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Have not watched 1 second of games, and little chance I will watch any going forward, but have been following the thread.
Guess I'll be rooting for Oregon State. After getting left out in conference realignment, this would be a great middle finger to major programs result. Then, my hopes would be:
Murray State - non-P4 and never won the CWS
Coastal Carolina - non-P4 but already won a CWS
UCLA - hey, this is Frosty's second favorite team after Baylor (he is from Texas)
Louisville - some ACC support
Arizona - non-P2/not the SEC, and a co-worker who is very good a friendly went there
LSU - SEC, but better colors than Arkansas
Arkansas - SEC and worse colors than LSU
Guess that pretty much guarantees it will be LSU or Arkansas winning it all.
I had the mental thought are we sure that isn't FSU's recruiting/transfer list.
Next they are going to propose a private plane tax... What will Tech do then fly commercial for scouting trips?
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Yeah, to football.
Re: Freeman, does that 6'5" include the hair? ;^)
You're really hammering the "conference realignment" drum. I do think it's hurt the sport but there is no single issue. It's an amalgamation of different decisions along the way that have all degraded the sport in their own ways.
I do think getting older and having a child has impacted my ability to watch on Saturdays. But it's the devolution of the sport that has driven down my overall interest in it.
My wife is Hokie thru and thru. She grew up going to games every week through the 90s and early oughts. Then she went there as a student in undergrad and then grad school. Our lives revolved around Hokie football until about 2017. When she was a kid she named pets after players. Now she couldn't name more than 2 players on our whole team. The media coverage of football is so unashamedly biased towards the P2 it is unwatchable. The ACC is collapsing and pretty much every team in the league is trending downward. Players aren't in it for the long haul. We haven't been good at football since Beamer was coaching. There are just so many things making the sport feel uninteresting to us.
We suck and we know we suck. It's hard to get excited to watch VT football games anymore when we pretty much know every game is going to be an ugly 4 hour slog. IIWII
Round Robins are as follows:
Arizona, Coastal Carolina, Louisville, Oregon St
Murray St, UCLA, LSU, Arkansas
With LSU and Arkansas in the same RR, no conference can guarantee a championship before the finals are played.
Conference Breakdown of the CWS:
SEC: Arkansas, LSU
ACC: Louisville
BigTen: UCLA
Big12: Arizona
MVC: Murray St
SBC: Coastal Carolina
Independent: Oregon St
Last bat grounded out to 1st. Murray St. wins.
Bottom of 9th. 1 out runner on 1st 5-4 Murray St. winning.
I want the guys that design, build and maintain and crew them to have the jobs they want. It's like cutting off the nose to spite the face.
Besides, we did that once before with the yacht tax and that's exactly what it did, killed the yacht industry.
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Not tied any more. 5-3 top 8, no outs
Bottom 7, 1 Out
All Tied Up
We don't possibility have Leonard Hamilton as an assistant coach do we? /s
They should at least be the quality of your local parks and rec pee-wee unis!
Scholarships are no longer a limitation. We paying players. Part of their payment plan is tuition, room and board.
With how little Nike is paying on the uni deal we should have near unlimited quantity allowed
All unis uni the same
Yet only 3 of the 16 hosts hailed from non-P4 schools, which I would think would mean way more money for facilities to support a proper grass field. I guess that money is going somewhere other than the field.
Hope we have the budget to buy all the big uniforms for the height of these guys.
He and Hansberry seem like the same style...
Nah. Avdalas would WILL likely be a point forward. The question would be whether you start Johnson or Schutt
That sounds awesome. When we were planning our England trip last year, we were back and forth between the southwest english countryside and Inverness
I loved our countryside trip, but definitely want to get to the highlands
I'd have liked it better if he'd just shut up and let me enjoy the moment.
Now you guys know why I rant on this. This is 1 of 100 examples - Oregon State- left for dead without a conference, Murray State, and Coastal Carolina are closer to a team national championship that ANY of our programs have ever been save Women's hoops and Football- once each. It's a VT problem, not an "impossible to win a team championship" problem. If you think for one second that if the ACC dumped VT baseball and we were in the CAA we would get to Omaha? lol. It's absurd at this point.