P12 0-6 (Now you know why UCLA ducked their game with us)
ACC 3-4-2 (The Holiday Bowl did give us the Trophy)
B10 6-4
SEC 5-5 so far
B12 3-2 so far
American 3-1-1

(01-01-2022 09:05 PM)Statefan Wrote:  ACC 3-4-2 (The Holiday Bowl did give us the Trophy)

Uhh, ACC was 2-4 in the real world.

(01-01-2022 09:07 PM)CollegeCard Wrote:  

(01-01-2022 09:05 PM)Statefan Wrote:  ACC 3-4-2 (The Holiday Bowl did give us the Trophy)

Uhh, ACC was 2-4 in the real world.

You lost, UCLA ran from us.

Better than last year but VT’s loss to UMCP was so bad that I will keep my mouth shut....

It might have been better if Kenny Pickett had not abandoned his team. Opt outs and mid year portal entries are garbage, IMO. Stick with your team.

(01-02-2022 04:53 PM)ren.hoek Wrote:  It might have been better if Kenny Pickett had not abandoned his team. Opt outs and mid year portal entries are garbage, IMO. Stick with your team.

Yeah, cost them and possibly you a top 10 ranking.

(01-02-2022 04:53 PM)ren.hoek Wrote:  It might have been better if Kenny Pickett had not abandoned his team. Opt outs and mid year portal entries are garbage, IMO. Stick with your team.

I agree.

He played 13 games without thinking about it and was fine, but that bowl game most certainly would have been deadly.

Doss started a thread on this on our board and only me and him were for sticking with their team.

Every body else... THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

Since Insurance is different in every State, some of this may be due to the inability to get coverage in a timely manner. A QB should want a $10 million policy, but the details of who would write that and who pays the premium is down in the weeds.

(01-02-2022 05:24 PM)Statefan Wrote:  

(01-02-2022 04:53 PM)ren.hoek Wrote:  It might have been better if Kenny Pickett had not abandoned his team. Opt outs and mid year portal entries are garbage, IMO. Stick with your team.

Yeah, cost them and possibly you a top 10 ranking.

Ehhh. Even coaches (e.g., Brian Kelly, Lincoln Riley) are leaving teams prior to playing “major” Bowls. The new rule is: unless you’re in the playoffs, bowls are meant as exhibition games. If you’re a potential first (or second) round pick, bowls carry too much risk of injury and loss of financial payouts. Kenny Pickett made the right decision…I’m not sure who is compensating Matt Corrall for his lost income.

(01-02-2022 10:14 PM)Statefan Wrote:  Since Insurance is different in every State, some of this may be due to the inability to get coverage in a timely manner. A QB should want a $10 million policy, but the details of who would write that and who pays the premium is down in the weeds.

There are brokers out there who specialize in this coverage. A lot of times you are going with an off-shore syndicate as the writer. The elite guys should be buying a Loss of Value policy before the season even begins. I mean you could suffer injury anytime-- even in training camp. Money should not be a deterrent, as there is a waiver that allows players to borrow from future earnings to pay for the premium and/or the universities are allowed to fund a portion of it.

(01-04-2022 09:21 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(01-02-2022 10:14 PM)Statefan Wrote:  Since Insurance is different in every State, some of this may be due to the inability to get coverage in a timely manner. A QB should want a $10 million policy, but the details of who would write that and who pays the premium is down in the weeds.

There are brokers out there who specialize in this coverage. A lot of times you are going with an off-shore syndicate as the writer. The elite guys should be buying a Loss of Value policy before the season even begins. I mean you could suffer injury anytime-- even in training camp. Money should not be a deterrent, as there is a waiver that allows players to borrow from future earnings to pay for the premium and/or the universities are allowed to fund a portion of it.

BOOM - there it is.

(01-01-2022 09:07 PM)CollegeCard Wrote:  

(01-01-2022 09:05 PM)Statefan Wrote:  ACC 3-4-2 (The Holiday Bowl did give us the Trophy)

Uhh, ACC was 2-4 in the real world.

Not NC State fans. They live in the fantasy world.

(01-04-2022 10:12 PM)ArQ Wrote:  

(01-01-2022 09:07 PM)CollegeCard Wrote:  

(01-01-2022 09:05 PM)Statefan Wrote:  ACC 3-4-2 (The Holiday Bowl did give us the Trophy)

Uhh, ACC was 2-4 in the real world.

Not NC State fans. They live in the fantasy world.

Where is your bowl trophy this year?

Oh that's right, they were given to your opponent.

The ACC's chronically underachieving bowl record is very frustrating. I've long thought that schools like UNC and UVa have plenty of resources to build a perennial 9 win program, but they don't seem to be interested in doing so. Maybe Tony Elliott can change the culture and get their administration on board. NCSU also strikes me as having advancement. VT's Denise has been painful and the hiring of Pry is less than inspiring. Miami seems to be serious about returning to their fowr glory, but FSU remains in a funk.

