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And Eddie Royal
Agree, fairly accurate. The only team we played that we should have lost to this year was Alabama. We should have beat Maryland. The Duke and BC losses were against teams having great years and who may be on an upswing. Those I can accept in hindsight, even though they didn't feel like it at the time.
Had we beaten Md, plus won our bowl game (resulting in a 10-win season), I think we would have reached our potential this year.
I'm not saying that Uva's campus isn't pretty...but I would hardly rank it in the top 2
I have a feeling we find out a lot of stuff because Frank decides it's time for us to.
Saw some list the other day that rated Harrisonburg as the #5 college town in the US. Nearly shit myself. Probably one of the worst college towns you can imagine in terms of how campus, downtown, and off-campus housing are tied together. Cville vs. Blacksburg.... I'd imagine both are pretty solid places.
for shame .. with 2K+ legs this should not be possible sir
huge adv: downvote
I actually prefer this years team without him. Erick Green was a great Hokie, easily one of my favorites, but this team will be better than last simply because it isnt one dimensional. Last year was about getting Green the ball and having the other 4 watch him or set him up again. The whole game was dependent on if he was able to get hot early and force the other teams to double and triple team him. This year, we can see multiple players coming alive and, hopefully, watch a little of JJs coaching. I loved watching Green, but this years team will have better development for the future
Yeah or a solution is try to make you players play less gay.
Not like homosexual gay, but like my parents are chaperones at the dance gay.
never been there, just seen it from 81- not going to 'talk up' "the grounds" in C-ville.
but there are alot of very bad campuses in the country and its not one of them (best I can do)
Yeah, there's always Rivals if someone wants to make repeated uses of "UVGAY" and Club 216 etc. etc.
Maybe the players just really want to go home early for Xmas?
Neither is the best in VA. William & Mary has the best town & surround.
Outdoorsy stuff: Advantage Tech
Oklahoma State
Baylor
Auburn
Stanford
Duke (4 touchdowns is a lot of touchdowns)
Michigan State
Hokie-envy much?
One other item of note....if you shop in Blacksburg, you can go all day and never see an item for sale with a UVA logo on it. There usually is as much VT merchandise on display in most of the stores in Charlottesville as there is UVA stuff. Which reminds me, I need to figure out how to market a picture of the stadium with "Lane Stadium-North" on it. I think it would sell...
Housing in Charlottesville/Albemarle is high....outlying areas not so much. Agreed traffic is stupid here...when I first moved here, it drove me crazy trying to find my way around, because the names of roads change without notice and with no discernible demarcation (Park st/Rio/Hydraulic). And there are several duplicate street names (no less than three Park Streets). They won't build roads where they need them...and they slow down roads that need to be faster (I honestly had never heard of "traffic-calming-devices" before; and they build a road that should be a 45 mph road at least, and make it a 35 mph road). And we won't even talk about watching idiots try to drive in bad weather.
I wasn't offended by his comments, but yes, I thought it was inappropriate, unnecessary, and added absolutely nothing to the discussion about sports.
If you have something to say related to Tech sports, or anything that this website has to offer or discuss, then great! If you don't, you can find some other place on the internet to spew that sort of junk.
I like to think TKP is an intellectual discussion place about sports, not just a place where you see that crap day in and day out.
That's a fascinating read. It's cool to see his legend begin before he even got on campus.
when you bench Russell Wilson in his 5th year you deserve to sit bitch to the TimeCop
damn right
Orgeron can go coach at any staff in the country. He's not coming here.
Clearly they have not seen the report by the American Institute of Economic Research:
https://www.aier.org/sites/default/files/cdi/cdi-docs/Blacksburg.pdf
Summarized here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/best-college-towns-2013-14_n_43...
The Charlottesville area is a nice place to live. There are some nice stores, good entertainment, very good health care (I prefer Martha Jefferson over UVA, btw), and the scenery is some of the most beautiful in Virginia. The cost of living is average, the weather is usually not bad, on the whole.
The worst part of living here is the wahooland amusement park. The economy is geared toward everything-UVA. The whole town kisses up to them. It seems like the town is almost set up to provide wahoos a place to work after their graduation, with very few businesses not connected in some way to UVA. The area has a dearth of good old-fashioned blue collar types who can fix your car, your plumbing, or your air conditioning. Of course, if Mr. J. hadn't established his institute of holier-than-thou education here, I'm sure this would still be a sleepy little country town, with I-64 running through Lynchburg rather than skirting Charlottesville.
Well, the restaurant situation in Cville is nice due to the ability of the locals to pay for more than "locals" in Blacksburg/Christiansburg.
I gotta go with that. W&M is outstanding as a college town.