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He is right, love the Hokies but Cassell is a dump.. lighting is off and just looks like a nasty arena.. not dynamic when watching on tv.
Yeah, well my 84 Camry was ugly, slow, old, rusted in places, and I could barely fit in it. But I loved that damn car and I love Cassell.
I was expecting to hear about some of our former players that transferred to other schools. I still watch Trevor Thompson at Ohio State and imagine what could have been. He was one of my favorite recent Hokies and had (has) unbelievable upside. Incredibly nice guy too, he would always say hello when I passed him on campus.
I take pride in our venue not being
updown to a UVA player's "standards".
There, FTFY.
Found an RPI calculator (link) last night to see if we had the possibility of getting an at large at all based on RPI. The TL;DR version is almost certainly no, even if we make it to the ACC championship game and lose we're only looking at an RPI around 69 which is not nearly good enough.
Our current RPI is 98 and with wins instead of losses against Notre Dame, and Syracuse that gets bumped up to 74. Throw in the Louisville game and our RPI is 64. Even 64 would not be right side of the bubble as auto bid teams would likely push us out. However, that would actually get us into the range people think we're in of being able to make noise in the ACC tournament and making the big dance.
Honestly it's nice to think we're in a better position then we are, but once you take off those sweet maroon and orange shades you realize our SOS sucks, especially out of conference. Our only big win was against LOLUVA, and our second best win happened last night. That doesn't make for a very good resume especially once some of our earlier losses are factored for as well.
With all that being said this team has had an exceptional season and we're are much farther along rebuilding than any sane person thought we would be back in the beginning of November. We need to take a step back and remember that the NIT was considered the absolute ceiling for this team at the beginning of the season and temper our expectations. We're making a run at the NIT and this is the most excited I've ever been for a basketball team, that is no small feat.
The SU loss was painful, up 7 with 2:24 left. But we did get the last possession in regulation and had a ball in the air to win it. Same with ND, we had a ball in the air that would have won the game, no matter how painful losing command of that game felt.
to me, it's the evolution of the team. this year was all about playing competitively, bringing consistent effort. Then Allen hits a 3 in regulation that ties it up with NCSU and we found a way to win in OT. We played a month of close games after that. In late February, we have learned to take those 5 point leads and make them 10, to hold on to games late. The two WF games are great examples of how we are learning to win. At one point, we had played 11 one-possession games (or OT games) whereas UVA had played 2. Good teams extend leads, get stops, make FT's, don't give up painful 3's (like we did the first Wake game).
Even last night, we gave up a big cushion but I didn't feel particularly concerned about losing the game. And the fact that we had a 10-12 point lead allows for those inevitable runs to fall a few points short. We need to take from last night that you can't clam up at the line and you can't make stupid turnovers on back-to-back possessions in the last 2 mins. But the fact that we won the game, and that we were up by a dozen that helped us withstand the charge, is a significant marker of improvement.
>The lighting is weird
What an odd thing to blame the loss on
To be honest, he's not really taking a shot at Cassell, he's just saying it's a hard place to play.
The lighting isn't that great, I'll give him that. It's WAY better than it used to be thanks to the upgraded lights they put in a couple years ago, though. At least they're all one constant temperature instead of the "guess the white balance" game you used to have to play.
It could definitely use some updating (those sometimes empty top corners would be a great spot for some corporate boxes or something), but I think we'd want to keep the overall structure if we can, it has character and when it's full, the place is just simply a pit of noise that newer, modern style arenas just don't have.
Well his first problem is that he's expecting an arena. Cassell is a gym. Man, it sounds sooooo tough not to be able to play in a fancy arena all the time, with butlers serving you zima from trays. "Oh Mr. Malcolm, sir, here's the zima with extra lighting you asked for" "Thank you, Roger, that will be all" "Yes, sir" *bows*
I'm interested in listening to this, but there's no way I'm joining Tidal and I've got no interest in torrenting it. I'm not too optimistic about it though. I should preface though that as annoying as his public persona is, his first three albums are incredible as is MBDTF and I think that at one time at least he was one of the top producers around.
No More Fake Parties in LA was good, but it had Kendrick, so that's kind of cheating. Kanye's flow was at least kind of back though. Not up to his early days standards, but not as god-awful embarrassing as it was on Yeezus.
The SNL performances were just plain bad though (Chance's verse aside). I couldn't stop cringing. Lyrics were non-sensical (and I LOVE weird, cryptic metaphors), the bombast laughable, he was straining so hard for an emotional payoff, I couldn't tell if it was more desperate or delusional.
On Yeezus you could tell he had stopped practicing his craft, his flow was clunky and awkward and his lyrics lazy. If a high schooler released that as a mixtape I'd tell him to keep going but maybe hope it's not to late to register for college. The production was great in spurts, but as it's slowly come out, he's not doing his own production anymore. He's got "proteges" and associates and such. Judging from those 3 songs, it seems he's got further to slide, but I'll give it a listen at some point.
The team might just like them more than the others, or we have a good record in them and want to keep it going.
Agreed. Beating Alabama St. would have helped if only because the loss looks so bad. Northwestern at home would've been a decent major conference victory. Winning at ND and Cuse would've put our record at 21-9 (11-6 ACC). That's a tourney resume if you finish with one ACC tourney win. We had the lead against UNC with only about 3 minutes remaining, that would've been huge. Overall its a missed opportunity, but you can't be too mad, or mad at all, this has been a GREAT season and I'm loving every second of it.
Meta: any chance you could add back the size adjustment to the embed a pic widget? I can manually add the html, but sometimes I'm guilty of taking the easy way and just posting whatever size is at the link.
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Can't help but agree with him on the lighting and arena. Lighting is weird, and arena is old and outdated.
I imagine they wish they could play inside Cassel to at least take the cold sting off their regular winter ass whippin.
Yea and it could have gone the other way too. A lot of our wins have been less than 5-10 points, so those wins could've easily been losses too.
let's not play the "WHAT IF WE DID/DIDNT DO THIS?!?!?" game. We do it too much for football and it goes both ways for all teams. Our record is our record, and I am damn proud of the improvement I have see from over the past couple years.
Enjoy the moment, the ACC tourney could be a fun one to watch
Lmao, I guess. Was looking for a quickie anyways before one you other suckers grabbed it.
This sucks.
Hokie Pride
Hokie fly, Hokie high
Never die.
Were they out of the big images?
Look at that glorious pic. The passionate intensity on their faces exhibits that of their coach AND the fans.
It's not a dump, it needs improvement in certain areas but that doesn't make it a dump.