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I'm admittedly an idiot for clicking on this before watching last night's episode, but moving forward could we agree to a spoiler-free grace period after new episodes air?
I disagree. He presented the events at UNC as a counterargument to the idea that student athletes are compensated with a quality education, by showing one instance of student athletes' education being worthless. By your argument, any presentation of specific examples to refute a vague, general claim world be cherrypicking.
Went right over my head. Many thanks.
Honestly that would be a step down for her unless they gave her absolute creative control over the program.
Seriously, how is GT that low after the season they just had?
God I love John Oliver. I know he has a pretty sweet gig with HBO but I'd love it if Comedy Central pried him away to be Jon Stewart's successor on the Daily Show. Oliver does a much better job at presenting global issues. Though admittedly that might change if he were to go to Comedy Central.
Actually I don't even know how they act toward non-CubS fans. But the way they act toward Cubs fans reminds me exactly of how 'Neers fans act toward us. There is no shortage of white trash in and around the St Louis area, and most of it packs Busch Stadium regularly.
First I was like:
But then I was like:
Uh, yeah. That was what I was going for.
You know what's a great meal to have before pie?
Steak.
Not this one game. I'm talking about how we've started to be dominant in some of the non-revenue sports that the Hoos used to hang their hats on. But don't get me wrong, I am SAVORING this one run win.
Because Cards fans are the MLB equivalent of WVU fans. Everyone should hate them on principle. AL teams should consider the Cards their rivals simply by virtue of their existence.
Bit by bit, we chip away at the Hoos' dwindling excuses for why they feel superior to us. Absolutely demolished in football, now being schooled in non-revenue sports. An academically superior research institution with a higher median graduate salary. Slowly but surely we are demonstrating to these Jefferson-worshiping tools that Virginia Tech is THE university of Virginia, bar none.
One box left to check. Buzz Williams, finish them!
Maybe Christopher Lloyd's second best role.
Great! You've killed the invisible swordsman!
See, very old one! SEW LIKE THE WIND!!!
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# | Bitter blog - Spring breakdown: Can the Hokies' quarterbacks be more consistent? #armpunterswag
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11 years 4 months
# | Bitter blog - Spring breakdown: Can the Hokies' quarterbacks be more consistent? head scratchers to the opposing secondary with no one there.
These were, by and large, miscommunications or route errors by the receivers.
However, I get your point. That's not consistency, though, at least the way I define it. You'll always have bad throws, mistakes, misreads, etc. Every quarterback has them, and I don't think Brewer does it any worse than a typical FBS level starting QB. The issue is, is Brewer's upside sufficient to overcome those inevitable mistakes? And based on 2014, the answer was very nearly no.
Can Brewer get better. That's the question. He's already improved in not making the bad throws; TD to INT ratio showed that over the season. But he needs to be better when he makes the good throws. Better completion percentage, more yards per attempt. (And the former shall obviously beget the latter.) If he can't do that, his job might be in danger.
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# | Bitter blog - Spring breakdown: Can the Hokies' quarterbacks be more consistent? Love the article, Andy. The title, not so much.
Michael Brewer was a VERY consistent QB in 2014. He was just consistently mediocre. That's not a knock on him personally, I just mean the guy's passer rating was lackluster but held very steady game to game over the course of the season. The question isn't if Brewer can be more consistent (that would be damn near impossible compared to what his stats show last season) but rather, can he simply be better. We need a better completion percentage and YPA out of him.
As for not having the swagger late in the season that he had early on... In the Virginia game, after taking a beating that would make Eli Roth cringe, this sumbitch SKIPPED to the line of scrimmage to take the game-winning kneeldown. If we could inject Brewer's swagger into the other 21 starters, we would straight up murder people on the field.
As we move toward the nickel as our base defense, it's understandable that our rushing defense has worsened. This is the flip side of what happened in 2003, when the 4-4 was a brick wall against the run, because it was designed to be just that, but got torched through the air. With our recent success in recruiting DTs I do expect to see improvement vs the run, but it's unfair to pine for the days of Hall and Adibi, because these linebackers will be playing in a different scheme than the 4-3 they played in.
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# | Stacy Searels Leads the Charge in Targeting "A Special Kind of Breed" of Offensive Linemen in 2016 Good lord. This might honestly all be coming together.
The Dream Team.
Because nothing is funnier than the prospect of four patients escaping from a maximum security mental institution?
It's a mail plane.
How can you tell?
Didn't you see its little balls?
Cable news in general is editorialized shit. Even the cable news that aligns with my own personal political viewpoint. I avoid all of it.
My own news preferences are shaped by the coverage in the aftermath of April 16. In the subsequent coverage of the shootings, I found the coverage of NPR and BBC America to be the most respectful in tone and of the highest, most objective quality. I have followed both those outlets as my primary radio/TV news sources since, and have yet to be given reason to question my original assesment.