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# | Hokies Dressage Team won the Intercollegiate Dressage Association National Championship 
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# | Hokies Dressage Team won the Intercollegiate Dressage Association National Championship Are we the best university at winning non-ncaa championships?
Oh nope this happens to me too. My fiancee likes to taunt me by saying "come on, gimme another!" while I am incapacitated. She's lucky I'm a forgiving sort.
I feel like he got blown up on blocks by Hokies a few times too
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# | Hokies Dressage Team won the Intercollegiate Dressage Association National Championship Message in dresses.
But, don't feel bad, most people think it's something else.
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# | Hokies Dressage Team won the Intercollegiate Dressage Association National Championship I may be dumb. Actually, I know I'm dumb....but I have absolutely no idea what dressage is.
If you pinch your nose closed with your fingers when you feel a sneeze coming on you can usually stop it from happening
Yes.
Also, fuck Pat Narduzzi.
They were very out of the groove in the first period of Game 1.
Stereotypical second period where they dominate but one or two less goals then they should have gotten.
Game 2 is a must win.
This^^^^!
Ouch!
I'll add the Darren Evans flattening of the Maryland player as a great one to watch.
Wife is always 6 consecutive sneezes.
My FIL, my wife both do that. I'm a one huge sneeze and done. The number of sneezes they produce each time is something else.
Game! Blouses!
IYKYK
LFG!
Anyone have issues where they sneeze once, and then have like 10 follow up sneezes? or is that just a Soup family trait
I loved watching RMFW run the football.
Go watch Javian's film... He definitely has some similarities in his running style.
I would rather not have that solution to my sneezing or coughing being painful.
Blues Brothers or God Squad?
I couldn't take merriweather seriously in the NFL because of that play
Miami bounces #4 seed BC by a score of 8-2
ACC action starts again at 11AM tomorrow with VT @ UNC
If spending money on transfers is more valuable than spending it on HS recruits,
It's not 'better' or 'more valuable', It's just more likely to pan out. You give a high school recruit $250k and you could get $500k production or a career bench warmer. You give a transfer $250k and you're probably getting between $350k production and $150k production.
I'm sure there's a better analogy out there, but the benefit of the portal is (ironically) predictability.
won't the market adjust to account for this, and transfers will start getting bigger bags? Sounds like it should normalize itself.
I think you're spot on here. I also think that some coaches/GMs/DPPs are going to understand the market better than others. It truly adds another dimension to scouting.
But how many of these transfer-based programs have failed?
How many high school-based recruiting programs have failed? Clemson and Stanford have both fallen off in part because they avoid the portal like the plague (Yes, I know Dabo shot himself in the foot whereas Stanford is dealing with academics, but the problem is the same). UGA, USC, and BYU are also mostly avoiding the portal, but two of those programs are getting almost all bluechip players out of the portal, and the other is getting 25 year old married men.
Also, does Indiana actually count with how many transfers came from JMU?
Yes? Cig took 13 players with him from JMU entering 2024. There are 105 roster spots. That number was down to 7 in 2025. Indiana's roster was only 34% transfers, but >65% of starts were from transfers (and I believe I saw another stat that over 70% of total snaps were from transfers, but I can't find the source for that).
If players are just free agents, then maybe culture won't matter at all and it's all about who has the experience and fit for a particular scheme.
Culture doesn't win games. Scouting does. Recruiting does. Deployment does. It's easy to have great culture when you're winning a lot. It's almost impossible to have a great culture when you're losing a lot. I think winning breeds culture more than culture breeds winning.
More cynically, I believe that the 'culture' narrative in college football is/was something perpetuated by coaches and agents to increase the mythos around coaches, getting them more power/control/money. With the benefit of hindsight, we see that a lot of the 'culture' coaches actually just out-scouted the recruiting services to get more talent.
If I'm wrong, then we are wasting money on high school recruits
You're oversimplifying it/thinking about it wrong. The question is not 'is a high school recruit better than a transfer?' - it's a matter of risk/reward. A transfer is a relatively known quantity; you've seen them produce against a similar level of competition, so you know what to expect out of them. A high school recruit often has a much higher upside and a much lower floor.
UVA has the winning strategy with potentially deeper pockets.
THe other thing that is interesting is the game-theory of it all. If UVA pursues mostly transfers, then supply is higher for high school recruits in the region, which means VT can take more. If we can take more high schoolers (and we can retain them), then we can weather the unpredictability. It's definitely a fascinating twist on a rivalry that has gotten pretty inconsequential in recent years.
Anyways, TL;DR:
- There are a half-dozen programs that can heavily focus on high school recruiting.
- There's another half dozen programs that can heavily focus on the portal.
- The rest of have to find the right balance.
EDIT: I posted about this here in January. TLDR x2, coaches should aim to cut/improving the bottom 25% of your 2-deep ever year. The rest doesn't really matter.
Having just had my bilateral orchiectomy three days ago, I've not had any issue with sneezing or coughing being painful since then. Only had minor soreness for a day or so. Played league pool Tuesday and Wednesday night with no issues as well. But then... I seem to heal extra quickly.
Regardless it was SPECTACULAR!!!!!!
Georgia men's basketball gets $10M from Adam Wexler, founder of DFS operator PrizePicks
Here's another winning idea to add to the pile...
Let's use Gambling money to support our Pay-for-Play operation. We can use that money to pay 25 year-olds who can't deal with the fact that they will never actually be rich professional athletes.
Can't see how this could ever create some obvious problems in the future.
Free College Education= no actual value
Money from Gambling apps = a rocketship to future success.
Absolutely idiotic.
Yes.