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Regarding finding their own sandman; when I was first a student there they used Welcome to the Jungle (06-07) and then for some reason got away from it. But that was an awesome entrance, rivaled Sandman on a lower scale.
just to see a basketball game for a bad VT team playing some other boring team with no alcohol incentive is impossible
No one's mentioned it, but it's a fact: Football has a drinking culture. Basketball does not. The tailgates/alcohol/food/fun create a SOCIAL situation. People are drawn to social situations.
I'm not suggesting athletics hands out booze as incentive for attendance (although let's be honest; who would skip a basketball game if they gave out free bourbon?!), but athletics does need to create a social situation before the games. Targeting 3 people, who will each bring 5 people is more effective and more cost efficient than targeting 15 individuals.
What social situation can they create? I don't know (hence why the athletic department hasn't hired me).
You also need to consider that we're not necessarily just negotiating for rights to use songs during basketball. Any sensible record company (whose job it is to make money) is going to try to leverage the fact that VT football has a huge audience. They're not going to license VT to use songs only during basketball, they're going to write the contract so that all athletics are affected. At VCU, what sports does anyone follow? Probably just basketball, so their rights negotiation revolves around basketball. Despite their success in that sport, college hoops is a lot less popular than the media behemoth that is college football. Sure we can probably afford to only license songs for use at basketball games, but no one's going to sell that to us when they can have so much more.
Ticket prices aren't the problem... it's airfare, hotel costs, travel cost, etc. Unfortunately, these are the things that are out of the schools control.
Licensing is an issue. I remember a few years ago, one of the maroon/orange effect shirts was supposed to read "enter night, exit victorious" (or something to that effect), but Metallica wouldn't allow us.
Well, Whit responded with a Thank You so hopefully he at least saw the gist of the information.
@REPETEinDC Thank you, Robert. Go #Hokies!— Whit Babcock (@WhitBabcock) March 12, 2014
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As a Jax resident I love to see him playing for the Jags. You know they need anything they can get, and great combo with MJD.
Or just make them all happen sooner...
I think that's dangerous. You're talking about 16 year olds, who can easily get caught up in the moment. I'd stink for coaches to push for guys to sign at the end of any kind of visit. A kid could get locked into a crappy school during his junior year, before he's really even had a chance to figure out what he actually wants to go to school for, or look around at other schools, simply because his first visit was a lot of fun and he got swept up in it. I think we need to look to protect children/young adults who are making very difficult decisions, not make it easier for fans to follow recruiting.
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# | Bitter blog - QB Mark Leal sets out to win back Hokies’ hearts, starting job Isn't he married to Chesty LaRue? Or is it Hootie McBoob?
If a kid is legally bound to another school no use in giving him, his "mentor" or his family money. It would cut down on the time the practices can occur
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# | Bitter blog - Recruiting prompts Foster, Loeffler to join Twitter Freshman year we all bought ethernet cable and ran it down the hall above the roof tiles into one guy's room that had bought a hub so we could run Quake tournaments.
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# | Bitter blog - Recruiting prompts Foster, Loeffler to join Twitter Wow, your parents had a Commodore 64? Did they find some use for it other than games?
California Games on C64 was my favorite, Ghostbusters a close 2nd
Daaaang. I remember when they installed Ethernet in the dorms after my freshmen year though. And now they're tearing down the dorms on the upper quad for some sweet new ones.
Contra and Pole Position for me when i was a youngin'
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# | Bitter blog - Q&A: Bud Foster talks about a trip to Ole Miss, a disappointing Sun Bowl and QB scrambles Is there any other way to quote French? haha
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# | Bitter blog - Q&A: Bud Foster talks about a trip to Ole Miss, a disappointing Sun Bowl and QB scrambles I enjoy your appropriate use of French quotes as the authoritative source, like a book report or something.
