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weavez22's picture weavez22 | 11 years 1 month # | OT: True Detective

What did everyone think about the first episode of season 2? It had a much different feel to it than last season, but I'm excited. I thought they did a great job of bringing the 3 detectives, who all have huge issues of their own, together at the crime scene.

fernleyhokie's picture fernleyhokie
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| 11 years 1 month # | Bitter blog - Whit Babcock Q&A, Part I: The Hokie Club's evolution, Jon Laaser's hiring and more

thanks Andy. Nice read

though something about this answer regarding Bristol:

But shoot, I go to the Final Four about every other year and there's 70,000 people there and the sight lines stink, but you're a part of the Final Four.

My mind translates that as sight lines and distance is even worse than people imagine. Don't go for the game, go for the event.

Hokie Fireman's picture Hokie Fireman
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| 11 years 1 month # | Tino Ellis tweets he has made his decision.

I'm not so sure about his "connections" especially at Benedictine, I'm an alumnus of Benedictine, I played on two state championship football teams there, talk to coaches and teachers regularly there and have never heard of him having any connections.

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| 11 years 1 month # | Football Uniform Has Same Short Shoulder Stripes

The point is that the excitement is in the football being played.

Of course super-plain doesn't work for everyone. Look at Purdue.

I like simple, clean lines. VT has a pretty good balance.

aashokie's picture aashokie | 11 years 1 month # | Article from Clevland.com "Can Virginia Tech beat Ohio State? A 10 percent chance the Buckeyes could lose"

I think I meant specifically in terms of catching deep balls. While the potential is there, I only recall Smith and Marshall catching long throws for you guys. Nick Vannett is and will be a good TE, but I don't think he's shown the same ability to stretch the defense down the seam like Heuerman- at least not yet. IIRC, Wilson was hurt for a large part of the year so he didn't get a ton of chances and a lot of Samuel's catches were out of the backfield. There's a lot of talent there, but much of it is relatively unproven (Corey Smith, Johnnie Dixon, Noah Brown, etc.). Look at the stats you used, no one anywhere close to Devin Smith in ypc. Like you said, it'll probably take a little time to truly replace him, since he was the best deep ball receiver in cfb last year.

I would be surprised to see a linebacker have coverage responsibilities on Vannett at all. It would likely be either the nickel corner or the rover (both of who will be new this year), depending on formation. Part of the challenge of man coverage for sure and staying disciplined in coverage responsibilities is very difficult against your offense. That's a main issue of concern for me with two new players in the secondary.

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 11 years 1 month # | Jon Laaser is new voice of the Hokies

I always thought of them as single use, pre-charged capacitors necessary to provide portable power for your friggin laser.

KopHokie's picture KopHokie | 11 years 1 month # | Show us your....tags

wouldn't that be an imaginary number? kind like the number of times the silly hoos have beaten us in football the last 11 years...imaginary

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