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Unless it was photoshopped

You can buy a mat cutter (http://www.amazon.com/Logan-Compact-Classic-Mat-Cutter/dp/B004J1B0BO) but they are kinda expensive, and then make it fit whatever frame you need to. I did this for a bunch of my memorabilia that Michaels probably would have charged me a small fortune to custom frame so it was worth it to buy.

Can you imagine him sitting in your living room telling you "You want to go to Tech!"
And this doesn't hurt. Moore At MSU

Is it really that difficult to accept that the situation that Loeffler inherited was SO bad that any expectations of legitimate improvement needed to be tabled for at least 2 years?

He needed time to get his system in place. He also needed time to get his own players up to speed to be everyday contributors to this offense. I fully believe we will see improvement this year. But even if we don't I still think he deserves 1 additional year on top of this year to get it right.

2013 he inherited a trainwreck and had to polish a turd. We made a bowl, and that's really all you could have expected out of that year.
2014 started off brilliantly, but the injury train completely derailed any semblance of hope we had before we really got underway. IMHO, making a bowl with the roster we finished the year with (needing to start true freshmen and guys who were in DIII a year prior on the OL, being down to our 4th and 5th string RB, what should have been a massive advantage at TE withered down to a hobbled Bucky) was an over-achievement.

You ask me, he fully deserves a pass on those 2 seasons. NOBODY could have come in and done well with a hand like that.

the whole point is that every situation is different and it's silly and near-sighted to compare what SL has (or hasn't) done to the work of other coordinators working for different programs under different circumstances. Without doing the research I don't know for sure but I'm willing to bet that for every offense that has been rejuvenated there is at least one other offense that has floundered much like VT's over the last couple of years. It's easy to cherry pick and find those teams who have turned things around statistically and compare them to VT. If you're going to do that, fine, but you should at least provide examples of other teams that have gone nowhere, or gotten worse. I assure you, VT is not the only team in the country that has gone anywhere but up in offensive categories.

You can point out examples all day long about how other coordinators have worked miracles in their respective jobs but that really doesn't add any value to the commentary. SL is here now and there is nothing that talking about other teams' stats will do to change that. There have been some flashes (French has a lot of praise for his route-structure in the passing game, for instance) of brilliance and there have also been some pretty questionable decisions made by him. He's not infallible and we recognize that. It's possible that he is only as good as VT's record has been the last couple of years but it's also possible that he's better than that. We don't know yet and I think this season is the season to find out what he's really made of. Until then, comparing him to other coordinators around the country is a tired narrative and it's not at all constructive.

Doooke fans and local GT fans are getting a great deal to see their teams win a game this year.

At the end of the day if we take to long to get off plays, if the play calling sometimes still looks stineyesque, we have poor offensive line play, small linebackers, Bud Foster, and Shane Beamer as the backfield coach, it's something that never has changed in all our deliberations. It's Frank Beamer's team.

Boy - I will never again drink anything under 18 years old!

er.....i think you guys know what I mean by this, and not to be taken out of context.

so, if you only have a week to do Scotland, what do you do?

They were giving out these posters at fan day. I just finished framing and hanging mine up in the basement. Got the entire 2015 offense to sign it, It looks great. Still trying to find a frame for the 12" X 30" poster I got signed by the entire defense last year. Any help on this would be appreciated.

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Hi.

Just got back from a one-week vacay in Scotland. What did I miss?