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# | Bitter blog - Some thoughts about the Hokies’ quarterback outlook post-Logan Thomas Agreed. Nice writeup A-money.
Yes I called you A-money. I find it weird to call people andy since my name is andy.
Not concerned. Johnny Football was rated way lower.
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12 years 7 months
# | Bitter blog - Some thoughts about the Hokies’ quarterback outlook post-Logan Thomas happy 200 turkey leg ;-)
Carlos Parker, Joel Caleb and Travon McMillian at WR. #AllTheFormerQBs
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12 years 7 months
# | Bitter blog - Some thoughts about the Hokies’ quarterback outlook post-Logan Thomas (The biggest concern for Hokies fans might be that they won't know which backup they should be calling for to start.)
This made me LOL. Good write-up Andy, and thanks for all the hard work you've done this season. TKP community really appreciates it!
Yessir. When I was 16 and we drove through the "gate" off 460, I told my parents Tech was it. It felt like home, even though we were 400 miles from home.
I think this new regime is on to something here. The last regime was all about switching TEs to OL, what if this new group wants to swtich QBs to every other offensive position? BRILLIANT!
Tebow in 2008.
Took a tour of the campus after visiting UMD and JMU. Immediately fell in love with the place. Saw Pamplin where I would eventually major in Accounting, walked the quads where I wound up meeting many new friends playing basketball or tennis in upper quad, drove around the off-site campus housing behind the stadium where I would eventually move to the "Solar House" and manage the Houston Street Apartments, drove to the New River Junction where I eventually worked renting tubes and driving buses for 4 years, and strolled Main Street and College Avenues where I spent many a happy or evening hour slurping up cheap beers and meeting great people. Everytime I go back or anytime I think of Blacksburg I reflect on that decision I had to make when I was 18 and that sometimes you go places and you just realize that it is or was the place for you. Many years later, I still believe it...
Do'h!!
We discussed the Vick at Temple game a few months ago...
This was also the game that Michael somehow managed to put his wristband on upside down, and on the second play for Tech, Vick told all the players to just go right. Nobody had an idea of what was going on, but they went right. Vick rolled left, 53 yards untouched for a TD.
If that doesn't make you a believer, nothing will.
I cannot agree more.
When I first stepped foot on campus as a student, I was not a Hokie football fan, nor, for that matter, a football fan in general. Yeah, I had a professional team that I wanted to win, but actually watching football was a bit "ho hum" for me.
Short story to my change of heart was the community in Blacksburg. It just felt like being part of something great, something bigger.
That's not Pierson.
You just proved his case!
It was more of Loeffler being there and Tebow pointing the ball.. tried to find one of him (Loeffler) pointing in VT gear but couldn't find one that was perfect
Plus, as Bitter points out in his blog today, Loeffler's offense is multiple, about taking advantage of matchups, and so personnel may be more important to him than scheme.
I feel like I need to change my name
How about we just run a bunch of trick passes out of the shotgun with Ford at QB, Sam Rogers at RB, and Durkin flexed as H-Back.
I wrote this at work and did not have time to edit..sorry it's a bit rough
I visited Virginia Tech, JMU, and UVA. I was accepted early at both VT and JMU and put on the waiting list at UVA. I had no ties to either school other than rooting for UVA because they received much more TV coverage in the early 90's. Blacksburg was by far my favorite visit. I met with a professor who would end up becoming my advisor in the Ag and Life Sciences Department. He was a little hoarse on a Friday afternoon after attending the VT beatdown of WVU the previous night. I loved everything about the campus and the fact that the professor was hoarse after a game showed me the passion that was present in everyone at the University. I was sold at that point, but made visits to the other schools. I kept hearing how beautiful the Charlottesville area would be and after arriving I just didn't see it.
I used to work at Owens back in the day. Kevin Jones came in. I made him grilled ham and cheese sammich. Nods were exchanged, sammiches were eaten. Today was a good day.
Moment: TD Trey. Nothing like taking the wind out of the Bama crowd.
Win: Miami
Game attended: UNC (the only game I went to this year). Nothing like tailgating in the fall and being at a game for a win.
Like a feather in a perfect Vaccuum. That is why they get all the confused 5 stars out of VA.
No real order to these:
Tommie Frazier at Nebraska won Championships in '94 and '95.
Entered in 2000 after the 99 year. That football product might have tipped the scales between some other colleges, but seeing the campus tucked away in the placid mountains of Southwest Virginia, the way the drive from D.C. just seemed to melt into the Shanandoah Valley and things just slowed down the entire drive down 81; it just seemed to have a perfect match of college-to-town with picturesque rolling mountains. Tough to find a place were the town embraces the college and vice-versa. Radford isn't that for away and you would never get the same feeling in terms of how the area identifies itself.
Not to work too blue here, but after the tradgedy in 2007, a friend of mine was remarking on all the photos of campus and how much VT apparel the students and people wore in those still photos of that day, even before word of what happened had spread. And that started as just a normal day in April. People who know VT love it, people who don't will knock and and never understand. And I for one wouldn't have it any other way.