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# | OT: New Flexible Football Helmet design to mitigate concussions 
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Quick, someone tweet Berman that picture.
Quick semi-META question:
Can we put (and maintain) a table at the top of this thread that summarizes everything? 4 columns - Name, Position, high school and status (status = targeted, offered, committed, or signed)? We could also add columns for rating.
I like to know where we stand with recruiting, but there's no 'easy look-up' on TKP. For example, if I wanted to figure out how many LB's we're recruiting, and who they are, I'd have to search through a bunch of comments across different threads.
A year for ACL nowadays is towards the top end. As a victim of the ACLiens, I was out of commission for at least that long. BUT, that was 15 yrs ago, wasn't a D1 athlete and I didn't have the luxury of top-notch rehab, S&C professionals doing everything they can to get me back to playing strength. Hopefully, this isn't the case and he'll be ready to return to form!
ACL injury is normally a year, I don't remember where I saw that he will likely miss the first half of 2016
Whatever you do, don't let Berman know you were way down there, while he was was up there.
Agree! Durkin would be a good option too! I like that idea. Obviously, the idea is to get as many playmakers on the field as possible. We're looking at solid RB depth, so there's a concern that if 1 or 2 were to get hot, the others just kind of fade into the darkness unless there's an injury. If Durkin is the freakish athlete that his reputation suggests, he falls into the same category. Shoot, the bulk (practically all) of the QB talk has barely even mentioned him under center. He is only a rising r-Soph and he very well could be a guy that emerges in Fuente's system. So many wonderful possibilities, unknown, and what-ifs to ponder and look forward to this spring/summer/fall !!
Wake Forest is much improved over last year. I am really impressed with these Hokies. May be coming together too late this year to make a serious run at getting in the Tourney, but that doesn't matter. Finishing in the top half of the league would be unbelievable.
So, did anyone here win more than double what they spent?
That's my bad. I edited Pierson's conclusion early this morning, transposed a few sentences and forgot to change that around. Pierson can count and I hope most of you focused on the rest of his top-shelf analysis.
Out through the end of last season, but what information says he'll be out until the second half of next year? Seems like an awfully long time.
I was gonna make a quip about Alabama State being an exhibition game then I realized it wouldn't count toward the win total anyways. :(
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# | Justin Fuente's New Staff Offers 2016 Prospects, Sets Visits with Signing Day Rapidly Approaching Could be, actually like him as a player but I could be wrong.
It was a grocery store with no sign on the entrance I used, hardly an obvious no parking area.
For anyone wondering, here is what their product looks like.
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# | Justin Fuente's New Staff Offers 2016 Prospects, Sets Visits with Signing Day Rapidly Approaching 
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# | Justin Fuente and Hokies' Staff Hit the Road Following Dead Period Is this the new measure for a staff's recruiting intensity? Harbaugh has created a monster!
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# | OT: New Flexible Football Helmet design to mitigate concussions I just like that VT's rating is getting credit as the "ultimate test". I still think that the tackling techniques being taught need to change to fix the concussion issue, but this can be that second protective system for all other kinds of impacts
Moving forward, Vicis plans to put its Zero1 helmet to the ultimate test; Virginia Tech's STAR rating system for concussion protection. Essentially, the system gives helmets a five-star score based on how well they absorb force impact, as well as their ability to protect against head injuries.
I really like that bit.
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# | Justin Fuente's New Staff Offers 2016 Prospects, Sets Visits with Signing Day Rapidly Approaching Oh Shane...wow, I didnt get it either, that took me a good while.
I was like "Because hanging out with Frank too much would be a bad thing??"
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# | Hokies Start Hot and Hold On Late to Defeat Wake Forest 93-91 Yes, completely. Once he settled in, he looked like a 2nd year player with potential. He is a developmental prospect with good size, but hasn't shown much progress until this game.
From what little we saw of Durkin he needs to see the field in some role, dude runs like he wants to kill someone
SET THE TONE!
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# | Justin Fuente's New Staff Offers 2016 Prospects, Sets Visits with Signing Day Rapidly Approaching I work with a guy who went to South Rowan and still keeps up with the football program. He told me about Long earlier this week. I was hoping to get some information put together and make a post about him because it sounds like he's really solid on Tech. I'm still verifying to make sure though.
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# | Hokies Start Hot and Hold On Late to Defeat Wake Forest 93-91 I think this was the first game where all of the players on the floor seemed to have a positive game. None of them had a bunch of TOs, missed FTs, or dumb fouls. It looked like they essentially have figured out what the minimum level of effort they must maintain to stay competitive and when to push from there. I think there were too many times at the start of this season where you could see players slacking on the little things that ended up with mistakes or easy buckets for the opposition.
The defense still has a long way to go. The rotation was chaotic last night and too many times a defender didn't trust a teammate and committed too early or too aggressively on help defense and left wide open shooters (they shot 60%!). This is the biggest weakness right now. The defense needs to gel and play as a unit or the team needs to plan on being exhausted on the offensive side of the court.
The VT rating system is THE test for helmet makers nowadays. There are others out there, but the one from VT is widely regarded as the one to follow that includes no commercial bias.