It kinda drives home for me that we’re probably not going to be able to really compete in football at this juncture with a pro-style system. Let’s go option baby!
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Are we sure about that? I know MSU is SEC but I don’t think they’re exactly swimming in money. Could be as simple as they’ll pay his as a starter vs we may be thinking of him as a backup? Who knows.
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With Mills out for the year, he still had a chance to start for us, no?
I’ve seen it speculated that the staff sees him more as a guard and have no desire of starting him at tackle. I have no idea.
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He was penciled in as starting RG, but he or Wyatt would shift to starting RT with Mills out.
Either way, OL was looking deep. Not so much any more.
Even with Mills out, there was still a lot of competition depending how some of the other guys were looking in spring practice. Could’ve seen himself (or been told by coaches he was) behind a ridiculous EIGHT current working seniors for next year (in no particular order: Metcalfe, Sipe, Wigenton, Wyatt, Boley, Witmer, Josey, and Wilson), to say nothing of other younger guys coming on out of the rising 2nd and 3rd years.
Hopefully won’t matter as much for this coming year, where we still have a ton of depth with these two losses, and could even add more with Spring Portal takes. But of course Steen had two years of eligibility remaining, and could’ve been a big part of keeping some stability on the line going into 2026. As it stands now we’ll likely be replacing the entire starting OL next spring.
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Number 3 currently uncommitted OT, but #37 overall OT in the portal. For reference, Mills is #4 overall. Old sorta friend Andrew Gentry is #43 going from Michigan to BYU. Tyshawn Wyatt is 59. Wallace Unamba is 75 (and 79, 247 needs some quality control for these double transfers). Former target James Pogolerc is 94 and uncommitted. Couldn’t find Zach Rice…oh there he is at 68 in IOL. Not even a tackle anymore. For other IOLs, our guy Kevin Wigengton is 37. Brady Wilson is 99. Ugonna Nnanna is 131. Charlie Patterson is 164.
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Lee Corso is retiring! I really like that guy… unlike how like a John Madden who would grate on me after a while.
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Love Corso and I credit him for a lot of the early success of Gameday. But it’s long past time for him to go. He’s visibly struggled the past few years since the stroke.
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I think they were trying to hit as many new places as possible the last couple years because they knew he was retiring. Just never worked out to come to Virginia though.
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Yeah its felt like elder abuse some Saturday mornings. I’ll miss him, but the “him” I remember hasn’t been there in a while. I am glad he’s going out before something bad happens on air to be honest.
I liked the COVID set up they had for him where the mascots would float by in the pool behind him and he could basically do pre-recorded segments for the show. I wish they had switched to that full time the last few years.
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I was thinking about that when I typed my comment. I hoped they would have kept that format for Corso once they went on the road. It worked a lot better. I feel like Lee only did a segment or 2 as it was and he struggled getting through his picks.
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Yeah he would do one early one and then his picks, and Kirk was basically prompting him the whole time.
I know a couple of people that have worked on the show and by all accounts, he really wanted to be out there and still attended a lot of the pre-production meetings and was reasonably sharp in most of them. He loved doing it, and how do you convince a legend to hang it up?
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That’s what I assumed and the impression I got from interviews with Kirk. I know he alluded to essentially holding Lee’s hand and being his handler out of respect and wanting to help him.
I do believe Lee legitimately enjoyed what he did and like the energy etc. Tough to walk away from that. I wouldn’t be surprised if he even credited that in part to his recovery after the stroke.
I am glad he was not forced out and gets to gracefully bow out.
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Reminds of of watching Dick Clark on NYE broadcasts after his stroke. Mixed emotions on the subject. You knew he wanted to be out there, was truly passionate about it, and combining that with nostalgia and affections (as much as one can have for a celebrity) it was bittersweet to see them out there like that. No one “right way” to handle it.
The flip side, maybe 20 years ago or so, I saw one of Chuck Berry’s last public performances. He (and/or his family trust) owned a restaurant / concert venue in St Louis, and every now and again he’d be booked to perform there. And it was very clear that his family/handlers were pushing him out there for the payday while he really was not competent up there in the least. Entire audience bought tickets for the name recognition then just left sad and disappointed.
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Lol
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We’d schedule a home and home immediately if we had any brains
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It’ll be a sell out and they ain’t world beaters.
I take our staff over theirs when it comes to actual X’s and O’s
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Rudzinski maybe…
Watch us be the first team to get in trouble for fucking tampering lmao