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Who wants to tailgate underground.
Can't run a grill, dark, etc.
Your argument would make a lot more sense if they weren't already walking across the street to Rector to practice indoors. I understand about proximity but that doesn't mean it literally needs to be next door or even on top of the existing fields. Also, locating the building at the tennis courts was the other option Beamer wanted and it's actually further away than the Cassell Lot option. I would say Beamer knows a hell of a lot more than you do about how he wants his football team to practice and what distance he is willing to accept.
Have you ever watched a football practice?
yes. I played football. Both of my brothers played DII football. A close family friend of mine played at Navy. I used to watch VT practice when I had time. Sarcasm doesn't make an argument.
but I think perhaps you haven't seen football practice before. Let me show you
here they are using 2 full length fields for running plays and special teams.
you can see how 1 field is being used to its extent and the other not. However, the field still must be repaired and maintained and neither of us knows which part of the field is effectively closed right now or how much of it.
here again using 2 full length fields for position drills all over them. It's good to have space so that they are not on top of each other and that they can hear their coach clearly without hearing the other coaches.
and another of position drills all over the fields
To answer your question about indoor/outdoor the preference is to practice outdoors almost all the time, except in the case of inclement weather or high winds.
I clearly said I do not know if they actually need so many fields but I doubt you do either. I seriously doubt that almost all D1 universities have multiple fields to NOT use them or because they are extremely unnecessary. I also seriously doubt that all of these university donors have been OK to waste millions of dollars on "wastes of space". The reality clearly shows what you say is wrong.
Plenty of parking garages survive huge snow.
Which creates more weight/sq ft, 100 cars parked in standard spaces or 4ft of snow in the same space?
I haven't done the math but, it bet it's the cars.
The Saban Rule would benefit VT because we are a defensive team, and for too long college football has been trending towards the offenses at the expense of defenses. I have listened to UNC press conferences on the radio since Fedora was hired down here, and his main strategy is to play an East-West game for so long during the game without letting the defense sub that they get tired so they can beat them late. That's not football, thats a bastardization of the game. Football is at its best when you line up your best against their best and may the better unit win.
If you ask me, this whole hurry up offense is a very similar tactic to the 4 Corners offense in basketball, just with a different result. You're making the defensive game meaningless because you just wait them out and then attack. Its weaksauce and I applaud Saban for calling it out like it is.
This rule could actually be a big deal if it gains any traction and affect our game play.
If Saban and Spurrier want to spend their offseason trading verbal jabs through the media, fine.
All I care about is Beamer and Co. getting ready for the season and making our team the best they can be.
Way too early*
If Hodges is the real deal, I would love to see the Hokies run two tight ends on offense. Maybe run some stuff like Stanford did in the Orange Bowl with their tight ends. Harbaugh ate Coach Bud's lunch in the 2nd half of that game, and it started with tight ends running that sick seam route.
That would still be early, perhaps this should be early, early.
There is no former Hokie that I have less respect for in terms of their on the field ability vs their production. His play in that UVA game was the most gutless, cowardly effort I have ever seen from a VT player with his ability. Even though I am not a Redskins fan, living in DC and seeing him perform erratically only reenforces that opinion. I have heard that he is a good guy off the field (he married a girl from Washington County) but he will be forever on my list of guys I just couldn't root for.
The problem is precisely this. They have already decided the location is to be on the practice fields without seeing any design options for any other location. So they have created a problem that didn't exist previously without having the benefit of having others present ideas on how to avoid that. These architects and builders are only showing options for this one location that was picked by the steering committee. That's not finding a solution. That's putting lipstick on a pig.
Tight ends make good offensive linemen- Curt Newsome
I just spent way too much time trying to figure out if this was a subliminal message or not
And they're all named Bucky Hodges?
I'd certainly hope it'd be smaller scale... the VAB is large enough to form its own weather inside the building.
Double pass. Double reverse. Triple reverse?
how exactly is this all being handled internally?
That plan then goes to various architects and builders on a national scale, and the architects and builders put together design-build teams and do the actual designing of the facility. The various teams will then pitch their designs to the athletics department namely, Weaver, Gabbard, Beamer and John Ballein, Techs associate AD for football operations.
The athletics department already has an agreement in place with SportsPLAN Studio out of Kansas City, Mo., as the design criteria consultant to put together and organize the criteria for the project. This same group, under the leadership of Joel Leider, handled the planning of the Hokies football locker room project. Leider and his group will have approximately 60 days to put together Techs design criteria into a plan.
It's got to be cool watching a game by yourself in Lane Stadium. I assume it was being shown on the JumboTron?
There's just too many cuts here. I'm going to make a list.
It was the typical Jim Weaver move. Why hire someone from the outside when you can save money and do it yourself? The down the hall hiring and designing was a staple of his late career moves, and thankfully, this seems to be the last one.
Could this have gone better had we outsourced it to a true architectural firm? Absolutely, and we were stupid to not do so. There were numerous problems to address, and our solution ended up being shoving a square peg into a round hole.
I ask you... What happens in the future if we decide that the space we have for football isn't enough? What if only having half sized outdoor fields becomes a major hurdle to get past when trying to hire a new coach post-Beamer? What happens if the NCAA passes rules allowing for more practice time and space, including more coaches on the staff, and we just don't have the room to utilize it? What happens if we decide we need to further expand something, be it the practice facilities, the lockerrooms, or the North Stands of Lane? At this point, there just won't be the room to do so, and we've only brought it upon ourselves.
AS A REDSKINS FAN YES YES AND YES
But then it would just be a look at their roster and depth.
This is an EARLY look at their roster and depth.
FWIW, Heath Miller was ranked No. 14 in Virginia by the Roanoke Times in 2001 as a QB. Bucky Hodges was No. 13 in Virginia in 2013 per 247 Sports composite rankings.
But VT doesn't run the hurry up. So if it does gain traction the only way I could see it affecting our game play is in a positive manner. Give Bud extra time to run out the exact defense he wants on the field and get them set? I think that's advantage Bud.