Episode 5 of the Hokies Press Pass podcast
We got sidetracked a little bit earlier today with Louisville coming on board in the ACC.
If you missed the update in the previous post, ACC commissioner John Swofford said in a teleconference today that there’s been no discussion about realigning the divisions. He anticipates that Louisville will simply take Maryland’s spot in the previously agreed upon scheduling format.
That means the Cardinals are in the Atlantic Division and will play Virginia as a crossover rival. So Virginia Tech will continue to play Boston College as its yearly crossover opponent.
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I chatted briefly with Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver, who liked the addition of Louisville and reiterated earlier statements that the Hokies are happy to be in the ACC.
“We as an institution have always wanted to be in the Atlantic Coast Conference,” he said. “And that’s where we are and I think it’s the very right place for our institution to be.”
Weaver said he gets lots of emails from fans about wanting to join the SEC, but he doesn’t respond to them.
“If I would answer all the emails I got, I wouldn’t get anything else done,” he said.
Switching gears, Aaron McFarling and I did another podcast this week. We recorded this Tuesday, before the realignment stuff came up. We discuss Virginia Tech’s narrow win against Virginia, the Hokies’ bowl prospects (one gentleman left me a voicemail saying the only game that will take them is the fictitious West Virginia Dog-Catchers Bowl, which I believe is sponsored by Alpo) and even touch on cornerback Antone Exum‘s burgeoning rap career.
Give it a listen below. To hear it on a mobile device, click on the download button in the upper right hand corner of the player.
November 28, 2012 - 3:26 PM
Interesting perspective on the season- ESPN:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/hot?id=8685623
“better to good perrenially than to be one and done.”
Good article, it all comes down to what the fans are satisfied with. For the Hokie fans that endured losing seasons year in and year out but always had excellent defensive teams (days of Claiborne, Sharpe and Dooley), the past 20 years have been great. Winning 10 games every season is quite an accomplishment and no one wants to go back to the good ole days prior. The problem, though, is that zillions of dollars have been spent at VT to guarantee that this 10 win season thingie continues unabated and it can if VT can continue to mix in enough games against cupcake type teams, they can continue at this level. But is this enough for the new breed of Hokie fans? I don’t think so, they want more and they want a National Championship. That can only happen with new ideals and new blood leadership. Next year is going to be huge, a pivotal year for VT football. Stay tuned, it should get very interesting over the winter. Oh by the way, VT will be going to the Music City Bowl because the Bees of GT are about to spring a huge upset (if you want to call it that) on Saturday night!!!!!
Sorry Barry with poison ivy but GT is not beating Florida St.
Barry let’s hope that should GT get lucky enough to win, that is they don’t have to pass the ball, that they will actually be allowed to keep their title this time around.
Paula Johnson will have the Jackets ready; Tevon Washington is actually a more efficient, balanced-skilled QB than D J Manuels. This will be Tevon’s time on the National stage and I don’t think he is going to waste it. Obviously you can tell that I am more than optimistic but I have been around this game longer than any of you waxing eloquent on this blog site. This game is played on the field.
#1 Bob, good article.
Andy-refence ticket sales to the ACC championship. I saw a discussion on a national program about GT returning 2000 unsold tickets to the GA game. At 1 hour 20 minutes apart for a rivalry game that is bad. I wonder if GT will have any fans at all at the championship game.
Yes, there will be thousands of fans from Georgia Tech at the game, it is their biggest game in a decade. You can keep counting them out but you will be surprised when they pull the upset.
Barry, Tech doesn’t even comes close to spending what Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Texas, USC and others do. Zillions? Double what you give now, and complete Lane to a100K stadium, then you can say TECH is competing with these teams. If you don’t want to spend that much, you’re really not competing. Changing coaches won’t fix the advantage the few teams that actually NCs have over teams that don’t have the budget. To be sure those teams have good coaches, but they really put their money where their mouths, or teams, are.
#7 There were a lot of empty seats in the visiting section at UGA Saturday. GT down sized their stadium several years ago, to about 45,000 I think, and still can’t sell out. When the Dawgs come to Atlanta there is more red in the stands than yellow.
Louisville will play the hokies in Orlando , after they beat Rutgers tonite. That will make for an interesting bowl game in Orlando. Go hokies!
ps gt has no shot at fla state. The short coach
Good post Bob. This is the most level headed thing I’ve seen posted on this blog site. I would rather be perennial good than a 1 shot wonder. I had previously joined the Aristohokiebrats stance, which is get TFROCFB, but upon further review, I’d rather be consistent. Glad this is not 1861 at Fort Sumter, because we would all be too jumpy.
Just forwarding, but I can understand one down season from that perspective.
Now Barry, Barry from Ivy, crooked road, whatever- I don’t think GT has a chance. Your sudden interest or support of them is interesting. Hopefully you’ll stop complaining about Virginia Tech now.
#1 the linked article is a straw man argument. For anyone to take the ten win streak over a national championship is foolish. Here’s why – Offer an undefeated national championship season paired with a 3-9 record two years later. Contrast that with a streak of eight ten win seasons with no wins of merit included.
Okay, what happens to the national championship team the other six seasons? Here’s what happened to Auburn since Frank Beamer’s ten win season streak began…
Auburn 2004: 13-0 undefeated season, beat VT in Sugar Bowl. 2005: 9-3 lost Capital One Bowl. 2006: 11-2 won Cotton Bowl. 2007 9-4 won ChikFilA Bowl. 2008: 5-7 no bowl game. 2009:8-5 won Outback Bowl. 2010: 14-0 undefeated national champions. 2011 8-5 won ChickFilA Bowl. 2012: 3-9 no bowl bid.
VaTech 2004: 10-3 lost Sugar Bowl to Auburn. 2005: 11-2 won Gator Bowl. 2006: 10-3 lost ChickFilA Bowl. 2007: 11-3 lost Orange Bowl. 2008: 10-4 won Orange Bowl. 2009: 10-3 won ChickFilA Bowl. 2010: 11-3 lost Orange Bowl. 2011: 11-3 lost Sugar Bowl. 2012: 6-6 waiting on lower tier bowl bid.
So you’ve got Auburn with – an 80-35 record over the nine years. A 6-1 bowl record. TWO undefeated seasons, with one national championship season. A 5-7 & a 3-9 season.
You’ve got VaTech with – a 90-30 record over the nine years. A 3-5 bowl record. No undefeated seasons, no championship game appearances. A 6-6 season.
Recite Beamer’s mantra about consistency all you want, but of the two options above, I’m taking the national championship every time. VaTech has NEVER won a national championship in team sports. Only played for it once in football, never came close otherwise.
Ask Clemson fans if they’d trade their national championship for some 10 win seasons instead of 8 or 9 win seasons. Ask GaTech if they’d trade their national championship. Ask BYU if they’d trade their national championship. You’ll get laughed at every time by every fan base, and in your heart you know it.
Somebody tell me the signature wins during our 10 win season streak? You want to hold that up as excellence when folks are arguing about national championships? Seriously? Oklahoma fan, Texas fan, F$U fan, Nebraska fan, Florida fan, Alabammer fan, Ohio State fan, LSU fan, include any other national championship team fan, all are talking junk about how great their teams are. What are Hokie fans going to say? ‘Uh… yeah, but… that one time… we beat Miami in Lane and it was really loud!…’ Talk about a ‘This one time… at band camp…’ moment…