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Thanks to the author for illuminating this part of VT History. As a kid from South Korea, I was always curious as to how my reception would be in Blacksburg when I first attended the university for Graduate School back in 2003. Happy to report that the people were kind and southern hospitality is alive and well. I've always regretted leaving Blacksburg for a job when school was over for me in 2006. Go Hokies! And thank you Mr. Dobbins.
I say we invest in hologram technology.
We'll need to come up with a number of additional uses for bricks; they're going to be dropped all over our field when we fire that thing up.
Good point- agree. Maybe this is more like it:
Looks awesome, but i think we're more likely to see something like this if they put anything there...
Didn't you hear? He didn't even have to play last year to go #1 overall, why would he even think about doing drills at the combine? He's just "bored" of the college level and we shouldn't expect him to go full throttle until he is playing in the Super Bowl.
Until ND becomes a full member, there is no way they get access to the conference championship game. Their agreement is for a functional scheduling alignment to make their schedule faster and easier to develop and set moving forward. They've got a sweet deal in the ACC bowl pecking order. They will just continue to eat 1 of most teams 3 OOC games any given year which really isn't so bad given the exposure you get from playing ND.
I think you've got some good ideas, but you've got to cut ND out of the equation and you can't have a team be able to make it to the title game without playing the same volume of conference games as everyone else. Just not how any sports league schedules and rules, that'd be such an enormous advantage to them every year you can't allow it.
I'm gonna buy a condo in "uptown" Charlotte...cause we're going to be living there for the next 6 years!!!!!
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# | Bitter blog - Monday's running NFL Scouting Combine post: James Gayle hits the field You posted his 3-cone drill twice, saying he came in first and fourth.
OR, maybe we eliminate divisions altogether, ND agrees to play 7 ACC games (4 year rotation to play everyone home and home), everyone else agrees to 9, 2 ACCCG participants are the top 2 winning % teams with tie breakers as follows:
1. head to head results
2. Total ACC W's (not Win %...this takes away ND's advantage of only playing 7 games if it gets this far)
3. Overall record
4. Coach's Poll Ranking after final week of regular season
I think that's a smart move by the ACC. Charlotte was a way way better host city than Jacksonville or Tampa. Having been to 2 of the 3 sites I was more than happy to return to Charlotte for 3 years in a row (would have been 4 this past year if I hadn't moved away from the east coast). It's a fun town, with enough going on close to the stadium to have a fun weekend while you're there for the game. Flights are reasonable, as are hotels. I guess the only negative for them is that tickets have always been easy to come by outside of the 2010 Title Game; which was a great time for us Hokie fans.
I don't think given it's success there they would have been inclined to go to the PAC12 model of hosting the conference Championship game. They should still adjust the divisions and move to a 9 game schedule though.
Forgot about Palmer. Other good possible choice.
For Thomas that would be good and bad, he would be behind one of the best modern QB's. The bad is he would be behind somebody that is probably going to play for 6-10 more years.
Excellent article - thanks!
this is very good news. i think CLT has done a great job.
as far as divisions, who knows. If the NCAA drops all of its conference championship game bylaws and opens it up to the conferences, i could see the ACC doing anything from no change to a 4x4 with semi-finals to everything else in between.
maybe even 3 divisions of 5 teams each to get ND in the mix without expanding or forcing ND to 8 or 9 games. maybe ND goes to 6 games (4 division games and 1 game from each other division) and give up their separate Orange Bowl agreement as part of this agreement in order to get involved in the ACCCG race.
ACC North: BC, 'Cuse, Pitt, ND, Miami
ACC South: FSU, GT, Clemson, NCSU, Wake
ACC Central: uva, VT, UNC, Dook, L'ville
ACC will go to 9 games since ND games will now count as conference games. Top 2 division champs play in Charlotte based on:
Division winner is team with highest ACC win % (6-0 ND beats out 8-1 Miami for instance, but 8-1 Miami would beat out 5-1 ND, even if ND beat Miami). head to head would be a tie breaker for divisions with 2+ teams with identical win%.
then, picking 2 of the 3 division winners to go to CLT:
1. head to head results between the 3 (2 with best record against each other go, 6-0 ND again makes the curt here)
2. Total ACC W's (not Win %...this takes away ND's advantage of only playing 6 games if it gets this far)
3. Overall record
4. Coach's Poll Ranking after final week of regular season
Protected non-division games:
FSU-Miami
UNC-NCSU
Dook-Wake
those 6 teams will have 4/9 remaining non-division teams rotating through their schedule (up to 6 years to play everyone but ND home and home)
ND will have 2/10 non division teams rotating through schedule (10 years to play everyone home and home)
remaining 8 teams will play 5/10 non-division teams on a rotating basis. it will take longer than 4 years to play everyone home and home because of the other scheduling oddities, but i think they could get through everyone in 6 years or less (other than ND).
In any 5 year period, every school should have played every other school at least once, most home and home.
Crazy, sure, but maybe just crazy enough to work...
Great write up. Like many others, I was not familiar with this part of VT history. I think Mr. Dobbins would be a great namesake for the new practice facility. Would be a good way to honor and bring the story to light (much like Peddrew-Yates).
Hold it in my hand and wish I had some REAL building materials:
Hokie Stone > Brick
Great article. Thanks for the research. I hate to admit that I was not familiar with Mr. Dobbbins.
Not related to the Hokies, but some of you on twitter may have already seen this. Reactions?
Personally, I agree. Clowney has never really impressed me, and the more I see, the less I think he will impress at the next level.
Lemme get this straight. The only knock on Clowney is that he doesn't always go hard... so he's skipping a bunch of drills at the combine?— Mike Barber (@RTD_MikeBarber) February 24, 2014
Looking forward to this as well!
It's amazing - even when you think you know (mostly) everything about the Hokies and their history, an article like this is posted and you realize that you don't know everything. That's why I donate to TKP. Bravo, TheFifthFuller!
Something something UVA spring game.
For those interested, Jerry Gaines was the first black athlete for any sport at Virginia Tech and also has a cool story. As a history major ill see if I can get a write up him this week if people are interested in a broader context than football. This is a great write up though, thanks for doing this, I think its great to look at our history.
Any thing is possible with the right assumptions. Round cow in a vacuum after all.
Make it float. No, you could make it float on mercury or just hollow it out a little into a boat shape.
Man, after some thought the question should be "What can't you do with a brick." No wonder why we still use them after they've been around for thousands of years.
Agreed. The mainstream media hype machine is something else. You have Sports Center tweeting stuff like:
And I just don't get it. I'm not trying to belittle Clowney, obviously he's talented (and to his credit, he did run a good 40), but where are Aaron Donald's #beast tweets? (He had 35 reps)
I'd like to hear a little more about some of the other DLinemen who are also putting up impressive numbers with out being interru