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matthona's picture matthona | 10 years 6 months # | 2015-16 Bowl Game Discussion Thread

To me, the upper tier bowls were almost all crap, Alamo Bowl aside, it was the Duke/Indiana , WV/ASU or VT/Tulsa type games that made bowl season worth watching... and those would be the games lost if we were to lose some of the bowl games

vtdru's picture vtdru | 10 years 6 months # | OT: Did you watch the College Football Playoff Semifinals?

great idea on the survey. i watched the last 3 quarters of the clemson game because it started while i was still at work and watched the first half of the bama/msu game. i also had little interest in the new years day games because the playoff games took place the night before. I really preferred the playoff games being on new years day instead of new years eve.

DBU's picture DBU | 10 years 6 months # | OT: I now have an electric car. Questions? Awe? Ridicule?

"The EPA feels like they need to meddle into everything" I dunno, I'd have another way of describing it besides meddling.

The EPA wanted it to be obvious to car shoppers that electric cars are vastly more efficient than gas cars and give them a familiar way of evaluating efficiency. Everybody is used to comparing car efficiency by MPG, but almost nobody knows that 27 kW-hr/100mi = 124 MPGe. Hell people in America can't be bothered to use gallons/100miles which is a more linear measure of efficiency. (for example 10 MPG to 15 MPG is a huge difference in efficiency compared to 40 MPG to 45 MPG, yet they're both changes by 5 MPG)

Now you might think Tesla would appreciate that effort by EPA to make it obvious how efficient their cars are, so why are they denigrating the EPA? Well when you see 100 MPGe next to a Tesla and 124 MPGe next to a BMW i3 you might realize Tesla isn't the be-all end-all of electric cars...

Lozo1016's picture Lozo1016 | 10 years 6 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: #4 UVA Wahoos (12-1) at Virginia Tech Hokies (9-5) 9PM ESPN2

I doubt that most basketball fans are going to be watching this game since #2 Oklahoma will be playing #1 Kansas at the same time, but the X and O junkies should love this one. Buzz Williams vs Tony Bennett. 2 coaches who get their teams to play extremely hard. It'll be fun to watch these two match wits tonight (and years to come).

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| 10 years 6 months # | Stacy Searels Joins Mark Richt's Staff at Miami

Off topic but Isaiah McKenzie who VT was trying to get in the 2014 recruiting class is going to be transferring to Miami possibly, if he does he would have to sit out a year but Richt will have them sitting pretty, hopefully Fuente can do the same for VT! Excited for VT and Miami to both be back on the map I hope, the ACC could gain a lot of credibility in the next few years =D something I would not be opposed to.

Musky's picture Musky | 10 years 6 months # | Galen Scott Will Join Justin Fuente's Staff at Virginia Tech

From BWade:
" Having the freedom to roam and work with everyone and see everything could be beneficial to Bud as opposed to having to really be centered in on that Mike and Backer spot."

You forgot!

And will allow him more time to bitch slap anyone who doesn't get it.

krak_t's picture krak_t | 10 years 6 months # | OT: I now have an electric car. Questions? Awe? Ridicule?

A few observations:

Energy is life. Discoveries of cheaper energies have had enormously positive impacts on the vector of civilization with remarkably little in the way of negative impacts that hasn't been remediable.

If you think we've got a 5 billion year clock, I've got a meteor to sell you.

If we were to take full advantage of the cheap and abundant energy available, we could get off this rock with its finite resources and the completely natural extinction event that comes every few hundred thousand years, give or take an eon.

But instead, we talk about bumper stickers and football and bourbon.

So really, a win-win. /s

AZHokie22's picture AZHokie22 | 10 years 6 months # | 2015-16 Bowl Game Discussion Thread

This was a bad bowl season. The more bowls they add, the worse it seems to get. Which is not a coincidence I think.

Even if there were fewer bowls though, even the higher end ones were stinkers. The NYE 6 were not good, the New Year's Day bowls were meh to say the least.

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