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After five minutes of serious contemplation, I think the problem with the whole system is the term "verbal commitment." If they used a different term that better reflected how students AND COACHES think of verbals, the rest of us wouldn't get so flustered. It's funny that the actual commitment is called a "letter of intent." That's all a verbal commitment really is -- a statement of intent.
Who is the best recruiter and can develop said talent?
Usually, sure. The first guy that came to mind for me was Mike Ditka. It would be interesting to see who else is on the list.
Like French and many others, I believe that unless Frank's health deteriorates he will be the head coach through 2016 and the battle at Bristol at a minimum. I believe that is also the year his current contract expires and he turns 70. I don't think a new AD and a new President are going to mess with a 27+ year alumni coaching a good (if not great) football team.
Frank has earned the right to leave when he wants and I think the AD will respect that if the team is still doing okay. By okay that means winning seasons not necessarily 10 wins. I think most AD's would be happy with a clean team that graduates players without scandal that wins more than it loses.
That is my 2 cents.
Awww sad I hope he comes back...good effort Egbert
One of the best things about it is that it was OURS. Every school has a "Lets go! ______!" cheer (or "O-H! I-O!" <- same cadence and everything). Stick it in was ours and it was fun, and they killed it. It's perfect, as it's recognizable, loud, but not really damaging to offensive communication.
My freshman year was 2005, and Lane was always so loud. They banned in 2008, and I've just felt like that's coincided with a general quieting, an increase in paper-airplanes, and just a softening overall of Lane. It's probably a coincidence, but I imagine adding Stick It In! would help fight the trend a little.
I think it's more like one of those "If you can't play, you coach" situations, usually.
Another point here is that keeping these additional non academic fees low is a priority of Steger ... see http://www.vtmag.vt.edu/winter14/president.html ... and one I fully support. I would also like to throw out there that not everywhere has cheap student season tickets/free game ticket lotteries. That is a rarity. There are many things we decide to do differently which makes the hokie nation what it is.
Beat them playing your game.
To be honest, I am proud of our balance between athletics and academics and relative success in both.
People here occasionally fly off the handle, but the community moderates itself well. Most dangerous topics are: (1) anything after a loss, (2) Beamer leaving/being past his prime, etc. Things just get too divisive and we suffered through enough of those repeat threads during the season.
If anyone here posts insulting stuff, it gets downvoted, and with enough of those the comment gets blurred out and/or the user gets banned. Enjoy your time here on TKP, you TSL refugees!
Let's take the foot out of football!
I really don't know why the Steelers took Landry. That just seemed a stretch pick.
Because strategy. I feel like the more possible ways (to a certain extent... not suggesting "5 points for tackling a player by only using his left shoelace" etc.) there are to put points on the board, the more important coaching and situational football come into play. I like the mental/strategic chess-match-like aspects of the game.
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# | If you were the new AD, what are your top priorities this spring I care about it because I watched it die sadly. It was just something fun to encourage the team. What I hated was that Weaver nixed it after "complaints" (i.e. one old fogey thought it was disagreeable, so of course there must be a massive problem among the fanbase). Then it slowly died during my final years at VT, to the point that if anyone started doing it in a small group, that group got weird looks from others rather than joining in to the epic sound of 66,000 people doing it.
lol bst cracks me up.
Sometimes I like to imagine that he's posting via smartphone or tablet and I just like to envision the arguments that go down between himself and his spellchecker/autocorrect.
^and this is exactly what makes TKP so awesome. (minus your mention of cake). Everyone hug it out.
It's kinda my fault this is spiraling, but here's the reasoning:
Even though I'm not an active poster on the sideline, I still lurk to see what's happening and everyday the questions seem the same:
When will coach Beamer retire, what has Stiney done this time, why didn't we get 10 wins, why do you think 10 wins is a success?
Then I see a lot of what appears to be awful ESPN type posts about how bad things are. How bad they're gonna be.
This is the internet, and I get that, but TKP is much more fun and less...I don't know how to explain it. Gloomy I guess than other boards.
We literally have the best of everything here. .gifs, amazing reads on plays you didn't even recognize in games, posters etc.
I apologize for spouting and cursing. There are great posters on TSL and I hope they come our way, if you can stomach most of what they're trying to say (Bst anyone?)
I'm glad you're here, in the orange and maroon. But we have more pressing issues to debate than the head whistle.
I don't know if you're aware, but cake beats pie and if you can think of a Ford pun, you'll do just fine.
The following is a series of disjointed rants.
Too much money is focused on college sports. What about academics?
Major professional sports in this country have salary caps. Why not colleges?
Who bears the burden of paying for big time college sports? Who should be paying?
One big problem is the commercialization of college sports. The product, mainly football, has become subservient to the commercial interests and their big money. They are leveraging the emotion of School Pride into big revenue. They are using essentially slave labor (amateurs) to make big profits. The commercial interests, outside of a few scholarships provided as PR, are the winners. So are the big name coaches and even the assistants.
When does the focus return to the student? The desire to remain competitive in big time sports makes the costs go up for everyone at a school, not just the sports fans.
To end the arms race I think all revenue in all NCAA sports should be divided equitably among all schools and conferences. Every school will have a budget and all schools should share in the benefits. Donors can either send their dollars to the NCAA, who will provide funding to every school that participates, or their donation will reduce what the NCAA sends to a school.
I know, ha, ha. But something needs to change or we will soon see schools selling naming rights to their university.
Interesting video.
The tempo of his stride doesn't seem to change much, it's the length of his stride that changes when he wants to accelerate N/S.
I'm probably going to get some blowback for this but I'd be fine if they got rid of XP's and FG's all together. What gives a kicker the right to jog onto the field and either win or lose the game that 11 other dudes have been playing their nuts off for the past 59:58? Don't seem right to me.
An extra $400-$800 per student per year is really not that much all things considered.
If we were charging everyone what we charge those that come in out of state, yeah, I could see it, but really, our tuition is already pretty low across the board. Raising the fees to help fund the brand sustaining entities in the public eye that represent the university seems like a very small price to pay for these students.
Put it this way, we all saw how much admissions blew up and expanded after the 1999 season. That football season, and the brand name recognition that came with it because of the football team is the reason that we have so much academic momentum right now. It seems foolish to not want to utilize that influx of academic talent to help fund the football program that got us to the level where we are right now. We wouldn't have these ACC partnerships and we wouldn't be working with the likes of Wake Forest, NC State, Clemson, etc in research ventures if we didn't have a football program good enough to get us in this conference.
I think that McKenzie is a redshirt due to his acl injury.
I know there is a reference in there somewhere... I just can't find it.
I think he has a great work ethic, but is a little bit of square peg, round hole.
Not his fault at all; I respect JC highly.
But you want a situation for the kid to succeed, and I don't know it it exists at VT right now.
It's a product, IMHO, of lack of offensive identity for the past few years=lack of identification of players to fill specific needs. I think that we are getting back to it, but man, there's some cleaning up to do.
I kinda feel like it's a big cluster right now, but the ground work is being laid.
Hokie Dale, I dont believe anyone who has responded to you has meant for their comments to seem like personal attacks. Everyone on the site is just VERY concerned that with the influx of TSL readers, the excellent commentary on TKP is going to deteriorate. Don't take it personally. Like many of us have said, welcome to the site, we're all Hokies here. Just a few tips, try not to post knee jerk reactions to events, proclaim your allegiance to either pie or cake (the correct answer is pie), and be prepared to never be able to read another VT blog ever.
Yeah, that's how I've always thought it was. Just curious about who would be on that list. Maybe back in the day when players didn't have multi million dollar salaries.