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http://www.dailypress.com/sports/teel-blog/dp-teel-time-explaining-the-c...

By most accounts, Tyrod Taylor's March 17 pro day workout at Virginia Tech did not go well. Whether that affected his draft destination – the Baltimore Ravens selected him in the sixth round – is uncertain.

But this is certain: There was rampant confusion about whether Hokies receivers Danny Coale and Jarrett Boykin, both of whom have college eligibility remaining, could participate. Not to audition for the scouts, but to catch passes from Taylor.

John Ballein, Tech's associate athletic director for football operations, explained the confusion this way:

"I did not see the ESPN piece on Tyrod. However, we did have approval through our compliance office for Tyrod to throw to our underclassmen. I received written approval on January 31. I did not know there was an issue until an hour before the workout was to begin.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfl-draft/insider/post?id=326

Just rubbed me the wrong way that no one followed up on this well enough to know 100% exactly what our players need to have to enable their best performance possible. Anyway, water under the bridge, I suppose but I always thought it was a disservice to one of my favorite Hokies. And I am just being grouchy.

Morning update. There was no significant ice in Christiansburg maybe a light coating if anything. Or not that I noticed when I drove my little civic to work this morning. Btw our 10 inches was down to 6 by this morning... Long Valentines weekend.

Always nice to be on the cutting edge on the evolution of sports.

Pretty ridiculous that women are just now really breaking the mold and getting important jobs in things like football, but hey... better late than never. Glad we're one of the first. Hopefully she is a great hire and we can start bringing in other top talent, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc,

Something tells me that one day it will come out of retirement, and they'll put it on as much gear as they can and make truckloads of money off of us schmucks. They're basically going to McRib it.

No, the very first post was nothing about her merits; only about her looks. Let's look at the other root posts.
2 - Then there is a link to the interview.
3 - Then a post about how Sands, Whit and all the hirings are impressive.
4 - Then a post excited about the direction VT is heading.
5 - Then a post asking what her job entails.
6 - Then a post about how great Buzz and Fuente.
7 - Then an excited gif.
8 - Then a post about how great the polo shirt looks.
9 - Then a post asking about more info of the job and her qualifications.
10 - Then a post on how she's Fuente's mistress.

That's when things blew up.

So 1 in 10 threads about her merits is what you mean by "a good thread about her merits"? Or did you mean the completely inappropriate root post of this particular thread is about her merits?

Maybe the first post wouldn't have been seen as so bad if the 10th hadn't been posted, I don't know.

I have a daughter. She's a sophomore at Tech in the Integrated Science Program - 1 of 13 students (down from 50 that were accepted last year). She's a double major in BioChemistry and Nanoscience; oh she'll also get a Chemistry minor. She is in the Honors program. She has already received undergraduate research credits (as a freshman). If I read her report correctly, she's ranked #4 of the sophomores in the College of Sciences. She's had 2 A-s her entire college career; one was a freshman year elective which annoys her still.

Oh and she was also the prom queen her senior year in high school.

Do you know what people say about her? "She is sooo pretty." Not "She is sooo smart." Or even "She's so smart and so pretty." That last is completely fine in my book - it acknowledges her hard work, and tips the hat to her (momma's it must be) genes. But hey I find I do the same thing about other people.

If the first post was further down (and #10 didn't exist) then we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. Its about timing.

Man! What happened?

Lol I actually looked at a post up-thread to make sure I spelled it correctly. Sorry about that, Grehg.

If the goal was really to crown a Duals National Champion, it wouldn't be structured the way it is. Right now, Penn State and Iowa are in the same conference, both undefeated, and ranked #1 and #2. Between them, they've won something like 7 of the last 8 national championships. Conference scheduling did not pit them against each other, which happens about one year in every 3. Yet, the event is structured to prevent them from wrestling each other. If they really wanted a legitimate Duals champ, they'd let those two duke it out, don't you think?

Didn't really remember Rogers from that season. Maybe if Coffey could have produced some defense, his teams could have been dangerous. Yep, Rogers was the man, QB, on that '75 team which went 8-3 and which some said was snubbed by the Bowls of the time. Interestingly enough, Bruce Arians ran Sharpe's wishbone in '74.

Perhaps Chief of Staff...authority/responsibility for making sure that everything that needs to be done gets done.

No but the weather update now includes like an inch of ice, but it's raining all day today and it'll get up to almost 40 so it should flood everyone nicely.

Not really though, I personally feel that every episode of Silicon Valley has a bad or sad ending...