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Shit is getting real at UVA.
To save you time:
Phi Kappa Psi has voluntarily suspended all activity.
That came after someone vandalized the frat's moniker with "SUSPEND US" and "UVA Center for Rape Studies"
University President Theresa Sullivan has called for Charlottesville police to investigate the rape cited in the Rolling Stone piece.
As @Alum07 mentioned above, she has apparently done this from a super-secret location, as the university is refusing to divulge her whereabouts, citing security concerns.
The students who vandalized Phi Psi sent an anonymous letter demanding, among other things, the dismissal of Dean Eramo.
Governor McAuliffe has called for an investigation.
And we're just getting started, folks.
I am having a very visceral response to this. So I will refrain from comment.
Hey this brings up a good point. I just noticed that comments are blurred if they hit ten downvotes regardless of how many upvotes they get. Seems unbalanced to me. Regardless of whether or not you conceal the total upvote/downvote totals, would it be possible to only blur comments if they hit -10 on the overall score rather than ten downvotes?
EDIT: Also, you're the tits, Joe. You run the best damn VT site on the interwebs. Don't let all the brouhaha about downvotes getcha down. Everyone's a critic.
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Too much sexy. No room for hair.
If his last name is Plantin, does he really need a nickname? Surname about sums it up, really.
My son's middle name is Foster.
The problem I'd have with Kevin Jones is that he was so damn natural at the position. Did he spend hours practicing the fundamentals? My gut says no.
For a position coach you want more of a Cedric Humes than a Kevin Jones. A baller who put in the hours and had to develop to earn playing time.
I'll say this. I don't think there's a snowball's chance in Barbados of Frank being fired after the season. But knowing Whit's M.O. I could definitely see a come to Jesus moment where there are massive shakeups on the staff after the season that Frank has no say in. I think this is the moment when Whit takes the reins of the program and we see Frank fade toward retirement as more of a figurehead coach. And I don't think Frank realizes it's coming.
Yoshi will show him how it's done.
Rosebud's a sled and Bruce Willis is dead.
Brewimus Prime.
I can dig it.
Trying to think of a point over the years I've followed VT football that it's looked darker.
I mean...seriously. Unicron is bearing down on the Autobot home world and Hot Rod is desperately trying to open the matrix of leadership.
As opposed to recruiting a really promising tight end we would wind up converting to OL? That's progress.
Brewer was a game manager. He didn't force anything (except once that got negated by a roughing the passer) and took what was there. Threw it away to avoid sacks. Had a high completion percentage. He didn't lose the game for us, which is what I meant when I said he didn't have a terrible game. Not having a terrible game does not equal having a good game. He did what was expected of him. The blame isn't on his shoulders.
No offense (and I mean that sincerely) but I'm done giving a damn about standings, ranking, playoffs or anything else for the foreseeable future. I'll start paying attention to that after the program has addressed the consistency issues we see on the field. I'm more concerned with VT being a solid football program than if we somehow manage to back our way into this or that scenario. Ultimately, we're not a good football team this year, and watching us try to reestablish excellence is way more compelling to me than the state of the conference. I care about french's reviews way more than any poll or the standings right now.
We're only on year two post-Newsome, and had a setback when Grimes was a one and done. Don't give up hope that the OL is irreparable just yet.
This is such a nuanced question. My stab at it is this: our offensive scheme is not obsolete, but the way we try to run it might well be. So it depends on what you mean by philosophy.
To me, the one thing that has been lacking, and still is, is aggression on offense. The system we use is fine, and Lefty's scheme is a hell of an upgrade over Stiney's in terms of play design and giving a QB the option to take what a defense gives them. But the one thing that hasn't changed is our risk management approach to offense.
Here's what I see happening this season, and please, correct me if I'm wrong. We started the season out with a gunslinger QB who was going to try to get positive yards every play, could do some spectacular things, but whose demeanor was going to result in a couple bad plays, and probably a couple turnovers, per game. When faced with this problem, an OC can deal with it in two ways, either by trying to beat the two bad plays per game out of your QB at the expense of the improvisational brilliance he's capable of, or you shrug your shoulders and say guess we're gonna have to score enough to make up for the mistakes. Lefty has opted soundly for the former, and we're witnessing the results. Brewer looks timid and indecisive when running the standard offense, and looks like a game winner when we go two minute.
Not saying the other option of putting the pedal down and going for the throat every drive would have been the better call. We probably don't have the OL for it and we most certainly don't have the tailbacks for it at least until Juice gets healthy. But my larger point is, it just seems like as a program we have become way too accepting of offensive drives not resulting in points, just so long as they don't result in a turnover. The offense should put points on the board on a high percentage of drives, but that requires a certain level of aggression from the OC. After the GT debacle, it just seems like Lefty is keeping Brewer handcuffed until the game demands otherwise.
Also never had a power five transfer at QB arrive weeks before the start of the season. Everything about Brewer's career at VT is unique, so trying to judge it against prior precedent is not really valid. The larger point is valid, VT has a history of being wishy washy about the starting QB.
Brewer's the guy this season. Some people refuse to wrap their minds around that, but it is as it should be. Next season maybe we get some legit pressure to bring in Ford or Motley if Brewer struggles, but this is Brewer's year. And TBH, with the exception of his meltdown against GT, Brewer has exceeded my expectations. I think he starts all next season as well and smashes some single season records (and not just INTs :P) along the way.
Brewer was 26/45 for 265 yards and a TD. You can do way, way worse than that. And Leal did. Against UCLA.
Autocorrect strikes again.
Eff if. I'm leaving it.
QBR leans heavily on YPA and YPC, right?
Whit had no clue what he was walking into here.