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Speaker 2: It's that's good. It's good to hear that, Jeff. Because
I was having a little difficulty getting getting hooked up
through my phone tonight, so I had to go through
I had actually had to go through my laptop tonight.
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or not or something like that, because I had a
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Speaker 4: Here?
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Speaker 2: I say it was Virginia Tech weekend on the blog Jeff, Yeah.
Speaker 1: In a in a in a sea of not very
good results for the Atlantic Coast Conference this weekend. Uh yeah,
Virginia Tech was the coach and program that probably needed
a win the most. And yeah, it was a debacle
in the second half.
Speaker 5: There's just no other way to describe it.
Speaker 3: I didn't see the game. I didn't see the game
at all, because.
Speaker 5: That was probably for the best.
Speaker 2: I was at a concert I was having I was
having a whole lot of fun, and uh, you know,
it appears that I probably didn't miss it. Probably didn't
miss a whole lot. The second half I think was
kind of a dumpster fire. Are we seeing Brian? I
think I see you there? Can you hear us? Can
you speak?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I think Brian could can can see us? And
he's online now he's Brian here.
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n e R. Brian, welcome back to the All Sports
Discussion ACC podcast for Happy to have you back and
spending your Sunday night for us. Tell us about yourself
and anything that you want to plug, Brian.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Yeah, it's glad, glad to be back.
It's uh, I think this is at least the fourth
year that that we've been doing this together. Really appreciate
the the invite back. But Jeff, Jeff and Matthew here,
it's always a pleasure. And we've been doing this thing
now for about six years. We had been me and
my buddy Curtis. We kind of started this thing. We went,
you know, we go way back and middle school and
both of us have been Virginia Tech football fans forever
thirty years at this point. So we decided to put
our our collective fandom and experience together and started a
podcast and it's been going great hockey football record notwithstanding.
Speaker 3: Well, welcome back.
Speaker 2: We're really happy you're spending your Sunday night with us.
Let's get right back to the ACC football week that
was right week two. Which ACC football team was the
most disappointing this past week? And give us some good
news here which team ACC team was the most impressive team?
And I have a feeling I know where you're going
with your answer for the first one.
Speaker 3: The floor is here.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Unfortunately for the Hokies, it's definitely them. As far
as the biggest disappointment of this week. This was a
game where arguably it must win for Brent Pryme in
terms of his ability to keep his job past the
season in my opinion, and decent showing in the first half,
and then came out of the second half and just
fell flat on their face and got absolutely blown out
of the stadium at home and your home opener against
your you know, second a second SEC opponent of the season.
It was just a really disappointing effort all around, especially
like that that second half. No one was really playing
well defense offense. I mean, special teams didn't really get
an opportunity because we didn't move to football. It was
a it was a punch show, so our punter got
a lot of work out in the second half. But
other than that, I didn't really see anything good to
take away from that that afternoon. Yeah, impressive. I'm gonna
have to point the Florida State. I feel like they
did a good job of taking care of business after
a huge game week one. You know, you could see
them maybe coming out with a little less juice week two,
and they didn't do that. They went out there and
just handled their business for four quarters and you know,
send a lesser opponent packing there. So that was really
my two there. I said. Unfortunately, the Hokies are are
on the list here for least impressive for the week.
Speaker 3: I think those are fair statements.
Speaker 2: I mean there are probably some and Jeff would probably
agree with this, where there were some less than impressive
performances across the conference.
Speaker 3: I don't think that Duke.
Speaker 2: Really had that grade of his showing against Illinois. I
think that was kind of kind of ugly for the
kind of ugly for the devils.
Speaker 3: We know what Stanford is.
Speaker 2: I think the race for the bottom right now is
coming between Virginia Tech and Stanford right now if I'm
looking at where the bottom of the conferences right now?
Anything else that you would like to add, Jeff, I
guess clems I wasn't I guess I felt the Clemson
have had a better performance against Troy, but Troy is
a tricky matchup.
