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I have a friend who's a traffic engineer who chewed me out for merging early in the lane. It didn't matter that I was up to speed. He insisted I was screwing up a wel planned traffic flow by not waiting til the end of the lane
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# | Ohio State Game Convinces Dozens of High-Profile Recruits to Trek to Blacksburg Also missing D.J Matthews. Potential 5* FSU WR commit
http://virginiatech.247sports.com/Bolt/FSU-Commit-Visiting-Virginia-Tech...
no we're stacked/set there.
I'm excited for this game mostly because it's the opener and it's at Lane in prime time. I know the atmosphere is going to be crazy because of who the opponent is, and the entrance will shake Blacksburg. BUT, I can't help but think about last year vs Miami. All maroon everything, Marty Smith's emotional message to the crowd, the stadium erupting when our team came out of the tunnel, and then the carnage ensued.
I would love nothing more than to wake up Tuesday morning and listen to all the pundits talk about how wrong they were but I just have a bad feeling this game isn't going to live up to the hype. Despite the defense we should put on the field this year and even an improved offensive line (maybe) this team absolutely shouldn't beat anOSU this year. Last season we were only 11 point pups at the Horse Shoe. This year the spread is 2 TDs at our house and with all the suspensions. I realize Vegas is wrong sometimes but they don't have any emotion or fandom in their predictions. It's all about the money. Taking off my orange and maroon shades, we beat a totally different Buckeye team last year. And we caught a lot of lucky breaks to do it. A lot of momentum swinging events bounced the Hokies way in that game. Dropped pass in the end zone that hit a wide open receiver in the hands, a FG that bounced off the goal post, and a couple of very questionable throws by Michael Brewer that were somehow hauled in.
Nobody knows how this game will go, but if I had to put money on a prediction, I'd say something like 30-14 OSU. I hope I'm wrong but I'm not getting my hopes up too high that we will pull another upset Monday night.
Joel,
The new bubble/scatter plot graphs are sweeeeet. As a fellow mathlete...respect.
But yeah, I can't see Urban abandoning the run as much as he did last year. It well be a dogfight, but I see them getting that kind of yardage on the ground. Lucky for us there no game plan in the world that can account for a Fuller.
Great article! I was getting toward the end of the 1st part about our defense against their offense, and then realized you had taken on analyzing our offense against their D as well! Wow.
For simpletons like me, it seems that if we can stop the run(no small task) and run the ball ourselves(also not small), we will probably win.
It seems like last year, we did the 1st, to a large extent, but couldn't really run ourselves at all. We still managed to win, somehow. Clutch performances by Brewer and our receivers, and the pick six at the end helped to seal it.
I'm guessing that this year we're going to need 2 non-offensive touchdowns to win. A Stroman punt return for a TD and a blocked punt returned for a TD would do very nicely.
I haven't heard Urban Meyer say anything other than how tough it will be. What did he say to sound egotistical?
Jugs is deflated
I hope this isn't a condition that requires medical attention or wardrobe adjustments.
It snowed here in Christiansburg/Blacksburg the day before Thanksgiving last year.
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# | Ohio State Game Convinces Dozens of High-Profile Recruits to Trek to Blacksburg no doubt it was cool and all.. but the fact is was such a big deal was a little knee-pads for lebron, they couldn't keep the camera off him during that game..
Lebron goes to a couple games a year so not like he specifically chose that 1 game and that was it.
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# | Ohio State Game Convinces Dozens of High-Profile Recruits to Trek to Blacksburg He will probably be a 5* by signing day.
He could inside zone from the pistol more often, but it will look pretty much the same. I think he will try to throw to Elliot more and try to get him on the edge quickly. If you watched Bud "Mic'ed up" he really talks a ton about taking away their edge game.
That's pretty nice then. One of the biggest reasons I rarely buy growlers is that I never have one on me, and don't want to put down the extra money for something I have a dozen of at home.
BIG WIFE GUY
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# | Ohio State Game Convinces Dozens of High-Profile Recruits to Trek to Blacksburg Say what you want, but I bet their players/recruits thought having Bron on the sidelines was the coolest thing ever
Had the same problem in Explorer, opened it in Firefox and it worked correctly **Shrugs**
Oh yeah, I have way too many of those. Was talking about Crowlers, which serve the same purpose, but as a can.
That is, in a nutshell (no pun intended) the risk reward of all of Bud's defenses. He will put numbers in the box, and if the back (or QB scrambling) breaks through that 7 or 8 man wall and the secondary is in Quarters or man, it is a big play. We saw guys who were not great runners (Rakeem Cato, CJ Brown) along with the Duke Johnson's of the world get big yardage when they broke through that umbrella.
As for VT's O vs tOSU's D, I think the Hokies will be better all around. TOSU is better this year at DB and LB. you can't sell me on losing Bosa and Bennett up front and the DL play still being on par to last year.
This is like reading one of French's breakdowns, only about weather. TKP is awsome!
Yeah, get back to us in January, after you get back inside from chipping the dog off of the tree he's frozen to.
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# | Ohio State Game Convinces Dozens of High-Profile Recruits to Trek to Blacksburg Not for '16. Landon Dickerson is the closest (247 has him graded at 97. 98 is 5*)
Excellent French! I had to stop half way through it, and wave my hands in the air like a Southern Baptist preacher reading the bible...literally. Anyone else too excited to sleep this weekend?
I imagine it's more a matter of...
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So basically Loeffler has every possible offense installed to counter every defense, it's just a matter of Loeffler figuring out which offense to run before the clock runs out?
Good responses! Bourbon County or a Pliny sound like a deal! I haven't had either, so probably a good trade. Or maybe that Westvleteren 12—that sounds interesting. Oh and XHurler, that's a fair comment as Hops are not the end all be all for beer flavors in my mind either. Plenty of good flavors and situations for sours, belgian trippels, session beers, and whisky of course :)
We'll have to arrange a tailgate trade at another game.