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Well he's joining the team in January, he'll have some time to work the rust out, but I imagine it will take a little time to see him grow into the great player he has the potential to be.

yeah, it's snowing in Harrisonburg and 25 degrees right now. They know bad weather.

Yes, and the choices are great, it was honestly hard to choose, but the SEC has been whining for so long they truly deserve credit for it. Though I do have a bit of sympathy for OSU and WSU, they are also whining a lot now. I just think that maybe they have something to whine about (not Oregon and Washington leaving them behind), they really did get the worst end of conference realignment.

And thanks to all the moderators that help make this place go. Mr. FishDuck asked me to do it a few years ago and I just didn't have the time, still don't, but so appreciate those of you who do!

Ducks 45-21 2 2 300

Yeah, SC could easily lose 4 games in conference next year while still being a pretty good team. I don't think SC is going to tolerate pretty good for very long, although that's where they've been for a while now (at least ever since Oregon started recruiting many of the palyers that in the past were assumed to be going to SC) No, Franklin will not win a national championship at VaTech (or anywhere else for that matter). Tech needs innovation, Franklin is not that. I wonder how long Cignetti is going to stay at Indiana. Will Penn St go after him? Certainly some of the more traditional powers will try to poach him soon. I really hope he does stay, though that mean Indiana will always be a tough game. It's good to see a new team competing at such a high level.

Yeah, I remember Kelly's teams at Oregon fondly, but I think the young innovators of today are what Lanning is looking for and what fits the culture he has/is building. Though I wouldn't have minded seeing what the offense under Chip would have looked like with the Ducks current offensive line and the depth of playmakers we now have. I think that would have been fun, well it was fun, it would be even funner!🤣

No grief here, that's the kind of stuff I've been wanting all season! It's the cutesy nickel and dime stuff that frustrates me! We have great players for power/slashing running and down field passing. Let's do that.

A lot can happen between now and the final poll. Lets get by UW first. Then worry about how the rest shakes out.

Ducks win 42-17 2 TO 4 Sacks 305 yards passing

There is a church camp, Camp Myrtlewood, near there, I used to joke with people when giving directions that you go 5 miles past Remote and turn left (literally).

I'm not as impressed with Franklin as you are. He had all the resources he could possibly want at Penn St. plus a constantly sold out 110,000 seat stadium and couldn't get over the hump to win the big games that would have made them a national championship contender. He's going to have okay resources at Tech and a rabid if smaller fan base, but it's not Penn St. Tech needs to win with innovation, as I hinted above like Oregon does, not with the conservative philosophy of Franklin. He may recruit okay there, but he will not dominate the ACC at Tech. I doubt at this point he will even dominate UVA (like they did not too many years ago). He beat who he was supposed to beat at Penn St. often with vastly superior talent. He won't have that advantage at Va Tech. I see Franklin as very similar to Cristobal.

Part of me is saying VATech could have done better. Tech was once a pretty descent program. To some extent they went the opposite direction as Oregon for the opposite reasons. Oregon was all about innovation and VaTech was all about, well certainly not innovation at least not in football. Right now in the NIL/portal world of college sports they are ill equipped financially to compete at the highest levels. That's too bad. It used to be a game at Lane Stadium was probably second only to Autzen in game atmosphere.

Ha, from one college mountain town otherwise in the middle of nowhere, to another (even smaller, yay verily tiny) college mountain town in the middle of nowhere. Welcome to Bleaksburg coach! Actually I really like Blacksburg, it's beautiful (not unlike Eugene, just smaller than Eugene) but it is tiny and kind of remote (not to be confused with Remote, OR, just 12 miles east of Myrtle Point).

With healthy receivers this team becomes one of the kinds of teams that is so hard to defend. Some teams set up their passing with their running game. Others set up their running game with their passing game. The Ducks can do it both ways. When a team loads the box against the run, this team can go down field with efficiency (a lot of teams pass down field trying to get lucky, not Oregon), when the D is playing off the line, trying to stop the pass this team can punish them with the run. Being able to do both of those makes this team very hard to defend.