Speaker 3: But anything else you'd like to add, Jeff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: The Clemson in the first half of their game was
frighteningly bad.
Speaker 5: They were down.
Speaker 1: Sixteen to three at the half of that game and
they were getting totally outplayed by by Troy. And I
mean they couldn't they couldn't run the ball, they couldn't
throw the ball, The defense was getting pushed around, and
it raised a lot of concerns. Even though Clemson did
come back in the second half outscored them twenty four
to zero. I mean, they got the benefit of a
couple turnovers in Troy's territory for some short drives. But
you know, and we'll get into this later in the podcast.
The issues that Clemson looked like they're running pretty deep
and they got a very dangerous Georgia Tech team next week.
Speaker 5: The other team.
Speaker 1: I want to say that I was really disappointed in
And it wasn't that it was such a bad performance,
but the way they lost it was bad. Bad for them,
It was bad for the it was bad for the league,
and you know, It's just it leaves a mark for sure,
and that it has to be SMU. And they lost,
you know, in overtime, I think a double overtime to Baylor.
And and Baylor is a decent team. Let you know,
they were one of the big twelve favorites. But SMU
had a two touchdown lead, you know, with eight minutes
seven minutes left in that game.
Speaker 5: You're playing at home.
Speaker 1: You got to win a game like that, you gotta
you got to experienced quarterback Kevin Jennings in that game,
and and their defense just completely fell apart, which was
really surprising under a red lash lea team. You know, SMU,
if they were, you know, win that game, they're probably
with a couple of those losses. And you know, going
on this past week, they're in the top fifteen and
you go from a minute or two from being in
the top fifteen and now they're out of the polls,
and there's all kind of question marks at SMU about
that defense. Just just a unforgivable collapse by the Mustangs
in that game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you had Syracuse almost give one away
at home against Yukon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really poor performance by Syracuse.
Speaker 1: I mean, Frank Brown had them running sprints at the
end of the game after they.
Speaker 5: Won the game.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, one team of all I would say,
you have rough results this past week in the ACC.
Speaker 5: Got to give a little credit to NC State. That's
their second.
Speaker 1: Game that's came down to the wire, and you know,
they held off an improving Virginia team with I think
it was an interception turnover in the end zone. And
that's two close games that NC State is know, came
out of here with and you know, with CJ. Bailey
there at quarterback, I mean, you get those early close
wins and and you never know that kind of catapulta yeah, yeah, exactly,
you build confidence. I mean you've escaped, you won without
playing you know, maybe exactly, you know, the finest football.
But you're two and oho over two decent opponents. I mean,
no one would ever call East Carolina a pushover. And
and Virginia is clearly an improved team. So you know,
good good, good on a NC State for coming out
of their victorious.
Speaker 3: Definitely, definitely, Jeff, you're up brand.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, Let's go ahead and look to the
week ahead. Which ACC football game are you looking forward
to the most next week?
Speaker 4: And this was a tough one. When I was looking
at the schedule, I was like, there's there's really a
couple of a couple of different ways that could go here,
but I actually went, I'm going with Clinton Georgia Tech here.
I think this is the a little bit more of
the intriguing matchup just because of how the two teams
have played thus far in their schedule and you know,
having a conference matchup here. You know, looking at it,
Clemson hasn't played I think their best football really that
you know, they as you mentioned, they struggled putting away
Troy there. It really took them all for quarters to
really put that one away. Uh. And you've got Georgia
Tech that's kind of played a little bit up and
down first couple of weeks of the season. I think
they both of them have something to prove. They have
neither have played their best football yet, So I'm really
interested to see how that game shakes out and what
sort of implications that has long term as far as
the a SEC Championship game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a that's a really good point, Brian.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I had to pick of the two
that's played closer to what they're capable of it, probably
would be Georgia Tech out of Clemson for sure. But
but they've been uncharacteristically really sloppy with the football. They
got five turnovers in the first quarter of their past
two games. And you know, while Colorado is a reasonable
appointed on the on the road, you know, they turned
it over twice against Gardner Webb and uh, you know,
they they they turned it around in both games after that,
But you can't continue to turn the ball over like
that early in games, you know, and expect to beat
and expect to come out of there with a victory.
