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I love using $EC myself, but eww... At least that video only happened once, their combo happens everyday
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I just threw up a lil!
Thank you! lol
I'm a Bonner fan, but at the end of the day, he's the least productive of the 6 players who play 5 spots. (7 players if you consider Trimble/Dinardo).
By the end of the year, that's the combo that will be on the field in the most important plays.
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# | Exum will replace Facyson at Field Corner per Coach Gray (*Two weeks ago) What you originally posted was without any context, "Exum will replace Facyson at Field Corner per Coach Gray". Not providing the clause that the statement was made over two weeks ago is extremely misleading and it's basically writing a narrative that doesn't exist.
Here is the rest of the story that every beat writer was tweeting out. Emphasis is my own.
Antone Exum was cleared for full participation by Dr. James Andrews yesterday afternoon. He will return to practice this week without any restrictions and is expected to continue rehabilitation for the remainder of the season. His playing time for North Carolina and all future game will be determined by how well the right knee tolerates practices this week and how quickly he re-establishes pre-injury cardiovascular endurance and pre-injury skill levels.
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http://www.branding.unirel.vt.edu/brand-expression/colors-typography.html
Edit:Let me elaborate.
- My first issue is that Black is not one of our colors and I am not a fan of so many teams going Black for Black's Sake.
- Blackouts are dumb because it makes the stadium look empty on a night game. If you want the stadium to look awesome, you need a color that will reflect the light. Not absorb it.
Let's compare UGA's Blackout vs. Penn State's White Out:
The UGA game looks empty while the Penn State crowd looks amazing. When HDTVs were first becoming available, Best Buy (or another electronics retailer) was using images from the Penn State White Out to help sell them.
I don't think anyone will be able to compete with Penn State, but our Orange Effect looks pretty fantastic at night:
This is what I want to see when a person turns on a Virginia Tech game in Lane Stadium.
If his knee looks good this week, I am sure he will start. I am not sure if I would do that, but Gray's statement aligns with the normal Beamer protocol of playing older guys and not having guys lose starting spots as result of injuries.
I was as harsh a critic of Exum as anyone at this point last season, but he improved vastly throughout the year and he was outstanding down the stretch. If he is 100 percent, I would even suggest that he is a better COVER guy than Kyle Fuller. He certainly has better recovery time if beaten on a double move. Now, you can't take Kyle off the field because he brings so much to the table besides coverage, and he is still a very good cover guy. You can't take Kendall off the field because you need the smaller quicker guy in man coverage on slot receivers. You can't take the safeties off the field because they are the communication hub and safety net for the team, and Exum has not dealt with their vocabulary for almost 2 years.
Having four elite corners is a great problem to have, but Facyson has been so good... ugh, it is agonizing just to think about.
I disagree. Gray has been with the program a long time, and the culture of the football program has been to give older players the starting nod over less experienced but more talented guys provided that those older players can functionally execute the game plan, especially if said player loses their job because of injury. At one point, Brandon Flowers, James Anderson, Cody Grimm, and Xavier Adibi were all backing up less talented older players when they were clearly better options, but they were young guys and the staff played the older guys. Exum is an excellent football player, but even at his very best (the UVA and Rutgers games), I would be hard pressed to find a football mind that would suggest that Exum's play in that stretch was better than Facyson has been so far. And Exum was EXCELLENT.
I have no doubt that if Exum isn't starting on Saturday, it is because his knee didn't respond well to first team work. But, if for whatever reason he struggles, that decision will be second guessed to death.
brilliant!!!!
Oh I agree, it's like bringing a Hoo to a Sam Rogers fight
Keep in mind how Loeffler wants to set everything up. Yes, the sweep might have gone for good yardage there, but I think Loeffler wanted to force the defense to key in on Logan running up the middle and start flying up in run support. This leaves those nice short crossing routes (easy, high percentage throws) wide open with plenty of room for good YAC (see Demitri). I'll be very interested to see if Lefty opens things up with the sweeps a little bit more going forward, and see if we can catch a safety or linebacker looking at Logan just a little too long just to have JCC or Mangus run right by him.
That's actually not a terrible idea. Not as a pure receiver obviously, but Kendall wasn't just a great corner in high school he was also a great playmaker on offense. Maybe now that there's so much depth at the position the coaches will feel more comfortable moving him across for a couple plays, a la DeAngelo Hall.
I wish ESPN had directed another cam at this with a close-up in order to get a shot of the ref's face when Fuller did this. I bet it would have been a classic.
Just more evidence we've been paying off the refs all this time...
Okay, now I get that the sweep keeps the d-line and the linebackers on that side honest, but does that open up the keeper for a big gain, or can the LBs and DE on the veer side still guide the veer so Thomas gets hit?
Excellent comment!
Some might ask are you mistaken in your use of the phrase "Soiling their oats"....the common usage would be "sewing their oats" or "sewing their wild oats". If this was your intent, glad we could clear it up. If "soiling" was an intended re-working of the phrase, it is brilliantly accurate.
Yeah I think this comment was made before Brandon established himself as one of the top two playmakers in the secondary along with Kyle. It's hard to justify limiting his snaps at this point.
I will be saying extra prayers and taking extra vitamins that the Hokies can land him. He will start right away at VT if the Hokies land him. He is a big time vertical threat and playmaker.
French, how much playing time do you think Exum will get against UNC, if any?
Actually, I pose this as a serious question.
TKP is the most fantastic fan site I've ever seen. Can't argue that at all. But generally, outside of Andy (another reason TKP is cool) we don't have reporters. And there is a lot of college football out there. I occasion CBSSports.com, but their coverage is spotty, with an occasional good commentary. The mothership is probably the best all-everything site for coverage, but commentary and true insight is woefully inadequate. Where does everyone else go, if not for these two sites?
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# | Exum will replace Facyson at Field Corner per Coach Gray (*Two weeks ago) I'm right there with you for A. All started last spring with his first pass break up.
I would still like to see exum at FS... He was a good safety and this makes the most sense given the incumbent personnel. I see exum more as a safety in the league with his size and strengths.