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My boss is a Wahoo (he's actually a good guy) and he told me about when his friends went to that game and still talk about how crazy VT fans are for rooting for the Russians. I don't think it registered with them that they were/are that despised.
I love that bumper sticker. One of my favorites was from the days of Ralph Sampson when UVA's team played an exhibition game, I think at the Richmond Coliseum, against the touring Russian National team. Several of my old Hokie friends caravanned to the game and they claimed to have bumper stickers and T shirts that said "Better Red than UVA". They attended the game and rooted loudly for the Russians. My heros.
Thanks for the writeup. Interesting stuff.
a command center or three with chemical, biological and nuclear detector technology, a fully staffed bomb and SWAT team command nearby
That's something I learned from this and it amazes me. Man, I kind of want to find a job back in Emergency Management.
I agree that they should use the thicker sideline, like you said it makes the field "pop" and just looks better overall. I personally would LOVE to see them use the Beamer tribute logo at opposite 25yd lines this season, I thought it looked great last season. As far as the endzone goes, I think it's fine as is, but I think Alum's comment about making them say "VIRGINIA TECH" in both zones is a good idea.
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well... it depends on how predatory you are as a developer. You would imagine that the city and residents of Blacksburg would be against a single developer doing this, but if I had the financing capacity that's what I would want. So on the face, very difficult because you would meet a lot of blow back, like wal-mart did, no matter how cool you make it.
BUT.... there are ways around this. Pretty easy in fact, even with severe anti-development sentiment from residents and the town. You would need 3 acquisition strategies.
1) Property management acquisition: One of the easiest ways to purchase a commercial property without being suspect is take over the property management contract and then offer to purchase privately with the owner. A management company is non-threatening to city planning offices and you could cover a lot of property in one fell swoop, especially if existing ownership have multiple lots.
2) The Hurricane: Create 50 entities in Delaware and use them to buy 1 or 2 properties each over a period of 1 - 3 years. It looks like disparate purchasing but it is all sold to the dev co for 1 dollar each. Distracted by what looks like an upturn in the market, everyone fails to see the calm eye of the storm that's about to come.
3) Mom & Pops and the New Family: "hire" private individuals to portray themselves as someone looking to open their dream restaurant or looking for their first home, or a starter property for real estate, etc. they buy with your money and then sell to the dev co.
Once I buy all or the vast majority I push for what I want. If the city or residents say "no", then I poison the apple, but not by raising the rents, rather by subverting properties to being code violations. therefore they must BY CODE shut down operations, which means businesses will leave. Private homes will sit vacant, which I will board up and put caution tape on, with large "Eviction" and "Foreclosed" signs in the front yard. The city won't be able to afford that kind of economic devastation and will give me whatever I want.
It may seem like a lot of effort but this stuff is pretty simple to pull off.
If you want to be REALLY aggressive, once you start the devastation you start buying adjacent property that has big hits on property value for pennies.
I am not saying I personally would do that, but if the numbers work out financially it's a pretty easy plan to pull off provided you have the financing.
I always liked the tiger eye on LSU's field.
I think it would be cool to put down an orange or maroon (whichever pops more) 25 yard line in honor of Beamer.
relevant:
Don't get me wrong: Hokies is good to use. However, the new wordmark aesthetically looks great on both ends. #Hokies pic.twitter.com/0kfCLYhEV9— Clark Ruhland (@Hokie20) August 30, 2016
Also, I hope they outline the end zone lettering with orange or something. It doesn't pop if it's all white. I'm assuming they'll get to it, but dammit, I want it to be Saturday NOW
Someone say Ga. Southern?
Pet peeve time - Put 'VIRGINIA TECH' in both end zones. The one with 'HOKIES' just looks barren and sad in comparison
True. BC has Hillman who is 6' 229lbs to Pierce's 230lbs. BC always has an OL and Addazio is known for pounding the rock. Pierce was a good back but what if Hillman is the same type of runner that Addazio likes and can be effective with? I do agree that recruiting was better than coordinating.
Like I said, I hope I'm wrong but I'm concerned about the game. Throw in that I'll be attending it live and my recent track record isn't so great (last two I've been to were Cinci at Hell Hole Field and the Duke debacle in Lane 2013 edition)
A long time ago I'm afraid. 1985
Just because you use the hashtag, TG, it doesn't make it true. LOL
I wouldnt be too worried those Temple stats are highly inflated by having a certain Bernard Pierce in their backfield.
The ironic thing is about this discussion is Loeffler and more or less the offensive staff with him were better at recruiting than he was as a coordinator.
Fuente doesn't run the defense.
None of that has a bearing on time. ESPN doesn't care about homecoming. And if they cared about not having the same kickoff time two weeks in a row, then we wouldn't have all of our nooner jokes.
This is the strong mustache game:
Thanks for the insight. How challenging do you think it would be to get all that property on Progress St?
I can speak to what I see here in State College that the downtown area really (I think) should have done away with a number of older buildings. Instead of trying to convert home-like structures to shops, deconstruct them and replace with retail-specific buildings.
There are a TON of single family homes up here that have been converted into office spaces. Downtown SC not too much but throughout town it's very, very common.
If Loeffler shows up with a kick ass mustache then we are all in trouble.
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I worry that Addazzio knows how to keep him focused and reigned in
exactly my fear. Addazio is a dude and he knows how to keep another dude focused so he doesn't have to be all like "Duuuude?!" to the dude, and instead can be like "DUUUUUDE!" with the dude. I have thought this from the moment it was announced he was getting hired there.
yep, it's a proven model all over the world. You are highlighting exactly what I am thinking. Everything between Main and Progress and most everything north of Progress. You could make them one way, but I wouldn't because I want to close down the core of Main Street. I would widen Progress an extra lane to accommodate through traffic and realign it a bit, in an ideal scenario.
thanks Horse!
the last podcast for Glennon and Holt featured Glennon castigating Holt for missing his wedding or something. I turned it off soon after.
It's already Worsham Field.