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I mean take some names out of this and its just half of the B1G athletic organizations
No sir
From the sounds of it...I'm guessing six wins and military bowl is the ceiling.
can confirm - I was under the scoreboard watching the rescue operation and they were indeed finding all the pads they could and tossing up on the fence and down on the ground below. Thankfully, in the end, they were not needed. It was a tense time
Specifically for VT Football I enjoy the TSL and Two Deep Podcasts and make appearances once or twice a year on Two Deep.
Mostly I listen to The Rest is History and How to Invent a Country. In season I listen to 32 Thoughts from Eliot Friedman for hockey and Buster Onley's Baseball Tonight for baseball.
They didn't attempt to stretch the field besides the INT and the diving absurd catch down the seam by Reynolds. Was that a lack of separation or by design? Not sure.
Talking to some people it sounds like there was a lot of confusion about how to effect a rescue. Yes he could have been accessed from inside the scoreboard I know some rescue personally went up there but unsure if people familiar with how to make large access through the panels were in there with them. VT facilities has/ had a 125 working lift that could have been used instead of first trying the 75 foot straight stick or waiting for the 100 foot platform to be dispatched. Remember Blacksburg fire and VT rescue are all volunteer , which means you have to wait for people to staff up units that weren't already working the event. A lot of the volunteers not on duty actually ran the 3.2 earlier that day and many were at the game as spectators.
Incidents like this show that public safety and emergency management training, planning and written response for ANY kind of incident is very important.
I do have Spotify premium, but I like that I keep access to my titles even if I cancel my audible subscription. If I stop Spotify, I lose access to all the books.
Yeah... We all know Mines can recruit, but the development of that room has been underwhelming at best. I guess we will see how things pan out this Fall.
Big history buff, and spend 2 hr a day walking dogs, so my favorites have been History of Rome and Revolutions. Working my way through History of English, which is a fascinating look at how the language evolved and what civilizational events influenced it.
If you've got Spotify Premium, that also has a lot of audio books, including most Brandon Sanderson. There's additional titles you can pay extra for, but those are really expensive from what I've seen.
From what Franklin said in his press conference, it seems like the TEs played well and this boards expectations about higher tight end usage was well founded. But he also mentioned that the WRs didn't play so well and weren't very productive. That doesn't alleviate the concerns many of us had about the WR room when Franklin retained Mines.
I still have my Jeff King 90 jersey. One of my few splurges at the bookstore as a student.
random thoughts...
some of the lines looked entangled on the letters
wonder how much communication there was with whomever it was that went up inside the scoreboard? could they secure him from inside?
having not been there in a gazillion years, I didn't realize he wasn't hanging directly over the stands...that there is a driveway at the base of the scoreboard...good for rescue, bad for impact
very fortunate he was in as good as shape as he was after hitting the board. if it could have been any worse, having a dying/dead person hanging there for 45 minutes would have been it
upon reflection, I think he realized he wasn't going to make it to the field, much less clear the stands. and tried the last second turn
I'm going to assume that cutting loose from the flag early wasn't an option. it looked pretty obvious he was in trouble for quite a bit.
wonder if FAA/NTSB will do a follow up, an interview would be fascinating
guessing Franklin may nix future similar opens...stick with the flyovers
odds on someone getting a VT football jersey #12 with the name "Bucket" on it? Fireman, you up for that?
If you like the absurdity of some movies, how did this get made is really good, especially if Jason Mantzoukas is hosting
the gust of wind are no joke, my dad would go to games in the 50s and VT would play cover 0 because there were maybe 1 or 2 QBs in the nation that could throw the long ball in the wind. The end zones seats have really neutered the wind on the field but that doesn't impact people above the stadium. Im glad everyone was mostly okay.
I was also praying because like French, I also thought we were all going to watch him fall to his death. I don't think the coverage has done a very good job of describing how scary it was.
From my vantage point in west, in looked like the parachute was mostly covering/hitched to almost all of the E, all of the C, and almost all of the H in TECH. By the time they got to him, it looked like between gusts of wind and maybe some rips in the parachute, that he was hanging on by just the tip left corner of the H.
And I didn't keep an official timer running, but I think they finally got to him at about 3:30. That would put him at about 35 minutes of hanging up there.
Every new gust of wind up at the top of the video board gave me more fear.
Im very grateful for all the work that the first responders put into to rescuing him.
I sat and prayed. It could have been horrible
Long Beach State transfer Gavin Sykes is currently on a visit
I doubt English had anything to do with Neo. Malone has the contacts with the agent.
Acquired is an underrated.
No. That was a surreal and terrifying moment. People were around chattering, videoing, and talking about how the first responders weren't doing their job rights. Meanwhile, I really thought I was going to see someone die. I kept putting my head down so if the parachute ripped, I didn't see it. That really threw me for a loop, and I was pretty sedated once the game started.
Guys who performed above my expectations: Tyser Denmark, Jeff Exinor, Eric Mensah, Daniel Jennings, Bryan Baker
Guys who underwhelmed me: Elhadj Fall and Randy Adirka, the starting wide receiver group, the defensive end group minus Jennings and Hillson, the offensive line.
One thing that really jumped out- Franklin didn't play a lot of the true freshmen. The only ones I noticed on the field were Polydor, Richardson, Tyrell Grant, and Matt Lamah. None of the freshmen OL played as best as I could tell, and neither did Terry Wiggins. John Paul Oats and Messiah Mickens were listed as out.
lol I meant he didn't play well with their questions
TSL - mostly talking with teel. The recent bud foster epsidie was great
Sons of Saturday - mostly in season
Acquired -a+ deep dive into the stories of some of the biggest companies in the world.
Dan carlins hardcore history - new episodes are rare but the backlog is huge. Pacific war focusing on Japan series is probably 30ish hours long?
Mike rowes the way I heard it - highly dependent on who his guest is, good for an occasional listen
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If books could kill - if the wife is on the road trip
Dateline - also if the wife is one the road trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5gcC6dzrBA