What do we know about Virginia?

#26
#26
I went to 2 UVA games last season. Their line play was awful. They were getting blown up on most plays by Richmond of all teams. So if they replaced their entire OL, that might be good for them, because they were not good.
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
I literally know nothing about their program. What kind of challenge should we expect?

What do you know about them?
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They did poorly last year and lost some of their best players from that team. We should handle them unless their coach pulls a Heupel on Heupel and we come in there taking them lightly.
 
#33
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vegasvolfan said:
They did poorly last year and lost some of their best players from that team. We should handle them unless their coach pulls a Heupel on Heupel and we come in there taking them lightly.
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If it wasn’t the first game then maybe by the smallest of chances could I see us taking them lightly and even then I still see a 3td win on our worst day… but we have multiple factors working for us… Nissan is neyland west n will be heavily orange the players will be overly excited with it being game 1 the off season is very long… we don’t play a tough opponent week 2 and the culture Heup is building won’t allow us to take anyone light… I spoke to this point last season the nature of heup up tempo aggressive attack literally raises the sense of urgency at all times to even operate it the players have to constantly be locked in… this prevents us from taking anyone lightly… go Vols I expect a 40+ point W.
 
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#36
I want to propose a slightly different perspective .... Tony Elliott, ONLY keep 3 coaches from the previous staff. It was an administrative decision and a calculated gamble. It failed.
His first head coaching job and he did not get a team of coaches together. Big mistake! They did not have any synergy.

What makes me think it was messy ... the transfers where some of his best players, but they went to FSU and NC State and Nebraska ... so ...
I am doing a "rough" comparison, but it is not apples to apples as far as I can tell and yes I know not all of them have 'left' ... but it goes to the state of the program:
Transfers Outgoing --- Incoming
Tennessee 16 11
Virginia 14 8

Two of the three coaches who were retained have moved along. That is both good news and bad.
One of those moving along was the OLine Coach - he is going to work for his former OC at NC State ... I am proposing that he and Des Kitchings never got on the same page.
Also gone is the WR coach - headed to the same position at Penn State ... again I suspect that the OC and WR coach were of different mindsets.
Not pointing the finger in either direction.

Tennessee ranked 4th - Virginia ranked - 88th (Closest comparison would likely be Vanderbilt at 95th, but Vanderbilt scored 7 more points per game, but also gave up 12 more points per game) Yes I am aware of the competition level difference.

So, I am betting the Offense will be a little bit better than it was last year ... not worse and not the same.
QB is a transfer and new to the system. But looks to be a better fit with the offense. So, early in the season it will likely be interesting. But overall better
And the defense, while not great, was better under Rudzinski than it was under Howell.
I would imagine that it will get a little better this year, even if their best LB and Corner took the train out of town.
With a few breaks they could easily have been 6-4.
I'm thinking on the level of Georgia Tech or Boston College ... so ... 54 -21
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
I literally know nothing about their program. What kind of challenge should we expect?

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They were rated #121 out of 131 FBS teams in Total Offense last year.

I can't put my finger on exactly which team had the #1 Total Offense in FBS but I think it started with a T.
 
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BoroVol93 said:
If it wasn’t the first game then maybe by the smallest of chances could I see us taking them lightly and even then I still see a 3td win on our worst day… but we have multiple factors working for us… Nissan is neyland west n will be heavily orange the players will be overly excited with it being game 1 the off season is very long… we don’t play a tough opponent week 2 and the culture Heup is building won’t allow us to take anyone light… I spoke to this point last season the nature of heup up tempo aggressive attack literally raises the sense of urgency at all times to even operate it the players have to constantly be locked in… this prevents us from taking anyone lightly… go Vols I expect a 40+ point W.
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I’m basically going off of what the players from last year said about SC. Maybe it was an excuse, I dunno. But maybe it wasn’t and hopefully that taught us a lot. Certainly seemed like it during the Vandy game
 
#42
#42
what do i know about Virginia? well we lost the fastest guy ever recorded in the NFL and are going to win by fiddy+. enough said.
 
#47
#47
This will be a massacre in my opinion. They don’t have the secondary to keep up with McCoy, Keaton, Squirrel, Thornton past the 2nd quarter. It might be 24-7 ish at halftime, but look for a final of about 44-10
 
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#48
#48
They have a decent defense coming back. Their problem should be offense.
 
#50
#50
I think in the end we will probably allow Virginia a courtesy touchdown in the name of sportsmanship.
 
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