Well that's different...Staley as guest speaker.

[therealmjl]

41 minutes ago, CRA said:

well, that the 2 coaching goats of the Carolina's.  Not sure you can really add anyone else on par with them. 

I'm cutting Belichick out and putting him to the side.  Clearly the GOAT.....but dude wants back into the NFL.  I doubt he has any interest in sharing/helping any NFL team out.   That's not very Belichicky. 

They need to get a real coach in there to talk to them boys about building a culture and representing an entire state with pride

[shaqattaq]

9 hours ago, CPcavedweller said:

Bill Belichik obviously. Wouldn’t mind it and I’d love to see the video. The dude knows football. 

I'm sure that SOB is hiding in the stands somewhere with a camcorder! Old habits are hard to break.

[kungfoodude]

7 minutes ago, therealmjl said:

They need to get a real coach in there to talk to them boys about building a culture and representing an entire state with pride

The future VT HC???

[CRA]

8 minutes ago, therealmjl said:

They need to get a real coach in there to talk to them boys about building a culture and representing an entire state with pride

I mean, that’s putting a LOT of weight behind a Duke Mayo Bowl trophy.  

maybe Beamer should of driven up and listened to Dabo and Dawn talk 

[CPcavedweller]

8 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

The future VT HC???

As an old VT fan from the Vick days (I was a kid, come on) I’d love to see Beamer at Tech. When I was 13 I was hit by a car, sent through the windshield and lodged in the glass while the car hit a tree. Died once. 
 

anyway, when I woke up, I predictably had a lot of cards and other things but my aunt brought one and it was a hand written card from Frank Beamer. Now this was in 2004 at the height of Hokie power, and I was at Carolinas Medical Center. To get a handwritten card hand delivered in Charlotte, that far from Blacksburg, from the man himself was a great feeling. 
 

I’ll forever be a Beamer family fan. 

Edited August 5 by CPcavedweller

[TD alt]

1 hour ago, CPcavedweller said:

As an old VT fan from the Vick days (I was a kid, come on) I’d love to see Beamer at Tech. When I was 13 I was hit by a car, sent through the windshield and lodged in the glass while the car hit a tree. Died once. 
 

anyway, when I woke up, I predictably had a lot of cards and other things but my aunt brought one and it was a hand written card from Frank Beamer. Now this was in 2004 at the height of Hokie power, and I was at Carolinas Medical Center. To get a handwritten card hand delivered in Charlotte, that far from Blacksburg, from the man himself was a great feeling. 
 

I’ll forever be a Beamer family fan. 

Wow! Glad you made it and came out good as new.

[CPcavedweller]

2 minutes ago, TD alt said:

Wow! Glad you made it and came out good as new.

Definitely didn't come out good as new. My athletics dreams were over from that point on due to glass severing a nerve in my leg. Tried to reattach but couldn't get to it quick enough, you know, life over limb saying. Played travel ball, school ball, pretty much everything at a relatively high level for a 13 year old of the time. 

BUT, my now 12 year old seems to be on a trajectory to eventually be able to go play baseball on scholarship so I'm here for it. 

Thanks for the kind words!

[TD alt]

29 minutes ago, CPcavedweller said:

Definitely didn't come out good as new. My athletics dreams were over from that point on due to glass severing a nerve in my leg. Tried to reattach but couldn't get to it quick enough, you know, life over limb saying. Played travel ball, school ball, pretty much everything at a relatively high level for a 13 year old of the time. 

BUT, my now 12 year old seems to be on a trajectory to eventually be able to go play baseball on scholarship so I'm here for it. 

Thanks for the kind words!

Oh, sorry about that. Let us know about your son though. Good deal! Hopefully some of us will still be around and in our right minds in six years. It's an outstanding achievement just to get a scholarship. My great nephew (by marriage) was awarded a baseball scholarship to one of the two schools in Bluefield, West Virginia (can't remember which one). He couldn't handle the college life though and ended up returning home. It was all there in front of him...he just couldn't keep his priorities in order and let college life get the best of him his freshman year (hell, he didn't even finish the year). Keep your son close and keep working on him now about his priorities and attitude, and making responsible decisions (outside of baseball). He's young, but there's still a way to frame things in a way that he can relate. Sorry, just a little unsolicited advice.

[PNW_PantherMan]

2 hours ago, CPcavedweller said:

Definitely didn't come out good as new. My athletics dreams were over from that point on due to glass severing a nerve in my leg. Tried to reattach but couldn't get to it quick enough, you know, life over limb saying. Played travel ball, school ball, pretty much everything at a relatively high level for a 13 year old of the time. 

BUT, my now 12 year old seems to be on a trajectory to eventually be able to go play baseball on scholarship so I'm here for it. 

Thanks for the kind words!

Damn that sounds bad.  But it sounds like your son didn't fall too far from the tree.  Good luck to him.

[Chaos]

On 8/4/2025 at 7:29 AM, Joe Bear said:

I thought it was Duce Staley until I opened the thread.

Same

[Navy_football]

I'm a little salty with Staley for the way she handled Fulwiley, who went to my high school alma mater in Columbia. Other than that, I love what she's done for SC basketball. 

[CPcavedweller]

14 hours ago, TD alt said:

Oh, sorry about that. Let us know about your son though. Good deal! Hopefully some of us will still be around and in our right minds in six years. It's an outstanding achievement just to get a scholarship. My great nephew (by marriage) was awarded a baseball scholarship to one of the two schools in Bluefield, West Virginia (can't remember which one). He couldn't handle the college life though and ended up returning home. It was all there in front of him...he just couldn't keep his priorities in order and let college life get the best of him his freshman year (hell, he didn't even finish the year). Keep your son close and keep working on him now about his priorities and attitude, and making responsible decisions (outside of baseball). He's young, but there's still a way to frame things in a way that he can relate. Sorry, just a little unsolicited advice.

My 12 year old loves baseball like my 8 year old loves video games. He eats, sleeps, and dreams baseball. I sort of wish he wouldn't, because he can throw almost any object really, really well. He's got that smooth elbow drop with zero wasted motion you like to see in a quarterback but he won't bite on it for me, just for a little bit. 

You worry about burnout, especially once puberty hits but his growth chart is showing like 6'2 or so and he's got some leanness to build on so I think he will physically be able to get there. It's all going to be mental, but like I said, baseball is life for him. It was never that way for me, even though I played travel and went all over. I preferred the flavor of the season. I'd go from soccer practice to football practice, go from soccer games to basketball open gym. I still get that feeling any time I smell a change in the seasons, and it's tied to sports for me to this day. 

The smell of cut grass is different when it's almost football/soccer season compared to the summer baseball season, as an example. That hits around the first week of August most of the time and really sets in the first week of September. 

I ended up with three college degrees after a tumultuous 18-20 year old period where I basically still hadn't come to terms with everything being over, being able to play sports competitively and the ultimate dream of flying jets. But, had my oldest son at 21, got my poo together, and here we are. 

Edited August 5 by CPcavedweller

[CPcavedweller]

13 hours ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Damn that sounds bad.  But it sounds like your son didn't fall too far from the tree.  Good luck to him.

I'll let him know y'all said that he must succeed or he's shunned from any future Huddle interactions. I don't even know if kids get on message boards anymore. I think Reddit has taken over. 

[PNW_PantherMan]

1 hour ago, CPcavedweller said:

I'll let him know y'all said that he must succeed or he's shunned from any future Huddle interactions. I don't even know if kids get on message boards anymore. I think Reddit has taken over. 

I'd say keep him away but you won't have to ask.