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thats a biggun, good lord
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Updated with today's incoming transfers. The roster still has space for taking 5 6 OL!
Let me know if y'all spot any errors.
sadly no; it went to the Senator's kid
Florida is up big on Tulane and is now using a 449 pound DT at RB and FB. Looking forward to a fat guy touchdown
I believe a supportive unicorn actually bought the domain "firebryanstinespring.com", so there ended up being a whole lot of competing offshoots.
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Not gonna lie. When I saw Hampton DL I was really hoping he had like 19 sacks last year.
But Pry's been pretty good with the portal additions, so I'm going to be cautiously optimistic about this one.
This is absolutely spot on.
However, the fact that it was illegal and all parties were at risk was a major limiting factor to the scale at which it could be employed by schools.
This is the point. Yes, there were absolutely schools paying players under the table. There were Cam Newton's and Laramie Tunsil's--but they were by far the exception not the rule.
Using the anecdote..Player X had a nice car so he must have been getting money to play at school Y is a fallacy. First, it is proof of nothing. Secondly, many of those players in the 90's and 00's we're getting money from Agents and not from schools.
And if the hope for being competitive relies on sudden and unexpected seven figure donations from some unknown wealthy donor, you are not competitive. Period. And no reasonable fan base is going to hang on to rationale is thin as that
I tend to agree and it will take another week after that before they pass a CR. Then the government pay system will take two to three weeks after that to send checks. Military and government civilians staring at potential of 2 months of no checks.
I'm starting to imagine this alternative reality where we hired a coach from Memphis, but it was Barry Odom instead of Fuente. And he brought Vice and Shibest and a really good OC. And we are all doing well in Hokie Nation still today.
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Vance Vice and James Shibest confirmed part of Purdue staff today. Vice as O Line. Shibest as Special Teams.
Very well said.
I have hopes that some common sense will prevail and something will get passed. Both parties will look bad if some kind of compromise can't be reached.
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1 year 7 months
# | Bowling Green running back Terrion Stewart signs with Virginia Tech I want to get the next Tuten.
My thought is if the government shuts down, it will go through Jan. 20th.
The idea that this is always how its been but NIL brought everything into the light is not absolutely true. Yes I think it is fair to say that some big, powerful, and wealthy school have always worked under the table to incentivize top level talent to come there. However, the fact that it was illegal and all parties were at risk was a major limiting factor to the scale at which it could be employed by schools. No one was paying a backup OT $500,000. The current environment is not merely an extension of the previous environment, it is a completely different environment.
You might be correct that the 2nd tier teams still have a chance to compete, it just comes down to landing the right benefactor (while having a competent coaching staff). Previously the 2nd tier still had hope to compete based on the same conditions that made mid major men's basketball programs so formidable in March:
team filled with upper classmen that had developed, a few underrated stars on the roster, and a rock solid coaching staff. Those conditions allowed fans to get emotionally and financially invested in and stay engaged with the program. Because even if it didn't result in a playoff run you could build a solid program that won 8-11 games a year and occasionally picked off a big win against a blue blood that you had no business beating.
Waiting around for a mega rich donor to buy a roster for a 1 year crack at success is not a recipe to engage and motivate a fan base to be encouraged about the long term.
Linebackers are not gonna have fun meeting him in the
holebackfield.
FTFY... at least until we get an o-line.
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1 year 7 months
# | Bowling Green running back Terrion Stewart signs with Virginia Tech Looks like he doesn't shy away from contact either. Linebackers are not gonna have fun meeting him in the hole.
Miles Ellis, CB has entered the portal
Big bodies in the middle seems like a good place to start.
Either way, I'm down with that
Yes, more RB's!!I guess we'll need quite a few running behind that vaunted experienced o-line we have.....
Agreed- and w are going to run the ball-so these guys will get a shot.
i disagree. pete and i are the same age and his analysis is consistently november 2003.
better than joe rogers though, if he wasnt the wrestling go-to, id expel him from hokie fandom altogether