They do that with against a Clemson team, like you said,
that's been struggling.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, that might be the what what can propel Clemson,
you know, to kind of get in their mojo back. So, yeah,
great point that I don't think either one of them
is you know, reached, you know what, I think they're
capable of. Taking a look here at the rest of
the schedule kind of light here in the ACC. I
am kind of intrigued by Pittsburgh at West Virginia as
well by brawl. West Virginia is coming off a loss
to Ohio. Uh, the a CC badly needing some more,
you know. Uh, p four wins and that's that's a
golden opportunity, especially if Pitt wants to be an upper
echelon ACC team.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Even though that's on the road, they should be coming
out of there with a victory. That West Virginia team
is not very good at.
Speaker 3: All, I can tell you that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And your Pitt's schedule sets up weird too, because
I mean, they really haven't played a ton of competition
so far and then they get ready to the back
guard for all here. So I'm really interested to see
how that one shacks out.
Speaker 2: Wake better be what I should say, NC State, but
he'd be better be worried about that Wake game because
Wakes giving them a hard time.
Speaker 3: Really, if you look at the history.
Speaker 2: Over the last over the last decade, Wake has not
been a pushover for Ency State.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and and and we almost missed with this one.
I know where you know what I thought about it
is Miami playing South Florida. That game was not really
on on the radar, you know for Miami schedule with
Notre Dame in week one and then Florida. You know,
also in the month of September, South Florida's coming off
a road victory in the Swamp and they absolutely obliterated
Boise State and that is one of the best games
in the country this weekend. So Miami, I mean, I
still feel like Miami is in a great position to
win that game. I mean, to ask South Florida to
knockoff Florida in the Swamp and then go down the
Coral Gables and win.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's a massive task. But they need to
have Miami's.
Speaker 1: Full attention in that game because that South Florida team
is really feisty. All right, Brian, Let's let's move on
with the next question in the ACC. Which ACC team
could be on upset that alert next week? And we
could could be Miami here if they are, you know,
looking ahead to a game on their schedule or otherwise
just sleep walking on the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you kind of you know, very the
lead there a little bit there, because I'm actually going
with Miami here. I definitely think they are primed for
letdown and maybe this game isn't the letdown that we
think it might be. I mean, yes, Miami's ranked in
the top five. Now you've got South Florida after two
victories over ranked opponents. You had a top twenty five
in Boise, and I think Florida was ranked thirteen, you
know this past week when they took them down. So
it's gonna be really interesting to see if South Florida
can kind of keep this really high level of play
going heading down to Miami and see if they can
give a very good, I think a very deep Miami
team a run for their money. I think this is
a Miami theme that may be a little more built
to win than last year. But they don't have a
singular player like a cam Ward that can really kind
of put a team on its back when it does
get into those adverse situations in the game. So if
South Florida can take advantage of that, you know, they
might be able to upset Miami in this instance.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, very good there. Let's Brian, let's step
out of the A C C for a bid here.
Which national FBS game are you looking forward to the
most this week? And we're wide open with this question.
Is can be a Power five non Power five game?
You can even have an FCS matchup and then give
us who you think will be the winner of that
game or games that catch your eye for next week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the one that caught my eye is the one
ones that we've as the Hokies have a Week one
and Week two, and you got Vanderbilt at South Carolina.
This is a really intriguing matchup to me because South
Carolina is, you know, still a top fifteen team. They've
you know, it was a close game against Virginia Tech
for four quarters and then you know, they struggled i
think early in their matchup this weekend. You know, pulled
away at the end pretty well, but it was definitely
a slog there for a good portion of the first half.
