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BullCityHokie's picture BullCityHokie | 10 years 5 months # | Mendenhall has unique take on red shirts and early enrollment

This. I can sort of get being against enrolling early, I don't really agree, but if he thinks that last semester of high school is important, cool.

But redshirting is such a useful tool for players for a lot of reasons. Beyond development of on the field skills, I feel like redshirting gives players a chance to acclimate to college life with a little bit less stress from the football side of things.

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| 10 years 5 months # | Candidates to replace TGRAY?! Discuss.

It's become a buzzword in business and sometimes social media. "Hey, inbox me those results ASAP." Ridiculous how it's become a surrogate for a perfectly good word: send.

jobushokie's picture jobushokie | 10 years 5 months # | I keep hearing "Recruiting Recruiting Recruiting"

Oh. Smart.

I was always trying to inline style inside the table tag. Now I get why that doesnt work, I dont know why I didnt think there would be classes already established.

Im about to go NUTS with tables...

WOOOOOOOO. LETS. GET. TROPICAL!

Edit: For those interested, the table class is 'blog_statistics'

papilgee4evaeva's picture papilgee4evaeva | 10 years 5 months # | Candidates to replace TGRAY?! Discuss.

Language does that sort of thing though. Sort of how "inbox" used to be simply a noun, but with the advent of Facebook it's become a verb as well. Same with "fax" which started out as a slang abbreviation of "facsimile" but now is so widely used as a noun and a verb that I bet you'd be hard-pressed to hear someone use "facsimile" in the same manner.

It's not so much a matter of assigning parts of speech to a slang or nonstandard form, but rather observing how it's used in speech communities and how members of said community deem those uses acceptable. The attributions follow the acceptability judgments of users.

TechHokie13's picture TechHokie13 | 10 years 5 months # | Mendenhall has unique take on red shirts and early enrollment

It could also backfire bigtime. There's nothing wrong with a coach saying, "look, you're gonna compete for playing time, but if it's clear you won't be a major contributor, we're not going to screw up your development and play you a few snaps per game just on principle."

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| 10 years 5 months # | Mendenhall has unique take on red shirts and early enrollment

And as far as his redshirt philosophy, it seems kind of risky in my mind. His freshmen at BYU were consistently older than the average P5 green-behind-the-ears freshmen, and I wonder if he's going to have to re-evaluate this policy later. He may be able to take advantage of the first cycle in the LOLUVA Coaching Fail chart though, and pull in some good recruits by being able to tell them that playing time is available.

InEnemyTerritory's picture InEnemyTerritory
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| 10 years 5 months # | Mendenhall has unique take on red shirts and early enrollment

Actually they will have one 20 yr old freshman. The RB from Hawaii, Taulapapa, is a Mormon and is going on a mission before coming for the wahoo experience.

Another interesting thing I saw in the newspaper today is that Taysom Hill, BYU QB is graduating this year with a season of eligibility left, and is considering transferring for his final year. LOLUVA is one place he is considering. Hill is a big QB who can run (when he's not injured). Mendenhall values this quality in his QB's, and said that ideally, he'd want his QB to be Thor....a "Thor-terback" (his words, thankfully, not mine). It's gonna be real interesting to see how a guy named Bronco is gonna fit in with the Zimma-ites here.

HokieJeep's picture HokieJeep | 10 years 5 months # | Florida State's Jimbo Fisher eschews gimmicks en route to No. 1 class

It's pretty easy to stick to "the old-fashioned way" when you have some of the biggest brands, funding, and winning records in college football. You don't need to try alternative recruiting methods when you have decades of success that basically means every recruit knows who you are before you know who they are.

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 10 years 5 months # | I keep hearing "Recruiting Recruiting Recruiting"

warning, ME trying to do computer things. It will work, but not elegantly or efficiently.
I copied the original post into excel. Text to columns delimited by "/" (that's for that OP, btw). Then googled "convert csv to html table" and just dropped my excel stuff into that and it spit out the table. Then I looked at the page source on one of the headline articles that used tables to get the right class. By the way, you can view source on this page and look at how to get the right formatting.

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