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He's setting up shop in the Cassell lot.
Nice
It brought a tear to my eye
Agreed. We're all privileged to be a part of fan bases that whole-heartedly stand behind their team. Many times, it's difficult for us to speak unbiasedly. This is where all the aggression and far-fetched optimism comes into play. Although it's so easy to host hostile feelings for one another, we're really all the same. There's no reason we can't get along and carry on insightful conversations...that is until the game is over. Then it's a completely different story.
I'm with you, the piling on in these comments is a little much. It's newsworthy and topical. Yeah, it was a double post, but like I've pointed out before, the search function is poor when searching for forum topics that have dropped off the front page.
This incident reflects poorly on OSU and its band. Sure, it's been discussed and addressed by the university and the band, but it's definitely worth bringing up. I don't get the criticism you're receiving. You thought it was worth bringing up for discussion. So do I.
I feel like a lot of college students can empathize with Bosa for skipping class to play FIFA... I know I can.
Good post, though. It would be nice if all of our opponents had rational fans come and talk football with us on here.
The confidence both fan bases have right now is the proverbial unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. Someone's going to be extremely disappointed on Tuesday morning.
Watching this show helps me understand the introvert in me. They do a great job bring his personality out and how it impacts the world around him.
Our QBs over the past decade have more than enough experience taking shots, I doubt any more will help out Brewer's pocket presence.
Wow just sad. Someone emailed me the link to this story (first I have heard of it), it bothered me as they are coming to our game, so I thought I'd share here.
"That is the most ignorant statement you've made thus far." Please get off your high horse. This story hits home more for some then others and that was what I meant. The point was not about religion. If there was a song about 9/11 I would expect it would effect someone who lived in NY more deeply than me.
In terms of the double post, I check here once every day or so and this was the first I've heard, but good god will I make sure to go CSI next time. Was posting from phone and watching kids so not always the easiest thing to do.
Guitarman feel free to delete away. sheesh
The BIG Easy!
Please, make this thread go away.
You have the defense giving up 172 points the entire season; 14.3 per game. That's in the top 7 every year going back to 2003.
It could happen.
1. Yes, and there is generally depth to those discussions, not just "another reason to hate X," and they are brought up in a generally timely manner, and in each of those instances, the incident discussed has DIRECTLY impacted the sport of football.
2. It was a fraction of the band IN 2012. Their band has been smacked pretty hard recently, and this sort of thing is almost definitely not still occurring.
3. Double posts ARE generally deleted.
4. That is the most ignorant statement you've made thus far. You shouldn't get different treatment because of religious affiliation. All men being created equal and whatnot. Secondly, many other groups besides jews died in the Holocaust, so this isn't specifically anti-semitic, but rather just generally abhorrent behavior. I, as a middle-class, Christian, white male, find the song to be perfectly despicable, as would most, and we don't need to invoke our demographic data as reasoning that it is unequivocally wrong.
I hope you take the criticisms on this thread constructively, and I look forward to your next forum topic being better than this go round.
I will not echo the condemnation above, to me this is just a duplicate topic, as we briefly talked about this before. But I think the difference here is that we should not trivialize this as ammo to poke at OSU or fuel to "root for the good guys." The ugly actions of a select few have been universally condemned and the band director has been fired. The OSU fan base and people over at 11W are disgusted, too, so this (especially in light of the massive thread about OSU fans being "delusional" sparking a bunch of arguments among people) just seems unnecessary to harp on.
The difference with, e.g. FSU, UNC, Miami, etc. is the willful disregard for academics, NCAA rules, and public safety in those situations; discussions of NCAA rules and contrasting policies of VT with those institutions is of interest in these forums. The extent to which all of those institutions have doubled down on their innocence or systematically covered up massive academic scandal is wildly different than some people in a band being assholes.
A humble request would be that if you're going to post a story that is nearly 3 weeks old (according to the article's date), please at least check the tracker around those dates. We have an ever-increasing volume of new threads; odds are things are going to be posted and discussed within a day or two of whatever it is happening. Then we move on.
I don't know why everyone is coming down hard on you. There was no outrage the first time this came up, though people were probably more attracted to the announcement that day of the OSU players' suspensions.
On the positive side, it shows that Deon is already in Beast Mode. I don't want to see anybody injured of course, but I do like that our guys seem to be going all out, even in practice. Especially the Defense. Bodes well for the season, our teams have been at their best historically when they are hungry and fired up.
1. Actions of universities are discussed here all the time see UNC academics, FSU, Pen St, etc etc
2. If this is the behavior of said universities very large band and said band will be performing at my school then yes.....it bothers me and worth noting. Since the band typically travels
3. Deleted? Are the threads about UNC scandals deleted?
4. As a Jewish Hokie I would expect more support in this forum
Gotta little dog we call Li'l Easy. She might weigh as much as Settle's right shoe. How's about we call him Big Easy. That fits.
They are and yes we do haha. I met a couple of them on reddit, super cool dudes, not enough people realize that if you really want to talk football, the band is one of the best places to go.
Sorry, generations and decades apart.
Horse on a Treadmill >>> Crableg Bootyhole
Nah, Bert Kinsey from the alumni association. Haven't met either of the other two though.
French wrote an excellent piece on the Wide Tackle Six formation a while back: http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2012/june/26/look-back-famed-hokie-wid...
If I had to guess, I doubt he'd run that exact scheme, but keeping that sort of line spacing would help the ends be able to pass rush and play contain at the same time, likely with Deon Clark playing a short zone so he could come up and make tackles on scrambles.
Buddy (Bert) Blanton? He was a buddy indeed. Fine people. Marlin Leatherman was our XO. An entire history book could be assembled with him as the core, but again, old days, long gone, fondly remembered, never forgotten...but long gone.
Available on netflix?