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Looking at Football Recruiting in the Rear View Mirror
There is an interesting article on SI.com as pointed out on this Penn State Football blog post that looks back at the performance of 2007 recruiting classes based on their on-field performance. While this is still subjective, there’s no doubt is much more solid of an evaluation than the Rivals and Scout rankings that come [...]
VT vs Boise St at FedEx; National Signing Day
The worst kept secret in college football scheduling was revealed today at Redskins.com, and that is the movement of the 2010 Virginia Tech vs Boise State football game at FedEx Field in Landover, MD from what was October 2nd to Labor Day (September 6th). This is no surprise to me, as ESPN seems to each [...]
Hand Ringing Over Pre-Season Ranking Can Start Now
I was reading a post about Penn State Football at PennStateCentral.com which pointed to SI.com and their oh so immediate gratification pre-season ranking of college football for 2010. You can start too early. As expected, the Hokies are ranked pretty high and likely will be that way in a lot of polls. Expectations will be [...]
Was the 2009 Season a Success?
Furrer4Heisman at GobblerCountry is posing end of year round table question to several bloggers concerning the 2009 Virginia Tech football season. Here are my answers to his questions.
1. Do you think the 2009 season was a successful one for Virginia Tech?
Success is relative, I don’t think it’s ‘yes / no’. Any given season [...]
Vote for Virginia Tech’s Top 10 Plays for 2009
If you can, check out the survey being conducted by ‘VTPhreak4evr’ over at http://hokiehighlights.net, who is letting Hokie fans help him determine the top 10 Virginia Tech football plays for 2009. He’s done a nice job of mashing up video clips of the plays organized by game (pretty neat re-living highlights from the season) and [...]
Virginia Tech Football: CHICK-FIL-A BOWL CHAMPS
Virginia Tech football and Frank Beamer got a lot of monkeys off their back last night in Atlanta. The streaks ended and accomplishments achieved by winning the Chick-Fil-A Bowl were so much discussed prior to the game that its almost tedious to go through them all again. Let’s just say beating Tennessee was a very [...]
Chick-Fil-A Bowl and Obsession With the SEC
I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays and some down time, maybe taking in some of the early bowl games, and gearing up for the big ones coming up this weekend. Starting Friday evening, I’ll be enjoying friends, frolic, and football straight through the weekend until life’s realities are back on Monday. But in the [...]
Virginia Tech Bowl Apathy Showing Up In Chick-Fil-A Ticket Sales?
So apparently Virginia Tech has not sold out its allotment of 17,500 Chick-Fil-A Bowl tickets against Tennessee yet. Of course this could change at any moment and come December 31st there’s no doubt the Georgia Dome will be filled to capacity anda lot of them will be Hokies. It just may take longer to fill [...]
Penn State: Another Football School with a Basketball Team
With Virginia Tech mens basketball’s most meaningful remaining out of conference game coming up this Saturday night against Penn State, televised on ESPN2, we thought we’d get the scoop on the Penn State Basketball team from the source. Here are 5 questions we put to Penn State blogger Dave Young (”flounder”) at PennStateCentral.com in advance [...]
We Don’t Have a Playoff, We Have Bowls…
So here is one the that college basketball does far better than college football: Selection Sunday. Yes today is pretty cool finding out who’s going to what bowl, but it has no where near the anticipation and excitement as seeing the brackets come out at 6 pm on that early Sunday in March. Plus, most [...]
