Recent Comments
Without the whole story, this looks very bad for Miami from a recruits perspective. It looks even worse from a recruits parents perspective. They yanked his scholarship with one semester left to graduate? Those parents want their kids to not just potentially go to the NFL, they should also want them to graduate.
Oh shit, was it Grisham... Damn, I had my only popular in the 90s authors confused...
then again, I should have known the pedophile would be the UVa booster...
Crichton? I thought John Grisham was the author of their feast.
I read "I hate the Wahoos" and that was enough for me!... Welcome to TKP!
Those negative waves, though, they'll get after ya.
Wow. I would have to think there is a something more going on there. But if its as simple as that, I don't see how Golden could ever land another recruit there.
If they just rescinded a scholarship "just because"....man thats a bad look. I know the article says he was seen as a negative presence, but we all know if he was really really good that would have never come up.
🦃 LEG KING 🦃
|
11 years 1 month
# | Per Andrea Adelson (ESPN) Miami OL Taylor Gadbois Dismissed from the Team And this is something you print out and send to every single one of Miami's current recruiting targets.
UVa baseball has nothing to do with their endowment. That program was on the chopping block a decade ago because of futility and a complete lack of interest. Then, Michael Crichton writes them a huge check right before he died to purely fund the baseball program and suddenly they're a powerhouse.
They didn't build shit. Much like the pretentious douchenozzles that infest that god for saken student body, that baseball program was reborn with a silver spoon in hand thinking they hit a triple in the game of life when they were born.
OK, you got me back in the conversation with that. I have a Wuck the Fahoos button I bought on the way to a uva game at Lane decades ago. Bought it from a dude with two galvanized buckets of buttons. One with Go Hokies, one with Wuck the Fahoos. I made that damn button famous on the 50 yd line of Scott Stadium for several years during a streak of home and home trades with some uva friends. I was finally told, after Groh showed up, that me and my button were hereby resigned to being banned from Scott by my high rollin' lawyer buddies there, after one too many complaints by higher rollers sitting nearby, but I will always be proud to wear the Wuck the Fahoos button and will hope that some other shady entrepreneur will show up with a couple of galvanized buckets of them and dodge the coppers long enough to get them back into circulation. Thanks for the reminder!
Awesome, that's the first UVA game I got see live!
well the information he got on minor, Ferrell and bracey seems to indicate he has major connections there. had good connections for info from Thomas dale and clover hill (if that's where JC and Holland fisher went).
I hate the Wahoos too and you can be sure this will be brought up whenever anything about football comes up. I don't know if this has been brought up on these boards or not but, techsideline.com has a great article out on the topic. Olympic Sports between schools are not on an even playing field. Have you wondered why Standford, UVa, Florida, etc. are so good at all Olympic sports.... well the main reason as to why is due to their endowment size. Basically, schools with large endowments have an advantage because they are able to give more need based and merit based scholarships on top of the max athletic scholarships Olympic sports are allowed to give. Thus, more scholarships allows them to pull in a greater number of elite talent. It's disheartening to learn but, at the same time explains so much. I hate when hoos bring up their Olympic sports success but, now that I know that the reason just goes back to them being the "rich" snobby kids it makes me feel a little better. Read the article on techsideline.com, it is very interesting.
GET FULLY DIPPED.
|
11 years 1 month
# | Per Andrea Adelson (ESPN) Miami OL Taylor Gadbois Dismissed from the Team Unless there's a damn good reason for this, Miami and Al Golden come off looking extremely bad.
http://caneswatch.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/06/25/taylor-gadbois-shock...
"He just basically said, 'We're parting ways,'" Gadbois said. "I said 'What?' I started [expletive] crying, man.
"I didn't want to leave. This has been my dream school since I was four years old. I was in my last semester and they wouldn't let me finish school or nothing. ... Without the scholarship, I can't afford school.
Yea, I think we are pretty much in agreement on the challenges both teams face. While I realize you were referring to the deep ball I wanted to point out what we have at WR. Besides, what fun is the internet if someone can't respond with a counter argument that doesn't address the point made?
I think if we can establish our running game we will stay pretty vanilla in passing with the goal of keeping you honest and not stuffing the box against us. If you stop our run game it could be a long night for us because even though we have the talent it'll be a lot to ask of them to put the game in their hands; especially against a good them like VT. I'd be less worried if we opened against a cream puff where we could work out the kinks without having to worry too much about losing if we have a bad day.
As for Vannett, I'm hoping you guys overlook him in coverage; if that happens I think he will surprise you. I'm not surprised Smith's YPC dwarf the others given the role he played last year; however given he wasn't the #1 target shows that UM has a lot of confidence in his other receivers was well.
You know, if fans wear dominantly maroon that orange/white is going to make the stadium look like one big VT game... there colors go in our favor, although it isn't a burnt orange.
Sorry to disagree. With specialty plates come specialty messages. Hummin'boids need lovin' too!
In other ACC offensive lineman news, Clemson's starting LT, Battle, is entering the supplemental draft
all the more impressive when you look at what black squirrels are capable of. Go fighting gobblers!
Growing up I always thought that they were shooting lasers. But based on that gif, they were apparently using the "all tracers, all the time" method. Still somehow managed to never hit anyone (cue the Community G.I. Joe episode).
How many OL are gone from last year's team? I know the ACC was having some big OL turnover on some teams. I think the entire starting 5 from BC are gone
I'd like to see Virginia Tech fans go in order to help achieve the attendance record.
Plus, I don't want to be there in a sea of Tennessee orange. I'd rather see a lot of burnt orange and Chicago maroon.
I went to the Sugar Bowl against Michigan, and I was pretty impressed with the Hokie turnout. That place rocked.
Thanks for your comment. I was trying to figure out what "11 narrow" meant.
This is accurate and exciting.
No it's not. LT did not get "yanked" and he didn't get "beat out". Go back and read exactly what Arians said at the time:
"We drafted him for two years from now, not November," Arians said, via the team's official website. "It just so happened his number got called (earlier.) I was not going to let him fail (in San Francisco) because once you fail those scars never go away.
"It's very hard to get the guys back in the locker room if you cost them the playoffs. I just wasn't going to put him in that situation. Right or wrong, it just was my decision."
If anything, Arians' quote and actions at the time are exactly why it's not "telling". He basically said they had no chance with whomever they started (and he was correct), so why poison the guy they have a long term investment in, i.e. "two years from now", i.e. 2016.
The writer clearly has been biased against LT from day 1 and looks for opportunities to say something negative about him every time he writes about him.