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"Coming soon..."
Oh...a contingency plan was on the back burner?
This staff seriously has its shit together. I feel like I'm dreaming here.
I'm an architect and that's just not how design works for most people. It's a creative process. Sometimes it works between 8am and 5pm and sometimes it comes to you at 1am. Most people can't just put in 8 hours a day and come up with something really great. You may never HAVE to pull an all nighter to do the job, but you may NEED to pull an all nighter to do something really great. I own my own firm and I still work crazy hours because that's what works for me (and most designers)
It sounds like your friends are the exception, not the rule.
I figured someone would bring that up. The main point though is that there's lot of people and other things to do. A little college town it ain't.
I know one will be at ODU.
I don't know why or what happened - shows NCAA flip-flopping per usual.
But I love giving the ol' middle finger to the SEC! I hope everyone steals the elite talent they seem to horde.
As much as it could potentially cripple the ACC as a whole, I really think UNC has to be hit with the death penalty or at least equal to what PSU got.
Well that didn't take long...
Coming soon... pic.twitter.com/53AoXrfeFF— Justin Fuente (@CoachFuente) April 28, 2016
and if ODU won't let us set up shop, i say take it across the city to NSU...
"I'm talking about building a VT branded facility in the 757 to use for annual camps, various spring workouts for the team, a summer scrimmage, and then bid it out for high school teams to use during their season. Have a recruiter on our payroll working permanently out of this facility. And then do the same in DC."
Building a facility and defraying costs by renting it out to high schools? High schools don't have any way of paying for that in the 757, nor would they be inclined to do so. It is against the rules to practice football year round, last I checked, and the fields they already have suit them just fine.
And staffing these new facilities with full time recruiters? Sign me up for that job!
"Oh, Mama!"
The talent is spreading out down here. Socastee High School, Carolina Forest, St. James and Myrtle Beach High School all have talented guys recently.
My dad told me about a vending machine out a window in Pritchard and he graduated in '88. So yea, this is probably a rather old story.
...Gone play something something sing you a something SAWNG!
DISCLAIMER: I love CFB with the heat of a thousand suns. And I have crazy respect for JCC -an undersized dude who did the best he could behind an inconsistent (at best) O-Line, in an inconsistent (at best) scheme, and handled his business - in good times and in bad - like a man. I even loved the gold watch.
With that said, it felt like JC was shoehorned into the rotation the last 2 years (aside from those last 4 games in 2014 (when he was the feature (read: only healthy) back, and the second half of last season, when he was benched bc T-Mac got rollin'). I think Frank's (or Shane's? Prob not Lefty's) sense of loyalty got the better of us. He wasn't a pile pusher, didn't hit holes well (when there were holes), and his speed was more straight-line and not dodgy or elusive. He was an upperclassman and a leader, but very few of his "rotational" carries netted positive results.
(Come to think of it, if you added 6" and 25lbs, we could be talking about Trey Edmunds, for that matter. (Again: no ill will. Wish him the best.))
All this is to say, I really like this year's group of RB's much more as a rotate-able group. We've got three possible big horses (T-Mac, Shai-Mac, and DJ), a speedy scat-back (McClease) and a Swiss Army knife (SR45).
Pace dictates that we will need all to contribute, as opposed to these last couple seasons where indecision and injury made the RB rotation ineffective and confusing.
so, "samrogers?"
"Likely more talented backfields than he had at Memphis, so using 4-5 was likely a result of there being no clear front runner."
BINGO. I think this mindset is the most logical. However, with the stable of possibilities as his disposal, maybe he uses 3-4 just to keep everyone's legs fresh. Going to interesting how he moves the RBs around and out to utilize the athletes available. Although, with the production of TM, man it's hard to take him out of the backfield as the feature back.
MBHS is the real deal, or at least they were during my time not too long ago. Isn't that where Bruce Taylor played?
Either it's happened multiple times, or it was secondhand information long before your older RA friend heard it. I heard the same story (except the machine was pushed out a window, rather than off the roof, although I'm not sure if the windows are even big enough for that to be a possibility) when I arrived on campus in 1995, and even then, it had happened at least a year or two prior. I often wonder if it's just an urban legend at this point, but it's certainly a persistent one.
Is there any reason to believe they'd dominate the FCS, though? Here's a look at the Idaho's Sagarin ratings the last few years and how they'd rank in the Big Sky if they were there in that year.
Year Sagarin Rk. Place in Big Sky
2015-----148-----8th ( of 14 )
2014-----174----- 6th ( of 14 )
2013-----190-----10th ( of 14 )
2012-----165----- 11th ( of 14 )
2011-----141----- 6th ( of 10 )
Oh good lord what the F was I thinking/doing. that's why I've got ya'll!
#dumbass
fixed now.
Wonder if this move take some of the stigma off for Eastern Michigan. Read an article where the students and faculty want the program to move down a division because they are paying to subsidize the program with exorbitant student fees.
Still, there is no real punishment for breaking the rules. I've said it before on here but the harshest punishment the NCAA has handed out since SMU got the death penalty was to PSU and it had NOTHING to do with on field stuff.
My memory of his OC days at TCU was that they rarely used more than 2-3 backs consistently. Likely more talented backfields than he had at Memphis, so using 4-5 was likely a result of there being no clear front runner.
edit: I am very specifically thinking of Aaron Brown, Ed Wesley, and Matthew Tucker trio at TCU.
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We should just put this permanently into place with a relegation structure like they do in soccer.
Dave's not here, maahn.