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So if was was walking on campus this past weekend and saw Derrick Nnadi, I couldn't say "Go Hokies!...You should choose the Hokies!"??
I am sure you will say yes, I can't do that....frankly that is ridiculous.
I don't care what the NCAA says about that.
I am not a booster....I wasn't on campus this weekend...and I didn't say anything to Derrick Nnadi.
What if I tweeted him and said "Good luck with your decision"...is that OK?
Maybe the solution is for all these damn recruits to get off of twitter. If I were the parents, I would tell my kid to get off of twitter and not being saying stupid stuff like asking the fans to vote on where I should go to school.
Frankly, if you look at the twitter accounts of these kids, they are using obscenties...seeking attention, doing dumb stuff to begin with.
The nerve of the NCAA to try and dictate personal liberties is galling to me....
They should clean up there own $hit and stop worrying about insignificant stuff like tweets.
If Derrick Nnadi gets tweets from 10 different fans of 10 different schools...all saying "Come to my school"....should all 10 schools be punished?
Many fans are not even affiliated with the school they root for anyway...it could be Joe Schmo the Plumber from North Dakota who is tweeting a player to come to Alabama.
The NCAA is so flawed its sad...
Shooting below 70% means "I don't practice". I can shoot 50% as a old white guy at the gym who plays maybe once every 6 months.
Congrats to you and your wife, Joe
And it would not hurt to have a Jerry Rice clone to throw to.
Joe Montana did not have a cannon; but he sure knew where to throw the ball. I'lll take a samrt qb with a good arm over a not so smart qb with a cannon.
THIS.
2016. From the Battle at Bristol to the Crystal Trophy. That's our year IMO.
Skinniest. Post. Ever.
I have noticed that all season. They hardly ever even look in that direction. It's like they have a play in mind and the pick and roll is not even an option. For a team that seems so disorganized on offense, it seems like they are also too scripted to see the open man.
yeah, I agree with this too. season tickets are the line for me as well.
Oh, I agree about season tickets. If you buy season tickets then you are a booster. This is an established means of supporting a team. But if I buy a single ticket to a game that does not define me as a booster. Simply just a football fan. the NCAA may want me to be labeled a booster but I've never signed any formal agreement with them that makes me liable to their rules. And they have no way to track second market sales.
what you are saying though is that a) once a booster always a booster and b) you are a booster of every school. But then it would be way too easy to use this against rival schools. I can just buy tickets to LOLUVA and wreak havoc.
Look, I am not saying that the NCAA cannot state this in their rules. They can and they can call it a violation. I am saying that even if the NCAA calls you a booster, it doesn't make you one. You must sign a formal contract or voluntarily enter into an agreement that is a clear support for a team, such as buying season tickets. If you are not a booster but simply a football fan then buying a game ticket does not make you a booster, whereby if you contacted a recruit the university could be penalized.
First, because the university cannot hope to control every single person that buys a ticket. Secondly, because universities will not accept unlimited liability for everyone as defined by the NCAA's rule. It's a catchall to dissuade people for doing it but that is all it is, just a deterrent.
My goodness.
Its REALLY difficult to not get really excited about our future listening to this. The guy absolutely knows his stuff. Comes across as a very cerebral QB, and we don't have O'Cain & Stiney leading the show anymore absolutely ruining the development.
From listening to LT3 talk about how he got more coaching in one year last year from Loeff than the rest of his career combined, and seeing someone like this come in. If we EVER get that OL solidified and we can keep this guy off the grass, there is absolutely no reason why we won't have a pretty darn good offense in the near future. And combine a good offense with the defense that we have come to expect annually, right now could very well be the calm before the impending Hokie storm in the Coastal.
This is one of the many reasons I can't watch basketball. Especially pro basketball. Every time I see a NBA player miss free throws, I'm just in disbelief that someone could make all that money playing a game, and not even practice the simplest part of the game so that they're reliable in doing it.
I feel the same way (although less strongly) with college kids. All it takes is practice. Shooting below 50% on free throws just says to me "I don't practice."
I will never understand how free throw shooting can be so terrible. That IS something you can practice and improve on. 14-25 is downright pathetic. It makes me wonder if JJ is making guys shoot these everyday at practice. When I played in high school, we couldn't leave practice till we MADE 50 free throws. And we ended the year shooting right around 70% as a team. It just seems like one of those little parts of a game that make a huge difference, and it's something we have control over.
That's the way to do it! I think I'll give the SEC a +1 on this! This we should learn!
I'm fairly certain the line is drawn at "season tickets" because you have to buy them from the box office. If you then sell them online, that's in the second hand market and they don't count as "season tickets" anymore.
I've never seen an organized basketball team where the players are getting free tuition to come play that shoots the ball as poorly as this year's Hokies. Damn.
They would probably do just as well to do nothing this week except shoot free throws. All. Day. They've gotta get that lid off the basket.
Congrats Joe, kids are awesome. I've got two boys (one about to be 3 and one about to be 2) ...that I'm training up on everything Hokie already.
It's an adventure, but as others have stated.. You and sleep agree on hiatus for a while.haha
Well... in certain circumstances (such as a Hokie Club member tweeting a recruit to congratulate him on a good game), Group #3 would actually be correct. According to NCAA rules (not trying to start an argument about whether said rules are justified), a booster of a school (which includes any member of the HC) may not contact a potential recruit at all, unless there is a pre-existing relationship, and even then they may not discuss the potential recruit's possible plans of signing with the school represented by said booster. So a random HC donor who does not already know a kid before he becomes a "potential recruit" cannot contact the kid in any way, according to NCAA policy.
There's no reason you wouldn't count as a booster for both schools. Technically, once you meet the requirements for being a booster at any school, you are forevermore a booster of that school. If you then meet the same requirements for another school, you are a booster for that school in addition.
I wasn't trying to say anything about geographical location. I was just giving an example, just because I could consider that a viable situation, a fan of college football overall that doesn't live near his team but gets tickets to another closer to him to satisfy his hunger for football, and in the process becoming a booster for the local school.
And yes, it can work this way. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in the agreements you sign when purchasing season tickets, schools are required to include some language stating that by purchasing these tickets you are now a booster of the program. Actually, it would surprise me if such language didn't exist. That's probably a requirement of NCAA membership, and completely legal for them to do. Obviously I do not know, since I have never read said agreements (terrible practice, I know...), but it just seems logical to me that this is why it is restricted to "season ticket" purchasers.
awesome find.
I love this: "I saw in pre-snap that he was going to be pretty open."
I am really going to enjoy watching this kid play.
This is how I feel as a VT basketball fan (we're all on the side of the road):
This is pretty cool- Ford breaking down his film and talking reads, etc.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1549483-watch-4-star-qb-andrew-ford-b...
This.
This kind of calm introspection on his actions shows a tremendous amount of maturity. I want him in Orange & Maroon even more now.
He can demolish ballcarriers with great vengeance and furious anger.
Then, when the clock hits zero, he can reflect with the reporters how sorry he is he had to destroy the hopes and dreams of the opposing team.
In the end, he'll say, it is his job, and "Let's face it, a wahoo has it comin' to him."
Congratulations. A joyous time for you and your wife. Mine are all grown up and either married, graduated and a working stiff, or in college. 1 left to graduate! Its a wild ride. Hold on!!
Let's not kid ourselves, he'll be the greatest Quarterback the League has ever known.