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There is a great write up on this very site on how there were teams that definitely did not try and run the same defense against Ohio St. (Bama, Oregon for example).
http://www.thekeyplay.com/virginia-tech-football/2015/07/9561/what-adjus...
Furthermore, there were a couple teams that had moderate success, but lacked the defensive personnel. Indiana made it a tough until they just ran out of gas and Penn St. gave the Nuts all they could handle. Not sure if its so much anOSU figuring it out as it was those teams just plain not being good enough defensively.
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# | Virginia Tech's game at Purdue on 9/19/15 is scheduled for 3:30 PM Just got the tickets I purchased through the Hokie Club and I am pissed. Corner end zone, 4 rows from the top. I normally would watch the game on TV rather than sit in these types of seats. No refunds, no exchanges. A whole lot of good being in the Hokie Club did me.
The fines are not new. They've been around since before the COA was in place. It's in a story from 2006 that Aaron Rouse was fined $100 for a personal foul he committed. I'm sure it's subjective. If you're given a facemask penalty, no fine. If you are given a late hit for intentionally going after a player, you're punished. Seriously, everybody just needs to calm down about this. It's being blown up way beyond where it needs to be.
Ugh
Those funds are there to specifically help these kids pay for what isn't covered in their scholarship, so to try and even think it's appropriate to dip into that just seems ridiculously disconnected from the intentions of the stipend program at hand.
How this ever got approved is beyond me. The fact we finally give these kids a little financial breathing room while they are on campus and immediately or coaches were looking into ways to talk into those funds just seems... It's troubling, really. Did they not pay attention to the intentions of this movement at all?
The NBA would have trouble with that shot facing the basket, let alone facing away.
No worries, I just applied for an 11W account.
Those types of players aren't comparing COA's, they're comparing bags of dollar bills.
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# | Report: Cincinnati's Tommy Tuberville may withhold money from players (Sports Illustrated) I am sure you will hear much more about this coming out from other schools
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# | Bitter blog - Babcock offers clarification on player fines, shuts down entire practice 
Wait... so in the SEC bagmen pay athletes under the table.
At VT we fine athletes under the table.
And we wonder why we can't sign 5-stars?
They tried their version of and poorly at that.
It would be against their $3000+ stipend that kicks in for the first time this semester.
jreynolds06, I love that you're here. You can provide the #1 most important perspective a Hokie football fan can have regarding a wide variety of situations impacting students, athletes, and families all in a nutshell. In my opinion, in these types of situations, your opinion weighs as heavily on my interpretation as any could. Thanks.
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# | Virginia Tech Defensive Media Session: A very newsworthy chat with Bud Foster Bud mentioned that he was concerned about people getting in trouble for 6am runs (see craig james). I like the idea of letting people know there is a price to screwing up. God forbid we try to instill morals and decency. Who wants to end up like Florida State?
He is fighting to make one of the worst NFL teams rosters. Changing positions from QB to another skill position is VERY hard.
I forget where I read this but that's not entirely accurate apparently. They can "fine" in the sense that they can deduct from money to be paid to the student in the same way that if you get kicked off the team, you potentially lose your scholarship and/or have to pay for your current semester. It is legal IF it is documented ahead of time and the player is aware of it (i.e. it was in the agreement they signed). Just like you can't cancel a student athletes scholarship with some sort of process, you can't fine them just out of the blue. Apparently there are several other schools out there already who have already implemented this "fining" process for the current school year and are legally secure.
In the NFL this happens because the teams and league have lucrative deals with suppliers
NCAA schools have just as lucrative deals (relative to their budgets). Just like when a player screws up and permanently or temporarily loses their scholarship, now since the schools are paying them several grand in stipends, they are in danger of losing portions of that as well. I think the biggest confusion with all of this is that schools can't (and aren't) fining students out of their pockets, they are saying "if you screw up, you risk forfeiting all or part of your stipend, if you REALLY screw up, you lose your scholarship too"
Hey - if it takes a fine so we don't have our kids on the sideline looking like that slob Belichick, then I'm all for it. /s
Is it that hard to expect a kid to [variable]
I'm going to go with "yes".
Nope, that was this year so the athletes should have gotten their first payout within the past several weeks.
My fantasy football team agrees with you, referencing Sammy Watkins.
Agree this may be a bigger decision on whether they can salvage anything out of EJ or they need to cut bait on the first rounder. Last shot with the first team to demonstrate he deserves a roster spot.
What did you expect? Purdue makes their worst seats available to visiting fans. We stick visiting fans in the worst possible part of Lane as well. (Edge of the east stands / upper SEZ)