Recent Comments
Yeah. I've been to both, eaten in both, and Blacksburg's got a lot more good food going on. Charlottesville might have more pretentious food. Like. Food you eat to prove that you're cool.
You need to come out to the DFW Metroplex. I thought driving down I-81 Sunday after Thanksgiving was the worst thing ever with all the bad drivers and insane truckers trying to drop off their shipment by Monday. Then I drove on the I-35s here and good lord I want my truckers and 81 back.
Oklahoma State
Baylor
Missouri, because haha, Bama
Stanford
Duke, that's a lot of points, and Duke doesn't suck
Michigan State, because they don't deserve to play FSU
To me a great college town doesn't just involve the school. Places like Ann Arbor, Madison, Chapel Hill, Charlottesville have other stuff.— Hokies Journal (@HokiesJournal) December 3, 2013
This is where I disagree with him. Life in a college town (to me, at least) should be all about the college. Blacksburg and Clemson are the quintessential college towns to me. UGA has a similar feel, but there are far more chain restaurants than BBurg. Chapel hill is a town with a college in it.
If you routinely see residents wearing clothes from other universities, it's not a college town. If it's possible to ignore the university's sports teams, it's not a college town. If it's in a major city, it's not a college town.
For the record.....UVA is gay - not like homosexual gay, but like my parents dressed me in plaid pants gay.
The question I wonder is if we could pull Kalvin Cline over from the football team ala Jeff King. Word is that he could have played roundball at a mid-major.
TOBOCOP!
This doesn't say smart people actually work for UVA though....
It's not just the bad weather. I've driven in many places in this great country of ours, and this is honestly the first place I've driven that made me want to not drive anymore.
I've tried to place it, and maybe I'm wrong, but the drivers around here have more of a "Me first and FUCK you" attitude than anyplace I've driven, NoVA and Los Angeles included.
I'd just be worried that the USC admin didn't make a thorough search. It sounds to me like they already knew who they wanted before the search began, and the reason they wanted that guy was because of his association to Carroll. He could be successful, but I just feel like situations like this usually disappoint.
1. Okie St.
2. Longhorns
3. Mizzou
4. Stanford
5. Duke
6. Sparty
He earned it alright, congrats, Kendall Fuller! We have these great DBs for at least 2 more seasons
1. He was in over his head against the number one team in the county. He's a freshman, he'll make mistakes, and the Spartans played him incredibly well. I think that the comparison to Green as a freshman is way off, Green was so lost that he couldn't even put it on the floor. He was a guy that would shoot bad threes, and that's about it. Wilson can put it on the deck, take a defender 1-on-1 and get to the rim. He can also find open guys. It took Green four years to record his first (and only) double digit assist game, where as Wilson had one against Furman. Sure, you can say that the level of competition wasn't great, but it still illustrates the type of game he plays. Dude will mature as the season goes along, but I don't think it's fair to describe him as this turnover machine (averages 3.1 TOs a game in 31 minutes a game). He'll definitely make some bone headed mistakes, but I think that if the Hokies are forced to use Smith in an extended point guard role, their offense will look a lot like it did in ACC play last season, stagnant and ineffective.
2. I agree, but I just thought it was interesting to see. New, young coaches that fail often can't set that sort of tone with their players.
removed......
Every time I visit Blacksburg I have a hard time hitting all of the restaurants that I like to go to.
Souvlaki, Cellar, Boudreauxs, Bull and Bones, El Rod's, and on campus dining are all great.
Whenever I'm driving through Charlottesville I make sure to go to Bodo's, because that is all that damn town is good for.
Some cavs think Mike Groh is the answer... I'm not kidding either!
I've always told people it would be a very nice town if it was stripped of its douchiness.
this
hokie confession: i like cville. good music scene, mountains nearby, good variety in shopping and places to drink. as a younger man my friends and i found the pickings over there plentiful.
what's said above about the lack of school spirit is absolutely true. you can buy tech gear all over cville and plenty of bars have vt stuff hanging up. i wear tech stuff all the time when i venture over the hill and nobody even looks at me. hell, when my daughter was in the nicu at the hospital one of the nurses and i started talking football. she and her family were season ticket holders. she told me she didnt think tech should be in the acc. i asked why she felt that way expecting some bs about academics and thuggery. to my amusement she says, "those boys from tech are just tougher than ours!" it was too perfect.
blacksburg is virginia tech, and virginia tech is blacksburg. one of the things that made me fall in love the vt football all those years ago was the electricity in the air all over town on gameday. cville just doesnt have that feel. charlottesville has more job opportunities but as far as being a true college town, to me, blacksburg cannot be beat.
Oklahoma
Texas at Baylor -13.5
Auburn - destiny
Arizona State
Duke
Michigan State
The thing is, this site does have a set of community guidelines and they are easy to find and read. I'm all for making fun of uva, but when you call someone a feminine bitch, we all know what is implied, and that's where the line is crossed.
SHHHHH THAT'S THE POINT
I have to say I am pretty excited to see what all of these freshman can do with a full year of gentrification under their belts.
But DP Dough's
I'm more of the thinking that the Kiffin brand has lost some star power since he practically crashed and burned at two schools and got chased out.