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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2486686, member: 289"]
I would love to have gotten Vick, (agree with the point about Tommy Kane and Will Allen), but there was more wrong with the program than not getting Vick.

In the McNabb years we went 35-14 overall and 23-5 in the conference. Our highest ranking in either poll in each year was 16/19/20/24. We split four games with Virginia Tech and were out-scored 90-109. Virginia Tech was 36-12 and 22-6 in the conference. Their highest rankings were 9/13/UR/18.

In the Vick years we went 13-10 and 7-7 in the conference. We were unranked both years.  We were 0-2 against Virginia Tech and got out-scored 14-84. Virginia Tech  was 22-2 and 13-1 in the conference. They were ranked #2 and #6.  Their only losses were to a 12-0 Florida State team that won the national championship, (over Virginia Tech), and a 11-1 Miami team that should have played for it.

When we had McNabb and they didn't have Vick, they were still fully comparable with us, maybe a bit better. When they had Vick and we didn't have McNabb, they were far better than we were.

Did they have more overall talent than we did? Hard to tell but we put 30 players into the NFL from those rosters:
[URL='https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/syracuse/']Syracuse Players/Alumni | Pro-Football-Reference.com[/URL]
(click on the space above the years and look for players whose career began from 1996 to 2003- the later would have been freshmen in 2000)
They put 31 guys into the NFL over the same period:
[URL='https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/virginiatech/']Virginia Tech Players/Alumni | Pro-Football-Reference.com[/URL]
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