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You have a brave heart. But please, no pics.
This is pretty much the best thing I read all day. Granted all I've been reading is SQL books and this is my second time on this site today.
Optimism at its best. Can't knock that.
This is ridiculous...and I love it
So...the title game would be between two ACC teams that had just played each other less than a month ago.
That would be one HELL of a way to end the BCS system. Pour gasoline all over it and light that shit on fire with a blowtorch.
I'm in.
Man i wish we could bring back those all white uniforms with the white helmet with, maroon and orange "spartan" stripe down the middle as seen on the video tumbnail. Those are sharp
I had OP methods with him spring 2011, I think.
I also just gave a turkey leg for every single Prather quote. Good times...
yep..heard that one too
We cannot play offense like BC because we do not have the personnel for it.
We'll play like Loefler wants us to play once he has a recruiting class or 2 under his belt.
Perhaps the problem is not Thomas and the snap under center, perhaps it has something to do with the center.
We know the snapper had to use his other arm in practice. We also know that one of the few snaps under center resulted in a fumble. It was on the goal line.
Along similar lines, I don't understand why we can't be the team that BC is and why we aren't playing ball like BC is. Frank and Scot were all about getting back to the basics and establishing a hard-nosed downhill running game reminiscent of years past. How did BC accomplish that (besides a RB with freakishly large thighs)? They padded the line with extra linemen and TE's. They outsized and outmaned our defense with double team blocking. And just to prove a point that this does work, we did this during one of our games. It was either pitt or UNC. Scot was quoted at the end for confessing that we put an extra linemen in and ran the same rushing play up the middle like 4 or 5 times in a row just to prove that we could score the touchdown that way which we did. I remember watching it and thinking "golly, we just ran the same rushing play 5 times and it worked". If you can get a first down rushing up the middle 3 times in a row, why not do that more often. It drives me nuts when scot calls up the middle on first down, Trey barely picks up 2 yards, then we spread it back out.
At the end of the day, I just want to win. And I am definitely thankful that Logan has been able to throw the ball the way he has to pick up countless impossible 3rd-down conversions. But the expectation for interceptions is really starting to take a toll on my heart/blood pressure. With the exception of the Bama game, I haven't seen a true commitment to the run game that I was expecting all summer.
Nah, I had him for Op Methods fall 2011 I believe. I'm sure he says the same stuff for every class, like this gem:
"I was, uh, talking to a former student of mine and, uh, he said that my tests are too elementary. So I think the next test will be more difficult!"
*doesn't make test hard*
that sounds oddly familiar....were you in my class?
I had him for Diff EQ but I couldn't even begin to tell you when...sometime between 2006 and 2010
probably spring semester 2009
Reading Miami fanboards and someone posted this picture.. haha this is epic that we have the opponents making images for our own players. !!!
Tickets already purchased! GO HOKIES
Looks like I will be in Pasadena this January!
That sounds very Prather-esque! We had a guy leave class early one day and Prather chased after him to try to bring him back to class. My favorite line from him was:
"You sir! What major are you?"
"Aerospace"
"Uh, what is the title of chapter 2 in the system dynamics book?"
"Laplace transf-"
"UH, LAPLACE TRANSFORMS, YES!!!"
So how do we get in now?
if I could give you a million legs for this..I would
Carl Prather was my favorite character at VT...
One of my fondest memories:
we had his class MWF afternoons and he was going wild with solving a particular problem towards the end of class. Somebody alerted him that class was up and we had to be leaving. His response was something along the lines of
"Oh!!! Well we're not finished here! I'm having such a blast...you must be having fun too!! Yes, of course you are! We'll come in tomorrow and continue. How does that sound for everybody?!?!?..Great! We'll see you tomorrow!!"
all of this.....on a Friday.
I absolutely refuse to believe that any person athletic enough to account for over 400 yards of offense isn't capable of bending down and receiving a snap from under center. I refuse. It's absurd.
But you know it's not that simple. After you get the ball, then you have to drop back, keeping your eyes downfield and ball in ready position while you cross your feet repeatedly in your drop. Then you have to stop your drop at the right spot ready to fire out at that exact moment. Failing that, you need to then have a sense for what and where the rush is, without moving your eye level down, so that you can chop step your way through the pocket looking for a man. It's a vastly different set of responsibilities than is receiving the snap from the shotgun, and taking two seconds to process all those elements of the defense from a fixed point.
And I have to think that the reason we don't see more under-center action is because it compromises us too much, and Logan is not mechanically consistent enough to execute where we need to be to have a credible sense of balance on offense. Think about how much he sprays his throws high, low, left, and right - now ask yourself how that possibly gets any better with him having to think about his drop in addition to everything else. I believe everything about his mechanics would devolve before our eyes. Loeffler had one offseason to clean him up, and in so doing minimized the number of moving parts so that he could be serviceable in a limited number of important areas.
Looks just like the ACA website.
My favorite comment is: "I mean at this point it is all but assured. Bow to our VT overlords."