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Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 9 years 7 months # | Announcement on Monday (12/12/16)

Your solution is a Rube Goldberg machine. We have one Twitter account that is an embarrassment, and your solution is to create a new position to seize control of all social media.

This is a terrible idea for two reasons. One, in general you want the specific areas and departments of the university to control the content of their own social media. Consolidating it under one position, staffed by a person who may or may not understand about any or all of the topics, would probably result in bland, generic content.

Two, it might not even fix the problem, if you hire someone as bad at social media as what we currently have @VT_Football. The answer isn't a director of social media, it's an implementation of quality control over the social media we already have. And we have someone who is supposed to be doing just that.

Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 9 years 7 months # | ACC Coaches as Christmas characters

I am surprised no one has mentioned the absolute fucking epicness and spot-on appraisal that is Fuente's character.

Justin Fuente - Ernest P. Worrell from "Ernest Saves Christmas" (took over for beloved icon at a crucial moment, saved the day)

Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 9 years 7 months # | ACCCG Post Game Thread

Looking back on it, I'm not so sure but what Foster and Mitchell coached the DBs to grab if they got beat bad in man coverage, rather than give up a 30 yard completion. Lesser of two evils.

Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 9 years 7 months # | ACCCG Post Game Thread

Gotta give some shout outs.

Stroman played balls out when you know he wasn't 100%.

Mihota, way to sacrifice your bodily well-being to disrupt the game.

Mitchell Ludwig, where the fuck has that leg cannon been all season??? And that free throw pass on the fake punt...

Rogers took a blatant targeting like it was nothing. Ubermensch.
I don't think I've ever been prouder after a loss.

Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 9 years 7 months # | ACCCG Post Game Thread

I'd be willing to offer Hokie McGruber as a sacrifice to the football gods to improve our fortunes for next season.

Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 9 years 7 months # | It is National Pie Day - FAM

I'm continuing my ongoing research of Texas vs Memphis style. I'll be ready to draw a conclusion any decade now.

Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 9 years 7 months # | Hokies Rally Late In Ann Arbor, Shock Michigan With 73-70 Victory

It's because a lot of fouls in basketball are more subjective than in football. Increased subjectivity opens the door for accusations of bias by the losing team. The discussion on this call is a great example. This was a foul. If you extend your arm like that, it's going to get called reliably. If Seth had led with his shoulder, probably no call. But the conversation is centered on the defender "selling" the foul.

I agree, it's bad form, and I would hope that as a community of thoughtful, intelligent sports fans, this community would be above it. But it's probably one of the universal truth about sports.

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