hokietrax's Recent Comments

Try not to wrench your shoulder

And hopefully Bud can take off the clown outfit next time we play them.

They can always opt to bring Gameday to, say, Chicago. You know, like they're in NYC today.

I'm not buying it. I can't fathom Fuente not wanting to get our 2 deep, which needs reps, on the field sooner. That's who ended up getting the rest, and I don't think it's a smart idea. I can't figure out why we didn't do a whole bunch more jet sweep type plays. Is the dropoff at QB2 so horrifying that it's worth basically only the rest of the starters getting any significant PT in order to keep JJ healthy?

Finebaum saying FEW-enn-tay bothered me far more...in an ESPN segment sometime in the last week or 2

Met the guy in the opening pic at my tailgate. Super nice guy, and that's his friend's hardhat...his friend who recently died. He wears the hardhat to honor and remember him.

Interestingly, USPS does deliver Amazon Prime packages on Sunday, in some cities.

Fair enough. Evans, Ore, Williams, Wilson, Suggs-level. Will an RB of that caliber be interested in VT under Fuente?

Holston is interesting, but I'm not sure what his ceiling really is. Not sure it's as good as some are high on him.

Brandon Sanderson has been mentioned here a couple of times, and I'll agree with all the endorsements, and add a bit of personal context.

I began the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (epic fantasy) while still at VT in the early 1990s. Jordan died in 2007 before the series was finished, and his wife selected a young writer named Brandon Sanderson to finish it. He did an incredible job tying up loose plot threads and maintaining Jordan's style over the course of 3 books.

So I started reading Sanderson's stuff. The Mistborn series was my introduction, and it was really good. I have read just about all of his books, but a few years ago he began the Stormlight Archive (series).

Stormlight's 1st book: The Way of Kings is outstanding. Words of Radiance (book 2) is outstanding. IIRC, the series is supposed to be 10 books long. Yes, it's not finished, but I have a good feeling he won't pull a George RR Martin and take 5+ years between books (and probably die before completing it). Brandon is pretty consistently cranking these out every 2-3 years, depending on how much other writing he's doing. I'm looking very forward to reading these over the next 16-20 years.

I cannot recommend Way of Kings enough.

And don't get me wrong, Joe. Your writing is solid...its just an OCD-type thing I have.

Clearly Matty can't put it together in the big one. For all the "Matty Ice" bullshit, remember the 2007 ACCCG?

Is there no way to moderate such that questions can be asked elsewhere and addressed in this thread? In other words, close off comments other than yours to retain focus? You could repeat the question along with your answers & analysis, no?