Clemson will be an interesting team next year. The fact that they won 10 games with the staggering number of injuries, underachieving QB play, and WRs dropping passes is amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if Cade Klubnick is the starting QB by October. I really like the Nick Eason hire and I'm cautiously optimistic that Wes Goodwin will be a gem.

(01-07-2022 07:37 AM)ren.hoek Wrote:  The ACC's chronically underachieving bowl record is very frustrating. I've long thought that schools like UNC and UVa have plenty of resources to build a perennial 9 win program, but they don't seem to be interested in doing so. Maybe Tony Elliott can change the culture and get their administration on board. NCSU also strikes me as having advancement. VT's Denise has been painful and the hiring of Pry is less than inspiring. Miami seems to be serious about returning to their fowr glory, but FSU remains in a funk.

Clemson will be an interesting team next year. The fact that they won 10 games with the staggering number of injuries, underachieving QB play, and WRs dropping passes is amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if Cade Klubnick is the starting QB by October. I really like the Nick Eason hire and I'm cautiously optimistic that Wes Goodwin will be a gem.

When VT announced Pry as the new Head Coach I was like "who?"
I'm still in "show me" mode on him - but by all accounts he's been snapping up great assistants all over the place... and all of them can recruit.

(01-07-2022 07:37 AM)ren.hoek Wrote:  The ACC's chronically underachieving bowl record is very frustrating. I've long thought that schools like UNC and UVa have plenty of resources to build a perennial 9 win program, but they don't seem to be interested in doing so. Maybe Tony Elliott can change the culture and get their administration on board. NCSU also strikes me as having advancement. VT's Denise has been painful and the hiring of Pry is less than inspiring. Miami seems to be serious about returning to their fowr glory, but FSU remains in a funk.

Clemson will be an interesting team next year. The fact that they won 10 games with the staggering number of injuries, underachieving QB play, and WRs dropping passes is amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if Cade Klubnick is the starting QB by October. I really like the Nick Eason hire and I'm cautiously optimistic that Wes Goodwin will be a gem.

UNC is a girl's school by academic offerings and the female to male ratio. It's very difficult to maintain football at such a school. The actual academics of most programs are in fact elite but what is most important is the ability to write a superior paper using Chicago standard English.

Hiding Football misanthropes at UNC is a full time job. On a day to day basis Clemson folk must interact with Georgia, SC, TN, and GT folk. Those are not female oriented universities and not universities that will shame you for cheating in football. You don't live next to Duke and you don't have UVa and WF reminding you that you have no morals.

State can support football from an ideological and student mix base. However our faculty and ptb have to listen to the same **** that spews from Duke while Duke hides behind privacy.

4 years ago we suspended our starting Tailback because he was running his moped on the sidewalk. He was told not to do it but we suspended him. Three years ago we suspended a starting basketball player because he called the meter maid who write him a parking ticket a "*****". There is an element at NC State that takes pride in such stupidity.

If you want NC State to do better in order to help you at Clemson, we need a change in divisions so that we are not shut out of Virginia and Georgia and so we don't end up having to play two top 10 programs in the division each year. FSU has done it's part on that

The following is the divisional format that would help build a northern program that balances Clemson:

Pitt, NCSU, UNC, VT, and Miami rounded out with two of Duke, WF, GT, etc.

UVa has more issues sustaining a program than UNC. The location of BC and Syracuse really work against them. UVa is not going to take a hit for NC State.

That leaves you with the 3 permanent rival format rotating the other 5.

(01-07-2022 10:31 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(01-07-2022 07:37 AM)ren.hoek Wrote:  The ACC's chronically underachieving bowl record is very frustrating. I've long thought that schools like UNC and UVa have plenty of resources to build a perennial 9 win program, but they don't seem to be interested in doing so. Maybe Tony Elliott can change the culture and get their administration on board. NCSU also strikes me as having advancement. VT's Denise has been painful and the hiring of Pry is less than inspiring. Miami seems to be serious about returning to their fowr glory, but FSU remains in a funk.

Clemson will be an interesting team next year. The fact that they won 10 games with the staggering number of injuries, underachieving QB play, and WRs dropping passes is amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if Cade Klubnick is the starting QB by October. I really like the Nick Eason hire and I'm cautiously optimistic that Wes Goodwin will be a gem.

When VT announced Pry as the new Head Coach I was like "who?"
I'm still in "show me" mode on him - but by all accounts he's been snapping up great assistants all over the place... and all of them can recruit.

Mack cleaned your clock this year in Va. The irony is that he has never coached as well as he has recruited.