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Right now projections on team total would put us 5th, 2 points behind Nebraska. 62 vs 60

Penn State is projected to lap the field again though at 157 team points compared to Iowa at #2 with 70 points.

If Penn State wins it will be their 9th title in the last 12 years with no champion in 2020 due to Covid. Ohio State and Iowa have one each in last ten titles.

I'm in, glad we're doing this again. Smitty for Beer to win! (Well, hopefully just get close....)

I don't have much hope for our team score finish since we only have 9 wrestlers in this year, but I'm all in on Henson for the repeat!

Thekeyplay group is fired back up in the bracket challenge on ESPN. Password=Hokies.

My bad. My first pass at this was just for those competing in the first round. I forgot to change it to nine for Henson.

Pitino was on Pardon My Take earlier this week and said college basketball is a carbon copy of Euroleague. He's right. It's going to be rare if a player stays with a team for more than two years. If he sucks, he's going to get dog-walked. If he's too good, he's leaving for the NBA or a better NIL offer. The only way guys will stay for 3 or more years is if he's slighly beating expectations and no one outside of Blacksburg notices.

The only thing to check is some localities like Fairfax have their own retirement system separate from the state so if you leave for Loudoun or Prince William you have to start over. I don't remember if Fairfax is the only holdout or if there are a couple others still. I will also say that Fairfax has made some changes to the system over the last couple of years and it isn't nearly as good of a deal any more for new hires. Plus the lack of diversified revenue base has them in a bit of a budget pickle.

I generally second public sector work though as long as you accept that the money won't be as good as private sector but the hours are better and it is generally stable. I do park projects which have the advantage of being relatively short so even if you have difficult neighbors/contractor/site inspector, the pain is short lived and then you get to build something else.

Okay, so I was watching the F$U v Bama game on the $EC network; and it was about the most disgusting broadcast i've ever heard. They already had a graphic that had 14 of the 15 $ec schools in the softball world series tournament and the 15th team they had listed as "possibly in". Also, they were talking about F$U taking on #18 Dook this weekend saying 'this is basically a prelude to the ACC championship as there are no other challengers in the ACC'. Not a peep about #14 VT.

That's a little more than what I'm actually paying for Freshman year, School of Architecture, in-state, on campus.
I also have not broken out the personal spending separately and my daughter does eat as much as most and she's been taught how to stretch a dollar so her meal plan is the cheapest and she has a surplus.

She also does not have a car on campus and we live close so transportation cost is well under $1882. That's only been a couple tanks of gas and $4 trips on the smartbus to Roanoke.

According to that then, taking those pieces into account, it has us at $36,746.
Our actual is $30,205

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