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(03-13-2018 02:51 PM)Blue_Trombone Wrote:  

(03-13-2018 01:44 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-13-2018 01:20 PM)Cant Tame the Lion Wrote:  

(03-13-2018 09:53 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(03-13-2018 09:07 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  Football is a tailgate party. We can do that in any conference. We don't compete for anything and we will NEVER be in a New Years Day bowl. Not even Marshall or WKU are competing for that. It would take an $5M coaching investment at least to get to that level. It would take an undefeated season (to include beating the ACC schools on the schedule) and blue chip recruits. You have stars in your eyes and I get it, but need to come back down to reality a bit. The last 2 years is what we are going to get in football. If we schedule enough cupcakes and the conference sucks bad enough, we go to a bowl.

Facts

Here are the facts, if we take 10 steps backwards to the CAA...

Sept 22, 2018 vs Virginia Tech = Party
Sept 25, 2021 vs New Hampshire =

The New Hampsire game itself will be better and more fun. In fact, last time they were here for football, it ranked in the top 5 of best athletic events I have ever attended. VT is going to take over our campus and beat us by 30+. They have the fan base depth to buy tickets on stubhub for $500 a pop. A lot of people I have talked to are thinking of getting season tickets this year because they know selling for this single game will pay for them. I even know a die hard Hokies fan buying season tickets. The rest of the games might have a lot of empty seats.

I feel like I'm in a bizzaro world. I can't believe we have people begging to get VT/UVA to the Ted, and then they turn around and would rather have UNH come to SB Ballard instead of the Hokies.

No kidding. We can't give up and drop teams from the schedule every time we get beat badly. Talk about lowering the bar... ridiculous.