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After reading through these I have to ask why so harsh? Is it VT policies? RA? This just seems crazy that so much hassle over normal college issues.
I will say that it really depends on who you get caught by. I've had similar stories to some of the less crazy ones above and received just a simple "Guys, keep it down before someone worse than me investigates."
Those were the good days, Cochrane hall, sophomore year.
Completely agree. Kicked well all game especially considering the circumstances. Just saying....
It just amazes me that some kid woke up and said, "I'm going to go play basketball for Frank Martin!"
Do we still not know what ever happened with Reavis?
Yeah, we don't make it to OT without him.
Very well said.
MAN! I really can't wait to read your reviews. I can't get a good read on how you feel about this offense. It almost feels like you're fairly apprehensive about it. Everyone seems to be all rainbows and gumdrops about it but I have this nagging feeling that you're going to bring us all back down to earth pretty hard. I want this offense to be so good soo badly, and I fear that you have reservations about it.
I don't think anyone should ever even whisper a hint of blame towards Justin Meyer. That guy did FAR better than I ever could have expected. Always knew he was a great kickoff specialist but he really surprised me that day.
I can't make a judgement yet based on anything other than the system worked at TCU and Memphis. But yes, at Memphis last season, it was usually one progression/read in the passing game and then it became scramble drills. Even when he looked at a second target, it felt like his first look was just a fake to get the deep guy open.
I guess time will tell. I look forward to seeing French's film reviews on the Memphis offense. It will probably be prefaced with the disclaimer that Memphis had way different pieces to work with. Our offense will look somewhat different. It will be argued (rightfully so, IMO) that VT has much better talent than Memphis. That can't hurt us. I want this offense to be really good but I realize it will take time to get there. Some people (I'm not accusing anyone here, but I have heard people say things like this) are expecting this offense to put up 40+ PPG THIS season. I don't think that is a realistic expectation at all. I am simply hoping that our offense shows steady, marked improvement over the course of the year. My expectations will be elevated for the 2017 season.
if you are participating in law breaking activities, DON'T give the police a reason to pull you over:
Additionally, Alexander has a hearing on May 19 for failure to stop/yield while entering a highway.
I could be wrong, but I interpreted this as an unrelated incident. But I wholeheartedly agree with your comment.
Having spent a little time with French, I can attest to the fact that he seems to have a bit of a photographic memory to go with his unique ability to analyze and organize stuff that tangles the brain of most of us mere mortals. Definitely an interesting mind.
In that kids defense, he did make the four field goals before overtime.
I could see that, I think having the shining star of Andy Dalton offsets some of that fear. You never know, Ive heard conflicting accounts on Paxton Lynch, hes the best QB in the draft, hes 3rd best, the verdicts still out on him. I think even if hes a solid backup thats still a strong endorsement.
After a good half hour of thought about this, I think their best strategy moving forward is to:
a) Pay the fine and do community service. Start community service now with an organization of your choice. Go to service being excited about about the chance to serve others. I had an underage alcohol charge once, and was given 50 hrs. I did my hours at the National Park Service in Buxton, NC (lighthouse, what), and they liked me so much that they offered me a job when my hours were up. There were other guys around, too, but they had bad attitudes, like they were the baddest guys on the planet because they didn't give a damn they got caught. Don't be those guys. I earned references I leaned on in the future. You made one mistake, don't make another.
b) Volunteer even more of your time to the local community. Once your service hours are served, continue to go back to the same places and do the volunteering thing. Or find new places to go volunteer, but earn yourself some references while you're doing your community service. Maintain those relationships throughout the rest of your college career. Trust me, if you do your service well, you'll want to keep going back. Ut Prosim exists for a reason, live up to it.
c) Keep yourself in peak physical condition. If you can't be with the team for practice reps, get your mental reps in, but push yourselves to improve your physical conditioning during your time away. Don't get lazy between now and fall/whenever.
d) If you can still attend classes while this is being sorted out, now is the time to get caught up and kept up with your studies. You suddenly have free time because you won't be doing anything organized with the team. (Side note, since spring practice is over, will they actually miss any team stuff?) Don't waste your newly freed time.
e) Your attitude towards getting back into good graces matters as much as anything. Take your medicine, do you time, and prove that these mistakes you made aren't the way you're going to be remembered. Know that you made a mistake, it is your fault, and it is your responsibility to fix it.
Don't fuck it up, guys.
Eh. I was really just arguing the Snyder reference, it's very clearly not applicable if you have been actually following the team and jumping to that conclusion bogs down any discussion. But sure, we can talk football too.
The Washington defense last year was 28th in getting pressure on opposing QBs. You don't have those kind of results with 'a wealth of pass rushers'.
Yes, you do. Our secondary was that bad. Breeland is the only player who should be an NFL level starter. We had a converted wide receiver at the other corner spot. I love Kyshoen, but a 6th round draft pick is not supposed to be a day-one starter. Meanwhile, Kerrigan is a half-notch below elite. Preston Smith led all rookies in sacks. We also get Junior Galette back this year. The talent is there to get serious production, we just didn't have the secondary to do it.
Oh boy... if you honestly think he's going to make that much of a difference, you might as well start drinking now.
This just sounds like you justifying him leaving, you can't just exaggerate away facts to make your point. He's not a premier man cover guy, but he more than held his own when asked to. Against Julio he held him to 101 yards in two games*. That's pretty damn good against a top-3 receiver. Against OBJ, he got beat a couple times, but he also erased him for most of the game, and if the refs weren't blatantly biased, would have gotten the guy ejected by getting into his head (which absolutely counts, it's an important part of the position). Besides, we play cover-3 vast majority of the time anyways, which is what he's best at and is what we desperately need.
