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10 years 11 months
# | Virginia Tech Open Scrimmage No. 2 Thoughts, Plus a Conversation with Scot Loeffler Ricky Proehl, for me
OkSt should be MUCH higher. it's the only one that looks intimidating. love the color work.
and sadly GT's looks pretty great... damn them
There are a lot of comments/questions here that i am happy to answer if anyone wants to ask specifically. let me give some short answers though.
china's bubble bursting: uh, no. I have been hearing this for the last 14 years. China has 300+ Million people urbanizing in next 10 to 15 years. that's the pop of USA. The bubble isn't bursting in the slightest. it's readjusting. from an export to domestic economy. there are so many adjustments to be made doing this that the water will get choppy.
china has totalitarian control over market: yes, sure it does. but honestly if it didn't this market tumble would be affecting the world A HELLUVA LOT more. it needs to have control because mob mentality is rife in Chinese mindset and a full blown market collapse is not something they want obviously. You want Beijing to have that control, believe me.
But there are several things that aren't being reported on much that should be addressed:
a) China's stock market has been infamous for insider trading. wherever it was or is now is a false number. no way stocks are that high. It had to come down.
b) China's stock market is located in Shanghai. there are big political reasons why this important. you would need to know Chinese politics to understand but suffice to say Shanghai and Tianjin are two of the last bastions of former presidential power, power that was known to be corrupt. Anyone see something about a huge explosion in China two weeks ago? what city was that located in? hmm.....
c) The current president is leading the world's largest and most wide spread anti-corruption effort in history. The shanghai market was highly corrupt . if you haven't guessed, there is a correlation here. hint: see point b
c) domestically this is not hurting China much. Yes, many people have lost money and even some suicides sadly. however, China as a country is humming along more powerful than ever.
China is completely free market. However, foreign imported goods are considered "luxury" items and all come with 40% minimum tax on them. They are protecting their domestic brands because if they flooded with international brands at domestic pricing it would kill domestic economy. that is bad when China is trying to change from export economy to domestic. However, if you manufacture an approved product domestically you can avoid that tax, which is why you see more and more international brands with local manufacturing such as dannone and yoplait yoghurt, doritos, and even Ferrari cars.
This is not entirely accurate. or at least doesn't come close to explaining how or why those situations have come to pass.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Offensive Coaches Discuss McMillian, Teller, TE's and the Recruiting Process Three of those guys had major leg-related surgeries within the past 12 months and one of them is a freshman. None of these guys were exactly All-American players last year either.
Let's bring expectations back to earth here...if we have at least a component rushing attack this year, I'd be happy.
By "we" I meant everybody
It makes sense to Searels...
Section 15 represent!
They would argue otherwise, with an All-American being out.
Just like last time, they've got a banged up defensive playmaker, we've got a banged up defensive playmaker. We're square.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Offensive Coaches Discuss McMillian, Teller, TE's and the Recruiting Process Anyone else getting a funny mental image of Travon literally just trying to push Teller?
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Offensive Coaches Discuss McMillian, Teller, TE's and the Recruiting Process Maybe he could provide some depth at DE too. Or perhaps push Teller at guard
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10 years 11 months
# | Virginia Tech Open Scrimmage No. 2 Thoughts, Plus a Conversation with Scot Loeffler In all seriousness, I've been saying since the spring he looks like a poor man's Ryan Switzer to me. His game relies on quicks and sure hands, not overwhelming size or straight-ahead speed (although Switzer's got a good amount of that too).
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10 years 11 months
# | Virginia Tech Open Scrimmage No. 2 Thoughts, Plus a Conversation with Scot Loeffler OT. catching up on the one game i missed last year: VT-UVA. I cant believe i forgot how much i hate the hoos. Oh and how i miss the paperboy.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Offensive Coaches Discuss McMillian, Teller, TE's and the Recruiting Process I appreciate all that JC has done for the program, but im not gonna lie, im excited to hear about new talent. Cant wait to see what young mcmuffin brings to our team.
possibly CJ Carrol if he is not already on scholarship yet.
With the help of professional counseling, I'm able to look away from this clip after only 12 minutes now.
Working the program, y'all.
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Offensive Coaches Discuss McMillian, Teller, TE's and the Recruiting Process Yea so I'm pretty sure Travon is just going to step up and be our 3rd receiver
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10 years 11 months
# | Hokies Offensive Coaches Discuss McMillian, Teller, TE's and the Recruiting Process SILENCE!!!!
Keep talking crazy like that, and the next thing you know there's collar bones and ACL's flying all over the place.
He said that it is no cause for concern. Guys get banged up, Torrance Gibson is also dinged. They'll be fine.
Yeah I was being sarcastic and referring to 247 crystal balls and how frustrating they can be