The Tunnel

FWIW, John Iezzi wrote two post-game articles after Saturday's game and there is a pinned thread for discussion from tonight's game.

I'm sure as we move a little deeper into the season and especially into conference play, bball discussions will pick up a lot more.

Yep, we are definitely aware that basketball season has started! All four of these articles were posted within the last week. Expect two more by Wednesday. If you have a twitter, I have been tweeting pretty heavily from press row at both games so far and plan to continue doing so. I have a lot of things to say during games. When Tech is on the road and I am not at the games, I will be heavily in the game thread.

There is not as much day-to-day information on basketball. With there only being 13 players on the team, you can only say "Erick Green looks good in practice" so much before its just repeating information day in and day out. When teams are in-season, practices are also kind of a crap shoot based on amount of rest between games, injuries, etc. so there is not a lot of daily information coming out of each practice. Also, we are not allowed as much access with the basketball team as we are the football team. That is a media-wide thing. Once the season starts kicking into gear, we will be able to talk to James Johnson and team members every Monday but that isn't the case right now.

I will be covering basketball pretty heavily. Once we get to the start of the month of December (really the Iowa game), on top of the "Three Stars" and "Five Observations" series, I will be writing extensive previews before every game. Just as of right now, previews don't mean much as teams haven't really established lineups, who is going to play, which players are effective, how the team looks, etc. so I want to make sure that if I am writing an article on the other team, I have enough information to actually provide you guys with the background and what to look for from the other team.

In terms of the actual discussion on the board, well, I and the staff can only control that so much. There will never be as much interest on here in basketball as there is in football from the collective group. For example, if I had posted my Five Observations on a football game, there would have probably been 5x the views and 5x the comments at least, but we are trying. I, and really all of us here at VTScoop, are certainly excited about the basketball program and I hope every Tech fan gets into it as well.

Does anyone know if Rankin will be back for the next game? I understand he had some deaths in the family but did not hear any more. Prayers to him and his family and hope he is able to make it back soon.

Personally,I don`t care about VT basketball.

WOW!

Excellent!