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coldblood4vt's picture coldblood4vt
| 10 years 2 months # | 2016 NFL Draft Thread - Where will the Hokies land?

But Honey Badger is a really good football player and Nkemdiche is an athletic freak. Chad Kelly is neither of those two things.

Besides, Kelly talks about having "swagger". Arians actually has it.

BirdmanBirdman's picture BirdmanBirdman | 10 years 2 months # | Washington Drafts Kendall Fuller in the Third Round

Duke Ihenacho is projected as the starting SS, D Hall at FS. Good thing we have Cravens tho because unfortunately with D Hall and Nacho man, the question isn't if they'll get hurt, it's when. Pretty sure we started 11 different DBs last year. Everyone was dropping like flies so it's nice to have some depth.

vtfly's picture vtfly | 10 years 2 months # | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses

His point is valid though and seems to be the angle that Whit talks about. The HC was tied to buying tickets for too long and got us to the point we are at now. You have to give people another reason to join other than buying season tickets. Make it about something different and advertise the hell out of it and people should start giving again.

You keep taking the buying season tickets angle when defending it and that, IMO, is shortsighted for what we need the HC to become. All this to say that I'm not opposed to the change.

knawaz03's picture knawaz03 | 10 years 2 months # | Washington Drafts Kendall Fuller in the Third Round

Don't disagree at all, but our staff had the information and he didn't. We're just as much to blame for almost using him as a decoy hoping other teams wouldn't pick up on it.

Hokiemacho's picture Hokiemacho | 10 years 2 months # | OT: Duane Brown had 10 game suspension overturned today.

I got the impression that they were warning players that eating meat from those places gives what is essentially a false positive on the drug tests. I don't think it has anything to do with trying to regulate their diet.

kff17's picture kff17 | 10 years 2 months # | CFN Post - Spring College Football Rankings

I think you're over valuing the element of surprise. Yes the bear front definitely gave us an unexpected edge during the OSU game. But that wrinkle was only able to be added because we already had a well established identity on defense; the bear just turned up a notch.

We're still installing our offense right now and likely until ND. It isn't about being able to do things no one expects. Its about doing the simple things we expect from ourselves.

Choppin wood by the JUGS's picture Choppin wood by the JUGS | 10 years 2 months # | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses

The bigger issue is how did we fall so far behind with this stuff? We're just starting to implement PSL's (Personal Seat License's) when 80-90% of P5 teams did this in 2007. Why did we fall behind 6-7 years especially when in 2007 VT won the Coastal and the ACC title game finishing 11-3. From 2007-2011 we were winning 10+ games a year, that was the perfect time to do this.

Whit is just cleaning up the disjointed/chaotic mess that Weaver left behind. Yeah the Hokie Club was a great idea but it seems like it was done half assed. Can't blame the guy in charge now when the guy he followed didn't really have it all together.

I think now is the perfect time to do this. Why wait 2-3 more years for football to be good again because by then we're in the hole another 10-15 Mil. Might as well ruffle some feathers now so come 2-3 years down the line VT athletics as a whole is healthy and winning ACC Titles and pulling in top recruiting classes.

At the end of the day no one is making you/anyone up their donation. If it doesn't fit the budget then find some tickets/seats that do and pick the best ones. (< not meant to come off bitchy) Obviously they will be in a different section and views of the field will be different but us Hokies donate because we love VT and want the best for the school.

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