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We don't always take timeouts; but when we do, it's to make snow angels.
More Snow Angels than LOLUVA had fans at their spring game
There wasn't anyone else available at the time because of how badly weaver botched the firing process.
Roger Clyne still comes through DC at least once a year. Nada, Mekong, Mexico, Banditos, Americano, Counterclockwise, and many more... all great songs.
UVA: Where other teams have an "Offensive Line", the Hoos have a long flat circle. Doomed to repeat the past failures in the Commonwealth Cup in perpetuity
I lumped hiring of JJ in with letting the old coach go. There really wasn't anybody else available at that time.
I got your back HokieBengal.
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# | Bitter blog - BOV approves financing plan for indoor practice facility Impressive, but boy does it make Cassell, and especially the offices at the back, stick out like a sore thumb.
Seeing that, you HAVE to think that a renovation of Cassell has to be in the plans for the future, if only because the architecture of the building doesn't go at all with any of the facilities next to it.
I think we should be OK with some recruits being 1 or 2 and done. We want to bring that caliber of talent here, right? Go get some of it, just not all our players as then your starting all over again all the time, like Kentucky has been lately.
Can you just imaging VT being in these conversations and consistently placing guys in the NBA like that every once in a while? Awesome! The train would just keep on coming.
Joining today as well. If he is buying in, I'm buying in.
I have NEVER heard anybody pressured Weaver to retire. His illness finally got to the point were he could not cope with the physical demands of the job and he decided to retire.
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# | Bitter blog - BOV approves financing plan for indoor practice facility Fiscally responsible? Well that's an interesting revisionist way of looking at his cheap and lazy mindset over the past decade.
Absolutely no excuse to hire an ACC head basketball coach for $680k. None. We got what we paid for, and it set us back a few years even with a great coach like Buzz on staff. During this same time, we also saw complete reboots on women's basketball, men's soccer, wrestling, and baseball. We got LUCKY Jim found a cheap guy in our own backyard in wrestling that has us at an elite level again, but every other replacement search has been met with a drastically worse program than the one that was there originally. And it horrifies me to know it almost happened with football under Weaver's watch.
We got Buzz because we have a guy in charge that knows sometimes you have to spend money to make money, and when the opportunity presents itself, you swing for the fences. Weaver's comfort zone was to cut costs to preserve profits. Whit's appears to be to spend money to drive revenue and increase profits. The two mindsets are completely different, and despite the kind public words about Weaver, I wouldn't really say he deserves too much credit for the drastic changes we've seen in the first month under Whit. In fact, it just kind of shows the untapped potential that was easy to pinpoint and capitalize upon by the new AD.
I 2nd that...
ohh you have to change this to a "Caption This" thread.. think of the fun!!!
Could be a 2 and done by then depending on if the NBA changes their rule anytime soon.
Thanks for the responses. As the Mom of a special needs child, I tend to spend a lot of time researching charities before donating our time and money. Since we are already Hokie Club members, what better way to continue helping the Virginia Tech name while helping a charity I could really be passionate about? Ive been doing a lot of reading about Buzzs Bunch, and for me it doesn't get much better than special needs children and Hokie athletics. This could really end up being something very special. ;-)
Jim Weaver explains why this effort didn't get approved two years ago:
I was at a few of Motuapuakas games that year as a friend of mine had a kid on the team. Motuapuaka can flat out play. Very instinctual and is able to play off of blocks. Some of those blocks he sheds in the highlight film are Nnadi and Brown.
This kid is unreal. But the only red, or rather orange, flag I can see is that he's 7' tall and pretty frail, however freakishly athletic. But I can see him winding up like a D-rose, being plagued by injuries and ending his career sooner than expected. I think though that's an issue once he's in the NBA. Just hoping he stays healthy until then and does bulk up like he should. Lets get after it.
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# | Bitter blog - BOV approves financing plan for indoor practice facility This is what I was thinking. The whole "compromise" was that the field side could be completely opened and thus extended to make one of full yardage.
If this is the design seems like we are compromising a whole lot more. Anyway, this is probably just a draft render. I'm sure more are to come.
Blame the guy they're investigating for white collar crimes. He probably made it suck so that others would have to buy the tape instead of watching it for free online.
Agreed, I clarified my statement above. His management of our athletic department was a component of us getting in, but certainly not all. Frank Beamer built and maintained the football program, the four I listed below did the gladhanding that got us the votes and Weaver ran the athletic department. But his work was yeomen's work, Beamer's skill is apparent and has been appropriated lauded. What Weaver did wasn't evident to the public, but quite important.
Your #3 needs to be your #1.
That joke never gets old. Turkey leg for you, sir.