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Having never seen this movie, I think it also applies to the Hans who comes to my overly-saturated movie mind...

Either way, still works.

I just think that this style of football is on the way out. I don't care about all the stats that run this type of offense. I care about wins and loses and aside from Navy there is not a consistently good school that runs it and if you have a couple of weeks to prepare for (bowl games) they usually get shutdown. JMO

You got my vote, sir, and good luck. I'll vote again in 9 hours. Tried to read the comments after voting and forgot the total, but it was like 778 or something when I voted.

Edit: Or, after the above post, maybe not.

OY Vey - just finished moving into a new house just inland from Hilton Head
We'll see how well the builder did and good the building code is
Hopefully I won't need to find out how the insurance carrier is

My point was more that he prefers beef bbq over pork, not sayin Memphis is beef, but I see where it could be read that way. And it would be poor form on his part being in NC.

Thank you very much, now I don't have to watch the weather channel this week. Great job. I remember the TA&M in a hurricane, we will be just fine.

I'm perfectly fine with this because Whit was always in the 8 game camp, and for this reason:

We could either entrust the ACC with MORE scheduling authority, or entrust Whit to do what's in the best interest of VT and nobody else. I trust Whit 1000x more than the ACC with any decision that could affect our program.

Whit has already said in summer interviews that it's time to tinker with some upcoming schedules (presumably the ones with both ODU&ECU) to fix the disparity between how some of our future schedules currently stand. We have a huge scheduling advantage over most programs because we have thought ahead with P5 programs. Some games will get moved around but at least Whit is the one doing it.

You're on, and for five bucks more, you get a cool glass to go with it. Cheaper than the beer, actually. I'll buy.

Good advice, Horse. The Nebraska fans who came to Lane were classy, indeed. It was very easy to extend warm greetings and express respect for their program. As I recall, afterward, several of their fans wrote to the Roanoke Times to express their gratitude for being made welcome. The LSU fans, on the other hand, were not so classy. I left my "act like a dick at the ball game" days far behind me several years back, and always try to welcome visiting fans, UVA and WVU fans excepted, whom I generally try hard to ignore.

The reality is this:

Any school who wants 7 home games a year wants it for one and only one reason, and that's straight ticket sales cash, homey.

If switching to an 8+2 or a 9+1 made those schools more money, they'd do it in a heartbeat. This is not a difficult problem to solve. Which means either we don't know the real reasons why 8+1 is the preference or no one did the basic scheduling optimization to ensure profitability for all parties involved. This is not a hard problem to solve.

The bigger problem we have is that there are currently five major conferences pulling their individual members in a wide variety of directions based on regional power structures. The day that all four conferences come together to develop a nationwide system for problems like these is the day that it will all go away. The biggest problem we have with the entire organization of the system we call college football is that there are conferences trying to look out for their own best interests to the detriment of the entire industry.

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