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Exactly.
Those players that give us the best chance of winning the most games this year will be on the field. There are fans who are lobbying that Ford (or Durkin/McMillian) should start since they will be around after this season. There are just too many ways for attrition to affect a team.
Just get the best players on the field right now.
Darn it. They're already frustrating unless you just walk through everyone like you own the place.
The women's hockey game is tomorrow.
I think you mean Friday at noon.
Yes- they really improved over the last season. Have Gibson and J McG experienced at tackle, Wang at C, Benedict at one G (or T) and Farris at the other G. All players who started the entire year or at least several games. Add in Alston Smith, Teller, Shuman, Osterloh and Taraschke- all guys who sound like they are about ready and I think we'll be very good.
Due to the grade of the East Stands, the endzones can never and will never be a bowl. The only way to do that would be to tear down all of East Stands, kick the bees nest regarding Stadium Woods, and rebuild it all. That's not going to be cheaper than building a new Cassell.
You might be onto something there:
http://www.mellencamp.com/tourarchive.html
No current dates, three performances in 2013, 22 in 2012 (all in CANADIA)
He might even be willing to forego the rope lights.
Id imagine with the engineers at Tech something could be done for that relatively inexpensively. If having bands generates alot of $ (does it?) then Im suprised that this hasnt been resolved by now. I bet Mellencamp would love to play there now with a bluetooth speaker and some rope lights.
Only way I go for it would be if they build something capable of holding bigger events, hosting the Ringley Brothers circus, big name concerts, Monster Truck shows, Monster Energy X Games events, Ice capades, hockey and other events that will bring in capacity seating but requires a larger footprint to host. Add 50-100 useable event days a year for the facility while still bringing in revenue not just to campus but to all the other establishments in town, hotels, restaraunts, etc. It would give Tech larger exposure for the area in general.
Squires?
YES
This is what gets me so much when people say that we don't need to replace Cassell and we should shrink capacity. The replacement should be about more than just basketball. Think big picture. If you make this place a palace (I mean come on... ACC basketball... no excuse to why a new arena SHOULDN'T be a palace) you will be able to use the venue year round. An all-purpose arena that can handle basketball, hockey, volleyball, and wrestling would be awesome. But even more than that, make it nice enough, and suddenly Cassell becomes THE premier venue for concerts and the like for the New River Valley, which would not only include Roanoke, but also schools like Radford, Liberty, etc. Its a huge untapped pool just begging for us to take advantage of.
Does VT offer a major in broadcasting?
My question for Leal is - who picked out the music for your highlight film????
I have a strong dislike of Cassell for a totally different reason.
Back when I was a student (mid-80s timeframe) I was on the Concert Committee. Our primary activity was finding, selecting and offering bands to do concerts at VT. We lost out on the majority of the big opportunities due to the inadequacy of Cassell.
If you've ever looked at the Cassell ceiling you'll notice it's constructed from laminated wood arches. That renders it useless for flying lights and sound - for that you need a steel truss roof. So any promoter who wanted to do a show in Cassell would essentially have to provide a free-standing steel truss system (aka ground support) to provide lights and sound. Since nearby Roanoke Coliseum had the appropriate roof, most of the time promoters simply selected Roanoke instead (or bypassed the area altogether).
Off the top of my head, we were dissed by Eric Clapton, John Cougar Mellencamp, Dire Straits, and a host of smaller touring bands. By default, the ideal VT venue became Burruss Hall Auditorium, which seated 3000 and had the proper ceiling structure. It limited the type of acts we could promote, but it was what it was.
And while we're at it, upgrade the product
No need to build a bigger areana. Why have more seats when you can't fill what we have (and even during the inagural season in the ACC you could still walk up and grab a seat the day of the game pretty easy).
People act like building a new arena is cheap. It's a massive undertaking. I'd rather they keep making upgrades to Lane, including making the Endzone an entire bowl.
I do love that our only ACC wins have come agianst Miami. That makes me smile.
Wow, that's a sad, sad story. Now if it had been their punter, that would have been a totally different story #Punterswag
Off topic but i was going through the links and scrolled to far and got to this slideshow. It shows every team's best returning player. Poor Air Force...
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1961012-every-college-football-teams-...
And ours...
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1961012-every-college-football-teams-...
welcome to the site. i've gone from the guy who really likes football to the guy who really knows his football amongst my coworkers/friends/family since i've been reading the site.
He looks like a villian from a silent-era film
Most exciting game I have ever been to. EVER.
Ditto, knew it was out there.
You are right that Mark Leal was unprepared to face UCLA. Logan rarely got hurt until that game. Mark had no reason to expect to be on the field. But, as someone who had been a backup for three years, he should have taken the opportunity to showcase his talents against a top UCLA team. Frank Beamer is right going with Mark at the top of the depth chart, but I have a feeling that it will be an open competition and the best QB will start the first game for the hokies.
Orlando Salinas is a Blacksburg native. He got quite a bit of national airtime as a Miami-based correspondent for Fox News. He recently took a job a local network job in Roanoke, I think to be closer to family. But...he went to VCU, so none of this information is relevant at all.