I was ready to concede that he was slightly overpaid and it's not guaranteed that he'll be an elite corner going forward, but you can't just hand wave reality by exaggerating things. Dude is a good player at a position of extreme need. More money then I'd like to spend, but he's the exact type of player this defense needed to take a step forward AND the contract is team-friendly despite the large figures involved.
* https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2015/12/28/pro-the-julio-jones-jos...
I'm not able to look it up at work, but IIRC, they are paying Mendenhall more than we are paying Fuente. That says it must be somebody's priority. I don't think they are going to get nearly the bang for their buck that we will get!
It sounded like what French was saying is that if the first read isn't there, the QB runs it. I'm not necessarily a fan of that. If it works at the college level (I'm sure it will, to some degree) I won't complain about it too much. I just worry that if the QBs aren't being properly prepared for the NFL that could turn into a negative recruiting point against us in the future. Maybe I'm foolishly optimistic that Fuente and his staff will still be here by the time that becomes an issue.
I want an offense that makes sense and works. If Fuente/Cornelsen manage to deliver I'll be pretty happy. I just worry that it's easy for a defense to figure out a way to stop a team that only has one or two reads offensively. It's also a bit of a concern to me that Fuente's offense isn't as well suited for 3rd and long situations as Loeffler's. That is a bit of a scary proposition to me. Our offense is going to face 3rd and long situations in the ACC. And they're going to face those situations at critical junctures of big games.
1) My Freshmen year I lived in Peddrew-Yates. As we had a common area and one of my suitemates had a futon, we frequently had people crashing in our suite. One Saturday morning before a game, I was in my dorm watching ESPN with my roommate and girlfriend and I heard yelling from the bathroom. Turns out a friend of ours had gotten himself VERY drunk at a tailgate (apparently one of my suitemates, who turned out to have a major cocaine problem, had been spiking his drinks with more booze thinking it would be funny to get him extra drunk).
Our friend, let's call him Aaron, had come back to the dorm and was in the common bathroom where my suitemate (let's call him Thomas) was trying to get him to throw up. Aaron was having none of this and was mostly passed out, but when Thomas could get his attention he really aggressive. Luckily Thomas was A) Sober B) A high school wrestler or it could have gotten ugly. After a while we decided we needed to call the Rescue Squad and get the attention of the RAs. Aaron fought off the paramedics for a bit but was eventually strapped to a board and was only able to spit at people. The only moment of levity was him asking "I'm really drunk aren't I?". He was taken to the hospital, blew a .4 (yes, you read that right), had his stomach pumped etc. etc. We were pulled in to the JR hearings and gave our stories. A few of my suitemates admitted to having drank a beer at the tailgate (which I was not present at) to the RAs on the day of the incident...then tried to say that they hadn't when the hearing came around. This resulted in a 2nd hearing due to a "preponderance of evidence". I had my story straight, and told them I wouldn't be showing up. Luckily I escaped...Aaron was out of school for the semester.
2) Sophomore year I was in New Res East. I arrived early to help move other students and we decided to party, thinking that since move in hours hadn't started yet the RAs wouldn't be making rounds. False.
We had a whole beer pong set up in the common area and were making a ton of noise/playing music when we got a knock at door. We cracked the door, told several RAs who'd responded to the noise that we'd turn down the music and closed it. While we quickly tried to clean up, the RAs knocked on the door again and told us they needed to be let in or they'd key themselves in, so we obliged. We managed to miss ONE beer can and the search was on. They found the trash we'd hidden in the ceiling and didn't believe us when we told them that no one had moved into the middle room (where we'd hidden the drunkest people who we didn't trust to talk to the RAs). They let themselves into that room and found several drunk, underage students. One of them had never drank before and during the questioning managed to fall down and knock over a bookshelf (lets call her Theresa). We were able to convince them not to call the cops and escort the young woman in question home but the shit had really hit the fan. Hearing day comes and we'd hatched a master plan: since Theresa was the only one that was clearly drunk and was already going to get two strikes, we were going to pin it all on her. We concocted a story where she was at an off campus party and had come back with friends, made a mess and we were cleaning it up when the RAs showed. I also conveniently forgot what day/time my hearing was. I somehow ended up getting nothing but a required (online if I remember correctly) alcohol class and nothing on my record. Somehow Theresa and I are still friends...though I question her judgement on that one.
There were also several incidents where my suite was called down to the office for IRs (incident reports?) due to trash, noise etc. I was once shown a clipboard FULL of forms that were all apparently related to my suite -- it was *slammed* down on the table in front of me and I was told that I'd be kicked out of school if another incident was reported. Not sure what came of that, but I didn't get kicked out so....
I was saying after you are set and are done playing. you have all the money in the world, then you can do what you please. I will never understand it, college or nfl players chancing it all on a drug.
As law abiding Virginian citizens residing in the only state to ban radar detectors, it is our right to run red lights.
Someone with more knowledge can correct me if Im wrong
Im pretty sure the routes Memphis ran were designed to have one - two reads where, the QB read the defense. If def1 keys on receiver A go to B, if def1 keys on B go to A, of course on a bit more complicated scale that just that.
Go through the first read set, if thats not open go through the second read set. If those arent open, I think they were similar to Oregon where (for Memphis Im assuming H-Back?) the back is the check down.
Im getting ahead of myself, because Ive honestly watched 1 quarter of Memphis football, so take the above with that grain of salt, I could be substantially off...
See...I don't know what the suspension means. is it a game? 2? 3?
We need to hope that Facyson is good to go.