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Michael Brewer's reaction is pretty awesome too.
Raymon Minor had surgery also.
What was the surgery if anyone knows?
Honestly, I would love it too, because Evans, from what I've read across the board, is/can be/will be a legitimate, big-time, starting college Quarterback, so if someone comes in and beats him out for the job...theyve put some time in the offseason, and I think its great, that means VT is that much better as a team.
His surgery does answer the question why Bucky was in at wildcat.
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# | Slept On It: Mourning the End of Virginia Tech's 2015 Football Season Travon is standing behind Beamer; his jersey is off.
Glad his surgery went well. Hope recovery is quick and painless and Motley can get right to work. Would love to see him win the starting job and put his stamp on the program.
Good point, its honestly, one of the stranger things in college football this year. Im not saying if I were an athlete or their parents that I would pull anything near decommitting, but I would have to say there have been some raised eye-brows in that committment pool.
Im sure there is some more to the story or something, its just wild. Im sure the reporters eyes were all just glowing when he made all those comments ha.
Alternating between brilliant and absent is a problem that needs to be solved at the Mike position.
This isn't a good time for media distraction.
Mayfield better be prepping for the big game, not thinking about how to work the press.
Remember Corey Moore. "Are you guys going to win it for us?"
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You guys aren't going to win for us. You guys can write your little stories you like to write... You want to write a story? Write about how I dissed you guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDMjaK3DcKE
I don't see Travon. do you mean Trey Edmunds?
What about Carson Lydon?
I agree, if I were someone in his ear, I would tell him to stay.
But tramatic injuries happen all the time, just look at the NFL this season, you're making the assumption that next year he will have the same opportunity guarunteed, his opportunity is not really guarunteed, so I still think it makes it a difficult decision. Youre telling a kid to wait for another shot at your dream job youve been working towards since at least middle school with the very real chance you could never get the same opportunity again, ever.
I think, if the board tells you to stay, it definitely makes the decision a little easier, but, I still dont think anytime an opportunity like that comes up its a 'no-brainer' to turn it down.
As a current law student, it actually makes zero difference what one studies in undergrad. The best advice I received about going into law school was to improve my writing skills. Thus, any subject that requires a lot of technical, argumentative writing is best (not artistic). Any classes in crime, justice, the Constitution, etc, will only provide an extremely superficial preparation for law school.
The most common major for law school is political science, and VT has solid program. Although, its probably better to get a degree in something else. Law schools are looking for diversity, thus a degree in something different (i.e. Foreign language) is plus.
All the more reason to write a better rule, in my opinion. If the helmet to helmet contact is brought on by the offensive players carelessness, there is no reason to penalize the defender.
If the rule is set up primarily to penalize defenders for vicious tackles, then it benefits the offensive kid (short term) to lower his head and take one for the team. The rule should prevent these hits, not provide incentive for them.
I used to pitch when I was younger. I hit a few batters on wild pitches, but only once did I hit a kid in the head.
I threw a fastball over the middle of the plate. The batter squeamishly turned and buckled right over the plate. A "middle-of-the-belt" pitch met him right in the head as he fell backwards into the strike zone.
Technically that's a strike (he did get his base that day. Nobody gets upset with a little league ump for that call)
Virginia Tech not actually having nursing or occupational therapy (what I ended up choosing) is what kept me in Bristol, despite having declared I was going to be a Hokie since Kindergarten. I could've done a pre-major and went to Radford afterwards, but that wasn't something I was interested in since I was wanting to dive head first into programs, already having a lot of college credit coming out of high school. I almost decided to give up on my career aspirations and come and major in political science and/or journalism just to be in Blacksburg but I decided that I couldn't see myself doing that. It's definitely hard to give up your dreams of attending a school because your dreams of being a certain thing get in the way. I wish Tino were going to be a Hokie, but much credit to him for following his heart in a decision that couldn't be easy.
According to this release in Feb 2014, Clarke would still be eligible for a medical hardship waiver for this season. Clarke only played in 11-12 contests so far, and we have 19 contests remaining on the schedule, not including the Conference Championship so we are considered to still be in the first half of the season.
To be eligible for a medical hardship waiver, a student-athlete's injury has to occur before the start of the second half of the season. Team and individual sports have different ways of calculating the halfway point of the season. To calculate the halfway point in team sports, institutions add up their scheduled or completed contests up to the maximum, divide by two, and round down if necessary. The question the interp addresses is how to include a conference tournament which may include multiple contests or which the institution might miss entirely:
Hill is practicing now but there is no timetable set for his return, if at all, this season. Here was Buzz' last tweet regarding Hill:
After 1 week of being released back to practice, @MedHill_13 is trying to show me his bounce is back?!
https://t.co/mrgxukDBRJ— Buzz Williams (@TeamCoachBuzz) December 18, 2015
I dont think its necessary for Hill to play this season if there is any question about his recovery. We are not at a point that we will likely compete for a tournament bid or conference title, so I would rather get three more years of Hill starting next year. Regardless of that, as long as Clarke's injury doesnt play a factor, I trust Buzz to do what he thinks is best for the player and the program in terms of Hill playing.
