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Ovechkins Wodka said:
Would be great if the owners spent again. The Nats recently firing all the scouts to cut costs does not lend much hope for that happening. Bringing back Soto could fit right into the rebuild window. Its not like we spent any of the money we offered him last season and his stock has only gone down.
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Yeah I do wonder if it is this year for a Werth-type FA signing. Otani naturally as unrealistic and would never happen with the ownership but imagine his bat in this lineup this year and adding his pitching in the folloing year where House/Woods/Crews would be hopefully hitting the major leagues.
 
NobodyBeatsTheWiz said:
As an alum of a school that went from a mid-tier program to a national powerhouse in about 5 years, and a huge college football fan and follower, I can't agree with the first or last paragraph.

To build a winning program in modern college football, it's a pretty straightforward formula: keep up in the facilities arms race, find the right coach and pay him and his staff, and implement an attractive NIL program. All of those things need to happen to maximize the program's recruiting and player development, which ultimately decides their competitiveness. And all of those things need buy-in from university administration and athletic department. Discipline gets you nowhere in the modern game without talent or elite scheme.

VT's facilities are second tier, at best, in the ACC. As far as I can find, their practice facility cost $21M, and has recently gotten around a $5 million upgrade. Compare that to Clemson, that built a $55M facility with a recent $5M upgrade, and Florida State, which is building a new $100M facility. Sub-par facilities make it more difficult to attract both playing and coaching talent, which is evident in their most recent coaching hire....

Justin Fuente was an unmitigated disaster for the program. He put a generally terrible team on the field, was a lazy recruiter, and didn't play the booster circuit. That leads to lagging attendance, a talent deficiency, and donation shortcomings. Hiring Brent Pry screamed "we can't attract anyone else", likely due to financial constraints from the administration. While investment in football has improved under Babcock, and VT was in the top 25 in college football spending in 2022, I suspect that Fuente's buyout payments had significant impact there. VT's bread and butter under Beamer was mining Hampton Roads to unearth elite talent that was slightly underrecruited. In Fuente's last 4 recruiting classes, he had 9 players from that region, total. Pry's tenure will be defined by how well he can recruit Hampton Roads and the DC area, and if he can make the right staff hires, for both recruiting and on-field development.

Dabo Swinney, Ryan Day, Lincoln Riley, etc. were far from superstars or celebrities when hired, but they were the right guys.

I'm admittedly ignorant on VT's NIL approach, so I won't expand at all there.

TL;DR: Monetary investment + the right coaching hire (who doesn't have to be a celebrity) = success.
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Dabo Swinney is the biggest douche and least likable coach in college football but your points are still well taken.
 
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I mean, I'm biased, but: Kirby Smart, Jimbo Fisher, Brian Kelly, Dave Doeren, Steve Sarkisian, Jim Harbaugh, Hugh Freeze, Butch Jones, probably some others.

I get how Dabo's Jesusy thing and outspokenness can rub lots of people the wrong way, but the at least the dude is genuine and actually cares about the kids. There are tons of straight up scumbags in the college football ranks who only care about their players as assets to win games.
 
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NobodyBeatsTheWiz said:
I mean, I'm biased, but: Kirby Smart, Jimbo Fisher, Brian Kelly, Dave Doeren, Steve Sarkisian, Jim Harbaugh, Hugh Freeze, Butch Jones, probably some others.

I get how Dabo's Jesusy thing and outspokenness can rub lots of people the wrong way, but the at least the dude is genuine and actually cares about the kids. There are tons of straight up scumbags in the college football ranks who only care about their players as assets to win games.
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In addition to the Jesusy thing, his “aw shucks gee whillikers” schtick just drives me nuts. What I dislike the most though is that he’s one of if not the most outspoken critic of NIL and paying players so his genuine care for players seems mostly like a crock of shit to me. He cares about the kids so long as they don’t get paid and can’t threaten his authority while he makes $10M a year off of their talent and blood, sweat, and tears.

But you are right. Dabo is not the biggest douche, I stand corrected. Hugh Freeze sucks. Brian Kelly sucks. Art Briles sucks. Dabo is not like them, so I rescind my crowning of him as the most unlikable douche in college football.
 
Solheim cup tied 10-10…..Europe will likely take the lead here shortly, but all the matches are close.

Shaping up for a dramatic finish.

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Well Europe retains with a tie…..weak.


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Solheim and Ryder Cup should have a shoot-out thing to break ties. Captain of each squad selects one player to play 18, winner take all. If they tie, captain must pick another player - and they rotate through until one side wins the hole.

Or, you could have them select 3 players to simultaneously play 1, 10, and 18 - 2 points for each hole won, 1 point for tied hole. If still tied after that - one player shootout on 18 until there's a winner.

I'm sure there are other ways to do it. But it's just silly to spend 3 days, with a lot of good intensity, and then say one side won because they tied.
 
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Solheim and Ryder Cup should have a shoot-out thing to break ties. Captain of each squad selects one player to play 18, winner take all. If they tie, captain must pick another player - and they rotate through until one side wins the hole.

Or, you could have them select 3 players to simultaneously play 1, 10, and 18 - 2 points for each hole won, 1 point for tied hole. If still tied after that - one player shootout on 18 until there's a winner.

I'm sure there are other ways to do it. But it's just silly to spend 3 days, with a lot of good intensity, and then say one side won because they tied.
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Remember this? Interesting to hear it from Jack (on the tie)….


 
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Yeah, that's a pretty authoritative counterpoint. But I'd still prefer to see the tie broken in some fashion

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Solheim Cup’s ‘awkward’ finish could have been avoided. Here’s how
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The worst part was their over the top celebration on the green when only the tie had been determined. The US could still have lost….I was glad to hear the British announcer get on them for it. Dude flat out walked through a bunker to join the celebration…..50 people trampling all over the green with players on the tee.
 
Baltimore trolling.

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DC is not Baltimore. DC does not support Baltimore teams. Maybe up in Moco you could make the case, but there's also PG county and Arlington and NOVA.

A lot of this area are Ravens fans maybe because of Lamar and Snyder being an ass for decades. That drove fans away. But that was for football. For baseball they never left. And just because the O's are playing it's not like DC residents are going to cheer for them or take their O's jerseys if they have them out.

I go to both, Orioles more sporadically obviously, and I'm fine with them but it's not like I'm actively going to throw a parade if they win. I will feel proud because they're local, more like family, but it's not like they're my team they're not lol
 
Some of us — from the Wash DC Metro area — were MLB Baseball fans well *before* the Nationals came over from Montreal. I was a 69 baby, so ALL of my formative rooting years were for the Orioles. All.

The Nationals were the Expos. I couldn’t have given 2 craps about them, even when they moved in 2005.

There are a lot of Orioles fans in DC.

Edit — and I do honestly like the Nats now. More or less. I’m happy when they do well. But I don’t have the passion for them, that I do my other main teams (Skins, Caps, O’s, Terps, Wiz)
 
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