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I did this to our anatomy class. Unfortunately, VT's anatomy course was pretty poor when I was there and my HS teacher definitely taught a more thorough course. Luckily, I wasn't singled out by the professor, but a handful of my classmates knew it was me ruining the curve.

Yup. More SSDD in terms of missing the boat on investing when the time is right. We just sit back, bask in the glow of the good times, expecting it to last forever without any additional effort or investment.

And just to be clear, I am not expecting major investments in basketball like we are allegedly doing in football. I was merely looking backwards on all the missed opportunity to build that program up when success was achieved.

Unfortunately unless those rumors come with a minimum $7M a year increase in overall funding, I dont see the path to a monster head coach. If you want the top of the market type coach the program would need $10-$15M more annually between NIL/Operating budget.

Facilities, even to rehab Cassell would now require $100M+ so that is probably off the table.

He only commented on mine as the actual score. He also basically said to the other students shape up the material isn't that hard. The reality is I remembered basically all of what he was "teaching" from 10th grade honors organic chem.

Dude, brutal. That professor has to know that singling you out like that is going to get you hated. Kind of a dick move. He could have just told you "great job/congrats" or whatever in passing or at the end of class.
And honestly aside from the social aspect in that moment, I don't think i'd want people knowing my grades and having it broadcast to the class like that

I played all sorts of zone in travel basketball as a kid: 1/3/1, Box & 1, 2/3 effectively. I sure as hell hope these D1 college basketball players can play zone.

EDIT: we were a legit team that had set offensive basketball plays, were taught a number of defenses, and I was taught how to box out and rebound. This was in the 4th and 5th grade. In all my post adolescence, I was always the rebounding machine.

Our coach was George Sullivan, former St Leo University HC and HOF inductee. It was a blessing having him coach us. His IQ and ability to teach kids that level of basketball was an amazing experience.

Maybe an emotional reaction, but CMY needs to go. We have the talent to be better than this. We SHOULD be better than this. This does not appear to be a talent gap - this is an issue with the system and not molding it around our player's strengths.

Rich Helm just retired in December. He's now working part-time down in the new Discovery Lab, which is something he helped set up. Big loss for our department, he was an exceptional colleague and teacher.

Just missed! Got some hardcore nostalgia seeing Dr. Helm and Dr. Biswarup on the Biochemistry page, loved their courses!

Sorry to hear you all had to suffer through watching that game. My BP is escalating quickly just reading your comments.

What a waste these last 7 years have been. Aside from being ACC champs in 2022 (a season which, I remind you, was preceded by some head-scratcher losses), we haven't done anything in the postseason (NCAA or NIT). We can sometimes win big battles, but we never come close to winning the war. All the momentum of Buzz and the flash-in-the-pan ACC champs has done practically nothing for the program as a whole...plans to modernize Cassell disappeared into the ether just like the Homer Simpson bushes meme. But yay! We got bigger scoreboards for more ad space! In some respects I wonder if MBB got long-term screwed over by that ACC tourney run the same way football got screwed over by CJF getting to the ACCCG with Beamer's players. Several years later and nothing to be proud of. Hopefully the rumors I have heard will prove to be true and we'll part ways with CMY soon. Then we can make a monster MBB coaching hire who will bring CMY (who by every measure is a great guy/Hokie) back on as an assistant 😜

This is just as true about the late-game collapses.

Letting something happen once maybe twice is just part of competitive sports.

But not making adjustments to trends that are clearly harming your team just isn't good coaching.

The reluctance to play any Zone ever is baffling to me at this level. I thought Chester Frazier was supposed to be a "defensive specialist??"

And it's not like we're getting beat by Lottery picks--Miller, Donaldson, and Calmese are all probably fringey UDFA/Summer League guys at best.

Its just really not good enough coaching at this level, sorry CMY.

Man, I'd have to check my transcript, but I am pretty sure I was in that class. Took Biochem as an elective for BioSys Eng. It was the most difficult and most rewarding and enlightening class I had at VT. I still talk about the shit I learned in that class. It literally changed the way I think about how life works.

Yes there were plenty of blown calls. CMY needs to adjust. Bad officiating doesn't forgive an inability to coach. I want to see NEO coming in off the bench. A starting 5 of Hammond, Bedford, Schutt, Lawal, and Hansberry interest me more.

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