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10 years 5 months
# | Hokies Stage Eating Contests, Cornhole Tournaments to Impress 2017, 2018 Recruits on Junior Day You get outta here with that shit!
TEAM PIE!
All I need to know! I didn't know if outside sources said that as well
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10 years 5 months
# | Hokies Stage Eating Contests, Cornhole Tournaments to Impress 2017, 2018 Recruits on Junior Day So when did they have a cake eating competition. TEAM CAKE!
As VPIhokieME said above, it was a perfectly legal block. No question. Sadly, it was so violent looking that the flags would fly en masse. Let's hope this rule is revisited by the rules committee this Spring.
I feel like it's only the authentic pritchard experience if the girls spending the night in the building are doing so at the risk of their reputations #backinmyday
I thought he was referring to Vick as Barry Sanders paying QB. But maybe I'm off there.
technically, yes. But perception is everything these days. When you decleat a guy or hit a QB who is running it doesn't matter if the hit is right by the books or not. Refs will throw that flag for fear of being persecuted by SJWs. I think 9/10 times this hit would draw a penalty flag for targeting. The refs will do that if they are unsure because they get the opportunity to review the tape in targeting cases. IF they decide it isn't targeting (which, based on the severity of the hit, I doubt they would overturn) they still have to assess a penalty since the flag was thrown. It's a dumb rule and it's encouraging refs to throw the flag if they're not sure instead of hang on to the flag if they're not sure. And with so much emphasis being put on player safety refs are more likely to call penalties for hard hits, even if they're clean, just because they want to discourage any tackling that may injure someone.
I'm not saying I agree with it (I don't) but that's just the world we live in, unfortunately.
Being a targeting penalty and getting flagged for targeting are 2 different things nowadays. I'd say it would have had a high likelihood of being flagged even if clean.
Anybody else think Elijah Hood and Nick Weiler should have asterisks by their names since they attend UNC?
current freshman right now living on the pritchard 5th floor!
I graduated from Lee-Davis in '87. Mac McConnell was great; he was my government teacher. We moved away, then back to the Patrick Henry district a while back, but we're in Nebraska now. Doubt we'll be back any time soon unfortunately.
That's great...
Now take this shit to the UT boards.
This conversation happens literally every time this clip gets posted, and I'll go on record as saying there is absolutely no way this is a targeting penalty in today's game. Ward comes in clean, from the front, helmet down, and makes initial contact with his own shoulder to the other player's sternum, below his shoulder pads. It was a textbook block.
And I'm not even an engineer, I just like math.
[ crawls back into nerd cave ]
I don't know if MD law has any bearing in VA.
But this story just illustrates how disparately the laws are enforced. In my firearms safety class (in MD), the instructor (ex-Baltimore PD) told a story of a guy involved in a similar situation. He was cleaning his gun in the garage, it fired, went through the wall, and hit the opposite wall in the room where his young daughter was playing. She was unhurt, but it was a close call. The guy was charged (I believe the same reckless use charge) and thrown in jail for a long time. Perhaps it was different because a child was involved, but if you remove age from it:
Accidental discharge + death = no charges
Accidental discharge + no injury = long stay in jail
I'm no lawyer, though.
If I'm his lawyer I'm finding more cases like this.
http://www.wbal.com/article/98345/3/Police-Fatal-Shooting-May-Have-Been-...
I love being a football fan of an engineering school. You think shit like this gets posted on SEC forums?
Redacted. The post below this one says the exact thing I came here to day.
Do not TKP without coffee, friends.
He got injured before last season started.
Those were designed rollouts, as compared to the "escape hatch" rollouts we've all become accustomed to seeing in the Newsome era, where Tyrod was conditioned to run like hell when protection (inevitably) broke down.
Pardon my ignorance, was he injured or does "healthy" just mean he is looking ready to contribute this year? I wonder if he has been gaining weight at the clip he was when he got to Tech.
I missed the point where I said Barry Sanders was a QB. The thread is about fastest player in CFB history. The sub-topic was a discussion of MV7 making defenders look silly, during his runs. Where did QB play in to all of this? Then again, since you wrote "Barry Saunders", perhaps you were just offering a random thought about some guy that no one's ever heard of.
Congratulations to those guys for the positive recognition and doing their best to handle their academics.
Sweat far exceeded my expectations at FSU.
I wouldn't get my hopes up. We live in a world where everyone gets their feelings hurt too easily and we have to give everyone participation awards so as not to harm their 'psyche'. This country is growing softer by the day and I don't see that trend changing any time soon.
Violent hits are not going to be a part of football anymore. Not a part that is supported anyway. The sport, whether we like it or not, has to accommodate the opinions of the general public. The general public is at a point right now where big hits are kind of taboo so the leagues are adjusting. Any time a player gets knocked the F*** down refs will throw that flag if they think there might be something violent to the hit.
The way I see it, football used to be a game that everyone knew was violent. It came with a warning. "Hey, if you want to play football you're gonna get hurt." Instead of taking steps to water the game down in the name of player safety I think we should be saying "hey, if you're afraid you're gonna get hurt, don't play." It's not like anybody is holding a gun against any of these guys' heads making them play the sport. Make sure when they make the choice to play they understand the risks. Don't change the game to accommodate the divas who are playing now. Football players used to be tough. At this rate it wouldn't surprise me to see 'diving' in football in 10 years or so.