Snot bubbles from our defense. It’s been a long time since our defense was that impactful.

** Edited by jesuisvtguy at 9/28/2025, 8:58:36 AM

CFB is all money now. There are a few outliers as the system takes hold, but we are well on the way to the top 25 being the top $$$$$ 25 with a possible exception or two if a team has a great coach and an all-world player. I have no interest in that. I get NIL, but the way it has been applied is horrible. Now CFB is all about "betting bro" fans and money. No thanks, at least the NFL has a hard cap. I traded Saturday for Sunday. All that said, I am happy for VT today.

I find myself far less vested and more disconnected with the continued migration from "student athlete" to amateur athlete" to "paid professional athlete". It is currently disenfranchising with the roster turnover and overly light regulation.

Monty changed the way we prepared and game planned, and our young guys answered the challenge. We played 5 true freshmen on defense, and they played well. We are very thin this season in personnel, but their motivation is through the roof. They want to win! Quite a contrast to the quitters who only wanted to get paid for minimal effort.

I think a big part of the problem is that Pry had lost the team last year, and there were a lot of players only out there for themselves. When you're not all in for the team, you get what you saw on the field. What I saw last night was a far better organized team, players on defense actually playing their responsibilities (who the heck is this Christian Ellis kid that was a major impact?). The team last night looked like a bunch of guys who were playing for each other and had some belief in themselves, each other, and their coaches. The true team leaders seem to have emerged as well. Honestly, last night was all I wanted to see out of this team the rest of this season. They played with intensity, and had they lost at the end, I could have lived with the effort.

- Tons of heart all around - D played very well at times, with upfront pressure, TFLs, and sacks - NC State isn't known for good D AFAIK, and they blitz every third down, so they started to capitalize on that with some nice pressured conversions - Drones was more good than bad (man he had a NICE throw to Aiden Greene who just dropped it, for all the flack I give him, that was a beaut) - RB Stewart has entered the chat. Apparently injured and now back, this dude was knocking people over and spin moving left and right. His open field juke... LOL. Dude's our best player behind... - K Love. He may be the best kicker in CFB. Our team iced him on a delay of game, still made it. There were still some questionable clock management decisions but not Pry esque, more Beamer esque To misquote Dwight Vick, the players that left were from an 1-2 team and a losing team last year. We just want the dawgs who want to wear VT. And they showed up.

Dwight Vick.

mentality/team anyway

If they weren't starters. So either Pry was not good at seeing talent, or everyone on the team was so close that it didn't matter.