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Meniscus vs ACL. Very, VERY different injuries with very different prognoses.

Would it make any sense to move Facyson to boundary? I know it's been a while since we just put our best/most senior corner at boundary by default. Just wondering the opinions of the TKP staff.

Sumanabitch.

I know we ran the bear front against them, but were we running it before Summers came in?

My wife was a reading aide at Shawsville. That hill is fun to go down in the winter, let me tell you.

I upvoted this because somebody downvoted it and you don't downvote for opinions you disagree with, but DAMN, dude. Seriously?

You and CWbtJ are bringing me around. I might have been blinding myself with the better numbers.

Sacks being included in rushing yardage is just categorically dumb. To be considered a sack, by definition, it must be on a pass attempt. On a designed QB run, it gets recorded by a tackle for loss. And yet sacks subtract from rushing yardage. It's bogus.

Yardage lost to sacks should be its own distinct statistical category. Add passing, add rushing, subtract sacks, equals total offense.

Sacks are included in that.

Is it wrong to be sexually attracted to a cartoon?

My...friend...is asking.

I am still in, and will remain in, because I have finally learned to celebrate Hokie successes with euphoria without letting stumbles or shortcomings dampen my mood. For a while, the first loss of the season was crushing to me, because I started every season with dreams of a national championship. I was on campus when the infamous trophy case was installed, and it honestly felt like a crystal football was right around the corner. That was a hard dream to let die each season. Coupled with that was the growing angst of knowing that underperforming coaches were being kept in place because Frank took it personally when Kevin Rodgers left for the NFL. It's hard to stay in any relationship when the other party engages in self-destructive behavior. That's what the O'Cainspring era was. It eventually got to be too much. In 2012, I stepped away for a while. I followed the games instead of watched them religiously. The losses didn't hurt, because I expected them. I accepted that we weren't a very good football team. And in doing that, something kind of weird happened. It became fun again.

We weren't nearly as good as we had been when I first got into VT football. But I also wasn't expecting to contend for anything. I could enjoy watching the details. Wins felt awesome. They put a smile on my face. But I met losses with a shrug. One reason I've enjoyed the Loeffler era so much is because I'm enjoying all the little improvements I've seen along the way. Better passing tree design and improved blocking, etc. etc. Sure I wish we were getting 10-11 wins, but for once it feels like we're being better schematically. That's one reason I love this place so much. Shit shows that would have made me pissed off for days, now I can come here, read Mason and French, and understand what went wrong. When we aren't good, I can just accept that we aren't good, and hope for improvement.

Maybe my attitude is a cop out, but it doesn't feel like it. I'm able to savor the wins without the losses ruining my Saturday afternoons/Sundays.

I'm in. I'm more in than I've ever been. Saturday can't get here soon enough.

Let's just say the improvements we're seeing thus far on offense came not one second too soon, and absolutely must continue if this isn't to turn into a complete clusterfuck of a season. Welcome to the new reality: the offense is gonna have to bail out the defense, at least some if not constantly.