So I'm interested to see what South Carolina team rolls
out there, because Vanderbilt has looked impressive in both of
those games, and you know, as a as a Virginia
Tech fan, really embarrassed us in in Lane Stadium on Saturday.
So I'm interested to see about this game and what
the implications are in the SEC for two teams that
are kind of looked at it as a little bit
of the disruptors of the kind of top echelon of
that conference. So see which of these two can kind
of shake free there and maybe give some of these
other you know, the the Georgia's and the l s
U s and all those other teams a little bit
of a run for their money this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely a game to keep an eye on.
Another one that that I'm I'm looking at as I'm
really intrigued by Texas A and M going to Notre Dame.
You know, if you're a Miami fan, you're also rooting
for Notre Dame H in that game because you already
own a head to head wind and you know, the
higher rank Notre Dame is, the better that victory looks.
You know, Texas A and M if they go into
to South Bend and when that becomes another SEC team
that's in the thick of the playoff chase, and Notre
Dame really needs that victory because once you get past
Texas A and M, they may not play another ranked
team the rest of the season, and so they don't
have a ton of opportunities to add to their resume either.
And there's a train of thought that if Notre Dame
loses to Texas A and M, that they won't be
able to get back in to the top twelve because
there's just not enough meet on that schedule. Maybe usc
could be better than people expect, but that it's you
know that Notre Dame would be in a good bit
of trouble to make the playoffs if they don't beat
Texas A and M. So I think that's a really
intriguing game Saturday night. Also, all right, Matthew, I'm going
to turn over to you now for our last two
segments in the podcast.
Speaker 2: Okay, Brian, this isn't we're kind of changing. We've changed
our podcast format. I think you've been with us for
a while now, and we've changed our podcast to a
little a little format, a little bit so that we
have two open microphone segments and the first one is
for our guest only. And I'll tell and I'll tell
you this, and I'm going to forward you. If you
don't say anything about Virginia Tech football in this segment,
I'm going to ask you about it in the next segment.
Speaker 3: So the floor is your bread, whichever one you want.
Speaker 4: Well, So I will lead off here by saying so
Tuesday night, at nine pm, Boundary Corner Podcast is holding
a Irish wake for the Virginia Tech football program. It
was pronounced that at ten fifty seven Saturday night, so
everyone joined in there. We're going to have mics that
we're passing out to folks during the segment where we
can eulogize this once great program that is on desk BET.
And also I will add to that if anyone knows
the coordinates for a Lazarus pit, and we would like
to find that so we can get our football team beat.
Speaker 3: Okay, very good. Anything else you'd like to hear, anything
else you like to add there.
Speaker 4: Just uh. At this point, I think we understand that
Prie is not the guy to get this thing done.
And if Prie is not the guy to get this
thing done, I think it's gonna start at with Babcock
and go all the way down until we can clean
house and marry him and find the right folks to
put in there that can get us back to where
we belong.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna We're gonna go
on to open micropoone, open microphone segment two here because
I want to start asking you questions here, guys.
Speaker 3: So let's start. Let's start transition. Let's start.
Speaker 2: We're going to transition to open microphone segment two, and
I'm I'm going to take the first shift, first for
first and first slot on the board here, Brian, and
I'm gonna start asking you some questions because this was
Jeff and I rarely do this, but we had Virginia
Tech weekend on the blog, and it rarely happens like
that where because we focus on the entire acc We've
talked about you and talked about Saturday's game, and you've
already referred to it, right. I was actually at a
concert on Saturday, Brian. I saw Dream Theater on their
fortieth anniversary tour.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I had a friend texting me about the game. Texting
me about the game. Our friend Webda have Hoky. You
may follow him here on Twitter. He was texting me
about the game. But I was enjoying a progressive metal
concert on Saturday. I was watching my favorite band. I
was watching the band that hit the Grammy in twenty
twenty two, and I had a great time on Saturday
in Baltimore. But I was following the game, perhaps at intermission,
and I got these texts, texts like that. I was thinking, oh,
the first half went well better than I thought, because
I thought that Virginia Tech would give a good performance
based on what I'd seen last week against South Carolina,
and then I then they completely fell off, fell off
the cliff in the second half, right, And so I
guess my quite like you know, Jeff wrote about Jeff
Roe about wrote about the game and wrote that kind
of thought that Brent Price days are numbered, and I
think I actually kind of agreed with that. But I
agree I kind of predicted that before the beginning of
the season, right because I'm one of the few I
think in our pack that didn't have Virginia Tech as
Bowl eligible. I had Virginia Tech at five and seven
entering the season, and I think that prospect is more
even more likely now.
