By: rhhokie_99on October 29, 2022, 1:30 PM | 64 comments
Having read several TKP threads last night I started thinking about the big coaching hires for VT.
Buzz and Fuente: both VT outsiders, both with head coaching experience, both with recent (at time of VT hire) success, though I'd argue that Buzz had demonstrated greater success than Fuente. (At this point, Fuente's success has a "flash in the pan" or "lightning struck once in the form of Paxton Lynch" feel to it.)
By: TIHokieon October 27, 2022, 11:04 PM | 245 comments
Yeah, this one deserves some venting. This loss is 100% on the staff. We are 8 games into the season and we can't line up and run a play. When the HC and his staff are not holding themselves accountable for what is happening on the field a culture is not being established and a program is not being built. We absolutely should not fire Pry, but unless he makes some significant adjustments he's simply continuing the Justin Fuente legacy, albeit in a different way.
By: HokieBirdNinjaon October 27, 2022, 9:49 AM | 4 comments
I think this is the third or fourth time this season, about time all of us NoVa Hokie fans get a more regular diet of Hokie coverage... of course this wouldn't be happening if Lurch didn't have his kids in Blacksburg.
I stopped my takeaway list about halfway through the video. Pry gives a lot of good insight into the bye week and the coaches' adjustments and I didn't want to end up paraphrasing the entire press conference. Definitely worth a listen IMO.
Bored so wanted to look at the how the roster will change from this to next year, and what kind of improvement if any we can expect. It's been speculated that next year will be when the most roster attrition takes place, so I wanted to see how many players are leaving and how many could/should be replaced by the portal.
Not 100% sure but I believe we had 1-2 open scholarships at the start of this season. Looking at the roster I believe we will lose around 18-21 seniors and 5-10 current players to the transfer portal. I'll estimate on the high end of both.
By: TIHokieon October 16, 2022, 10:03 AM | 147 comments
Another Fall Saturday and another reminder of just how far this Virginia Tech football program has fallen. I suspected that the post Frank Beamer era (not sure how long of an era I anticipated) would be a struggle, but I didn't think the bottom would fall out. We've all discussed ad-nauseam why we are where we are, but in the end it doesn't really matter. What matters now is how we get back up. So lets collectively highlight any silver-linings and constructive (critical) observations from the game yesterday. Below are a couple from me:
