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The Big East was an incredibly unstable conference and had terrible leadership, but the original Big East was arguably a much better football conference than the ACC ever has been. Yeah, the ACC is filled with all very stable and prominent academic institutions, but the leadership needs a drastic change.
John Swofford needs to basically retire very soon. We are lagging behind other conferences significantly in TV revenue, the ACC network now is never going to happen, and I still think the conference's leadership and power brokers are too basketball-centric. And that was ultimately the downfall of the Big East - they couldn't figure out that football revenue drives the bus. Adding Pitt and 'Cuse may have been a great move for basketball, but it did nothing but dilute the ACC schedule further. Add in the fact that the ACC's proposal for more flexibility in determining a conference championship was shot down, and Clemson, FSU, Louisville, and GT are blocking the move to a 9-game schedule, the conference is essentially stuck with the status quo. It's not only a shame that Clemson/VT/Miami/UL/FSU/GT don't all play each other more often, but it's really watering down the ACC's slate of regular season games. The best football teams need to be playing each other, and it's a travesty when cross divisional schools will host each other less than once a decade.
you weren't...when cds7c wrote "You must not be old enough to remember the Big East days." I took that to be kind of patronizing. I wasn't referring to what you wrote directly.
I can't say that I was patronizing you but sorry if you felt that way.
Thanks, man. I have caught a truck load of bluefish in my day, but what we are specifically trying to catch are 10-12" bluefish that feed in the chum slick we are creating to attract cobia, and any blue that can eat a live eel is likely too big for cobia bait. Known for their voracious appetite, it is vexing for us to not be able to catch them in the chum. They seem to just focus on the small bits of ground menhaden in the slick, and suddenly seem to have grown a brain. They will take and steal a small bit of cut bait, but they act like trout sipping at the hatch instead of the full blown toothy attack they are known for. While we may never figure out a consistent way to actually land them, we are having a lot of fun thinking of solutions, and all suggestions will be entertained and are welcome. Again, thanks.
He does get his blocking done. That's nice to see.
And, 6'6" at 204# as a sophomore, Dude is gonna be BIG his senior year!
Yes, I believe they measure in 1/8 inches. IE Dadi is 6'3". Someone who is 5'11.5" would be 5114
Bucky 2.0!
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Dr. Sands tweeted this earlier.
I am beyond proud of a Virginia Tech professor uncovering this atrocity. I'm horrified the atrocity took place at all.
What is the 6030 number? Height?
Oh I agree, my former Hokie GF decided to get them post college. I didn't complain
AnOSU and Duke and UNC were ok I thought. Some of the games run together.
Or, that's like giving an Ethiopian Kid a veggie-burger when everyone else is getting a ribeye. The point isn't that we're in better shape than we were. We are. The point is that everyone around us is still ahead of the ACC. We made a big step up to the ACC but we're still playing second fiddle to the SEC, B1G, BIGXII, and PAC in many ways. I hate the ACC. I hate veggie-burgers. I wouldn't be so upset with the ACC (or veggie-burgers) if I wasn't surrounded by much better options (like the rest of the P5,,,or ribeyes)
yeah, sure the ACC is a better situation for us than the BE was. I get that. There's no need to patronize me about it though. Just because I don't mention the BE doesn't mean I don't appreciate that the ACC is better for VT. I don't think there is any point in bringing up how crappy the BE was. We're in the ACC now and the league is still lagging behind all of the other major conferences in many ways. It's like saying you're thankful that we're on a solid piece of dog poo instead of the steaming heap of diarrhea over in the corner. It's still shit.
This is disappointing to me. I've loved the Friday games in the last couple of seasons. The NC State game was different, but it's probably one of my favorites because it was memorable. You can always count on Friday games to be at night, and there's no rush to get back home for work the next day. I realize this is complicated for the people who work during the day and who live quite a ways away or have high school football in the fall. As long as there's one Thursday night game at home and it doesn't rain almost every freaking game like it did last year, I'm okay.
Dear ACC,
Thanks a lot for scheduling us on [date] against [team]. You really weren't thinking that one through, were you?
You know in Blacksburg we love [weekday] night games, particularly against [team] or [team], but you didn't even consider giving us even a little [emotion] , did you? You thought, 'Oh, well we have [Blacksburg school] and we can schedule them against [team] on [date] if we want to, can't we?'. Yes, technically you can, but wouldn't you consider throwing [fanbase] a bone every now and again?
It's bad enough that we scheduled ourselves for [infinite time period] against [mid major from one state southward], but you won't even let us schedule [national runner up] or [historical power in talent rich state] for at least another [infinite time period], instead forcing us to play yearly against [boring northern Catholic non-rival school], usually at [early game time].
At least we get to play [at better Catholic school] and against [school of deluded rednecks] next year and win our [infinite time period]th-straight game against [house of douchebaggery].
[expletive] you guys.
#go[conference of incompetent scheduling]
As long as East Carolina is still on it, the schedule can't be bad.
If you lived through the Big East, you can't possibly ever be upset about how the ACC runs things.
It's like those hungry Ethiopian kids from the 80's complaining about organic beef. Unpossible.
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Hah....
Some idiot out in Seattle has created a Petition to ban Cam Newton from Century Link Field when the two teams play in the regular season next year.
It truly is impressive how quickly the Seattle fanbase went from the nation's darlings to insufferable looneys.
Those are definitely never ending. The tinker tom mila missions for the railroad are supposedly not though. It's hard to wade through which side quests are time wasters and which quests will eventually end.
Never happen no school will take 9 conference games, ND and SEC rivalry game as their schedule.
yeah no doubt! It seems like every year since ~2008 our schedule has gotten progressively worse. Every single year I say something like "There's no way our schedule can possibly be worse than it was last year" and every single year the ACC proves me wrong. It's amazing. I've given up hope. I have come to terms with the fact that we're going to have a crappy schedule. I'm still going to root for the team every saturday (or thursday...or friday) all season long. Go Hokies.
Cause the Big East sucked and we are in a better conference now. That is why. But yes, the ACC has its shortcomings too.
I don't like the Friday night games personally and I could see it being an issue getting recruits to attend since they will be playing. I love Thursday night games and we better have a home one this year after playing some funky schedules for the ACC the last few years.