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Virginia Tech Hokies

Swimming in the Talent Pool

Just before Signing Day, we talked here about the Recruiting Rankings analysis that SMQ performed and he concluded how accurately Rivals was predicting winning percentages.
“Rivals was very, very good at picking the top teams – of the top 25 winningest teams of the last six years, all were either pegged in or very near their […]

Rivalry Week: “You can throw out the records when these two teams play.”

EyesOfTexas’s post regarding the relative lack of upsets in the Texas/Texas A&M series got me to thinking about the line, “You can throw out the records when these two teams play.” Any truth to that axiom for other in-state rivalries? Clearly, it is not true for T+1. See the comments I made […]

Boston College at Virginia Tech

Sucks to be Boston College. They’re playing their biggest game of the year on the same night as the Red Sox meaning that Bob Ryan might stop talking about Kevin Youkilis on ESPN’s Sports Reporters just long enough to mention the game on Sunday. Then he’ll start rambling on about Bobby Orr or Larry Bird […]

Arkansas State: That’s $20,000 per point

I live by the Golden Rule: “He who has the gold sets the rules”.
Apparently, the stewards of the NCAA agree with me.
The BCS schools (members of the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac Ten, SEC and Notre Dame) average about $12M PROFIT per year from football while Bowl […]

God tells Marc Richt to stop calling stupid plays.

Georgia coach Marc Richt is no longer calling his own plays. That sound you heard was Bulldog fans letting out a collective sigh of relief.
Like anyone coaching football in the South, he talked to God about his decision. A burning hedge?
“I’d been praying about it,” Richt said. “I wanted to see if God would help me […]

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