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# | Bitter blog - Q&A: Bud Foster talks about a trip to Ole Miss, a disappointing Sun Bowl and QB scrambles I'm not sure of the point you're trying to make. Kyle didn't play against Duke. Kendall played a monster game with 3 INTs and 2 others that he dropped. The offense gave that one away, so I wouldn't pin that one on anyone on the defensive side of the ball. But then, maybe that means you're agreeing with me?
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# | Bitter blog - Q&A: Bud Foster talks about a trip to Ole Miss, a disappointing Sun Bowl and QB scrambles You are speaking about the "dozen" plays I mentioned. I remember more big plays than 5, not all are "killers" but all I would like back. That was a subjective statement based on a season's length of struggle. I don't think only big yardage translates as big plays though, and I didn't make that distinction, so that's my fault. I was flippantly making a statement about Bud underselling the problem VT had with mobile QBs. Something he actually didn't address.
The plays you want back are the ones that cause you massive problems or to lose.
Sure, this is true. But isn't perception just a big a problem for teams when it comes to momentum? It was when I played. If you play great but have one weakness. A weakness that gets exploited time and again, and you see your otherwise great defense get beat by it then the perception that "oh boy, it's happening again" can also build to a loss. Again taking away only 5 plays wouldn't change the fact that we struggled, or that when QBs got those 2, 3 or 4 yard gains that otherwise would not define a game, but builds momentum, doesn't have just as great of an effect as those big plays you are mentioning. Because it's not just those 5 plays that killed us rather it was the cumulative plays where QBs could escape pressure and make plays, big or small. The assertion of will from opposing QBs to beat our defense through an escape route.
Anyway, we just see this differently. I am clearly in the minority and that's fine for me. Turkey leg for the debate.
The only way for people to watch ESPNEWS is to air the beginnings of games there because ESPN is too tight in their scheduling and they drag out the early games.
A few years ago, when the NCAA changed the rules and it shortened the game slightly...didn't they reverse those rules because coaches whined that it took plays away from them?
I'm surprised the NFL didn't at least look at the OT rules after the game that Green Bay tied. The new OT rules backfired on them there. If they had the straight up sudden death, the team that kicked a FG first would have won the game. Instead, the game got dragged on for another half hour, just for the other team to kick a FG and end in a tie.
Of course, the first time that the new OT rules were in effect, Tebow just pissed all over them with an 80 yard TD pass.
As an alumni living in the area (Cburg), I still can't make every game when they schedule them during the week at early times. But a $500 per ticket cost is intimidating for the product that Tech is delivering. I already get 4 season football tickets and donate to the Hokie Club at a silly (gold) level. Another $2,000 dollars is a lot of money. A tiered ticket price where I could pay half to 3/4 of that cost would get me buying season tickets instead of tickets for the 1-2 games a year I normally attend.
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# | Bitter blog - Q&A: Bud Foster talks about a trip to Ole Miss, a disappointing Sun Bowl and QB scrambles Not sure there was anything more he could have done in the Duke loss.
Well done, that was necessary!!
This thread is awesome and the combined thoughts of those here show that we fans are damn smart (we're Hokies, right!), we give a darn, and we know how to get the masses that are the Hokie Nation fired up.
The comment above about us paying Seth and JJ at the same time is a key piece of data. Whit wants to do something soon and this program is the likely target of his first big action (IMHO). So, when does Seth's contract payments end? That is when we get a new coach - since the bottom line always matters for the athletics department as a whole (and I'm sure its OK, but may not be able to handle a big hit in coaches salary over the next year). If football turns the revenue generation corner in 2014 (and winning 10 games gets that done!!), then we have gone through the revenue inflection point and that will be the signal to hire a new B-ball coach.
So, if that is the case and that last Seth payment is in 2-3 years, then all of these game experience stuff will be where he will act. Its less expensive, can have some immediate impact, and let the Hokie Nation understand whom Whit is. Come on Whit, what's it gonna be? I expect we will all know pretty soon.
Or, perhaps he gets the go ahead to invest now and does a bunch of this stuff and gets us a new coach. I expect we will hear something over the next couple weeks, max. Perhaps after today.