: miket14on November 28, 2022, 2:50 PM | 13 comments
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
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.
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.
I have been hearing from a number of sources that the game is going to be postponed to Dec 3rd.
From everyone I've talked to last night and this morning, moving the #UVA-#Hokies football game to Dec. 3 is a very real possibility.β Mike Barber (@RTD_MikeBarber) November 21, 2022
Multiple people are claiming that their mobile tickets already reflect the date change.
The vibe has been too rough to subject myself to watching the post games pressers the last few weeks, but in light of a dub over the Fightin' Falwells and things somewhat coming together for the good guys(game management, OL play, penalties etc) I thought this would be a good way to keep riding this high.
A lot of this has been touched on in the FAM thread, but here's a consolidated list of insights into the sideline from Pry after the game: