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Why does the scout team even need to count towards the roster at all? We have gone pro. Practice squads don't count against NFL rosters.

Not enough votes to oust him. FSU and Clemson are really angry, but everyone else seems fairly content with status quo. Phillips is absolutely awful, but blame the member institution presidents for their poor vision and not seeing the massive freight train headed right for us. Remember every single school signed this horrific GoR completely free and willingly. Swofford and all the league presidents were so behind and reactionary just thinking getting an ACC Network in some shape or fashion was going to be the answer. Never mind the fact we were 10 years late and Swofford signed a horrible deal.

Thanks LT for the updates. Action picks back up for the final day at 1pm today.
125 - Eddie V looking like his 23 self and takes on #4 Jordan of SDSU
141- Latona looked good in his loss to #1 and next takes on #4 Lemley of MI
149 - Henson the Hit Man is on another level. He has bonused in every match this season except the last one yesterday. If brackets hold true today should see Ridge Lovett for their 3rd career match against each other.
157 - Rafael Hipolito is strong, quick, still learning the nuances of wrestling and should be taking on #4 Kellar but the brackets on Flowrestling show him as a medical forfeit. He looked real good in his last match last night so not sure what that is about.
197 - local product Andy Smith advances to take on his toughest test in #1 Cardenas of MI who has outscored his opponents 50 - 5 in three matches.
285 - Mullen brings his youthful energy and quickness up against #7 Runyon

Random thought, if all these walk ons were scout team and practice players. And now there isn't a limit to # of coaches, why can't we pay for graduated players to run the scout teams? I see coaches throwing balls to DBs before each game. Why not during practice? They could spend all year learning opposing teams playbooks and practicing making the scout team better.

To add to this as some ones whose parents are retired professors from a WV university and have seen 2nd hand what's happened (also more friends and family working for higher education in WV). WVU has been mismanaged since Hadesty left as president. Hiring Gordon Gee has to be the worst decision possible. He has had two votes of no confidence against him and is still president some how (assuming mention above cronyism). But that was just a WVU issue, most of the public universities have absolutely terrible president's. Fairmont State was a really good place to cheaply get a teaching degree or physical therapy degree. They had a good number of programs that produced for them. They have been ignoring those to become like Marshall or WVU which there isn't ROI in that, there aren't enough students to support that. A number of colleges have closed in the past 5-10 years.
Their teaching program has been cut to shreds.

Marshall is the only one doing okay because they have state backing that want it to be the premiere university in WV. But even it doesn't have great leadership.

One interesting note is that if high schools need something then parents and teachers can go and complain the the state government and file complaints or attempt to pass bills At the universities the professors, being state employees, can't do any of that and the parents are mostly out of the picture. The students are to busy learning to be adults, going to classes, and partying. So there is no one advocating for universities.

This guy lived in Morgantown for three years and American Legion baseball was mainly all over southern Pennsylvania. Got to play a five inning game at Three Rivers between a Pirates doubleheader back then so was surrounded by them. They weren't happy that the redneck mountain hillbillies curb stomped their PA champs 11-3.

WV native here - the state of the public universities in WV is absolutely deplorable from a budget standpoint. The legislature there hasn't really managed the higher education system well for a long time but more recently they are facing a cratering state budget that's being multiplied by cronyism and mismanagement that's impressive even given the history of cronyism and mismanagement that defines WV politics. It's bad bad.

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