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| 9 years 2 months # | NFL Committee Told Ford, Hodges, and Evans to stay in school in December

So if Ford came back, he would likely not drastically improve his 40 time, which seems to be the biggest knock; would likely not see a big improvement on his numbers, having a very good Ankle Assassin on the field with him, a new QB (although that was not known when he declared, at least not known to us, Ford may have known), and he would have been facing double coverage the entire season; and on top of that a whole additional season of risking significant injury....where is the plus side to coming back, from an NFL perspective?

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| 9 years 2 months # | OT: We Remember 32: Frank Beamer

This is always a difficult time of year for me.

10 years ago today, my second senior year at VT, my grandmother died. My grandmother lived at home with me and my parents and had a huge role in raising me while my parents were at work. We were very close and I love her and miss her so much. We would talk on the phone a couple times a week once I got to VT. For the final couple years of her life she was in a nursing home, which was really tough on her, but that just made our phone calls all the more important to her. On Friday, April 13, 2007, my mom drove up to Blacksburg, from Chesapeake, to tell me the news in person cause she was worried about how I would handle the news over the phone (I probably would have drank myself into oblivion). We gathered some clothes and headed back to Chesapeake. We had the funeral on Sunday. Monday morning, still reeling from the past few days, I woke up, loaded up my truck and was getting ready to head out the door back to Blacksburg. That was when I walked past the TV which my dad had on CNN and witnessed what was going on. I was shocked, and hurting, and at the same time, felt I had to get back to Blacksburg as quickly as I could, despite my parents trying to get me to stay home a couple more days. It was a long, lonely drive back. It wasn't until after I got back that I learned I had not only lost my grandmother on Friday, but lost a friend Monday morning.

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| 9 years 3 months # | OT: Town of Blacksburg researching becoming a city.

Taxes might be higher for the City of Blacksburg vs. the Town of Blacksburg, but as a town within Montgomery County, residents are currently paying town taxes and county taxes. Are those two combined more than what residents would pay in city taxes?

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| 9 years 3 months # | Grade of Buzz's coaching job so far.

We've got some bigs on the roster, we had Sy playing at 6'10'' who did good for a true freshman, IMO. Blackshear at 6'10'', and Hamilton (i think) at 7'0'' out with injuries, and Nick Fullard at 6'10'' redshirting. Assuming Blackshear is back, and Sy and Hamilton progress during the off season, and Fullard is serviceable (I don't know anything about him), we should be a little better off next year with regards to size.

Gotta play with what you got, and IMO, for only having one big guy able to play, we did better than we should have.

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