Agreed. Sports teams are part of the schools, if a kid doesent participate in the schools then imo he/she shouldnt be allowed to participate in the schools activities.
Personally I dont believe home schooling fully prepares children for "the real world" but that is a decision that parents have the right to make.
Do you believe the high school education system in the area prepares kids for the "real world"?
Because it does nothing even close to that, sad but true.
What are the laws regarding vouchers for private school or home schooling in Virginia?
I agree with home schooling if the parent feels it will get the child the best education available, and if they are not receiving vouchers to offset the cost of home schooling then the child should be able to use the facilities and programs their taxes helped pay for.
And Delany pretty much runs the BCS, so he definitely could have given a "wink wink" to the Sugar Bowl executives.
Delany also did everything in his power to get the Tatoo 5 eligible for the Sugar Bowl last year vs Arkansas, after what he did there was no way he was going to let Sugar Bowl select a Boise State type team.
You tell me who gets that 4th at-large. A KSU team that didn't finish better than 3rd in its own conference? A potential 3-loss OU? A Michigan team that didn't win its own division? A 3-loss MSU/Wiscy loser?
Why not VT, with a loss?
Stop over thinking it.
BCS = LSU vs Alabama
Orange = VT vs Big East (WVU)
Rose = BIG 10 vs Pac (Wisconsin vs Oregon)
Fiesta = Big 12 vs At Large (Okie State vs Stanford)
Sugar = At large vs Non AQ (Michigan vs Houston)
Why in the world would the sugar bowl pick KSU over Michigan? Or VT over Michigan?
All schools will have 2 loses.
KSU doesn't travel, VT will have just lost.
Michigan is a tier 1 school who has had a miserable last 5 years and just won 10 games.
They are excited about their program and would love a trip to Nola.
Bottom line
Michigan = Tier 1 program in terms of history, tv, and fans
I don't disagree, but the Fiesta would be skewered for taking a 12th-ish Michigan for an 8th-ish VT. Heck, even Kansas State has a better case for inclusion than Michigan...
8th-ish??
You're dreaming.
If VT loses to Clemson they will drop like a rock.
I would even guess they would drop below Michigan.
If Clemson wins, probably just switch VT/Clemson. However, there's the slimmest of chances the ACC could send 2 teams to the BCS, particularly if OSU beats OU again. If so, that throws lots of things into flux.
VT winning could push Clemson out of the Peach though.
Per the AJC, they don't want to pick a team that lost 4 of the last 5, especially if they pick Auburn which it looks like they are leaning that way.
It will be FSU vs Auburn or Clemson vs Florida, I think FSU is a more likely pick if VT wins.
Agreed with everything about Hosley, just didn't seem like the same player this season. The hamstring injury has really hampered his play. The one I am upset about is Kyle Fuller, that guy makes plays everywhere on the field, IMHO should have been 1st team.
And it appears with Wilson and Kuechly will be OPOY and DPOY when those are announced. Only 2 to be unanimous selections on either team.
I don't think Hosley should have made either team. He got beat alot.
I think the odds are much more likely than not. Here's why.
Bud's gone if he's not the next head coach. It is the exception, not the norm, for a coach to toil away in a coordinator's position into his late-50s. That's what age I predict Bud will be when Beamer steps down around the end of this decade. Bud's got a bit of an ego, and he's the "elder statesman". How's he going to take to someone either from inside (Shane Beamer, for example) or outside coming in to take the position?
If he's the next head coach, how's that going to turn out? He's going to have to hire a new DC, unless he wants to drive himself into the ground by micromanaging the defense as the head coach. Those who are quality DCs are more likely than not entrenched at their respective universities. The choices are (1) promote from within or (2) hire from FCS or non-BCS FBS. VERY doubtful that the new DC could be as successful.
That being said, Bud comes off as awfully gruff, where Beamer is more of an "aw shucks" peacekeeper. How's that personality shift going to affect the staff?
To avoid a noticeable slip at VT, VT's going to have to open up the coffers wide for whatever successful coach 'du jour' is on the marketplace at that time. Would VT be willing to? Would VT be willing to take a chance on alienating Bud by hiring an unproven candidate?
Lots of questions.
I agree with that
I don't think it will be as easy as a lot of people think where you can just plug and chug Foster for Beamer.
Bud Foster has but up some GREAT defenses over the years with 2* and 3* talent, but keeps getting passed over for a HC job.
You have to question why and ask yourself what is wrong with him that nobody will take a risk.
Muschamp had average defenses at Texas with 4* and 5* star talent but he gets the Florida job.
There is a reason Bud isn't a HC somewhere, I may be coming off as a little pessimistic for the post-Beamer era, but only time well tell.
It will be interesting to see the paths the two programs take once Beamer finally retires.
If London is still the coach at UVA (which I think he will be esp. since he turned down Penn State), UVA could easily pass VT as the better program in the state.
That's the thing. You're just assuming that UVA doesn't travel well, when in reality, UVA travels better than anyone in the ACC except VT, FSU, and Clemson. What our alumni lack in sheer numbers, they make up for with being affluent. There aren't any numbers to prove this, but I'd make a wager that UVA sends more alumni per capita to bowl games than any other school in the ACC.
No way that is true, even if you are just counting alumni and not "fans", they don't come close to other schools.
I have been to a lot of games at other schools and traveled around the ACC a good bit, so this is my best guess on which schools have "fans" that travel.
Basing this off of 23 years of going to VT games and 5 years of games at GT, so this should eliminate some of the proximity bias.
1) FSU
2) Clemson (could easily put them #1)
3) VT
4) NC State (surprisingly they travel well for not being that good)
True, but UVA gets dumped on quite often by the ACC's bowl tie-ins. Deserved Peach in '02, got Charlotte. Deserved Tangerine in '03, got Charlotte. Deserved Gator in '04, got Boise. Deserved Charlotte in '05, got Nashville. '07 was the only time in the last decade we were accurately placed.
If we were to finish 5-3 in conference, we would deserve Sun (and would deserve Tangerine were we to beat FSU but lose to VT).
Bowls aren't really what you deserve, but how well do your fans travel.
Thus the only ACC teams that get what they deserve are FSU, Clemson, and VT, and probably in that order.
The systems sucks, but it rewards good fans who travel.
Thoughts: Going to be a long day. Hoping to leave Atlanta after my 8am class which should put me in Blacksburg by 5pm. Then will have to drive back to either Tazewell or Charlotte afterwards. Going to be tired at the end of the day.
Predictions: This will be closer than I would hope. UNC has had extra time to prepare and they are probably due for an upset. VT squeaks it out.
Concerns: Team is tired after the long trip and still a little beat up, while UNC is well rested.
I absolutely dread games in which the other team runs the Triple Option. If I was a GT fan when they hired Johnson, I'd have switched loyalties. Lol. It's just so boring and lethargic. It's so predictable, it's unpredictable.
If you were dumb enough to think CPJ was a bad hire, you would have never been a GT fan in the first place . . .
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Going to be a good game.
Hard to gauge right now how it will go, so many unknowns for both teams.
GT will come out with some wrinkles that will catch VT by surprise, just a matter of whether it will amount to points or not.
May be another one of the "team with the biggest kid on the playground wins" type games.