Speaker 3: Even more likely now.
Speaker 2: And so my questions for you, because I you know,
I it's a it's a big deal, right like if
you're the if you're the AD at a school like
Virginia Tech, and really, you know, perhaps it a lot
I think this is I think it's fair to say
at a lot of schools, right, I mean, unless you're
winning national championships in another revenue sport like at you know,
at North Carolina or something like and like that, are
getting to the Final four or whatever, you basically get
two chances to hire a football coach. You don't get
any more than that. You don't get any more than
that because football is so expensive. And so I actually
want to ask you this, like I'm gonna I guess
I'm gonna straight with you. What are the chances that
Virginia Tech has both an athletic director search and a
football coach search next year?
Speaker 3: Because I think.
Speaker 2: If my if my numbers are correct, Virginia Tech will
probably have to pay three years some salary for for boy.
I think it's twenty, Yeah, maybe four. I guess that
would be four years of salary for for for for
for the existing ad, and you know, and if you
and three I think three more I believe for the
football coach, I'd have to go back and you may
you may have the more accurate numbers to me. Then
I have it on the blog, and I have it
on the blog, and I'd have to go back and
reference it. But I thought that the cost of the
buyout the combined two would be to between ten and
twelve million dollars. And I'm wondering what you think the
prospect of both happening are or just or just one.
I'm ready to hear your your take on that, that's
my question for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think at this point, considering what football all
means to Virginia Tech and the importance of football moving
forward in realignment, in NIL, in this whole college football,
in this whole college athletics apparatus, you can't be a
team like Virginia Tech, as you said, with no national
championships in other sports and only you know, the one
trip for football. You can't have your prime sport be
in the doldrums year in, year out. And with Babcock
has had two opportunities to hire a coach, and I
feel like what he did with Priye is like the
classic overcorrect, right, So you had you had Flint in
there and you had Flente that he's a he's a coach,
but he doesn't do a lot of the other things,
the little things. Well, he doesn't recruit well he does.
He's not very personal.
Speaker 6: He's not out there on the road, he's not glad
handing the donors. He's not doing all these things that
you have to do as a P four head coach
to be successful. But he's a good coach and it
didn't work out because he burned a lot of bridges,
and there were a lot of problems, uh downstream, and
ultimately you ran off a lot of the people and
things that were important to the culture of the program.
Speaker 4: He's gone. You you really went the other way with
Brent Prye. This is a very inexperienced and you know,
he'd never been a head coach before, only been a
defensive coordinator. You know, had ties to the program from
uh when when he was a you know, a student before.
So yeah, this is one of those you hired a
guy from a culture standpoint and a guy that fits
the mold from a personality standpoint, a guy that is
going to create these relationships that that Flinte had kind
of floundered. But at the end of the day, this
is a results driven business and you've got to win
more than six games year in, year out or you're
not going to have a job for very long. So
Wit has not shown his ability to go in there
and get the right guy in. So if it's not
making the right hire for the most important sport, for
the sport that is generating the Lion's share of the
revenue that the athletic department is generating, you're going to
have to move on from him as well. So the
question is going to be do you move on from
Wit and you let a lane Duck coach have one
more year before you make that higher just to lower
the buyout, or do you pull the trigger on both
of them at the same time and try to get
an ad in here that is football oriented, that comes
from a football school, that can get you on the
right track. And I think that that's where I'm leaning
is pulling the trigger on both at the same time
and try to get this thing rolling as soon as possible,
because if you're not moving on this fast, the way
re alignments moving, the way any NIL is moving, I'm
very concerned about getting left behind in this process.
