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Now dammit! Some of us Hokies may be born and raised and proud of our fine state of Ohio. This also means I am still getting every inch out of that win by massively rocking my VT stuff around the buckeye state

There is NO CAROL in HR!!!!

Any website dedicated to an individual team is sure to be full of homerism though. So, I don't really get offended at the comments that I see...you get what you ask for.

And he'd be, what, our 6th DE option now?

I never understood. Since we're even thinner at LB than DE, why the heck not put him back where he belongs?

Respect!

3 yards and a cloud of dust refers to Woody Hayes' bread and butter, the fullback straight up the middle for three reliable yards. Ezekiel Elliott averaged 6.9 (let's go ahead and round up to 7) yards per carry last season. Now we've been talking about cocky OSU fans around here, but part of that comes from the fact that Elliott's wrist was broken during the VT game last year - in the final three games of the season, Elliott averaged - averaged! - 11, 11.5, and 6.8 yards per carry, respectively.

We also have "85 Yards Through the Heart of the South" referring to the 85 yard touchdown run in the 4th quarter, and since SEC victories are comprehensively shared by all, so too was the dagger through the conference we so deservedly plunged into their collective hearts. I'm still high on the Sugar Bowl if you can't tell. I was there :)

The really puzzling thing about this is Turk's commentary. He's defended any number of players for knuckle headed/criminal behavior. He's not out declaring they're innocent when by facts and circumstances (like Shai's) they're not. His comments are usually pretty quiet if he says anything at all.

And in this case Turk seems pretty lit up by this and in specifics- "I think it's completely unwarranted and is just against any sense of an application of common sense at all to what they found him responsible for"; "this is about the most tragic set of circumstances I've seen imposed on a young man" - feels like the punishment is far too harsh for whatever he did.

I always worry about due process in campus justice systems. From experience many years ago when a friend was disciplined by an honor system when the prof stapled another student's test to his answer sheet, my concern is that these these authorities can't/won't admit a mistake or do a good job of matching punishment to the crime.

I think C.J. is fundamentally a good kid and; like I did (multiple times) at his age, made a dumb mistake. If this punishment matches the severity of what he did I'd be surprised.

Keeping with the prior theme ...Unwise Monetarily Cash Poor

Southern boy don't need him around, anyhow.

While you're here, can you explain the "seven yards and a cloud of dust" t-shirts?

I would have thought one of the site editors or a beat writer would have checked in to shed some light of sanity on the conversation by now.

Well, we had six losses...