Comments on: Monday: Setting up bowling pins; two coaches fired in ACC

By: loosek

loosek — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:50:15 +0000

Raise your hand if you made the trip down to Shreveport for the ’84 Independence Bowl. Keep your hand raised if that trip is a memory that you will cherish forever. Thought so.

By: loosek

loosek — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:47:14 +0000

I hardly think a lukewarm crowd on a cold night in Nashville is a “reward” by any definition of the word. These guys get to play in a sold out and off-the-hook Lane Stadium all year. Music City will be a HUGE letdown. Stay home, save money, get better.

By: Aaron McFarling

Aaron McFarling — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:31:07 +0000

That’s a really good point, Huntersdad. This ain’t the NFL. I know we treat it that way sometimes (myself included), but I don’t get the argument that these guys should somehow be punished for not meeting the standards set by their predecessors and forced to stay home.

By: Huntersdad

Huntersdad — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:15:20 +0000

If you base the decision of whether or not a team deserves to go bowling on the won/loss record, I have to agree there are alot of teams that should be staying home, and as a Hokie fan I’d put Tech at the top of that list after this season. But as mere fans, I don’t think any of us can appreciate the amount of time, hard work and effort that these young men (some of them just 18-19 year old kids) have to put into being a member of their football team. It’s not just a few months out of the year either, it’s a full time-year round job that they have to balance with the rest of their college lives to try to be successful on the field and in the classroom. If most of them see a low tier bowl game as a small reward for all those efforts and hard work I don’t begrudge them that at all. After watching my son work his butt off since January in the weight room and conditioning drills in preparation for this fall’s high school football season, and then trying to balance the workload of school work with it after school started in August I can appreciate the amount of time and effort it must take from an individual at the college level. If they find some type of reward in playing in the Tidy-Bowl after a long, tough, somewhat dissapointing season I say let them play.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:39:42 +0000

Bowl desttinations for VT and GT shouldn’t even be a topic of discussion. Neither team should be going bowling. There are way too many bowls with too many undeserving teams. That’s why bowl streaks are now a joke. Ten years ago even a 7-4 record was no guarantee on bowling, even in the major conferences. There was a season back in the 80′s when VT went 9-2 (I think) and didn’t get any consideration from a bowl. That team, even though it probably played a weak schedule, was more deserving than this year’s team.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:15:11 +0000

Watched the UVA-VT game and cam away with some conclusions:

Neither team is very good

London is a great person but may not be a great coach

Tech once again lives up to it’s Thug U reputation with several cheap shots

By: SEC #1 Fan

SEC #1 Fan — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:10:12 +0000

tech is were they should of been last year. Playing in a minor bowl and not going to a BCS bowl after getting beat by the same team twice. Who knows, I would like them to play Vanderbilt. Vandy is hungry and excited and will be ready to go. Most fans would go to just get to go to Nashville. We might be surprised again and wake up and find them playing in the Sugar Bowl again.
Boise State, 52 and 3 over 4 years. Remember??

Go hokies!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:45:17 +0000

Tech to the SEC omg they would get killed. They don’t have the talent or coaching to beat even there worse team. No please go there so Beamer will be on hot seat were he should be now due to loyalty to underachieving coaches.

By: Rick H.

Rick H. — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:29:29 +0000

Aaron, I doubt that, in this era of conference bowl tie-ins, anybody has EVER turned down a bowl, unless they had a reason (a la Miami).

I could be wrong, but it’d be conference suicide if one did, because the conference sets up the number of guaranteed bids, and, most likely, there is something in the conference by-laws that says you can’t turn them down.

Last team I remember turning something down was Notre Dame, and it was most likely due to the fact they’d lose money on the deal, at the time.

By: Steve78

Steve78 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:04:54 +0000

AM, The down side to going bowling with this team is keeping bad coaches on the payroll another month. Not that they won’t still be on the payroll next year unless someone overrules Beamer and Weaver.