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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.
I think one of the easiest and best ways to fix this would be a revamp of Blacksburg Transit routes. I lived in Tech Terrace for two years before they got knocked down for the new development that is going in there. For those of you who may not know what I mean right behind the old gumby's. Either way there was no way for me to get from that corner of campus to the West End/McComas/Student Services/Engel hall side of campus using BT. If i wanted to go to the gym or the dining hall I had to walk all the way there. While walking is good for you, in the Blacksburg winters I preferred not to go. Even if there was a bus that essentially just circled around campus Washington->Kent St-> Perry St -> West Campus Dr would have been good.
Priority of use of funding is where I think he was going with this. Tech's leadership doesn't choose to spend the money to have the right to use the songs and VCU does. VCU doesn't have a full marching band does it? If that's the case than they don't have the dilemma of several hundred students worth of equipment to update and maintain that Tech has to spend their money on
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# | Bitter blog - Q&A: Bud Foster talks about a trip to Ole Miss, a disappointing Sun Bowl and QB scrambles The problem isn't that I don't agree that mobile QBs weren't a major problem. It's your assertion that because we had a problem with that we had dozens of plays that we would want back instead of a handful. Just because a play got someone a first down doesn't mean that it's a play you want back, hell not even a scoring play. The plays you want back are the ones that cause you massive problems or to lose.
Example a huge scramble by a QB for a 30 yard touchdown when you're up might not be a play you want back in retrospect since you're still ahead. However a 1 yard 4th down screen pass up by 3 that swings momentum would be.
Thinking back and turning off the heart attack inducing game watching I agree more with Foster. Taking back plays is more with what the play caused than with it's direct outcome at that very second to me and with that it probably does come down to a handful of plays.
Apparently somebody doesn't enjoy Family Guy references.
Certainly, this is an area where I definitely can lend some insight...
What it comes down to, and what we in HoF always focused on, was visibility.
We worked with Athletics and Coach Greenberg to establish Chalk Talks before weekend home games. For those of you unfamiliar with Chalk Talks, Greenberg would join students at D2 dining hall and review his game plan for the upcoming game. He would chat with students while they ate lunch for about an hour - taking questions, drawing up schemes, describing match ups. Nothing compromising to his plan, but certainly packed with information. He was engaging and excited, more than we could have asked for.
Students who made it to all 8-10 Chalk Talks over the course of the season earned some sort of price and Greenberg often brought some giveaways. He had a pair of tickets to the Duke game for the upset in 2011. Often the kids who were the biggest supporters of the Chalk Talks didn't hold season tickets. They were subjected to the same lottery that the less passionate and dedicated kids entered. Alas, life isn't fair, but Greenberg wanted to generate a passionate fan base and spent the time to help us generate visibility. He was a character you couldn't miss.
No knock on JJ but he doesn't have that same presence on campus. Heck, seeing Greenberg get rowdy during a game was part of the fun. A couple of students dressed as Greenberg, bald cap and all, for the big games.
He was visible and he made an effort to connect with fans, especially students.
I'm not sure what the atmosphere around campus is these days with JJ at the helm. I'm sure it's different, but I doubt Athletics has stepped up their game to make up for the big persona Greenberg had. There was always a sort of hesitation about doing things all out with regards to basketball. They need to spend more time and effort with connecting to students, not the donors/season ticket holders. I think they assume because students turn out for football, they'll turn out for basketball.
That's just not the case with this schedule. Juggling 30+ games in a season, many of which are mid-week, match-ups are lost on some. It's hard to track for the average student. It's not a "every Saturday except for one Thursday night game," schedule. Students have a ton going on, and unless they are made aware of the upcoming games consistently, they won't keep track except for the big games that get more buzz. An email notifying them the lottery for games XYZ is not enough.
We held a viewing party for the opening away game against K-State in Squires Student center but received only a late push of publication from Athletics. They control the media (web, FB, Twitter) tightly, which is fine, because they do have a brand/name/reputation to uphold, but it was too painful to get our message pushed out via their avenues. Same gripes when it came to a pre-game tailgate we hosted before an ACC matchup.
It came down to HoF standing in front of their classes, repeatedly blowing up Facebook and passing out info on the Drillfield to get the word out for events. Maybe I'm wearing a rose tinted glasses when it comes to this but we had moments where Cassell was great. It's all about effort. If Athletics is unwilling to step up, it needs to be the students. All it takes is a dedicated individual or two to make a bigger change than you'd think.
Well, Whit responded with a Thank You so hopefully he at least saw the gist of the information.