334 yards of total offense does not cut it for me. That was an average Cinci defense that Lefty went up against. To me, he needed to get his offense to have at least 400 yards to earn an extension. That didn't happen, so I'd not renew his contract.

beautiful weekend of football

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Time to Jump

We could take from you? For some reason we steal great recruits from you guys and I'm just curious if you have any left on the board we could take. I would like a 5 start DL or DE

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and this board is DEAD.

I am holed up in my hotel at Fort Meade, MD, 21 miles from stadium.

Here's Bitter's article:

By Andy Bitter | The Roanoke Times

Joshua Nijman, a 6-foot-6, 265-pound offensive/defensive lineman, picked Virginia Tech over offers from Miami, Virginia and Temple on Tuesday.

Nijman, a nationally ranked shot putter from his time at Columbia High in Maplewood, New Jersey, spent this fall at Fork Union. 247 Sports lists him as a four-star prospect.



He'll be a January enrollee after signing today. Here is his highlight reel from FUMA, where he played mostly as a defensive lineman.

Shane Beamer and Stacy Searels were Nijman's primary recruiters.

This post was edited on 12/17 2:17 PM by BigDaddyHokie

was a 3 star when he picked VT. Now a 4 star and rightly so.

He seems 2 steps faster than an older highlight film I saw. He must have had nagging injuries in the old one.

He may see early playing time even in our talented depth chart next year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQi1i4rlDa0

This post was edited on 12/25 11:59 AM by BigDaddyHokie

He's 6'4" and 215 lbs and the school's single season passing record. He prepped this Fall at Fork Union and was the team's starting QB and team captain.

No doubt he could play at many other schools with a full schollie. He can pass from the pocket or on the run.

Check out these highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JwKxLNUpfE



This post was edited on 12/25 10:35 AM by BigDaddyHokie

The committee has stated they want to get the best four teams. They have not mentioned anything about the most deserving teams in the Final Four. There is a huge difference in the best teams and the most deserving teams. I like the old BCS system and they should have kept it and simply taking the top four. we already have human dishonesty involved with this new process. The best foUr teams in my opinion are Alabama Mississippi Mississippi State and Oregon. They say they go by the eyeball test, but you cannot tell me they are not looking at records also. Otherwise, Mississippi and Mississippi State would still be in the discussion. Both of these two schools would beat Ohio State TCU or Baylor in my opinion. But since they have 2 or 3 losses, they are not even in the discussion which contradicts who they feel are really the best Four teams. They are clearly mixing and matching the best teams and the most deserving teams. Florida State is obviously the most deserving team and they are looking at conference champions like TCU or Baylor and Ohio State which are somewhat deserving teams, but I still feel these three are not the best teams.



This post was edited on 12/3 4:16 PM by lucustookis

Stanford gone per Bitter.

The third Edmunds, most around Danville say he's the best of the bunch. Naturally athletic, still very raw but athleticism is through the roof, violent tackler and long arms.

Tremaine Edmunds Senior Highlights

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This post was edited on 12/22 1:16 PM by Jason Stamm

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A quick glance at the 2014 JUCO top 100 showed that the SCC pulled 29 recruits from the JUCO ranks. This year they already have 13, and many remain uncommitted at this point. Most college teams have year after year needs, based on injuries and personal development of players. It would look like we would at least explore this route as needs come along. Louisville, Miami, Clemson, Florida State in the ACC all use it regularly. Just food for thought. I don't know if I would prefer it over recruiting high school seniors, just it could be a valuable supplemental tool to help the program get back. (It helped Auburn tremendously after their horrible year get back to the National Championship).

Another National Championship today for UVA with the Men's Soccor team beating UCLA!!!!

great pick up for the Hokies

Linebacker from Richmond going to Oklahoma. We can't seem to keep any of the best players from our own state at home anymore. Oklahoma, FSU, Penn State, one even to UVa, Clemson, South Carolina, Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame, even Nebraska had the freshman of the year in the Big 10 from Potomac, Arizona State, and Tennessee. We're getting our butts kicked right in our backyard. We can talk about 757 all we want, but we ain't getting them anymore.

I predicted the line for Oregon as an 8 to 10 point favorite over FSU and Bama as an 8 to 10 point favorite over OSU. Look for the Bama margin to come down to 9 or even 8.5 as your token "Ohioens and Big teniens" will once again fall for the trap by taking the cheese. As for Oregon, look for that one to go to 10 or more as "offense" is appealing to the emotional part of the brain and you can guarantee that line is not staying at 8.


I have never gambled in my life. I will not do it again this season either, but if I were such a man, I love Bama and FSU.

This post was edited on 12/8 7:53 PM by lucustookis

I see VT has sold its allotment of bowl tickets. (7500). I recall some anti VT person as saying we would not sell 1,000 tickets. I expect stadium to be packed on game day.

Nevermind... they sold

This post was edited on 12/16 6:54 PM by VMI Hokie

Bad news maybe...