Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments

I'll leave it at this: I've possessed 14 grams of marijuana a few times in my life, and I sure as hell didn't plan to distribute it. I'd intentionally go out of my way to keep people from knowing I had it specifically so I wouldn't have to distribute it...

There is literally a part of Turn Up the Wick that deals with just this. Under Rickey Bustle, they would occasionally let Stiney pick a play here and there. There was one game where they were running roughshod over the opponent, and then they asked Stiney what to run. He said to try a pass. Bustle keys up his headset and says something along the lines of, "We're running all over these sonsabitches and you want to pass?!?!? What the hell is wrong with you?"

That's a lesson Stiney never learned.

ITT: people being reasonable and realistic about how this turn of events will hamper our potential for success this upcoming season, some of whom will then proceed to lose their goddam minds in the live game threads when we actually lose because of shortcomings in the defensive secondary.

YouTube Red is included with my Google Play Music All Access subscription. This is the first time I've ever actually cared.

I don't have much of a problem with this. More exposed skin = greater risk of laceration, especially now with the targeting rule prompting tacklers to go low.

The T-shirt thing seems a little crotchety.

With Stiney, it wasn't that you could predict the play call based on the situation, it was that you could predict it based on the offense's alignment. He liked to use two dozen different formations with maybe 1 or 2 different plays run out of each formation. The one example that sticks in my mind is the jumbo set he used to use, when he would shift the two TEs before the snap. I think we had one running play and one pass play (a deep bomb) from that formation. There are going to be tells our offense gives that a decent defense or DC will be able to pick up on to determine whether it's the run play or the pass play they're going to have to stop. In other words, Stiney was constantly tipping his cards by virtue of wanting ALL the formations but having a bare handful of plays to run out of each.

The people who are the most pretentious about wine tend to be the least knowledgeable about the actual wine they're drinking. Wine is complex. You really have to know your shit to be a true wine conniseur. It's a lot easier to parrot what you hear and act with disdain toward anything else. Like the dumbasses who crashed the market for Merlot winemakers because Paul Giamatti's character in Sideways hated it.

If you're pretentious about wine, you're probably a poser.

The reason they haven't abandoned the kickoff is pretty simple: onside kicks. They remain simply too fundamental a facet of the most captivating games in the sport. Untill they find a suitable replacement to give the scoring team a chance to recover the ball for another possession, kickoffs won't be eliminated entirely.

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