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The ACC emerged from a meeting in Boston this week with some kinks worked out from it’s recent deal with Notre Dame. The most newsworthy piece of information that was included in the ACC’s press release was the conference’s decision to stick to an eight game football schedule, instead of increasing it to nine, which was originally planned.
For Virginia Tech, that means less meetings with Florida State and Clemson, which does hurt a bit. Also, the Hokies will now need to look for a 4th out of conference game for next season now that Pitt is an ACC game and the conference will stay at eight league games. That means some local FCS schools are going to be receiving some phone calls shortly.
Also in the press release was the re-worked ACC Basketball tournament, which now has to accommodate 15 teams. However, the format will more or less stay the same. There will be 3 games on Wednesday, featuring the bottom six in the ACC. The winners of those games will go on to play the 5-7 seeds on Thursday with the 8 and 9 seeds playing as well. The winners of those games will move onto Friday and will play one of the top 4 seeds. This new format includes a double bye for the top 4 seeds.
Lastly, the Hokies will continue to play Miami and UVA twice a year in basketball for the forseeable future. The ACC named two rivals per each team in the ACC (similar to cross-division rivalry games in football) and the Hokies drew UVA and Miami. The rest of the ACC will rotate on a year-to-year basis like the ACC has been doing. All of this will begin when Notre Dame joins the conference. That could be in 2013 or 2014, depending upon whether or not the Big East and The Fighting Irish work out a settlement.
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Any idea who we would drop then? If Pitt stays on, we’ll have to drop Maryland, BC or FSU. Assuming BC will stay unless they do away with the fixed cross-division rival. Doing that would be fine by me, don’t see much benefit in playing BC every year anymore.
I have been told it will be our game at FSU which suuuuuuuccccckkkkksssss! But I don’t have a definitive answer on that. It will be either at FSU or Maryland. Then we’ll need to look for a 4th out of conference opponent, which will suck. Expect 2 FCS teams on our schedule next year unless we can work something out with a MAC school.
This is great news, next year is going to be a big time rebuilding year for our o-line we dont need to be playing Alabama and FSU in the same year. If were struggling this bad this year wow next year could be a long season if we have this same staff, we should schedule a cupcake just for the win.
Eh, I disagree. The OL part is true but our weakness will just be inverted. The interior of our OL should improve with all three players returning, Arkema getting a lot of work this year, and Farris stepping up. But, our tackles will be green. I like Shuman as a prospect but I want to see him go hard every play. He’s kind of a laid back guy so that concerns me. The right tackle spot will be interesting since Gibson I think will be the man for that job. He gets a good push but is inconsistent. I mean both tackles next year could be former 4* prospects. The talent is there.
As for the rest of the team, we should be OK. Still a long ways off and hopefully we still have 9 games left to play this season but we’ll be OK in 2013. Not Bama good (nobody will be) but FSU won’t scare me next season. They’re going to be killed by the NFL draft. I mean does Clint Trickett really scare you as a QB?
Jameis Winston wouldn’t start next year?
Hmm… he might but he’d be either a true sophomore or redshirt freshman. He’s a good player but has to develop like everyone else.
Our DB’s will all be back….most of our DL will be back…We should be fine at LB with RVD and Tyler, Tariq Edwards, etc
We should have Logan back and we will be loaded at RB.
Our only weakness will be OL and possibly WR. DJ Coles, Caleb, Stanford and Knowles need to step up.
I actually think next year is our year to really make a push before Logan is gone. If Logan can improve like we thought he would this year, then next year could be a great year.
Thats my opinion at least.
Justin, not sure I understand the ACC’s plan for football scheduling. With 7 teams in each division next year, that’s 6 inter-divisional opponents we have to play each season. Add in Boston College as our “rivalry” game from the other division, and that leaves us just one game against the other 6 members of the Atlantic division. Is the ACC doing away with the home and home format against cross-divisional teams so that we play one cross divisional team each year and it’s the luck of the draw if it’s home or away? That would mean we play each of those 6 Atlantic teams only once every 6 years in the regular season. That kinda stinks.
Help me understand this 8 game scenario, cuz it’s not making much sense to me at the moment.
Yep. We’ll play FSU or Clemson twice every 10 years.
every 12 years
As much as I love Tech, as long as we have Newsome coaching our o-line Alabama is going to manhandle us upfront and we will probly struggle the rest of the year after that. It will be the same old thing as it is every year next year. We need a new voice and attitude coaching our o-line and then we will get better but staying the same will not change anything. Next year’s schedule is tough so Beamer better do his job or us die hard hokie fans will have to suffer untill he retires.
I am going to be loyal to Beamer and the Hokies either way….whether they make coaching changes or not. But seriously…sometimes in the business world you need to make the tough decisions, even though you have personal feelings and loyalty to someone. If the job is not being done at the high level you need to reach your goals, you HAVE to make changes. I think it has reached that point with our offensive style and predictability. I am not saying we need to fire Stinespring, but rather re-assign him. Move him into another coaching position….We need an innovative mind orchestrating our offense. Football has changed…Beamer needs to adjust just like other coaches have. I am not arguing with his success…it has been great and he has turned us into a nationally relevant program. But there is a reason they have an empty National Championship trophy case sitting there. Beamer desperately wants a national title and his time is running out…its just the facts. He needs to make the TOUGH decisions and look inside himself and decide if he has the fortitude to take a chance and make a change to try and take us to the next level before its too late. (not to mention that an innovative high powered offense definitely helps with recruiting game changing offensive talent)
There is no reason we can’t have a great dominant defense and a high powered offense. You don’t have to have a boring ball control offense to have a good defense…it is possible to have both.
A source VERY close to Saban says HOLLAND FISHER is a lock to be playing for the Crimson Tide. OUCH
Where did you hear this? A lock? I find that hard to believe. If he is a lock, then why didn’t he just commit to Alabama during his visit? Why is he visiting VT and OSU?
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2012/10/alabama_making_a_push_for_virg.html
“The next morning he ate breakfast at Coach Saban’s house,” Fisher’s mentor Hunter Bottoms told BamaOnline. “He and his mother loved that. His mother was blown away. I don’t think he knew he would like it as much as he did.”
Makes me sick…
Isn’t having recruits over to a staff member’s house a recruiting violation (i.e. Bruce Pearl)? Or is it allowed on official visits?
Others are saying VT is still in the drivers seat. Remember, he still has his official visit at VT and is good friends with Joel Caleb.
Alabama is also recruiting Vonn Bell and Antonio Conner, both are higher rated safeties than Fisher. Its a numbers game. Bama is going to run out of scholarships.
http://247sports.com/Board/30/Holland-Fisher-VaTech-Bama-or-Ohio-State–12774761/1
Word is Offensive recruits for 2014 and beyond are being told by thier HS coaches to hold out on a decision with VT to see if any coaching changes are made. Kids don’t want to play for a lame offense that has been lame for some time now. Beamer better wake up and make some coaching changes or kids are going to go else where and the program is going to be run into the ground.Our offense’s policies and stradigies are about as useless as the current presidents. Frustrating
Kid’s will START going elsewhere because of our offense??? I think that’s been happening for the past 5 yrs!!!!!!!