The Blue Board

Look Hoos, you can get all of the top talent in the State of Virginia, but fact of the matter is, you still can't beat us in football. 3,386 days and counting. Oh, and during that time, UVA out-recruited VT in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2011 and still haven't put a team together that can beat us. Until that happens, me = not worried.

In what ranking system? VT is a great University not saying it isn't but it is still 25 to 75 spots behind said lil brother.

I must have missed that interview.

You can call us little brother on an academic message board. Fine by me. But since we're on a football message board, it seems relevant to discuss football when comparing the two schools. So I think it's fair for us to call you little brother when it comes to football.

Not sure if you actually want to talk football or not but here is our skill positions: Knowles is a So this year and was coming into his own last year finished with 19 catches and was 12th in the nation in KO returns. Did you know that our best WR RSed last year and will be a RS Sr this year in DJ Coles. We have a top 5 player in the state at WR that will be a RS Fr. We do not know if Edmunds or Mangus will be as good as we thing but they with JC will likely be out RB's this year...Edmunds has huge potential as a LB so keeping him as RB says something....I will concede that we are not settled at RB but IMO that has as much to do with our good awful coaching set up last year as it did the actual talent, I would also say that is what might be what held back our OL....but we don't know?

Again on D, we have more talent and depth than we have ever had before. Our last half of the season (last 7 games) would have had us ranked 5th in the National on total D. That was vs FSU, Miami, Clemson, UVA, Rutgers, Duke (who beat you again), BC. We held all of those opponents well under their season average...D wasn't our issue late...it was the good awful set up on O.

In Eli Harold's case, I can use him as an example, why redshirt him? If he ends up being as good as people think he would never be a 5th year anyway. Why not get 4 years out of him. I agree on some of the others I would have liked to see redshirt but depth has a lot to do with that. He did say with this last recruiting class that they are building depth and should start being able to redshirt the majority of the classes in the future.

I agree 100% if the kid can be a top 3 round pick after his 4th season. But he was very light last year and while he had moments he has a lot of weight to gain to be considered a top 3 round NFL pick. He reminds me of Jason Worilds, a really good DE on the college level but a tweener as a DE or LB in the NFL. Might have been a better WR/TE Vernon Davis / Anquan Boldin type player. I'm not knocking the kid even a little, he can be a hell of a player at DE, but he was the same size as some of our WR, including Joel Caleb...who IMO can be an AA type Safety but is at WR.

OR is he a kid that simply needs to play for his own sake, I don't say that negatively but some kids will not be able to make it a full year with out playing football, and as we have seen he very well might be one of them. I think we had a kid like that on our team last year, he played, and if he wasn't playing he very well may have left.

Oh Chad I'm blushing!!

HA!! It's about time FSU was dethroned. Congrats Hoos on the title.

Who?

Cody Journell said it was hard to kick in hand cuffs!

Queens of the offseason....

Just wanted to say 100 posts on this thread is impressive.

Nice work VaTech and UVA fans!!!