just give scheyer a couple more years to run this rotten program into the ground and things will finally change but right now he’s living off the k rep
I just learned Kevin Keatts is from Lynchburg and also that his Wikipedia entry about his HS career is hilariously misleading. "He attended Heritage High School and played point guard on their basketball team as well as quarterback on their football team. As starting quarterback, Keatts led the football team to be ranked the best in the state, losing only one game his entire career." I was pretty sure Heritage just won their first state title a couple years ago (I checked, they did) so I looked a bit more and he could only have QB'd a single season (all his other possible HS seasons they lost several times each year) in which Heritage went an incredible 11-1 and got bounced in the second round of the playoffs. also not sure where that ranking came as there is no official ranking done in the state and even by power points it wouldn't be possible since Heritage was on the road in the playoff game they lost. not a big deal, just odd to me. I just found the entry amusing, it made it sound like he won 3-4 state titles or something.
Young ain't it. recruiting dropped off a cliff after the new coach bump and seems unlikely to recover. when Cattoor leaves next year we're going to be in the cellar. tried the experiment and it worked briefly but just couldn't maintain that success and this is not a hopeless place for bball, two coaches before him proved as much. nobody's expecting to be fighting for first place consistently but VT should be making the tourney 7-8 times a decade, give or take, and routinely in the upper third of the ACC. I like Young, very local and that's always a plus but program is stagnating and looking on a downward spiral. I've tried to hang on with him for awhile now, I'm usually pretty quick to want to move on from most failing coaches (because I don't want 25+ year coaches anymore unless they're winning national titles) but stuff like today, up double digits and lose by eight, it's just not acceptable anymore. he's over his head in recruiting and seems outmatched most games as a coach. it's probably more realistic for a new HC in 2026 but cutting bait after 2025 would be the smartest play barring a miracle recruiting class.
"I think at the end of the day, the ACC runs through me," Bacot said after the game. I went through Armando's 8 year career at UNC and can't seem to find a time where he won an ACC regular season or tournament title so what do we think he means here
what a bizarre box score. both teams 50+% FG, both terrible from 3 pt (27% UL, a laughable 15% for FSU) and both fouled the unholy fuck out of each other (34 for FSU, 23 for UL) culminating in 80 FTs (of which FSU shot only 66%). I was wondering how the hell a random ACC game had an NBA score to it. yeesh.
I’m generally a fan of metrics helping to determine how good a team or player is, but what are we doing here.
Clemson is struggling mightily in conference now after having a great ooc stretch. it’s the exact opposite of last year when we set a school record for acc wins and they told us to kick rock. We may finish .500 in the acc and our net is going to possibly be good enough. Strange world we are in. Last years team >>>>this team
Yea the league needs you guys to get it together. UVA has finally started too, but the bubble teams need to figure it out. We also need UNC and Duke to lose to top half teams, not fuckin Georgia T
Every team Maryland played over that stretch was better than the best team Virginia played, which it beat by one point.
the SEC argument fails because they’re not good teams. Quality of competition and scoring margin absolutely tells you information beyond wins and losses. If not, then we’d be looking at a Gonzaga squad that has won five of the last eight titles or whatever.
our 247 board despises the net for seemingly putting more stock in beating the shit out of shit teams than winning close against good ones
The Big 12 and B1G have certainly figured out how to game it better than the ACC. Mark Gottfried was a wizard at scheduling mediocre OOC teams who we could beat, but would be good in their own conference to make us look better. Keatts just schedules 300+ garbage.
We don't really have anyone like Wong who can create their own shot or even really drive to the rim to create offense. So it leaves Miami with guys who can shoot on the perimeter but can't get those shooters open against competent defense. Cleveland was also meant to replace Jordan Miller. He's giving you maybe 80-85% of what Miller could do on offense, but is always looking for his own shot (as opposed to Miller being a capable distributor when you needed him to be). And he is not near the defender that Miller was. We also seem to average one rolled ankle a game (it's been Kyshawn George tonight), and that has led to all of our top 6 (aside from Bensley Joseph) to miss a game or two basically one after the other. That has hurt the continuity of the lineup, and we mostly avoided any lineup absences last season.
i get miami lost some key parts and laranaga is a good coach overall but this seems like a really piss poor coaching job this year. no excuse for being this bad
I didn't get the top 10-15 preseason hype at the start of the year due to not having Wong and Miller. But I still thought they would comfortably be an NCAA team, this is an extreme underperformance.
Garbage coaching aside, the approach to roster construction was even worse. We replaced a playmaking scoring guard in the Wong with a pass-first point guard who can't score, making us even smaller. Our recruiting evals have been piss poor the better part of the past half-decade save for Wooga and George. A ton of wasted talent. Larranaga teams have always gotten better in ACC play and this is the first year I can ever remember that not being the case. By far his worst coaching job at Miami and I'm not sure it's close.