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Virginia Tech football players got rings for keeping bowl streak alive

It’s not often a team with a losing record gets a ring to commemorate the season, but Virginia Tech isn’t just any other program that had a losing record in 2018.

Virginia Tech had to scramble just to become bowl eligible to keep the school’s bowl streak alive for a 26th consecutive season. Although the Hokies went on to lose in the Military Bowl against Cincinnati, the Hokies rewarded their players with a ring to commemorate the last-second push into the bowl season anyway.

The rings, which make note of the program’s 26th consecutive bowl game as the highlight of the 2018 season, feature the Virginia Tech logo on the face of the ring. For a team that went 6-7 last season, it’s some pretty nice bling.



Entire article: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcspor...yers-got-rings-for-keeping-bowl-streak-alive/
 
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Virginia Tech football players got rings for keeping bowl streak alive

It’s not often a team with a losing record gets a ring to commemorate the season, but Virginia Tech isn’t just any other program that had a losing record in 2018.

Virginia Tech had to scramble just to become bowl eligible to keep the school’s bowl streak alive for a 26th consecutive season. Although the Hokies went on to lose in the Military Bowl against Cincinnati, the Hokies rewarded their players with a ring to commemorate the last-second push into the bowl season anyway.

The rings, which make note of the program’s 26th consecutive bowl game as the highlight of the 2018 season, feature the Virginia Tech logo on the face of the ring. For a team that went 6-7 last season, it’s some pretty nice bling.



Entire article: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcspor...yers-got-rings-for-keeping-bowl-streak-alive/
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ScriptOhio said:
Virginia Tech football players got rings for keeping bowl streak alive

It’s not often a team with a losing record gets a ring to commemorate the season, but Virginia Tech isn’t just any other program that had a losing record in 2018.

Virginia Tech had to scramble just to become bowl eligible to keep the school’s bowl streak alive for a 26th consecutive season. Although the Hokies went on to lose in the Military Bowl against Cincinnati, the Hokies rewarded their players with a ring to commemorate the last-second push into the bowl season anyway.

The rings, which make note of the program’s 26th consecutive bowl game as the highlight of the 2018 season, feature the Virginia Tech logo on the face of the ring. For a team that went 6-7 last season, it’s some pretty nice bling.



Entire article: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcspor...yers-got-rings-for-keeping-bowl-streak-alive/
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But did they put up a banner?
 
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Scathing criticism of what's wrong in Blacksburg...

https://sports.yahoo.com/heres-the-15-million-question-lingering-over-virginia-tech-215004013.html

Here's the $15 million question lingering over Virginia Tech
Pete Thamel
Yahoo Sports Sep 30, 2019, 5:50 PM

Up by 28 points in the middle of the fourth quarter, Duke faked a punt in Virginia Tech territory and later scored following a fourth-and-7 conversion. The conversation on social media revolved around the sportsmanship of the fake punt and whether Duke was running up the score on Virginia Tech.

You want a searing mile marker of how bad things have gotten for Virginia Tech? A moment that screams changes are needed?

For the last two decades, the notion of Duke running up the score on Virginia Tech in football would fit snugly in the alternate reality files.

What in the name of Michael Vick, Bruce Smith and the Fuller brothers is going on in Blacksburg? On the 20th anniversary of Virginia Tech’s team that played in the 1999 national championship, Tech put on a jarring display of how far away they are from that level. The loss was Tech’s worst at home since 1974, further transforming Lane Stadium’s reputation from hostile to accommodating.

Fuente is a respectable 27-17 in his fourth season, but he’s hurtling toward a third straight season of regression. If the season ends hopeless and Tech is hemorrhaging money on season tickets, moving on Fuente is something it is going to have to consider. (It’s hard to blame Tech for extending Fuente’s contract, as Tennessee, Florida State and Arkansas all expressed interest during their recent searches.)

Tech (2-2, 0-2 ACC) projects only to be favored against Rhode Island and Georgia Tech the rest of the season. That puts the program’s 26-year bowl streak in peril, especially because Tech will play two FCS teams and will have to win seven games to reach a bowl. Fuente has gone 10-4, 9-4 and then 6-7, authoring Tech’s first losing season since 1992. The biggest indictment of Fuente in his fourth year is that the roster is both devoid of a competent quarterback and a clear identity, the alleged expertise of a coach hired from Memphis with a strong offensive background.

On defense, the issue is simple, according to an opposing assistant coach familiar with Tech. He said there’s been a precipitous drop in talent: “It’s not even close to 2016,” he said, referencing Fuente’s first season with Beamer’s players. “I bet they don’t have one NFL player on defense. In the past, those defenses were stocked with NFL guys.”

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Frank Beamer was a once-in-a-lifetime coach. With him gone, VT is just settling back into their historical mean.

Before Beamer, they went to six bowl games and finished the season ranked just twice in 91 years. That includes Beamer's first six years when they went 24-42-2. From 1993 to 2011 (19 years) they went to 19 bowl games, won 10 games 13 times, finished ranked in the top-25 16 times, in the top-10 seven times and played for a NC in 1999. Beamer began to lose his mojo in 2012 as they went just 29-23 in his last four years. Interestingly, in today's world, there's almost zero chance Beamer would have survived those first six years and had the opportuinity to turn them into a very respectable program.

Fuente started off decent (19-8 in his first two years), but is just 8-9 since and has a roster with little talent meaning this year probably ends their long bowl streak.

I think their fanbase has some inflated sense of self-worth left over from the Beamer-era, and lack the awareness that he was truly an anomaly. Take away his 19 year run of very good to excellent seasons and they're a historically mediocre at best program. Plus their all-timer DC, Bud Foster, is retiring. Good luck turning that around.
 
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DE Justus Reed will use seventh season of eligibility at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech will serve as the new home for one of the rarest species in college football: a seventh-year senior.

Friday, Justus Reed announced that he will be transferring to Virginia Tech and continuing his football career with the Hokies. According to 247Sports.com, Reed had set up official visits to Tech, Baylor, Florida State and Texas Tech prior to the NCAA banning in-person recruiting. Trips to Boise State and Boston College were also possibilities.



Re: That means the 2020 season will be the graduate transfer’s seventh year of eligibility.

Reed was originally a member of Florida’s 2014 recruiting class. Yes, you read that correctly. The Gators’ 2014 class. The lineman was a three-star signee coming out of high school in Clearwater, Fla., that year.

Reed took a redshirt as a true freshman. The next two seasons, he played in a total of 11 games, with a one injury sidelining him for most of the 2016 season. In April of that year, he opted to transfer from the Gators.

After leaving Gainesville, Reed landed at Youngstown State. An injury sidelined him for the entire 2018 season. Another injury kept him off the field for half of the 2017 season. Healthy for all of 2019, Reed totaled 19 tackles for loss and 12½ sacks.

Because of all the injuries, the NCAA granted Reed two additional seasons of eligibility last year. That means the 2020 season will be the graduate transfer’s seventh year of eligibility.

Based on our research, we can find just four other examples of that happening since the turn of the century:
  • Running back Deontae Cooper (Washington/San Jose State)
  • Offensive lineman Tony Morales (Texas Tech)
  • Linebacker Bryton Barr (Towson/UMass)
  • Running back Darryl Poston (Utah)
Entire article: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcspor...nia-tech-football-justus-reed-seventh-season/

Re: That means the 2020 season will be the graduate transfer’s seventh year of eligibility.

Reminds me of a (true) story a guy once told me (many years ago) about his son finally graduating from college, it ended with "his Freshman year was the best 4 years of his life"......:slappy:
 
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