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Post by jkhoya12 on Oct 28, 2008 19:19:22 GMT -5
Per Andy Katz on his blog.....at home...anyone know more details?
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Post by BubbleVisionBiff on Oct 28, 2008 19:31:29 GMT -5
We scrimmage every year under JT III, as opposed to games vs. the Latvian All-Stars. Have done it with VT before. It will undoubtedly be closed to the public.
If it is on Saturday, that would explain the HHC open practice being on Friday.
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Post by Just Cos on Oct 28, 2008 23:24:28 GMT -5
Did select members of the press get to go to this scrimmage last year or was it just practice?
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Post by stafford72 on Oct 29, 2008 8:26:21 GMT -5
I wonder how the Fort Hood program is doing these days.
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Post by lichoya68 on Oct 29, 2008 9:00:42 GMT -5
i thought theses scrimmages hadda be closed to all but not sure adn good point about this date maybe conflicting with a sat date for the open practice know jt3 would be trying to get best time just glad its gonna happen as i hear it was tough to work out ps it the vt scrimmage at mcdonough or vt.. also that jeff allen was one of the BEASTS in the kenner very very dominate great hustle and player played our bigs very very well interesting go hoyas  |
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Post by lichoya68 on Oct 29, 2008 9:01:38 GMT -5
sorry jk at home i quess should mean at our house didnot see that part go hoyas
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Oct 29, 2008 9:46:24 GMT -5
I love the fact that we do this scrimmage every year, and I think VTech is a great opponent. They are usually a fairly physicial and athletic team that will play defense, and they are also fairly well coached. The staff should learn a lot from this scrimmage, as the Hoyas are the more talented team, but are so young with so many moving parts. What a great way to see what various players can do at this point, both in terms of individual execution and team functioning.
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Post by NCHoya on Oct 29, 2008 10:35:50 GMT -5
I am surprised more teams do not do this, but then again money talks. Scrimmaging another BCS conference opponent versus playing the "xy" all-star team seems to be more valuable to a team's prep for the season. However, schools that have their own arena can schedule these D3 or all-star teams and sell a bunch of tickets so understandably most ADs choose money over better competition for a practice.
I think this actually works to our advantage in many ways.
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Post by jgalt on Oct 29, 2008 10:51:03 GMT -5
A closed scrimmage also saves you from an embarrassing loss to a d2 school before the season even starts. I agree with Lic that VT is a good team to face (it seems like kind of a long trip for them, but maybe it allows Coach Greenberg to get a little more recruiting in). Does anyone know if gtown ever returns the games to VT or goes to anyone for a scrimmage?
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Oct 29, 2008 11:09:05 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure we've been trading home and home scrimmages w/ Tech for a few years now.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Oct 29, 2008 11:26:17 GMT -5
Here's the rule by the way. You can have two pre-season games, either: - A closed scrimmage against a D-I opponent
- An open game (you can sell tickets) against a D-II or D-III opponent
You can no longer play against travelling teams at all. It's been banned thanks to Calhoun. Like THB, this is at least our third scrimmage against Tech and we've gone to Tech in the past. I don't know if we're using our other allowed scrimmage. |
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Oct 29, 2008 11:29:14 GMT -5
Nice work, Jimmy C! Way to ruin things for our friends at Fort Hood and Latvian Select by using a player's travel team to openly buy his services.
Calhoun should be on a Bud Light "Real Men of Genius" commercial- "Mr. Openly Paying Recruits Scumbag Yet Celebrated Basketball Coach."
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Post by CO_Hoya on Oct 29, 2008 12:26:23 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure we've been trading home and home scrimmages w/ Tech for a few years now. Per this old post, this is either the 4th or 5th straight year scrimmaging VaTech. I also seem to recall that JTIII used to scrimmage VaTech when he was head coach at Princeton, although Jon Soloman would be a better authority on that. |
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Post by vcjack on Oct 29, 2008 15:51:54 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure we've been trading home and home scrimmages w/ Tech for a few years now. Per this old post, this is either the 4th or 5th straight year scrimmaging VaTech. I also seem to recall that JTIII used to scrimmage VaTech when he was head coach at Princeton, although Jon Soloman would be a better authority on that. It might be older than JTIII's time, perhaps Greenburg made some connections here back in the few short years that VT played in the Big East. The series also proves that we didn't tamper with Gus Gilchrest's recruitment, even though a lot of Maryland fans (and some Hokie fans) wanted to argue it that way. |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Oct 29, 2008 18:34:24 GMT -5
The VA Tech scout board often has a good recap of the scrimmage. There is a poster on there who seems well connected and gets leaked info. IIRC, they often control these scrimmages and try out different things, whereas the old exhibition games did nothing for us and turned into de facto layup lines.
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Post by kchoya on Oct 29, 2008 18:48:41 GMT -5
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Post by CO_Hoya on Oct 29, 2008 18:49:06 GMT -5
It might be older than JTIII's time I don't think that's possible, since VaTech was in the Big East through 2003-04 ( link). I kinda doubt conference opponents would scrimmage. |
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Post by vcjack on Oct 29, 2008 18:57:11 GMT -5
It might be older than JTIII's time I don't think that's possible, since VaTech was in the Big East through 2003-04 ( link). I kinda doubt conference opponents would scrimmage. I meant that the ties between the two schools were probably formed then, not between JTIII and VT/Greenburg while Thompson was at Princeton |
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Post by lichoya68 on Oct 29, 2008 19:25:45 GMT -5
go hoyas beat the hockies and jeff allen CAN OUTRIGHT PLAY as mr. rich would say go hoyas
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Post by 1984alloveragain on Nov 2, 2008 17:51:49 GMT -5
I can't believe no one has even mentioned our scrimmage with VT this weekend at this point on Sunday. Did it happen? Anybody have any results? I can't believe how little traffic the board has had this year.
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