Speaker 2: Is the flip side here, I'll say this very quickly, Right,
the flip side is you can try to do what
Georgia Tech did with Brian Key, right, perhaps bringing in
bring in you know you you you put the interim tag,
like let's say on JC Price.
Speaker 3: I'll just use that as an example.
Speaker 2: Right, you put the interim tag on him, You do
an athletic director search. You see how it goes with him.
You you know, you increase your n I L. You
see how it goes with him, and then if it
doesn't work out, Brian, then you do your you do
your search. So that's your your your you know, your
search for a coach, right and that your a D
would also have that input into hiring a coach. And
that's the foot that's the other that's that that I
think would be the second option. Is that something that
that you think would be a viable option that they
would cons.
Speaker 4: I think that's a good half step. It does kind
of maintain a little bit of consistency within the program.
I think you're you know, you're still on the hook
for the buyouts there right regardless, because you're still moving
on from Pride, You're still finding a new a D.
But you get a little bit of a steady hand
on the wheel of the program in the process of
all of those moving parts. And you know, if things
work out and and you know, someone like a JC
Price goes out there and much like Brent Key proves
that he can handle the job, that can raise the
level of play, can create some of the consistency, which
has been the biggest problem with Virginia Tech. It hasn't
been ability, it's been consistency. The consistency of the process
is very bad. The ability of the of the people
that are that are put on the field isn't necessarily
the question. It's the leadership and getting them to do
the things that you need them to do consistently. So
if JC can go out there and do something like that,
then you may have a brand key situation, which is
probably the best case scenario, at least in the short
term for the Hokies. Long term, I would love to
get a real football guy in here that has experience
that can shape the program from a long term perspective.
Speaker 3: What more, a follow up, what do you think about
Dan Mullin?
Speaker 4: That's the question every time I think this vacancy comes up, right,
is the name Dan Mullen gets grown out there? It
seems like to me everywhere Dan Mullen goes after a
few years, people he kind of grates the nerves of
folks in the program. I don't know whether that's a
personality thing, whether that's just him not quite being as
maybe personal as folks would like him to be. I'm
not sure exactly what that is, but I think he's
a guy that can go out there and give you
that consistent product that I'm talking about. But I'm not
sure if he's a guy that can get you a consistent,
you know, nine or ten win team either. I think
he's He's very much good for eight wins, you feel
pretty good about the season, and you do it again
the next year. But I'm not sure if he can
punch up the way we would like to and get
to those ACC championship games.
Speaker 3: Fair enough? Fair enough?
Speaker 2: What do you got for your open mic? I've been
using a lot of questions with you or anything you'd
like to add, well, I mean, yeah, I'm sorry, I've been.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been let yeah, getting a.
Speaker 2: Lot of the flood you almost Yeah, the questions have
almost been your open mike. I'd be a little facetious,
but I'd be like that that was kind of by time. Gaye,
you're my go aheads, go aheads.
Speaker 3: And what do you got?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think I think at this point the last
thing that I here is that I am looking forward
to basketball season. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guard man with five guards coming into Blacksburg.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna go to the NBA? I mean, this is
the way the world works now, right.
Speaker 4: You get him for.
Speaker 2: One year, they're they're gone, and they go to another college,
or they go pro right, and this guy's gonna be sud.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be a stud. I think we've got the
right pieces around him now. And when you look at
it compared to last year, you actually fund the basketball
program just enough, just enough to be competitive in the ACC,
and look at how the roster can turn around in
one year. Oh man, it's incredible.
