Maroon Effect
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Football Board
1 mo ago
That Q&A had one statement which is not exactly true:
"We simply must return the boards to VT-related posts, particularly VT sports-related posts."
The subscriber board is largely a medium sized clique of fellas musing on multiple topics unrelated to the above, ranging from various ailments (God bless them all) to old-man-yells-at-clouds stuff. Maybe that will change as we get closer to FB season.
Baseball Board
2 mo ago
Baseball Board
2 mo ago
Football Board
2 mo ago
You would think in that case he would run towards a friendly media.
He is a at least a little bit of a narcissist and is now in the greatest of honeymoon periods. The fanbase it smitten to have him and smiles at just about anything he says, so I too find it surprising he's been so closed off.
Football Board
2 mo ago
Then they should be able to shake hands like mutually respected gentlemen
after the game, that's all.
Football Board
2 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
2 mo ago
I agree with the1st part but I don’t think we trained him. You know hoops
more than most, but it looked to me he regressed as the season progressed. We just didn’t develop him IMO. It’s like we thought he’d just have the Providence game every night.
Men's Basketball Board
2 mo ago
Except the radical purists, nobody would lament a wrecking ball to Cassell.
The same folks who like that we play VMI. It's really lack of money
Men's Basketball Board
3 mo ago
The fact we are signing bench players from the Colonial is really pathetic.
We also didn’t have enough big bodies in the paint to compete. That problem if anything got worse. Can I say had no expectations yet am disappointed? Maybe the roster is still open?
Football Board
3 mo ago
This is bad. At the least he has inside info. Entanglements between college
and pro sports and the gambling industry at the organizational level are even more deep and twisted.
Men's Basketball Board
3 mo ago
Yeah his measurables look less than Gurdak. Not really a replacement.
It's hard to see this team being any better next year, so far.
Conference Realignment Board
4 mo ago
Not meant that way. I went to a lot of schools that had a better counter-
part in the county, state, conference, or whatever. But at each stop, I enjoyed myself, made friends, and built my résumé. My kids and family members can’t tell the same story.
VT was one of those stops. But by almost every metric, UVA (and W&M for that matter) are better on aggregate. GPA, class rank, SAT/ACT scores, ranking services, AAU status, grant funding, you name it. It’s OK to acknowledge that, but also that you value the place and the time you spent there, whether it be for your own academic journey, the friends you made, or what followed.
I know what you mean about some of these ranking services. I don’t love them either, because they often overemphasize soft metrics such as reputation and diversity. But out of curiosity, I’d love to see what ranking system you can find that shows us as overall better.
Conference Realignment Board
4 mo ago
Nah. I’m a proud VT grad, but most who’ve lived outside VA/DMV would agree.
We’re usually better ranked in engineering, but even there, it’s not that much. Both are top 50: 14 vs 35 out of 210. Business and med schools rank wayyy better for them, and just having a law school moves the academic needle.
And here’s the link:
** Edited by Maroon Effect at 3/25/2026, 7:07:19 PM
Conference Realignment Board
4 mo ago
UVA is better than us in academics and almost all sports. B10 has shown no
remorse in splitting up paired instate rivals.
Men's Basketball Board
4 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
4 mo ago
Here is his post season record:
1 NCAAT win in 7 appearances.
1 NIT win in 2 appearances.
1 CBI win in 2 appearances.
That's over 2002-present, with all postseason activity between the 2009 NCAAT and the 2024 NIT.
Last four years with no NCAA tournaments.
Not captured is the ACCT Championship, for which I am ever grateful, but then we went out unceremoniously in the 1st round.
Is this is A-OK? Why even have a MBB program only to aim for mediocrity?
Men's Basketball Board
4 mo ago
That’s pretty much true of all mainstream men’s sports at VT.
It’s been a great football offseason, but what I said is true till it’s not. Someone will chime in about wrestling, and I’m glad we’re good at that, but calling it mainstream is a stretch.
Men's Basketball Board
4 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
4 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
We hung with some good teams but didn't win enough of said games.
The eye test says that about as much as any quantitative metric. I guess we need to beat UVA a deep run in the ACCT with 2 signature wins. At this point I just hope we get over the 20 game regular season hump with the 2 guaranteed games we have left.
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
Commentators said it - VT couldn’t separate when UM slumped
Did we have TO? Terrible we couldn’t even get a shot off. Time to redeem our last 2H performance.
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
You did. I was trying to remember who posted how FSU had a big team and
Would give us trouble. Something to that effect. Definitely better than their record. It was during their game vs UVA.
** Edited by Maroon Effect at 2/14/2026, 7:54:05 PM
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
Didn’t you hear? We have injuries. Only team in the conference
with injuries, or a guy or two playing on a bum wheel. The only one.
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
I think we could but it would take A LOT, so I predict we won’t until MY
retires at the earliest. Even then, it would take a Franklin level infusion of resources to buy top players and upgrade facilities. We are in a self perpetuating cycle where mediocrity begets more mediocrity, an example of which is Cassel Coliseum. Seems we can’t afford to renovate it, yet I can’t imagine it’s current state isn’t a detractor in the minds of prospective coaches and players.
Sometimes I wonder how much is actual X & O coaching versus simply having better players. Even Pry would have won more with these Franklin recruits, but he couldn’t attract those players or command the cash infusion. MY seems well respected in coaching circles, but until the whole operation is seriously upgraded, this is what we’re going to get.
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
We’re just going to have to deal with this till Mike decides to retire.
Then see if VT can pony up for another Franklin or Buzz. He’s a nice enough guy and we’ve doubled down on Franklin, so I’m OK with that for now.
Men's Basketball Board
5 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
Women's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
Gives some of us stuff to do Saturday when there's no football.
If you can handle the acid reflux of watching VT play!
Men's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
Men's Basketball Board
6 mo ago
No. Just not a serious sports school. We threw a bunch of money at football
but until wins happen, I’m going with that. I like Young. I’ve met him several times. But look up his postseason record and tell me. This is the same school that rehired Brett Pry after three months and where Babcock still gets a paycheck. Some of it is because Virginia is a lot more like Massachusetts or New Jersey than a real southern state like it used to be.