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Win or lose what I'll remember most about Beamer's last season is the celebration on the sideline immediately after the interception at UVa. At this point, this game is just a victory lap and the outcome is generally meaningless in the grand scheme, especially with a new staff already announced.

Also, #beatthegoldenshower4Frank

Hayden Christensen's acting is never good. But luckily Ewan McGregor and the political aspects made up for it.

When I was at Tech from 1975-79, Hillcrest was definitely known as an athlete's-only dorm, with its own dining hall. I seem to remember it being football-only, but I could be wrong. It was known that the Hillcrest dining hall served different and better food than what was offered in Owens and other regular dining halls. The athletes got served steak once/week, while it was offered once/quarter to the rest of us (yes, we were on the quarter system back then). And, "steak night" was not all-you-can-eat; to ensure we received only one leathery, overcooked Ponderosa-quality ration of beef, our student ID's were checked off by dining hall staff when you went through the line. But oh, how we looked forward to "steak night".

Back then, the dining halls actually sucked, cycling through food over a period of days (e.g., hamburgers one day became Salisbury steak the next day, which became chili or spaghetti the next day, etc.).

I would really like to see Frank coach this as he coached all bowl games, as a reward for the players. I want them to have fun, win, and do it the right way like Frank always has. I'd prefer not to lose to Tulsa in Shreveport of all places (been there, I have family living there) but, if we do go down I hope it doesn't get too many people down.

But heading into the game day of with a nice buzz this will be my mindset:

I absolutely want us to win this last game. Frank deserves it and I would hate to see him go out on a sour note. However, I agree with your thoughts about moving on. I think I have been ready to move on for years and to be able to do so with a seemingly excellent offensive coach, and BUD, is really exciting and has consumed most of my attention.

I understand at the change was drastic for many. But it certainly makes sense. According to one of the developers, TH snipes were over 80% of attacks. (I've had my townhall outside my base since th6 probably).

I've typically used giants+wbs+healer+barbs+archers for my loot raids. I wouldn't consider that a power army, but it's certainly more expensive than throwing all barbs, archers, and gobs. I can still effectively use that army after the update. The biggest difference I've seen is the amount of loot available. It used to be really difficult to find 200k+ (I'm a TH9 now in crystal league). Now that's available on almost every other base, and you can frequently find 400k+ without much effort. So while it's true that people have to spend more resources to make armies, they should be winning a lot more loot when they do attack.

I did notice a ton of people dropping trophies - since I'm upgrading walls now, almost 30 attacks in a row were just dropping.

Something I forgot to mention on original post regarding War Battle Time - I think they should decrease the time back down to the original 3 mins for townhalls 1-7, maybe 3:15 for 8 & 9, and 3:30 for 10 & 11.

You SAY that, but .....

The changes don't bother me. My village still gets burned to the ground regularly, like before. I still suck at attacking other villages, like before. Status quo, really.

That was the difference between the old stormtroopers and new. The old stormtrooper army was just a bunch of clones. The new army is supposed to be a trained-from-birth army of military expertise. They made a quick statement about how these new guys were not clones of old. That makes a huge difference in the interpretation. Though I did say the same thing to my wife as we left, "I know the real reason Finn defected. He was too good of a shot to stay a stormtrooper!"

its believeable that he would be a badass with a blaster, as he has trained as a stormtrooper his entire life.

Did you see the first 6 movies? The only thing in sci-fi more predictable than a stormtrooper missing his target is a red shirt dying in Star Trek. I thought it was kinda funny that the only stormtrooper in history to be a good shot ends up being a defector.

And the whole bit about the stormtroopers being kidnapped as children and training their whole lives just didn't do it for me. They've never seemed competent enough for that. I've always assumed that those guys were conscripted and brainwashed into doing the Empire's bidding.

Nothing annoys me more about yesterday's game than how the entire team rewound the clock on their development and maturation so far this season. Seeing the individuals make the same mistakes that Buzz had put emphasis on to correct in earlier games just crushes my hopes against these last few OOC opponents and conference play.

But even still, I just try to hold onto the fact that is a relatively new team, and maturity doesn't develop overnight. Hopefully the embarassment yesterday sticks in their side and they play with the same agression they did against Radford when they play WVU.