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It sucks that I can only upvote this once.

I want to see Sam Rogers carry the two backup ILBs 10 yards up the middle for a TD, then give them permission to run away without being injured.

The thing that makes me most excited about hokie offense lately (btw, first post ever) is watching Logan trainwreck through defenses. Everytime I see a highlight reel of him the last two years... *salivate/goosebumps*. Needless to say, the first two games this year have been a major letdown with LT3 being so timid running. I just hope this is all part of a plan to keep him healthy and pursuade ACC foes that he doesn't run anymore, then BOOM we run him hard in more designed keeper plays in conference games and defenses pay for it. All that said, we REALLY need to take advantage of ECU's soft linebackers tomorrow especially since they are backups. If Trey doesn't have a field day w/ at least 100+ yards straight up the gut, I would be quite upset.

I want to see a Sam Rogers touchdown

Such a Uva move. I see this as them backing down from a challenge (shocker). As more of our in-state universities climb the academic ranks and encroach upon their "higher echelon of education" they are forced to do one of two things to keep their nose up and pinky out. Be creative and work harder to ensure they carry that "Flagship University" title. Or, take the cowardly way out and secede. Instead of wanting to provide an semi-affordable education at a historic university to the public they would rather throw in the towel and abandon the ideals of higher learning for the pursuit of financial gain. I guess that UVa. panel is having trouble realizing that if they continue on as a public university that in 10 years they may find themselves a little lower on those annual "best public university" lists as their neighbor in the mountains continues to climb.

I have a lot of respect for the other school in the State as it is truly a great university. I have friends and co-workers that attended. Unfortunately, I see the "I am the superior" trait within nearly all of them. With that attitude comes an unwillingness to cooperate, work smarter and simply follow the rules of business/life. I work with a lot of fellow hokies and a few wahoos. For the most part, when a hokie co-worker is asked to do something the task is completed on time and correctly. The wahoos always want to have a debate as to why they don't think the task needs to be completed and their work suffers from it. When business slows down me and my fellow hokies always like to help the wahoos pack up their desks :)

I've known 4 UVA engineering grads as coworkers. One was same age, graduation year, years of experience, etc. I ran circles around him in terms of engineering ability.

One was a structural/bridge guy. He designed the bridge at the Busch Gardens interchange on I-64. The word was when they delivered the girders, the VDOT bridge department had not properly check the shop drawings and some metric to english conversions (because the plans were metric but the suppliers converted everything to english units because they couldn't manufacturer to metric) were messed up and girders were actually sized wrong. It was said our engineering group was never forwarded the shop drawings to check, but it happened before I started so who knows. They were involved in other aspects of construction.

Another one, he did a pump design that when it was installed and turned on, it didn't work right. Lots of cavitation, etc. Turned out he'd majorly screwed up the system head curve for the pump design. Turned out we could swap a new impeller in there, and make it work.

Last one was a lady that was being groomed to be a PM when I first started because she liked being bitchy to everyone else. Office manager thought she had the guts to be a PM that wasn't afraid to jump in someone's face. Anyway, on my very very first pipe design she was trying to tell me some things to do, that I could tell were wrong. And another of her designs in NoVA (a big water vault with multiple really big high pressure mains coming in) had the thrust restraint design screwed up and blew out 6 months after it was built. Blew a giant hole in Chain Bridge Road in the middle of the night.

All four also had countless change orders on hordes of jobs.

I can honestly say that I've solved many problems that others couldn't, and have never had a change order on a job due to an engineering error related to my own personal work. And I also can honestly say the total change order as % of original construction cost on the projects I've designed both as a designer, and then now a PM managing others, is less than 2%. Including not a single one in the last 4 years.

As far as I'm concerned, VT Engineering beats UVA Engineering (and lots and lots of other schools as well) hands down.

But mind you, each of their backup LBs got 9 tackles last week.

The only thing I got from this was that someone needs to buy French a bench.

This makes me think of this:

I think you have to see it live to truly appreciate it and to become a fan. My wife won't watch it on TV, but when I take her to a game she's all in yelling at the players to get into a fight. It's pretty funny actually.

My experience with UVa academics was that I once used my two years of high school Spanish to write a paper for a business school friend there so he could fulfill some sort of requirement for graduation. He's now a national sales manager for a major corporation.

Anyway, once they separate themselves from the state, they can kindly reimburse the state for 190 years of rent, then move to Massachusetts.

Yep. It's both of their inside linebackers. One of them has been their leading tackler for the past couple years.