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I think UGA, Stanford, and Oklahoma are all better than us, at least by the eye test. We really haven't beaten anyone. I would be content to stay in the 20-25 range until the Miami game, and if we win that one, big jump up.
But most teams have one less game played than us, too, so they're just starting their conference schedules, by and large. We'll see how teams like Baylor and Texas Tech progress throughout the season now that they play their conferences. Mizzou looks to be better than I ever expected.
Yeah it looked like he just twisted his knee a little. Only out for a defensive series. I don't root for injuries, but I would be happier with the college football landscape if that guy weren't in it.
Ok thanks, I needed a reality check. Load on defense erupt in obnoxious praise when we make a good play on offense.
Check.
Key plays are only supposed to be when we're on defense, at least that's what it was when I was there.
The difference between key plays and paper airplanes is that key plays make it noisy for the opposing offense to work. Paper airplanes offer no such advantage, and makes our fan base look amateurish and disinterested on tv.
At least its fitting. And yes, that arm is moving comically fast.
"It's not like people are doing homework in the stands"
And that's why paper airplanes aren't thrown at Georgia Tech
I. Hate. The. Wave.
To me, The Wave means, "My cell phone battery is dead, entertain me! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
orange effect 2014 ideas?
Candy. freaking. corn.
Circus Peanuts
Lemon heads
Mini Sweet tarts
I think the BC game two years ago, one of the airplanes hit a BC player in the helmet, it was pretty hilarious.
What he said
I saw a poor old Klempson fan get srtuck by random airplane bottles and turkey legs one upon a time in '06, '07?
Can anybody post the vid of him getting a helmet sticker on College Football Final?
I'd say it's probably some sort of ligament sprain (MCL or LCL, most likely, which I base on absolutely nothing) similar to what Byrn had last week.
Selection committee, similar to the NCAA tournament. And we all know that format leaves everyone happy! :)
1st and Logan, 2nd and Logan, 3rd and Logan....
For any trolling UNC fans,
Cheering when your team's on offense is a great strategy.
This would be really annoying and stupid... if the arm wasn't moving so comically fast.
Yell on defense, shut the eff up on offense. That's how it goes for the home team (for good fan bases anyways). Then cheer like hell when LT3 puts the team on his back and makes stuff happen all by his lonesome (with occasional help from his receivers).
Precisely, timing is everything. Plus, I was there when the paper airplane thing started, when we played UNC and lost in 2009. It was awful, and I blame the paper airplanes and those fans more excited about cheering on little paper planes than cheering on their team.
The FUN at the game is the GAME!!!! It's going home with no voice and knowing that you had a part in creating the most disruptive atmosphere possible to help the defense!! Throw airplanes the other 164 hours of the week.
Timing is everything. Halftime or a TV timeout: great! 3rd and long on our own 30ish, not so great.
Well, when people are more inclined to cheer on a paper airplane heading slowly towards the field than to cheer on the players on the field, that's when it gets obnoxious. Plus, 95% of those things just end up hitting other fans in the face anyways.
Near halftime, when the band was lining up on the field, a friend and I took it upon ourselves to get the "nah, nah, nah, nah, nah-nah. HEY! WE JUST SACKED YOU!" chant going. The people behind us had never heard of it. It felt good to educate newer members of Hokie Nation.
Hear, hear. Throwing a paper airplane is a universally understood symbol of, "I'm bored." That's what it always meant in grade school - boredom and (minor) rebellion. If people really find it entertaining, let's do what VTrumpet said above. We're an engineering school for crying out loud, if you want to express that by building paper airplanes, then let's make it a contest after the game. Toss from the top of the East Stands and the one who makes it closest to the middle of the big VT at the 50 wins a pair of tickets to the next home game. It means you have to stay the whole time and think a bit creatively.
All that said, these debates are getting tired. Everyone complains about the fans. My opinion has always been, and will always be: act like the fan you want to see. Teach the people around you the cheers, the fight song, when to pull out their keys, etc. Chant "Stick It In" when appropriate, and make hellacious noise starting during the opponents' huddle (a tradition long since forgotten, it seems).