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Great point. nuf said.
how'd you end up at the LV bowl?
If my per diem paycheck his before New year, I'm going to this game.
Sidenote: I'll be one of many volunteers holding the big ass US flag before the las Vegas bowl tomorrow(Fresno state vs USC). Should be a good one so I'm pretty pumped.
The real problem arises when Notre Dame still can't win the big one in a few years and they shit-can all the coaches again. They would never hire Bud as the head coach at Notre Dame. Never. At that point he's just another out of work DC hoping for another team that'll let him run a defense his way. I just can't see him making this move.
It's quite common that the Associate Head coach position goes to a non-coordinator. The concept behind Associate Head Coach is that if the Head Coach is laid up with illness for a game, then the Associate HC takes over and things keep running along with minimal disruption. If you pull one of your coordinators into those duties then the entire offense or defense is affected by the coaching shuffle.. It's not a slight on BF at all.
You're welcome! By great fan base do you mean great in size or composed of great people? Because I think they tend to have a reputation of being a bit arrogant and in some cases, Grade-A douchers. And amen to #decadeofdominance!
And, on the other side of the coin, some kids might want to do their own thing. For every kid who wants to be close to home, another may want to experience a new environment.
In the context of the comment I was responding to, "I get the allure of FSU and Bama, but the VT defense is just as good and in his own backyard." "and in his own backyard" implies as a positive for Nnadi picking Tech, when in fact he may want to leave the neighborhood.
With today's voters, dare I say Michael Vick actually would've won the Heisman in '99?
1999 offense > 2010 offense.
Ah you're right, not sure why I thought he was drafted. I'm not sure if I would have labeled him as unrefined since he is statistically VT's #1 WR, but yeah I could totally see the Jags botching it.
Obviously conjecture looses to cake vs pie.
Still, I don't see why cookies didn't get a place at the table.
Definitely 2010's offense.
Thanks.
I'm not a ND fan either, but they've got a great history and fan base. Foster could do worse than coach for the Fighting Irish.
I'm still glad LOLUVA took Al Groh over Foster 15 yrs ago. Secured our #decadeofdominance
Not that I can tell, I know the Giants brought him in for a workout in October but he didn't make the cut with them either.
But what about with this years schedule
So what I gather from this thread is that I could pose as a Hoo on Twitter and promise all sorts of stuff to their recruits, and IF the NCAA were able to do anything about it they would sanction the school. But they're never going to get around to that, so it really doesn't matter.
There's no need for a legal basis, it's in the National Collegiate Athletic Association rules that Virginia Tech and the other member institutions choose to follow by being members of the NCAA.
Also, the NCAA treats every case of rules violations on its own merits. Thats why punishments for recruiting violations and illict benefits are seemingly inconsistent from case to case.
Its typically high for elite rbs in high school, but that's really high. Reference: David Wilson averaged 11.4yds/carry his junior year
Final two for me was Penn State(about 5 hours) and Blacksburg (6.5 hours to 7.5 hours away), but I can see kids wanting to play close to home, and know kids that picked schools closer to home or transferred back. To each his own but to some kids it really matters, but i feel like for most it's not that big of a deal
He signed with the Jags after not being drafted at all. And if I had to guess, I'd just say that nobody in Jax has the ability to find potential in an unrefined player and then develop him, so he may very well have failed in Jax.
I don't think that would've been the case- all 3 of our losses in 2011 were on the offense- the defense played great against Clemson at Lane, great against Michigan, and while they didn't play as well in the ACCCG, the offense only putting up 10 points was never going to be enough regardless of the defense.
Can I get a NnadiKeihn shake with that to go please?
Yeah, definitely missing my point. I know all this. Again not condoning any fan to tweet recruits. Please see comment above.
However, I do disagree with what you are saying. I feel that the NCAA would have an extremely difficult time to penalize any university for interaction on social media. If you want to discuss why this is we can as I find it very interesting:
1) As stated above, they have not done so now and would need to prove that they have punished equally for all tweets.
2) Fans, that are non-boosters, are not contractually obligated to the NCAA in any way whatsoever and therefore the university cannot be held responsible for their actions. This is why the NCAA investigates so (and I can't believe I am saying this) thoroughly. They must find that the offending individual is some how tied to the university or program. If they are not then they will punish the player only.
3) NCAA is a business, not a government, and cannot infringe on the rights of ordinary citizens nor can they infringe on the rights of another legal business, such as Twitter. Twitter whom upon signing up requires you to sign a terms of usage to provide you the right to use their program to contact ANYONE. The NCAA has no power to stop anyone on twitter, except boosters who have a conflicting contractual agreement, from exercising their terms of usage anymore than Twitter can stop an athlete from cheating on a test. It's not possible. Corporate law forbids this.
So again, I am not condoning the action. But the NCAA has no legal standing here. None. If they were to pursue punishment for, let's call them, harmless tweets such as "Go Hokies!" then the university could easily fight back and win. Furthermore if the NCAA pursued to penalize the university on my tweet and I am not a booster I could sue the NCAA for infringing upon my legal right of freedom of speech, which could result in the mother of all class action lawsuits. Ed O'bannon's case would be a pale comparison.
Finally, if the NCAA were to pursue punishment for these type of tweets then every university would be up in arms. No university president would allow their university to be governed by an organization that blindly punishes their university like this, and university presidents tend to agree with each other.
Don't forget that the NCAA exists at the behest of the universities, not the other way around.
It's a problem if teams continue to insist on scheduling cupcakes, but I think that's going to start going away with CFB's current attendance problems and the playoff system making SOS more important. All those teams would still have 2 opportunities per year (except when they play ND) to schedule a weak opponent if they really wanted to.
The exact same format could be used with an 8 game schedule, but there would be 3 permanent rivalries rather than 5. Personally I prefer the 9 game schedule so there would be fewer "rivalries" cut and that it forces teams to play fewer games that only have the starters playing in the first half.