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Surprise Patrick gets me every time
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Also shaking LT3s massive hand was a highlight of the season which happened during this legendary night.
Getting to go to a Thursday night game... even if I had to pull an all nighter to drive back to Blacksburg so my friends could make their tests the next morning.
Temple requirements for admission are lower than ours
In response to your point, id say its still an alumni base issue then.
Many of those who are casual fans had parents or grandparents or other relatives or even neighbors maybe that attended those schools. That means its a decades long thing and slowly builds over generations. Think about it this way Vt is only 50 years removed from being an almost all male military school, and 25/30 years removed from being a small relatively regional technical school.
Another generation of VT prominence, even without winning it all, will do much to build up the casual fan base that is more sustainable then a following gathered because of temporary success.
Nah. Soldiers don't use store locators.
I followed a few links to a slide show of katherine webb bikini shots. Good times!
otherwise I don't begrudge them making a little cash. The players deserve it with all the money the schools make off them.
What the........?
Is this freakin' bizzaro world?
A lot of kids graduate early. If they redshirt, take summer classes, take a heaver work load they could be done in 3 years (a possible SO-RS) I'm assuming in your scenario they could leave early?
And in a Michael Cole situation I'm assuming a player can retire for injury
Just curious, why is he able to go to Temple and not us. Is it academic standards or something else. Kind of don't get that. Do we have that much higher of standards than Temple. Temple is a good school. Don't think it was him flipping or anything because of this tweet below. Just curious as to how this process works out sometimes.
ayeeeee i will be at Virginia Tech in Jan ,,,#letsgetit— Cequan Jefferson!! (@Real_PrimeTime2) December 8, 2013
I understand your feeling, but that's not justifiable. Perhaps offer them a delayed investment vs. an immediate check, but you have to at least give them the option of accessing their money immediately.
What I was thinking has pretty much already been said. I don't think Raines was a good basketball player when he was playing. Mostly due to missing point blank shots, but JVS does the same thing. Turned off by Greenberg after he went on a rant one year about us missing the tourney when we probably were rightly left out. The next year however I think we should of been in with a 10-6 ACC record. I think he hurt us the year before with his griping and complaining and that is why we did not get in the next year. I feel the offense is slightly better under JJ, but the defense is much much worse. I would like to give him a chance through the season after the last Seth guy is gone. If there is not enough improvement at that point I think it would be time for him to go.
He claimed he was lost looking for a Boston Market. Then they tweeted this. Hilarious
.@kellenwinslowjr Next time, you can use our convenient store locator to find the #BostonMarket near you http://t.co/Kgog8nxZ5V— Boston Market (@bostonmarket) January 17, 2014
It's like Mike London going after the Commonwealth Cup.
so i kept scrolling down past the story and that's pretty embarrasing for kellen winslow.
Ditto! :)
Is that Olivia Wilde? Looks like I'm in love again.
Sweet avatar.
Honestly I have no reason, beyond the fact I feel athletes shouldn't be paid. I know as a current college student I would love to have money waiting for me after graduation, I like the escrow account idea
I have several friends who are L$U fans/alumni, and their level of devotion to the team is through the roof. Several of them are older and have been this way all their lives. L$U enjoys a monopoly on in-state fan support, unlike VT, and they also garner a lot of fans from Mississippi since both of their teams are SEC roadkill historically. Do not underestimate the power of having the only team in your home state that produces a lot of D1 athletes, as well as a 50+ year history of being relevant on a national scale. VT has been relevant nationally since 1999, and our fan base is very passionate, but we have nowhere near the numbers or the history of dedicated fan support to D1 football that L$U enjoys. We can get there, but it is going to take many more years of success on the gridiron for VT to generate the large and committed fanbase willing to fund VT athletics like $EC schools such as L$U, Bama, Auburn, UT, UGA and UF have to support them.
Step one is to make LOLuva irrelevant by never losing to them again, thus locking up the in-state D1 talent that wants to play near home, just as L$U and Tennessee have done for the most part.