Speaker 3: It is it is. Jeff, You're up, friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I blogged about this today at All
Sportsdiscussion dot com. I'm more convinced than ever that the
future ACC scheduling format, especially given the start of the
of the league, you know, in against the power conferences
and Notre Dame which is an on sidly three to
nine right now. But more than ever, I think this
lends itself to the eight conference games to power for
scheduling format, not the nine plus one. I think, if
you're looking at it from the view of the of
the football brands in the ACC, adding another conference game
really doesn't do that much for you, especially if if
that many teams are going to perform poorly out.
Speaker 5: At a conference.
Speaker 1: But what it does where it can help you with
the eight plus two format is adding you know, and
I already most most of the teams in the a
c C have two out of conference games. But you know,
the team a Clemson who already has l s U
at South Carolina at the end of the year, Florida
State who played Alabama, has Florida at the end of
the year, Miami playing Notre Dame and Florida this year,
even Virginia Tech opening with two SEC opponents plus the
eight conference games. And now it may get a little trickier,
you know, to schedule some of those non conference games
against SEC opponents as they add their you know, ninth
conference game, but that doesn't mean they're gonna stop scheduling them.
And then we always have the Notre Dame game of
the a c C. And this is going to allow
for flexibility because what you can still do and and
you know, you throw logic completely out of it anymore.
You just need to schedule games that you need to have.
This past weekend, North Carolina State and Virginia played a
game that won't count in the conference standings. So even
if you can't get another, you know, at a conference
opponent in a year where Clemson in Miami aren't scheduled, well,
they can go ahead and schedule that game, you know,
or Georgia Tech and Florida State, who aren't playing this
year and who've always you know, lamented not being able
to play because they actually are geographically pretty close, or
Virginia Tech and you know, NC State or whomever. You
can schedule those games that create regional interest even within
the of the conference opponent. So I would be really
disappointed if the format becomes the nine plus one because
I don't really think that helps, you know, anyone in
the ACC to add a ninth conference game. But the
eight plus two will still give you that flexibility, and
there's no reason that you have to do it the
same as the Big ten in the SEC, or the
or the Big twelve. This is something I think, you know,
if as long as you're playing the ten P four
opponents wherever they come from, I don't I don't think
that you know, the other leagues are going to say
anything if you're doing the eight plus two and it
could give you something have that's a little bit more
unique to the ACC. And I think this week just
proves it even more, is the the football brands have
to be able to have that flexibility in that in
their scheduling so I hope that is what becomes when
they will announce something at some point, and I hope
it's the eight plus two.
Speaker 4: That's my hope as well. Though, if if I'm Brent Priye,
I'm probably hoping for an extra game here because that's
the only competition that he's about five hundred.
Speaker 3: Again, he would like to, he would like to that
fair enough schedule wake Forest.
Speaker 4: I think as a matter of fact, he won't Stanford
every year.
Speaker 5: Yes, everybody wants Dan for this year.
Speaker 1: Oh man, man a lot of sports, but football is
not one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah kidding, Brian, Thank you so much for joining us tonight.
We really appreciate you coming on the podcast tonight, and
more than anything, I think we appreciate you keeping it
real right because you answered our questions quite well and
kind of gave it, kind of gave us a good
pulse on where the Virginia Tech fan base is at.
And I'm sure the Boundary Corner will give even give
given even further more accurate heartbeat that the wake that's
happening this upcoming week. So again, we appreciate you coming
on the podcast tonight, and we would love to have
you come back on again.
Speaker 3: Thanks again for joining us tonight.
Speaker 4: Brian, absolutely thanks as always, it's always a pleasure to
jump on here and glad to chop up ACC a
little bit and unfortunately have to unload on my hopees.
Speaker 2: You know what it is, what it is man, that's
the Hokies are the hottest story in the ACC right now,
I mean for better or for worse, right, So we
appreciate you coming on the pod and have a great
week guys, take care.
Speaker 4: Thanks gentlemen,