UVA's schedule...

wonder if they keep the coach if he finishes the season with 6 losses in a row
 
cyptomcat said:
wonder if they keep the coach if he finishes the season with 6 losses in a row
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I don't know what the issue is at UVA. They have split the talent pool with VT in a state that can realistically only support one D1 program over the past few years. Not that less than 6 wins is truly acceptable, but what else do they want at this point? The losses they have are against legit out of conference talent. It should be commended that they had the stones to go play those teams.

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Outside of our game, they weren't blown out of any of their other losses... While I wouldn't offer him an extension, it's not like he's lost the team and there's nothing to build on.
 
cyptomcat said:
wonder if they keep the coach if he finishes the season with 6 losses in a row
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It sucks for London because of the schedule they had this year. @FSU, UCLA, Louisville, @BYU in addition to fairly even Coastal matchups. They were picked at the bottom of basically every Coastal prediction in the preseason and I can't imagine anybody thought they'd beat UCLA or @BYU. Not too difficult for a medicore team to finish 4-8 with that schedule. Hell Duke would have been iffy for a bowl with that schedule.
 
cyptomcat said:
wonder if they keep the coach if he finishes the season with 6 losses in a row
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IMO, London probably gets one year. Especailly with the possibility that Beamer may hang it up this year. But, he'll likely have to change some coaches on the roster. Again.

His recruiting has been very good, but on the field performance has been dreadful.
 
Diseqc said:
Beat VT and he probably stays. Lose and he's gone.
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That's the ideal scenario for us I think. London keeps recruiting well which screws VT over and we keep beating them both. Perfect.
 
I think UVA's policy of scheduling two tough out-of-conference opponents every single year makes no sense for a program of their stature located in a medium-talent state. Back in the eighties under Welsh with the eleven-game schedule, they used to schedule one tough game every year. They were the better team in the state then and the ACC had fewer top programs, so that may have made sense then, but it's nuts today. Schedule Tulane and South Florida instead and they make a bowl more years than not.
 
Oh boo freaking hoo. (Pun intended)

Our OOC schedule included BYU and UGA the last two years and if we didn't make a bowl, NOBODY would have blamed it on scheduling.
 
nvastinger said:
I think UVA's policy of scheduling two tough out-of-conference opponents every single year makes no sense for a program of their stature located in a medium-talent state. Back in the eighties under Welsh with the eleven-game schedule, they used to schedule one tough game every year. They were the better team in the state then and the ACC had fewer top programs, so that may have made sense then, but it's nuts today. Schedule Tulane and South Florida instead and they make a bowl more years than not.
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Meh - They are 2-2 out of conference, so they just need to go 4-4 in-conference to make a bowl. Them scheduling UCLA and BYU is not that much worse than us having to play uga every year and scheduling a decent opponent on top of them - not to mention that BYU probably wasn't considered a "good" team at the time the game was scheduled. Hell, we've got Notre Dame AND uga next year, not to mention that we've got tough schedules every time we schedule someone else of note besides uga.

Plus, saying they are in a "medium" talented state is incorrect. Virginia is widely considered to be a top state in terms of football talent - certainly top 10 if not just outside of the top 5. In 2014, they had 3 five star players and 15 four stars per scout. In a recent study by Athlon, Virginia was No. 9 in recruits in terms of the number of players ranked in the Athlon Top 200 (which is an average of Rivals, Scout, 247 Sports, and ESPN), only 6 players behind the number 6 school over a 5 year period. Another recent study found that Virginia ranked 12th in terms of placement % of college football players (in other words, only 11 states put a higher number of players in the college ranks). UVA has had really good recruiting classes recently - that's part of the reason (failing to live up to expectations) behind the fire London movement.

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2013/9/11/4718442/college-football-state-texas-california-florida
 
GT flunkout said:
Oh boo freaking hoo. (Pun intended)

Our OOC schedule included BYU and UGA the last two years and if we didn't make a bowl, NOBODY would have blamed it on scheduling.
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Right? Not to mention the years when we play Auburn, ND, etc.
 
Diseqc said:
Beat VT and he probably stays. Lose and he's gone.
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gtrower said:
That's the ideal scenario for us I think. London keeps recruiting well which screws VT over and we keep beating them both. Perfect.
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3GT said:
IMO, London probably gets one year. Especailly with the possibility that Beamer may hang it up this year. But, he'll likely have to change some coaches on the roster. Again.

His recruiting has been very good, but on the field performance has been dreadful.
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This is one of the better threads I've seen here in a while, and I think all three of these comments are spot on.

I have this weird feeling that London would keep some of his offensive "brain trust", but I can't figure out why.
 
VT vs. UVA is sounding like a coach elimination game. Loeffler is gone either way.
 
I didn't know about the contract extension, but the mood among VT fans seems to be that Beamer's time has passed. So I think he could get a lot of pressure to retire if the rest of the season goes poorly.
 
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