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Is it just me, or does he not look "smallish" to me. Either he's 6'2+ or everyone hes playing against is 5'5 or under. He doesnt necessarily tower over people, but hes clearly in the top echelon of height on the field. He's got speed for sure, that is clear.
edit: I know players over exaggerate their speed, height and weight on hudl, but Ive got to say, for once, Im questioning his height on the low-end. I know it states 6'0, but in the tape, the second play and that block he puts on early in the tape, he looks like Dez Bryant out there, so maybe hes just playing against small competition.
Unpopular as this may be, I'm glad to see him go. He had too many irons in too many fires these past few years and I personally believe his time had come and gone. He definitely positively influenced our football program, and I do appreciate his past contributions, but times have changed and I believe it is time for us to change with them.
The Mountain FTW!
While rankings have always been ingrained in the sport of college football, I do believe we have started down a path toward them becoming obsolete, if not extinct. I believe within a decade, the playoffs will expand to 8 teams, with each of the P5 conference champions getting an automatic bid. There will then be three wildcard spots, which will be selected via committee, and then all eight teams will be seeded by the same committee. So while polls could continue to exist in that selection process, the guarantee of five conference champions making the playoffs would remove some of the value of polls. Basically, polls would become a "best of who's left," and then finally, a poll of the eight playoff teams. The traditional AP top 25 would have diminished value in the system I think we're ultimately moving toward.
It will be interested to see what happens. Doesn't Jarrett Ferguson work with the football team? If we go after the guy from Stanford (VT grad), he may want to replace guys like Fergie with his own.
All the great moments from the LOLUVA game that everyone else already said.
Motley to Ford vs. NCSU
That feeling at halftime vs. anOSU
Non-game moment has to be during Tech Talk Live the night after CFB's retirement press conference, someone emailed in asking why we don't throw to the TE's more on first down and he paused for a moment and said, "Well, take it up with the next guy!"
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10 years 7 months
# | 2016 WR Phillip Patterson Ready for a "Big Old Hug" from Hokies' Justin Fuente After Re-Commitment So this means Burden is out? Reassigned to a new position? I feel like I have seen a ton of speculation, anything solid?
Let's take a moment to mourn the loss of all the "gentrification" jokes. Can we get a strength and conditioning coach with a last name like Magnus or something?
Thank you Dr. Gentry. Many of our football players wouldn't be half the men they are without your help...
interesting, I never realized the strength and conditioning coach had so much influence
Damn man, he was well loved by all the players from everything I have ever heard. I wonder if maybe we are gonna get some new age guy who does healthy things a bit differently...
Wouldn't be the person I am now without Coach Gentry RT @VT_Football: Longtime VT associate ... https://t.co/fTFHpcg7HC— David Wang, M.Ed (@Dwang09) December 8, 2015
Coach Gentry is one of the big reasons I came to Tech. Thankful I had a chance to experience his legacy and philosophy. Thank you coach.— Augie Conte (@AugieC72) December 8, 2015
Here is Memphis O last year vs. BYU- commercial free. There seems to be a lot of different stuff here if you watch this possession.
but did CJF say hello to Wells' mother?
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10 years 7 months
# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: 2016 WR Phillip Patterson Commits to the Hokies, Again 
Well, I'm actually pretty happy with how I did. Guess the numbers worked out for me this year.
Good job everyone! Till next year
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
I think we had a lot of stock in Holloway as our speed guy and so now that he's committed to Florida for track, we need to find someone else.
man...tough to pick one.
- Beginning of the OSU game. So much excitement and Sandman was great
- Taking the lead against OSU when Malleck caught the TD
- Beamer being carried off the field after the UNC game. Most stayed after the heart breaking loss just to see it.
- The INT to seal the win vs UVA and the coaches celebrating
Didn't Quillen decommit? I thought he received a committable UGa offer, but that may have changed with Richt being shown the door.
We've got 4 WR commits: Kumah, Patterson, Deablo, Denmark. And Quillen could end up a WR.
Looks like we've identified at least 3 others that we are interested in. Seems we may be looking for more or a speed guy, which makes sense because I don't sense any of our four commitments are speed first guys.
But we could be taking in a class of 5-6 WR's this year. That's a lot for one class, but one of the things I'm sensing from Fuente is that he will sub his skill players in and out a lot. He may want 6+ WR's (TE's/Backs extra) catching a pass each game.
This was already mentioned by hokiejoe11 a little further up, but I think it's worth highlighting:
The last part, which isn't in a pdf yet is renovating the seats to newer, cushioned seats. Time and money will dictate when that happens most likely, but it is at least being discussed. With all of that I could see capacity somewhere around 8500-8750 depending on how big the suites end up becoming.
So the athletics department is already planning on replacing the seats at some point down the road and that will likely reduce capacity anyway. I've been poking around the internet and found an article that highlights a few different venues that have been renovated in recent years, including the Robins Center:
Spectator Venues Are Realizing the Benefits of Downsizing Seating Capacity
Here's a section of the article where they interviewed Scott Radecic, senior principal at Populous (an architecture firm that focuses on sports facilities):
"Sections are generally about 30 to 35 feet wide, so if you have 19-inch seats all the way across, and you instead do 20-inch seats, you basically lose one seat per row," Joyner says. "If your lower bowl is 15 rows and you've got 20 sections, you're losing hundreds of seats. And every seat is related to every event, so when you're talking about a municipal arena like the Oklahoma City Thunder has, it's about how that seat sells not only for every Oklahoma City Thunder game, but every concert, every Disney on Ice, every evangelical prayer group. It's probably 200 events a year. It adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue. But the other math is you can charge more for a 20- or 21-inch premium seat."
Treads that define the depth of rows have likewise changed with time, from a cramped 24 inches in some decades-old venues to today's standard 33 inches. "Think of some of these older stadiums that have short tread depths, people sitting on benches, squeezed together," says Nate Appleman, global director of Kansas City, Mo.-based HOK's Sports + Recreation + Entertainment practice, which completed renovations of the University of Washington's Husky Stadium and Southern Methodist University's Moody Coliseum in 2013. "The minute you want to provide them with a more modern and comfortable seating experience, then you're naturally looking at some reductions to the same seating bowl area. It doesn't matter if it's professional or collegiate."
I have to say, the dark stands may be on purpose... because it looks cool? it seems like that could be something Whit is hoping to have happen.
I could be completely wrong on this as well.
It would be awesome to see Cassell turned into a multi-purpose facility in the near future. I'm certainly biased, but Cassell has the feel of an old college hockey barn (i.e. Ingalls Rink @ Yale U.).