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11 years 22 hours
# | Report: Suspended Virginia Tech RB Shai McKenzie Expected Back with Hokies in August Not being privy to the entire situation (I mean, I've heard the age and everything, but I have no idea how it happened/what was said), I agree with you, but hope that perhaps the situation is not as bad as it sounds.
Washington Warthogs does have some alliterative potential.
Well, I really doubt Fuller will be here next year either... I think every guy starting has probably earned the opportunity.
I dunno... Bud with 3 months to prepare for anyone... I like our odds.
The change is inevitable. I wish somebody other than Snyder (with more charisma/understanding of fans) would be in charge of it. Unfortunately, I think we're going to end up with something incredibly lame.
Yeah, I feel like if your list covers 4 of the 6 in the list, you might as well just post the last two and re-word your sentence.
Exactly - Killing Snow would be like killing off Danny. She's had so much time invested into her and hasn't really done anything important (as far as Westeros is concerned) yet.
Didn't know Elliott was playing hurt last year - good bit of info. He was an animal by the end of the season.
Yeah.... Straight up GoT. Holy shit.
Ugh, and the shorthand is not exactly easy to read sometimes. Not a fan.
Probably, and the potential bonus #s drop him lower... But for last year, he was the highest paid.
I miss Russ's nihilism, but that's just me, and I guess there's a lot more time for someone to do the same sort of stuff. Tonally, the show is still pretty similar, just lacks that cerebral horror that I thought Russ brought so well.
The crime is less exciting too - Naked woman ritual cult/pagan sacrifices > corrupt LA real estate deals. I mean, it's not even really a contest, but I guess the burning of the guy's eyes with acid was pretty hardcore. Jury's still out, I guess, but I'm definitely not as immediately grabbed as I was initially by the first corpse. We'll see where it goes. Probably didn't help that the corpse doesn't really appear until the last 2 min of the episode.
I also really liked the story telling last season, where it was the flash-backs via the interviews. Lets you really see the before/after of the two guys, and wonder how Russ is going to go from clean-cut sorta weird guy to trashy full-blown alcoholic. I was more than a little bummed that this one is going to be more of a conventional story structure.
So I guess my early impressions - not quite as good as last season, but plenty of time to change that.
Yeah, I've been tracking this pretty closely since he's on my Dynasty team... hasn't sounded good all offseason.
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11 years 3 weeks
# | Article from Clevland.com "Can Virginia Tech beat Ohio State? A 10 percent chance the Buckeyes could lose" Calculating the % of going undefeated gets really sobering really fast though if you don't fudge your numbers like they are. If you actually give the other teams a 30% chance to win one week, and a toss-up game with a rival, it drops to far too low a number for a homer to really feel good about. To me, this feels like they massaged arbitrarily assigned numbers to get the undefeated "we're the best ever" number somewhere closer to a palatable 50%.
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11 years 3 weeks
# | Article from Clevland.com "Can Virginia Tech beat Ohio State? A 10 percent chance the Buckeyes could lose" "Last year it was all about the scheme. With quarterback J.T. Barrett making his second start, Virginia Tech attacked the Buckeyes with a defense that put nine players near the line of scrimmage and the OSU coaches said they weren't prepared for what the Hokies did on either side of the ball.
That won't happen this year. No surprises."
I forgot that Bud Foster wasn't planning to do anything differently this year. Too bad he's not a defensive innovator or anything, or else he could cause some real havoc with that talented defense. Also a fun note - they gave us an 11% chance of winning last year. [eye-roll]
D. Hall is coming back from a ruptured Achilles, and could easily have lost a step - there's no way he can be counted on at this point. And I more meant safeties. Those have been a disaster for the last 3 or 4 years.
Who bemoans him on the Skins? Regardless of your opinion of the Redskins, it's the perfect place for him to latch on - terrible safety (and dbs in general) for years, close to home... etc
Going to be honest - I didn't even realize we were playing Purdue this year. I guess I've just got tunnel vision for the opener and assumed the other three OOCs were ECU and two scrubs.
What about a silhouette of lane stadium? With Sacksburg printed either above or below it
We really could have used him the last few years... Our offense has been floundering without him.
I'll see myself out.
I feel like that metric needs to take scoring frequency into account (and not just win probability). That might help rule out agonizing pillow fights like the WF game. Also maybe track things like FG blocks, sacks, etc - big plays that might not show up in the box score, but make the game interesting. Adding bonus points for rivalry and that type thing might not be a bad idea either.
I'd still say one of my favorite VT games ever was the Miami one (4th and Logan).
There are now, little kitty. There are now.
Way to install some brakes on the hype train
Seriously though, French - is this a problem with athleticism that we're just going to have to deal with (you can't teach speed type thing), or is this something that can be overcome with technique?
As long as it's not the Pac-12 guy from the Sugar Bowl, I think I'll cope.
Then don't click on it.