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Hopefully the new OL coach can pull in one more assuming we have one before signing day.

Silver lining: still got 4

Goodluck @beTaylor56— Billy Ray Mitchell (@Billythekid_75) January 20, 2014

#fab4— Billy Ray Mitchell (@Billythekid_75) January 20, 2014

Not doubting that. My only complaint about him is the lack of situation awareness of when he might need to break his rotation.

I also think we need a lot of help at special teams.

Totally agree. Seems like most of us here understand that these are 18 year old kids and that this is usually the biggest decisions of their young lives - I wish nothing but the best for the guy and hope he does well at OSU (just not when we play them!).

That might have been your experience... but there are other Virginia schools that do 12-month football workouts.

I know the high school football following is pretty big in the 757, since there were no 1-A or professional teams in the area until ODU recently. We may not have the money for the big stadiums like Texas does, but while I was in high school we'd routinely sell 12k tickets for our 8k seat stadium for the big cross-town rivalry (Hampton-Phoebus), and it was only that low because the fire marshals turned people away once people were lining the fences around the field 3+ deep.

Never been to any Beach District games, but I know their news coverage and forum representation was always even greater than the Peninsula District.

Selection bias is a fascinating thing isn't it? What drove me away in general from there was the Pollyanna, "trust the coaches"/"question anything and you're not a true hokie" bullies over there.

The difference over here is that most of the people use facts and logic to support their positions be they "positive" or "negative."

I think for the most part people treat each other with respect regardless of their opinion, and that's the difference.

By all accounts Osu is his dream school. I remember how happy I was the day I got accepted into Virginia tech, my dream school.

No hard feelings, hope the kid enjoys every second of the next four years.

Fantastic analogy. I recall someone posted on a different thread that tOSU had offered 31 other OL prospects before they got around to offering Taylor.

Now we have to keep Gallo and Mitchell because we all know that Smith and Pettit are staying.

As someone who used to visit TSL religiously, its a shame what it has become. Will and Chris do a decent job with things, but the mood over there is horrible. Most posters come across as high school aged doom and gloomers with no perspective. The new vBulletin sucked, but more than anything it was the community that drove me away. I love TKP and the insightful, realistic, mostly positive posters.

Saw this one coming a mile away. No worries, hopefully he'll have a good career at tOSU, but hopefully he'll also go 0-2 against VT!

The Saints have a pretty rabid following nowadays too. Nowhere near the level of Pittsburgh yet, but then again only a select few cities have a whole street dedicated to one professional sports team's memorabilia sales.