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5Q has two very strong memories for me from college. First, no matter where our seats were, all my friends would make their way up to 5Qx50 yard line. No one cared because everyone who was supposed to sit up there was trying to do the same, only for better seats. Second was running stadiums section by section in Lane. You after a couple sections you want to die and you just stare straight down at the numbers for fear that if you look up to see how much you have left, you'll a) be incredibly depressed and b) you might lean too far back and fall down the stairs. Once you got to 5Q, you were rewarded with a horizontal between sections and a great view of the mountains at sunrise (pre-west stands expansion)

Only qualm: It's not 'The Matt Ryan Game', it's 'The Matty Ice Miracle in Blacksburg'

I mean the actual fan that cools the team off during practice. I think they named him "Coolio".

Glad Olbermann is gone. He's a blowhard.
I like Sports Nation and would miss it, but ESPN disgusts me with most of their BS.
Live Sports programming will always be available from some media outlet. I think its growing while the entertainment aspects of these channels is annoying the viewers.
Good, the voice of the customer is being exercised.

Exactly, hopefully there is someone smart enough on the ACC front office figuring out how to make take the ACC Network straight to a streaming service. Let people pay for just the costs of providing the games and not all the fees of being associated with ESPN or a cable service. If it is successful, then the bigger networks will come knocking. Not sure how this violates the Raycom and the terrible third party rights deal.

Beamer is like one of the old guys from Kung Fu Hustle. He'll shuffle around in his slippers and then BOOM! Buddha palm descending from heaven. Fight over.

Brian, you did an excellent job. Are you looking to be a sportscaster in the future? Very well done.

Not arguing with you, but let me throw this in just to see if it gives a little more context.

Bud Foster watched the Ohio State offense operate against Navy - a team that was out-sized and talented almost everywhere. This is the only tape he would have had to see how JT Barrett would run that offense. There was nothing on that tape that would have scared him. It would be logical for him to say, we can stop that run game and make this kid beat us - and he won't be able to. Check and check. He was able to do what the film said he would be able to do.

Everyone respects Pat Narduzzi's defense at Sparty. Kirby Smart no doubt looked at that film, and had some concerns. Similar to Foster though, he couldn't be too sure how the offense would change with Jones, but he had that rout of Wisconsin to look at. Fear of an offense's capability makes DC's a little less aggressive. The bottom line is you want to stop the opponent from scoring, so you might play to potentially give up 10 yards so that you mitigate the risk of an explosive play. Ohio State lived on explosive plays the last 10 games, so it was logical for Smart to want to limit those. Many of those explosive plays came against aggressive defensive schemes. Smart had a different set of data to look at than Foster. Both took what they had in front of them and developed a defensive game plan around what they knew and saw.

By the time they played Oregon, that DC had plenty of concerns/fears. He didn't have the front 7 to be constantly aggressive, and the data told him to not do it except in certain situations. You saw them crowd the box and do run blitzes on 3rd and short, but they were afraid to bring their safeties up and blitz on passing downs.

This year Foster has a lot more data to work with, and he can work on schemes specifically for Barrett and Jones. If Miller is the QB, there is only one strategy: contain him running/scrambling and pressure him passing. But he also has reason to play to limit explosive plays, and so he will mix it more, and disguise more whether he is being aggressive or protective.

My overall point is that how a team looks on offense on film, and how threatening they are, determines how DC's game plan. This year BF has a different set of data, and so his plan will be different, but could be just as successful. The Ohio State offense will have something to say about it depending on how well they execute.

I just don't see that saying that Ohio State got better from that VT game on is mitigating the value of the VT win. The Hokies won that by being the better team, by beating up the Ohio State offense, and by getting some timely plays from their offense. Ohio State was clearly a way, way better team in Dec and Jan than they were in Sept. It wasn't a scheme change as much as it was better execution.

But I believe the biggest change had nothing to do with things going on in the coaching offices or the lockerroom. Their last 2 reg season games showed a team that wasn't very good on defense, and could improve on offense and special teams. Tevin Coleman of Indiana ran all over them and OSU found themselves in a dogfight with the lowly Hoosiers. Then, a struggling scUM team gave them a game for 3 qtrs. But the week of the scUM game one of their teammates crawled into a dumpster and shot himself in the head. They had a funeral to attend the Wed of that week. Then during the game their QB broke his ankle. I think those adversities combined made that team draw closer, and I think that unity was the force that allowed them to take it to a higher level. It sounds hokey, but teams that are genuinely close are better for it, and I think that is why they got on a roll at just the right time.

But again, that has no negative implications on VT's win last year, and since this is a brand new team, no one knows how much it will carry over this year.

When I was a freshman in college, I didn't ask to see ID to every girl that showed interest in me.

That was a risk you were willing to take. If you ended up hooking up with someone under the age of 18, you broke the law.

It is not a legal defense to say "Judge, it is really inconvenient for me to not statuary rape".

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It's not so much that as we have had TKPers mention their work filters and words that trigger calls from HR. Most foul language can be cleverly disguised through alternate text though, if you are a 1337 h4x0r.

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