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US Soccer and FIFA have done a horrible job building up hype for this world cup...
Part of me thinks the extra defenders are a) cover for Richards if he can't go and b) I look at Arfsten + Scally combined as two halves of a wingback. Arfsten is a defensive liability but can go forward, Scally is a rock defensively on the wing but offers nothing going forward. They're situational wingbacks if you're chasing a goal or defending a lead.
I'd still have dropped Miles for another CDM like Aiden Morris or Tessman (we'll hopefully find out today if his injury was really that bad).
Remember watching him and Kirch Kiraly both playing together and as rivals.
James Franklin has always said on the recruiting trail that he wants to be the first black coach to win a CFB natty. I hope he uses this as leverage to sway kids towards VT. I feel sure he will.
I can't see it having any real effect in an era where the size of the bag determines where recruits go.
I GOTTA BE ME!
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# | BoV to vote on June 1st regarding creation of Hokie Ventures LLC, a for profit arm within the Athletic Dept they are looking beyond the duck pond for the right talent.
Idk- this guy could do as good or better job than Ballein....
I want this to work, for no other reason than that it would help improve our recruiting. ;^)
Leg just for remembering that name.
Which brings back memories of playing Side Out on a computer in the dorms.
As of last night, we have the 14th best high school class on 247.
I know that doesn't mean what it used to in the pre-portal era, but that's still kind of amazing to see.
This may sway a few individuals, but I don't see it driving any macro changes.
Even in the pre-NIL era, we've seen movements attempted to push young black athletes towards HBCUs instead of PWIs. None of them have taken off (Deion/Jackson State being the exception that proves the rule).
Beyond that... locker rooms are a mixed of politics, races, backgrounds, etc. As a population, college football coaches skew quite right of center; that's never stopped recruits from signing before.
Finally, it's really hard to get people aligned. The only time I can think of in the last 2-3 decades where college athletes forced some sort of political change was Missouri football in 2015 (maybe the Chuba Hubbard/Mike Gundy thing?). I think that was possible because it was a group of folks who (1) already knew each other and (2) had a clear goal in mind. Contrarily, the Out of Bounds campaign aims to align a bunch of unconnected not-yet-professional athletes from across the nation until "fair representation is restored" - that's a lot of coordination required across a wide geographic area, across a wide variety of people who don't know much about each other with a relatively vague goal.
I'm sure there will be a handful of politically informed/motivated families for whom this will play a role. I'm sure we all know a few folks who have relocated (in part) to live somewhere that more closely matches their political values. I'm sure we'll see the same things with some college athletes. But I would be shocked if this happens at the scale necessary to drive political change.
Well, as far as fishing in my neck of the Bay, you didn't miss a thing last year. The reds had really made for some fun fishing and the trout had gotten plentiful and larger, and then two cold winters wiped it all out. The rockfish run in the Fall has dwindled to either a lot of luck for a fish or two, or long runs across the Bay to drift eels. While the trout are still absent, missing their usual spring appearance around here, we still hope the reds will make it past the 757 this summer. If they do, I'll give you the head's up and maybe we can get you out. The docks of the East and North provided several years of good red fishing before last year. I've given up on "big fish" like cobia and concentrated on the docks exclusively, also forgoing looking for schooling rock in the fall.
The smallmouth, on the other hand, at least in the New River reports I've gotten are all positive, with plenty of big fish caught this spring by guys I know fishing with guides, primarily, but some really productive trips.
I love JMFF. Whenever I read it on here, I always say it in my mind a little differently than my usual "talking tone"".
Kinda like this....
JAMMMMMESSSSS-SUH!!! MUTHA FUCKING FRANKLIN!!!!
Nope. Why? Money Talks and Bullshit Walks
Sinjin Smith - Beastmode
well they were wrong
Im reminded of a story of a black man whose goal was to collect KKK hoods from members he convinced to leave. He would buy them adrink and talk to them, eventually asking them why they hated black men and then got the normal response that they were criminals or dumb or whatever stupid shit was spewed. Then he would ask them if they thought he was that after sitting with them calmly talking and dressing nice and buying them a drink. They would think and say no. Then he would call them a serial killer cause turns out they are almost always white men. And at the time there was no known black serial killer (i don't know if there was one now). Thos got them thinking about stereo types and if the man veggie them wasnt what they thought there must be others because they weren't a serial killer.
The point of this is bots on the internet tell you things that just aren't true in life. Like life, meet people and remove the difference based hate. Hate people because they suck not because of something they can't control.
And...they informed the guys that weren't selected for the roster by email. No text to set a time to call. No call. No nothing..just a form email.
Coaches employed by public universities may have some difficulty publicly commenting on some political issues as state employees
This may impact that pledge for some of those schools.
Sounds good and totally understand. Things are good here, mostly just more of the same, but looking forward to trying to get out of the water more this year. With the timing of my free weekends and the rains, I'm not sure I got out at all last year.
Watching the US Soccer program the last few years has just been depressing. You'd figure with the WC being at home, I'd be amped up but I'm pretty much indifferent. Maybe they'll surprise me but I'm not expecting much
That motor grader is just wearing cleats.
kinky
JMFF!!!
Hope its cotton!
Yeah, there are few enough "premiere" spots that I think you'll still have kids lining up to make "best for me and my family"-decision. You might see some recruits at a different school than they would have been otherwise, but leaving that kind of money on the table to perhaps not go at all or to take a lot less is a big ask.