As for Outlaw, the program has been necessarily hush hush, as my understanding is that there are lawyers involved at this point. Last I heard, we were looking at another Allan Chaney situation: HERE
Most of what I have heard has been from #Sauces but it all points to Outlaw never suiting up for Tech due to whatever the doctors found. Regardless, Outlaw is redshirting this season for medical reasons, so we wont see him in a Hokie uniform at the earliest until next year.
you make great points on the surface but I wonder if circumstances are different at VT than they were at TCU and Memphis.
I'll start with Memphis. Fuente may not have had a single receiver who was as talented as Ford. He might have had 3 Kevin Asante's and he had to spread the ball around to them to make the offense go. I don't know if that is the case but it's possible that having 3 equally talented(or maybe not quite so talented?) receivers played into that.
TCU may be a different case. They were probably able to bring in more talent than Ford. IF they did, though, they probably at least had 2 or 3 receivers of equal talent in each class so they could develop them together and bring them along in the system simultaneously.
right now, Ford is the creme of the crop. Phillips is right there on his heels but he isn't targeted as often as Ford and there must be a reason for that. Outside of those two, though, we're going to have true freshman receivers who might be as talented as Ford. I think Ford being a Junior and being as talented as he is will force the coaches to lean on him. He really doesn't have an equal like the receivers may have had at TCU and Memphis. I think it's entirely possible that the passing game still runs through Ford in Fuente's offense. The true freshmen may be very talented but they're still freshmen and I don't think they'll be ready for the workload that Ford is capable of handling. In 2 or 3 years, though, I think we'll have a more balanced receiving corps and you'll start to see trends like Memphis and TCU where 3 receivers are within 150 yards of each other at the end of the season.
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# | OT 'Cruitin Tales: Baker Mayfield says TCU "hung me out to dry" Exactly. Texas A&M just went through a similar situation with Kyler and Kevin Murray (dad) and Kevin Sumlin wasn't putting the kid and his family on blast through direct quotes. People around the program were talking about it, but Sumlin wasn't calling young men out. Interestingly enough, Kyler also landed at OU.
Additionally, grown men shouldn't be sparring with kids 20 years their junior over social media. If your response is even slightly harsh it makes you look immature.
I thought it was pretty strange too, Im not surprised by Mayfield's comments nearly as much as I have been by Patterson's.
Patterson's Qoute:
"Baker's been out for us for a while. If he wants to blame TCU for 128 BCS schools not offering him a scholarship, that's fine. But ask Kliff Kingsbury why he didn't offer him a scholarship at Texas Tech. Ask about Baker's dad [James]. He's an arrogant guy who thinks he knows everything. If people knew the whole story, they might not have a great opinion of Baker or his father."
I am SURE these entitled parents and kids must be just exhausting to deal with, but I thought it was a little poor taste for a Coach to call the kid and his family out like that. I dont know if its a situation the Coach really needs to retaliate to, I dont know, Im just kind of shocked he didnt reply with something typcial like: "You know these things happen all the time and we decided to go in a different direction...blah blah something"
The UNC and Baylor game should be interesting today. I'm definitely looking forward to watching it.
Agreed, I also grew up in MD, and didn't hear too many of my classmates saying they were going to their "dream school" at UMD. They really haven't had a decent football program since Bobby Ross was there in the 80's. To each is own, I guess.
Mayfield sat out the 2014 season at Oklahoma. When the Sooners played TCU that season, Patterson and Horned Frogs quarterback Trevone Boykin said Mayfield was able to steal signals from the Oklahoma sideline.
When I first read this, it sounded like Patterson and Boykin were accusing Mayfield of stealing signals from his own team.
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# | OT 'Cruitin Tales: Baker Mayfield says TCU "hung me out to dry" Baker is probably being a little too open and sore about this considering it happened a few years ago but I was pretty shocked that Gary Patterson responded in that way. It wasn't overly immature but it didn't rub me the right way, no need to respond to it like that.
His left arm came down on Bucky as the ball arrived, which is why I think they picked up the flag. However, what the ref couldn't see as easily from his vantage point was the right arm that was tugging on Bucky well before the ball getting there. Technically, it was passing interference, but I ain't mad at the ref for picking up the flag.
Hes right behind Beamer in the maroon shirt.