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It doesn't kick, but it does shoot completely differently than a gun. And if someone who has only every shot guns uses one, they might describe the different handling as "kick," since that's a gun term.
Well, they're right outside of DC and the military got overrun, so...
That jail cell is gonna come in handy, mark my words.
The flipside of this is good receivers know how to play against inside leverage. If the coverage is so tight the receiver realizes he's probably not going to come down with the ball, he can break his route and go up for the ball, thereby drawing contact from a defender who doesn't know the ball's location. In a coverage where you play the receiver's hands, it doesn't take long for good receivers to realize they can get a free 15 on a bad pass just by putting their hands up early.
Dang it. We didn't even get to use flight tracker.
Do we know if Fuente incorporates two-a-days in his practices? Under Beamer we were on of the only P5 holdouts not to do them.
I thought that was the "smell my finger" emoji.
So if multiple votes per day are allowed, how hard would it be to make a bot that is constantly upvoting VT?
Try refreshing the page. That's what finally did it for me.
The link just shows me that round 1 voting has closed. Is there a new link for round 2?
Like how our head coach's last name means fountain in Spanish?
Yea, I do NOT feel good about that, just because now if he goes elsewhere, it looks like a major failure on our part, when it could have just been groupthink among the pundits.
No matter what happens, we can all find solace in the knowledge that it's all Hokie Fireman's fault.
(/s, obvs. I've nothing but love for our resident first responder.)
Holy crap. I just realized we're at 100% of all crystal balls.
Even though the game ended in a narrow loss, it was indicative of the change that Buzz has started in the culture of our program. We had to travel from Blacksburg to Provo, UT, the day after a grueling OT win in which we almost gave the game away down the stretch, only to battle back in the extra period to seal a home win. We then went into a packed, hostile arena and had to fight what was some questionable officiating. I honestly believe both Greenberg's and Johnson's teams would have folded under that situation, but Buzz's boys fight tooth and nail to the final buzzer. And honestly, the only thing that I personally think undid the team was a couple of freshman mistakes by Blackshear, not any overall weakness of the team in terms of ability or drive.
This isn't to crucify Blackshear. I think he will develop into an excellent player. But his lazy pass turnover and travel at the top of the key were killers for us. They were the difference in a game that was otherwise completely even. And to be completely even with the situation we were in is incredible.
Also, that game was just damn fun to watch, even though we lost. Every time BYU tried to pull away in the closing minutes, we had an answer. We answered the bell. I came away from that loss damn proud of our basketball program and hopeful for the future. I feel like we aren't even close to hitting our ceiling, and we're already a top-half ACC team. The future is bright.
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10 years 3 months
# | Buzzketball Central: Virginia Tech Hokies (20-14) at BYU Cougars (24-10) 930PM ESPNU God I love this team. I feel like we just took their best shot, had some horrid no calls, and we are still right in this.
I think the problem is becoming that with every successive generation, any diplomatic resolution for unification becomes significantly less likely. You already have a full generation of North Koreans who have no direct knowledge of how the Soviet Union propped up Kim Il-sung for political reasons, and another generation coming up under that one. Whereas early on, North Koreans might have rolled their eyes and gone along with the cult of personality that developed in the government for fear of persecution, you now have millions of North Koreans who actually buy into the Glorious Leader mantra.
Meanwhile, the fire of reunification is dying in the South. As the passion to work toward reunification dwindles, to me that means the only reasonable course to expect is reunification through the catastrophic collapse of North Korea, which is inevitable, but also the absolute worst way to go about reunification.
I think you're 100% right that the younger generation of South Koreans will be more efficient in approaching reunification. It's just a shame that their approach will almost certainly be as a disaster contingency plan, a bracing against the inevitable rather than reaching toward reunification through diplomacy.
When it happens, it's going to be awful for a whole lot of people.
I hope that whiskey and corned beef follows the proper route out of your belly.
The generational difference in attitudes on unification is supported by research. Millenial South Koreans are less likely to respond that reunification is a major concern to them, and they consider North Koreans to be a significantly different people than their fellow South Koreans. Not necessarily that the younger generation doesn't care at all about reunification, but not nearly so much as their parents.
This wasn't the source article I originally read on this topic (no clue what my original source was; found it on reddit and didn't save it), but it's close enough that it might as well have been: Link
If Bristol Motor Speedway can have a suspended jumbotron, I guarantee you an engineering school of VT's caliber could figure out how to put one in Cassell.
But I'm sure a new roof would be the easiest answer.
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10 years 3 months
# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. This thread is a frickin Pit of Despair. I see it's blown up with 30 new comments in the last hour and naturally assume the worst...
NPR had a story on North Korean defectors and what their lives were like after settling into South Korean culture. It was pretty eye opening, the things the defectors would mention as being what they liked most about South Korea. Like food being available at the market all days of the month and being able to read something not published by the government.
I know there's plenty of people who have gotten out. I'm not saying I think everyone is fully indoctrinated. But the people who got out are people who were willing to take significant risk to get out. I'd guess there are millions of North Koreans who have just accepted their lot. The people who got out wanted out. I can't even imagine what the path to reintegration would be like for people who don't want out.
Though the biggest threat to Korean reunification might just be the generation gap. Younger South Koreans just don't have it as a priority. They have no memory of a unified Korea, and they don't identify with their cousins in the North. When that generation assumes power, I think any hope of a reunification becomes significantly less likely.
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10 years 3 months
# | Buzzketball Central: Princeton Tigers (22-6,12-2) at Virginia Tech Hokies (19-14, 11-9) 8PM ESPNU ESPN graphic just said Friday 930P.
Well, you have to get into the tourney to have a first round exit, so they aren't technically lying.