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Thanks for the info.
We're going to eventually go the HC/Season ticket holder route and work our way down just as you have. Might go ahead and start that process now!
The sad part is that they didn't even improve on the design, they actually made it worse.
#HoosFailing
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Uh oh... Don't look now but this program has CHANGED.
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I remember watching Purple Rain in a Charlottesville theater, only one other person in the house except me and my wife. We were blown completely away, and have been fans since. 57 is just too young for anyone to die, and while I have paid much less attention to him these last several years, I feel the loss and will miss his unique talents.
Game. Blouses.
Also Wolfsburg plays Sandman a lot. That's a plus.
ACC refs
were horrible last seasonare horrible EVERY season.
FTFY
He will be missed. Doves are Crying, no doubt.
Which one of those is Marcus?
Clarke will be a great college player but he doesn't have an NBA future unless he drastically (like super drastically) improves his shot and his handle. He's a great athlete but way undersized for an NBA forward so he needs to be able to space the floor at least a little bit.
It's a much better bet that there is turnover from that class in the way of transfers than it is early departures for the NBA imo
Why couldn't it have been Kanye!?Kidding of course.
I dunno. Have my doubts about that. But yeah.
Yes, a huge loss. Very innovative songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and an awesome guitarist. He left an impressive legacy and will be missed.
Why couldn't it have been Kanye!?
Kidding of course. Just not been a good year so far when it comes to brilliant musicians.
Anyone can buy items from the Hokie Club store. I'm talking about some free & exclusive that comes in return for your annual donation. There was a thread the other day with people getting very sentimental about having every Orange & Maroon Effect shirt. If there was something equivalent for Hokie Club but the only way to get it was to donate, I think that would appeal to a different set of donors who are sitting on the sideline right now-- the folks who love Tech athletics but aren't buying football tickets and thus don't have much incentive to donate outside the intrinsic value of giving back.
A very valid concern. ACC refs were horrible last season - some of the worst blown calls I have seen (Duke-Miami ending, UNC-Clemson onside kick, the winning touchdown for UNC against us in OT last year [definitely think he didn't secure the ball]). Clemson and UNC to some degree have currently been the only offenses in the league with a true emphasis on tempo and the no-huddle. The last thing I want to see is the refs slowing down offensive play, but I have come to expect some degree of incompetence from the #goACC.
Part of it depends on how many tickets you need and the other part just depends on how many orders there are. But, more than likely I'd say you can find better seats through the secondary market if you're solely looking at what you will get for the 2016 season. Non-HC season tickets generally end up in the quadruple or quintuple letter sections of the East Stands or the upper deck of the SEZ. Once you get season tickets though, in subsequent years you have the option to keep the same seats (or improve them, if you see better seats available when its your time to confirm your seat location), so that may be appealing to you if you plan to maintain season tickets for years to come, like a certain section, and/or are trying to sit with the same people year after year.
Btw, I joined the Hokie Club in 2003 and bought season tickets for the first time in 2004. Super excited when my season tickets arrived in the mail that first year and I ripped them open to find out I was sitting in Section 21, Row 5P (topleft most secion in the East Stands, very top row). We had a good laugh about that but over time we've worked our way down to much better seats. The good news is that if you buy season tickets now, your season tickets will be better than my first seats!
When I look at the defense injury to pace of play ratios, it give me no indication that a 'faster' pace of play causes or a 'slower' pace reduces injury counts. The PAC-12, with the highest game pace of play at 75.33 plays per game per team, averaged the lowest ratio of injury per play for the defense. This is especially interesting considering they play 9 conference games including up-tempo teams Oregon, UCLA, Arizona State and Arizona. On the flip side, the third fastest pace of play conference, the ACC, had the highest rate of injury to the defense per play.
This snapshot of defensive injuries versus pace of play only serves to show that the idea of pace of play causing more injuries to the defensive side of the ball are, in my opinion, random and unfounded. Nevertheless, the numbers ftom 2012 on the offensive side showed 'fast' teams were less frequently injured.
I think you're both sort of right. Hopefully I get this mostly right, but my general understanding is the longtime season ticketholders (many of whom have held tickets longer than the Hokie Club were in existence) were brought into the Hokie Club ranks through some process that evaluated how long they'd had tickets and assigned to one of the lifetime levels (e.g. "Lifetime Bronze", etc.). So they are now Hokie Club members but do not need to donate. Of course, they could donate to achieve a higher level if they wish. That said, my understanding is their assigned priority level was such that once we did the reseating in 2004 most of them moved to less desirable seats.
Shhhhhh. Let him figure it out on his own, like the rest of us did. It's a rite of passage.
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# | Justin Fuente Transcript from 2016 ACC Football Coaches Spring Media Teleconference Y'all can listen to the audio of the conference here. Fuente starts at about the 1:20 mark.
Just wait until kids get involved. I paid over $8000 last year in childcare.
Really? I thought the re-seating process they do every 5 or 6 years was intended, in part, to eliminate that sort of thing. It's never been an issue for me, since I never had 'prime' seats, but I always assumed that the re-seating process gave more weight to Hokie Club membership than to seniority.
yikes
So much Arsenal hate. Glad you got to see a good one today! Alexis was straight fire.
Edit: I want to amend this so that it's more clear that the Arsenal hate isn't entirely unfounded. Things need to get better there before they stop being a library. It's got nothing to do with the quality of fans because we STILL have the best away support in England. But people are a little fed up at the moment. Rightly so.