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For the first time, in however long, I believe we'll actually be taking the offensive and making the other team scheme against us rather than the other way around.

Hate to nitpick, but doesn't he mean, "Two steps forward, one step back?" And not the other way around?

Hopefully it also means UT will be spending as much time installing a new defensive system as we are a new offensive system.

The Wrestling matches are quite frequently available on the ACC stream,

http://www.theacc.com/game-center/56718a7fe4b0f40eae1855c4/

Just one example of a Tech match coming up on here.

I don't disagree with you at all. Except, Alex said that, not Whit.

"Ty Pigrome is what makes their offense go," said Matt Glover, head coach of Pinson Valley High. "He is the best player in the state of Alabama, and I don't believe second place is even close. They have the best offense that I have ever coached against, and he is the reason they are that good."

To me, that's the most telling quote from the article. The HS coaches in the area know pretty quickly who's special and who's just another run-of-mill college prospect. When I was in high school, Russell Wilson was talked about in the same manner (even though he only got two scholarship offers). Obviously I'm not saying that this kid is going to be the next Russell Wilson but it's always a good sign when coaches in the area give you the stamp of approval.

QB is such a hard position to judge because of the intangibles. Bill Simmons wrote this three years ago when he was talking about Russell Wilson as a rookie and I firmly believes it hold true in college football as well:

You know where I stand: I believe the quarterback position comes down to 50 percent charisma/personality/leadership/intelligence/coolness-under-pressure, 25 percent hard work and 25 percent talent. If you're the smartest, coolest and most charismatic guy in the huddle, if you're the one who stands out even when 53 dudes are busting each other's balls in the locker room after a practice, if you're the one everyone likes, if there's just something indefinable about you that makes people say, "There's just something special about the way that dude carries himself," you're halfway there. Playoff hockey teams become unbeatable once they believe, "Nobody is scoring on our goalie, he's locked in." (See: Quick, Jonathan, 2012.) Playoff basketball teams become virtually unbeatable when they believe, "Our guy is better than everyone else's guy, period, end of story." (See: James, LeBron, 2012.) And football teams turn into playoff teams when they believe, "I would run through a wall for my quarterback." We have decades and decades of evidence to back this up.

If this kid has the intangibles to match with his production, I don't see why he couldn't be a special quarterback for us, even if he's 5'11".

It's likely that in Whit's experience as AD at Cincy and his two years here, which I believe our black uni set is the only true specialized uni set during his tenure here, he has seen spiked sales in jersey revenue when introducing a new uni set - at Lane or on the internet. When saying that, he's not specifically referencing big donors, but the fanbase in general. New jerseys even get a broke college student to break the bank for one. So I think it's safe for Whit to say it gets the fanbase fired up and to open their wallets.

We did that not long ago -- dropped capacity by about 600 IIRC. I'm 6'4" 235, so I feel your pain and some more, but we can sell the amount of seats we have if the basketball program catches fire again as in the early ACC/Seth years. Cassell is a great barn; if we have to replace it, I don't think we want to go up a ton in capacity. Geography is always going to hold down our basketball attendance numbers as long as the majority of our alumni live 3+ hours away.

Men's Track and Field today debuts at #4 in the country according to Hokiesports

http://www.hokiesports.com/track/recaps/20160106aaa.html

WAIT! WAIT! Hold the hype train, I almost didn't get on

Appalachia is one of the few major deposits of Anthracite, and for a long time was the top producer of it along with Wales, with more recent discoveries only in the past century.

The fact that It burns cleaner is a major factor, Britain used it and hoarded supplies in WW1 to let the Royal navy give off less smoke from ships to be spotted than the German navy.

Congrats on the engagement!