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Good showing, they play hard for JJ..I think JJ should look into hiring an assistant coach who can teach defense. The up tempo is good for recruiting..no one wants to play in a slow down system anymore.
They just hate the Acc and tried to run it up.
Awesome work. That's some dedication to Hokie football and I'm really happy you shared it. But I agree with other posts, we should have won more of those games. Our D looks so much more athletic than those teams!
I know I expected to lose this game, but we can't defend ball screens. It's incredible how many wide open looks they got off a simple ball screen. Those aren't mistakes even freshman should be making. If they don't get that fixed up we're gonna lose more games than I expected this year (and I expected around 20 losses).
It was their backups and if we can't stop it then go ahead. It's our fault for not being able to stop them, not theirs for playing the game.
Yeah that 3-pointer on the last MSU possession was kind of a dick move, but we played fairly well aside from the turnovers so that's a positive.
Michigan State wins 96-77. Hokies will play Seton Hall tomorrow at 7. Should be a good one.
Barksdale should start instead of wood, also Adam smith can ball when he gets hot
I thought it was really odd too. They could have just used up the play clock. Maybe they just wanted shooting practice.
Does anyone else find it really odd that MSU is still playing up-tempo and trying to hit threes? You'd think, when up by 20+ with 2:00 or less to go, you'd just try to control the clock. Going for style points here, or what?
you have to limit turnovers against a #1. We have 17 so far. We also only have one block
That was very sportsmanlike...
Can we trade Marcus Vick? He would be great practice for their law school
No quit!
states bench players are literally jumping out of their seats when they score and they are up by a million
could JVZ look any weaker when he takes it to the basket?
Thats exactly what I was thinking as I was making this. A little disappointing overall, but it is encouraging to know that the team has the ability to make big plays.
Yeah, basically..by rule he was hanging on the rim and it wasn't called. I'd like to see James Gayle whip the grin off Payne's face.
If the schools pay them, maybe they'll actually care what kind of people they are
The game is getting away from the hokies..
I think VT has lost their confidence, doesn't seem like they even think they can hang with Michigan State anymore.
where did these fouls come from? ugh
Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of respect for the student athletes that work hard, do their best, and stay out of trouble. I think they should get some sort of additional stipend.
But these kids in the football programs who do crap like in the article? They're the one's who people suggest should get paid, since football is such a money making enterprise for the schools. How can you justify paying them, looking at the things they do or get away with?
I know it's probably different for an NCAA Div I football athlete, but here's how it is for a NAIA XC athlete:
You spend 1.5+ hours running a day running. You lift in the mornings (30 minutes minimum). There's a good chance you have a phys ed class eating up 3-5 hours of your week to help with running. You have team meetings to go to. You have a job to do 10 hours a week. Your long run is 2+ hours. You have workouts that leave you exhausted. Your expected to find time to eat even though your practice lets out when the dining hall closes. You have to go to the training room, whose hours are that of the dining hall. You are expected to do 60+ hours of homework a week. You are in class 15+ hours a week.
None of your professors like you because they think the college is giving you benefits you don't deserve (it's not). None of your classmates like you because they think the professor is giving you benefits you don't deserve (they're not). You like none of your classmates or professors because they don't understand that the reason you don't get everything done is that you are expected to allocate 95 hours out of 168 to what is essentially your full time job, forgetting that you are already only committing out of 122 because you're human and you sleep.
Being an athlete really kind of sucks. Just to put things in perspective.