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Of course this is more speculation since 1) we have no confirmation that it changes the money that the ACC will receive and 2) even if it's true, there's still plenty of time between now and 2019 for something else to happen and 3) the circumstantial evidence points to something else afoot.

But keep trying, since there must be plenty of actions and decisions taken over the last 12 years - which had they been handled differently - would have put the ACC in an appreciably stronger position for now and for the future.

The divisions should be set up to the benefit of the better programs. The ACC should have divisions that promote all of the following, without compromise: FSU, Clemson, Miami, VT, and possibly GT. In football, those are the programs that will drive revenue for this conference. If you set up the divisions to have the division races in most years come down to the winner of FSU-Clemson and VT-Miami with both being ranked matchups, you're actively setting yourselves up for future success.

So yes, in a way the divisional alignment should cater to and satisfy VT... as well as a couple others.

Larry Fedora is sponsored by Summer's Eve.

836 and rollin'.

they were a special promotion which ran through the summer and if you subscribed to VT Athletics through Twitter, you got their posts as to when you could win them. for instance, they'd post a random tweet and the first 50 re-tweets got one mailed to them.

the second option was to go to your local First Union Bank during a designated week and an employee would give you one upon request. that's how i got mine.

the third way was through meet and greets throughout the state (and Charlotte) amongst alumni or Hokie Club meetings. at this point, i'm assuming the supply of magnets on campus are gone and what's left are probably in the hands of organizers of alum get-togethers/Hokie Club events.

if you really want one, i have a spare one for you. just PM me through walterv1@vt.edu

EDIT: it was mentioned below that the ticket office at Lane was handing these out, too

Ahhh, I get it now...it's Head of the Carolina Mafia looking for three non-Carolina schools to lead - so everybody makes a ton of money?

Ummm, is this a bad thing or a good thing?

Yep, I think the 11am or 2pm tracks on Tuesday from the national services had it going right over Raleigh. Its been bending into this predicted loop ever since.

Ah, the old debate between systematic and idosyncratic factors. This week probably is less statistically predictable than most, considering the FSU win, the ESPN attention, and Hurricane Mathew.

As a professional weather guy, maybe you could answer a question that I've had for awhile.,

When forecasting wind/rain impacts from hurricanes, does the NHC/NOAA tend to err on the side of worst case scenario since 2005/Katrina?

I do recall a track map from NOAA on Tuesday that had it going right through eastern NC, Raleigh- Greenville.

Just go. It will be raining tickets. 100% Chance.

well I do think that being the first ever game in that system for every single player on the field might have had something to do with it...a lot of coaches say that their teams improve the most from week 1-2 but I think ours improved the most from 2-3. 19th percentile vs Liberty, then a jump of 24 percentiles to 43 against Tenn and then a huge leap to 95th vs BC before settling at 88 against ECU. I would imagine that we can expect roughly 80th percentile for most of the remaining games we have. I chalk up the lower percentiles in the early going to growing pains.

I'll be honest, I expected this team to struggle with growing pains and inconsistencies but manage to improve over the course of the year....I have been blown away by how good our offense has looked after the Tenn game. And actually, watching it live, I thought our offense looked pretty dang dangerous against Tenn, if it weren't for some bad mistakes (penalties, fumbles). This offense is way further ahead of where I expected it to be but for some reason I just can't bring myself back down to earth...I'm expecting this offense to be absolutely dominating teams come November.