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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.
In theory that's true, but I'm pretty sure everyone who has looked at it has found games with hurry up offenses don't have more injuries than slower paced offenses.
that doesn't sound so bad. Thanks for the update.
Initially I was worried when hearing about all the injuries this spring. The increased tempo of practices and new strength and conditioning program are probably the cause of some injuries. However it's a long time until the football season. Their bodies will adjust as they continue to train. I am really hyped to see what the team looks like in the first game!
Maybe with Fuente we'll be so fast we'll outrun the blown calls.
I know it doesn't make any sense, but let me dream dammit!!!
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Eagles defensive players were complaining about being fatigued and not having their legs under them. Yes this the NFL, but Chips Tempo is the model a ton of these schools are trying to mirror.
Do systems like that tend to maintain a decent amount of strength as they head east? Would this be something to be concerned about east of the Great Plains, later in the week?
In Prince's honor, I will eat pancakes for dinner tonight, despite that they are, in fact, cake.
I remembered seeing his solo during My Guitar Gently Weeps at some point. I had always known Prince as a pop culture icon, but was born a little too late to know how great Doves Cry and Purple Rain were. But this performance was the first time I saw him play anything live, and I immediately understood why he was such an icon. The three most important people on Earth; Prince, Dhani Harrison, and HorseOnATreadmill; all loved that performance.
The Artist Formerly Known As Alive lives on!
Which reminds me of Willie Nelson's 70th birthday concert where he announced that he had just outlived his dick. I'm sure Prince would've laughed.
I don't speak emoji. WTH.
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thank you vaunted crew.
I bet Ragnar has 4 years of eligibility left.
Keith Richards has outlived another rock star...
The two all time best prince stories of all time:
- Prince beats Charlie Murphy & Co. in a game of basketball
- Prince asks Kevin Smith (comedian) to help him film a documentary
RIP
This doesn't match my experience. In fact I'd put them in the upper side of good fans. Bad is WVU and Maryland. My sample size is small though, so not saying my experience matches what others have witnessed.
Thanks for the reply.
This is great information and I will read it in more detail later with more time.
I am intrigued with the mechanisms that you mention and possible associated genetic predispositions.
I agree that further research and dissemination of this type of information is the answer to reducing damage, preventing injuries.
EDIT: I was able to read the Biomechanics abstract that you linked. (Is this your work? How cool that VT and WFU partnered for biomechanical engineering-sounds like you are in the trenches.)
I'm encouraged by advances in neuroimaging b/c as 'good' as MRI's are, I am limited diagnostically as you mentioned in practice. Dementias, demyelinating processes, concussions and as you mentioned CTE and other processes escape us without definitive imaging. Neurofunctional scans are not available to us in practice, but I suspect this will eventually help with the above and many other disorders such as psych and addictions.
I don't mean to come off as doubting any connection between trauma and later pathologies. I agree that the likely association is powerful and demands further research.
And maybe I'm being too naive in hoping that the appropriate entities would fund unbiased research. The Sports and Health Research Program was funded in part by the NFL starting in 2012 with $30 million which is a great start and I would prefer these types of initiatives versus taxpayer funded CDC programs. (Just like I dislike taxpayers footing the bill for NFL stadiums, but again, my naivete...) You correctly identify the potential conflict in the article I cited.
It sounds like you are doing very impressive and important work and I'm hoping that this new attention will help keep the kids and future athletes safe.
Yeah.... Not a good look. It's bad enough they had to Photoshop fans into Scott Stadium for promo materials, and it's sad they had to create a replica of the Commonwealth Cup to prove it exists, but to blatantly rip off your top rival for even such things as spring game promotional material 24 hours after the primary copy was used?
That's just lazy. No wonder that program is in such shambles right now
It is the color of kid puke after eating a creamcicle.
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This was my reaction exactly. Did they think that this wouldn't be noticed? Or did they just not care? I really can't fathom.
Seriously LOLuva
Here's what I'm hearing today from my #sauces. I may not have every detail exactly right, but I believe this is the general gist of what will be unveiled...
First of all, there will be some changes to the donation amounts needed to reach certain giving levels. For example, Golden Hokie may increase from $2000 to $2500. Most of the donation amounts have not been changed in many years and at some point you need to make adjustments for inflation. The more complex change is the seating surcharge that was mentioned. Each section in the stadium will be assigned a surcharge amount per seat, and the amount will vary based on the desirability of the section. For example, the seats in Section 10 (50-yard line) may have a surcharge of $800 per seat while the seats at the top of the SEZ may not have any surcharge at all or be a nominal amount. I'm hearing your Hokie Club donation will count towards your seat surcharge, so for most of the folks on this board, there's probably little to no impact. For example, if you were donating $2000/year and buying 4 tickets, you could buy tickets in any section that have <=$500 surcharge without having to increase your donation. Based on your Hokie Club priority there may not be any tickets available in better sections anyway when its your time to select, further making this change a moot point for you. The folks this would impact the most would be the high-end donors who are at the benefactor level and currently do not need to donate on an annual basis. The seat surcharge would basically force them to donate money to keep their prime seats.
Another reason why Clemson fans are the worst fan base I've personally had experiences with. Tennessee fans are better than Clemson fans.
Who says that VT needs a better Twitter account again?
Lol. Their best pitch to get fans out there? "This program has changed!" "We're not that bad, we promise!" Pathetic all the way around.
I worry a little that the first game might be a false positive. We're playing against a far inferior team which will be out matched in every way. We will look like super stars and everyone will be on the Fuente offense band wagon. I think Fuente/Cornelsen's offense is ultimately going to be very good but it's going to take some time. We might not be clemson/OSU levels of good offensively until sometime in 2017 or 18.
I would love to be wrong and have this offense show up way ahead of schedule but realistically it just isn't likely to blow anyone's doors off yet. Liberty will crumble fairly easily, IMO, but I just don't think we will really have a good sense of what this offense is going to produce for us until we're getting into ACC play.