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If you're looking for something outdoorsy to do on Saturday or Sunday before the game, there are several places in Abingdon and Damascus that rent bikes and will shuttle you to the top of White Top to ride the Virginia Creeper Trail back down. Lots of good scenery along the way and because it's downhill almost the entirety of the trip, you can barely pedal and still be back (to Damascus) in a couple hours. (pedaling hard takes about an hour or less). There are also lots of Hiking trails around and I believe a couple of the places in the link also shuttle for and rent inner tubes and kayaks.

A little bit further away is Hungry Mother State Park in Marion. The have a lot of hiking/bicycle trails, a beach with a diving platform, boat rentals, and a fishing pier.

Off of Exit 14 in Abingdon is Heartwood, Southwest Virginia's Artisan Gateway. They have pretty good food (at least the times we've had work events there were good) and a lot of local crafts. It's the building that looks like someone built two or three metal barns, cut them into pieces, and then reassembled them in a way that makes absolutely no sense. If you're getting into town really early or staying really late, they have live music on Thursday nights.

Just across from Heartwood is a 9 hole disc golf course on the campus of Virginia Highlands Community College that is open to the public with no fee.

If you like old time country/bluegrass music the Carter Family Fold is about 45-50 minutes from Bristol. Not really my favorite music style, but I enjoyed the time that I went to a show with some of my family.

I was going to recommend Fun Expedition in Johnson City as an option, but it appears to have closed. (It had Pizza, Arcade Games, a Climbing Wall, Go Karts, Bumper Cars, Laser Tag, Batting Cages Putt-Putt Golf, and Mini-Bowling)

I really love the fact that Fuente and the staff are getting after it no matter what.

Recruit committed to an SEC program this year?
Screw it he fits our system so offer him.

This no fear approach is so nice to see, we're offering blue chip recruits and the coaches are making a ton of visits. I cannot express how happy I am that they are marketing our program in the same light as we see it (not that we didn't before). There is a bright future ahead for us.

I want to make a couple of things clear:

1. French is the man. One of the main reasons I've been a long -time reader & recently upgraded to joining the conversation.

B. Samuel F. Rogers is the man. One of my (& a TON of other Hokies') fave all-time Fighting Gobblers. Mr. Effort. Unparalleled desire to win. LOVE me some SR45.

With that said, though...

When I think of an H-back, I'm thinking bigger. Physically bigger. More, shall we say, Durkin-sized. Not clear on how he catches the ball, but judging from the way he runs, I'll bet he can block with great vengeance and furious anger.

PLEASE do not take this as a dig on Sam. But anyone else think an H should be more like a TE and less like a FB?

...and Memphis beat Ole Miss and we are like a better version of Memphis now. It's clear, VT>Ole Miss.

I agree about the prior relationship, they may know he's not solid on Ole Miss.

I say it absolutely does. Case in point, Jaquan Yulee. Bama commit that recently decommitted. Since we kept at it, we're now in the national conversation for potentially landing a huge recruit that seemed locked to an SEC team. High school students are very flexible on what a "commitment" is. In other words...

Okay so maybe we actually shouldn't get mad that Bills fans claim to have made up T-Mobile.

Joe, please erase any evidence of us calling him T-Mobile.

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