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TheDoug82's picture TheDoug82 | 10 years 6 months # | Brenden Motley Surgery

That was a prep school for the Air Force. Not the Air Force academy. He will, to my understanding, have 3 years to play 2

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| 10 years 6 months # | Brenden Motley Surgery

From what I can tell, Motley, Evans, and Lawson all think "I'm the guy."

I think it could become a very healthy competition between all parties and could see that being very good for the future of VT's quarterback situation.

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| 10 years 6 months # | Football Officiating: Giving Schools the Business

I officiated intramural basketball at tech for three years and found the block/charge was difficult on non breakaway type of plays when there are two or three people in the paint. An SEC ref came in and told us to look at the way a defender fell, if he fell pretty much square on his back it was a charge if he fell on either hip it was a block. I tried to think of a similar pattern for football and it seems logical that if a player makes contact with his facemask then it would be clean no matter what part of the body was contacted, any other part of the helmet should be reviewed. I also would like to see this called on offensive players who lower their head to ram through a tackle and make contact with the defender's head or neck.

IfishVTIam's picture IfishVTIam
| 10 years 6 months # | Football Officiating: Giving Schools the Business

I also think that as fans, we tend to hear and see the same names and faces year after year after year. Even if the ref is just doing his job in a reasonably competent fashion, we're eventually going to know these refs. They cannot remain nameless and just "the ref" when we've seen them dozens of times calling our games. Picking on Ron Cherry is fun, and Lenny Wirtz was fair game for the big razz back in the day, but familiarity does breed contempt, especially when you are on the losing end of their call.

Civil Hokie's picture Civil Hokie | 10 years 6 months # | ACC playing poor defense in bowls....

Chizik's defense was setup to not allow any big plays. I'm surprised this was the first time a team has run this type of offensive scheme against them this season.

Lozo1016's picture Lozo1016 | 10 years 6 months # | ACC playing poor defense in bowls....

I'm still amazed by what Baylor did to UNC. Baylor had no QB, their star RB out and star WR out. What do they do? They go into a Single Wing formation and bludgeon UNC to death like it's the 1940s. That had to be demoralizing for the Tar Heels.

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| 10 years 6 months # | Anybody join the Hokie Club this year?

Probably people who bought season tickets for the Ohio State game and sold off the rest. My guess is they won't be in those seats again next year.

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| 10 years 6 months # | Hokies Overmatched by No. 19 West Virginia, Fall 88-63

Well, I had the same feeling when I returned from a trip and checked TKP before watching the recorded game. Really wasn't thinking or I wouldn't have done it, but I almost didn't watch the game. There were some bright spots in the first half. We looked decent for a while against the press and even after falling behind, we came back within two a couple of times and almost looked for a moment like we might compete somewhat. There were, as mentioned above, a few nice individual plays, but if you are a fan, you can sorta watch it with a filter and just look for the things we did right. Overall, though, the inability to finish around the rim stood out to me, as well as the obvious differential in talent on the court. I have disliked Huggins since the old Metro days while watching him scream and berate his players, and dislike him more now that he is coaching our cousins, but they have a nifty team that we just couldn't match up with. I'd say watch it, but keep the remote in hand and finger on FF.

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