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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 "It's always great to beat UVA, that makes us all smarter and better looking for a couple days," Babcock said.
Gotta love the Whit.
I know...
I've been hearing that show is going to be great, with the trio rejuvenated after being freed by the restraints of broadcast TV. Amazon is essentially letting them do what they want.
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 Pssstt...look up.
Snyder's ego methinks.
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 Okay, so I had to look this up:
Anthracite is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest calorific content of all types of coal, which also include bituminous coal and lignite
Secondly, I really loved the Friday night game. Sure, it interferes with some HS football, but otherwise, its advantageous to Thursday nights. No NFL game to compete with. Easier to get off half a day on Friday. Stay over night until Saturday. For kids who play day sports on Saturday's, this may be the only game they can get to....Thursday nights aren't good for school kids because they too will need to miss two days.
Whit, keep the Friday night game!
TEEMING WITH INTEL
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 I love Whit Babcock's confidence. Certainly has me excited about the future.
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 "We want to be the preeminent athletic department across the board in the ACC, and I don't believe that we need to shy away from aiming there," Babcock said. "We're not gonna be braggadocious about it, but that's where we're headed."
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 He noted that the team will reveal a special uniform for the much-hyped Battle at Bristol in the coming months (his rating: "pretty cool"), and while he demurs on specifics for the rest of the new look for now, he did give a few hints.
"I think if you want a hint, I think you could say certainly, the oranges, the whites, the maroons, but something along the line of black or dark gray anthracite type stuff, that could be a possibility," Babcock said, noting that the team's all-black uniforms against North Carolina proved to be a big hit in the team's first foray into that color palette in some time.
Oh man, this is going to provide so much fodder for the traditionalists this offseason. Gonna be some fuuun convos...
Weeks 16 and 17 were not kind to Dude You're Getting Odell
Yeah, that's one way of putting it.
In my head I was like this:
In reality:
23 pts from my kicker in week 16? Outrageous, but i'll take it. Great season everybody!!! Talk about a close finish. What a great idea to do a league like this, thanks again for putting it all together Sean (aka historyhokie).
AWESOME SAUCE
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 
Look, our record when wearing specialty uniforms are terrible. Please, STOP! I like wins more than uniforms! As a last resort:
I was expecting to see this when I opened the thread and something funny along the lines of him being at the basketball game the other day. instead im saddened by the ky info.
Let's have our new QB Whisperer have a few season with him. Dynamic.
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 I like that Whit has recognized that when we moved to the ACC we were lagging behind the rest of the conference when it came to all the sports except football. I would think we have football's facilities and supporting departments at a point to where we can start to build up the baseball, softball, and soccer facilities and then really dig into the Olympic sports to make the overall department competitive.
On another note, how great is it that The Key Play got some exclusive access to one of the hottest names in Hokies Sports right now
I caught a segment from College Football Live the other day where they were pushing this narrative that Clemson is "SEC-esque" in their talent and program level. Really irritated me. Is Vandy SEC-esque according to those standards? How about UK? Outside of Bama, the rest of the SEC was pretty good to mediocre. They had a very good bowl record this year, but some of those games were complete mismatches. LSU vs Texas Tech? Miss St. vs NC State? Ole Miss had a great win over OK State, but I'm not going to argue that either of those teams are elite.
You are very correct in that the evil empire that is the Saban Alabama dynasty has really skewed the image of the entire conference. Incredibly annoying to say that any team that is really good/championship-caliber is "SEC-esque."
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 That's great that you got to talk to the big man himself, Alex. Nice article.
something along the line of black or dark gray anthracite type stuff,
People have pushing for some gray for a while because of the cadets. I dig it.
It's always great to beat UVA, that makes us all smarter and better looking for a couple days
Caught 5-10 minutes of air time of each game. Really didnt care at all but my father in law needed a break from whatever other garbage was on TV. Having the game on NYE definitely played a part in my not having any desire to watch the games. Tough to get out of family time at that time of the day and considering how much I usually curse at the TV or am generally too loud for other company during games it was best to not have the games on.
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# | AD Whit Babcock Promises Uniform, Fundraising, Facilities Changes Coming in 2016 Great job by Alex/Joe to secure the interview, great info about what's in store for the future. Also can't wait for the Bristol uniform release.
Are you serious? They've lost 12 games in the past 8 years. Please, find me another team in the last 50 years that was remotely as dominant. You have:
- Miami Dynasty
- USC Dynasty
- Potentially OSU soon
- Nebraska Dynasty
- Boise State? (although I think we can all agree that Bama's SEC schedule is tougher than Boise's WAC schedule at the time.
Yes, it's obnoxious how much love Bama gets from the media, but their "winning" is nothing short of a historical feat.
I think he's referring to the new show on Amazon featuring the original Top Gear Trio (Clarkson, May, Hammond) and not the new BBC Top Gear with a new cast...
Favorite comment of the year so far
Alabama does deserve to be in the playoff. They are a legitimate power and Saban has built an historic dynasty in Tuscaloosa. What really irritates me is that Alabama's stranglehold at the top of the CFB mountain has elevated the perception of the entire league. The SEC was at it's best with Saban and Meyer. That gave the league two extremely well coached and talented teams in different divisions who were extremely tough to beat. That is where this "SEC is the monster conference of the world" narrative spawned from. Saban stayed and, unsurprisingly, Bama is still one of the best teams in the country year in and year out. As a result, the SEC is still held in extremely high regard. Meyer is now with OSU which is now also one of the premier teams in the country year in and year out. If you take Saban and Meyer out of college football the rest of the SEC and the rest of the B1G aren't head and shoulders above all the other leagues. Each league has teams that play well every couple of years but Saban's Tide and Meyer's Bucks are the only really consistent teams in CFB right now. The Alabama Crimson Tide under Saban will go down as one of the greatest dynasties of college football. The problem is that every team in the whole league believes they deserve the same accreditation of Bama. But why? Simply because they're in the same league? Fame by association IMO.
I'm sure there was meaning behind the number of donuts purchased, like...
The total number of donuts purchased is equal to the goal of offensive points scored per game;
The total number of donuts remaining after the meeting should be equal to the goal of the number points per game our defense allows.
Those guys are presumably in the running for QB after Jerod Evans.