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My thoughts exactly. Probably the person that shot it is like:
I liked the feel in terms of "this is what it's like on the field," but slow down just a bit and it would have been awesome. Nice to have a bit of perspective, though.
How to Highty Tighties keep themselves from jumping is beyond me. If that's the discipline it takes then you all are way better men and women than me. I'm impressed.
How do you know this information? Are you one of them!?
And then all the OCs in the country are like...
If Foster is playing mind games off the field, then he's even more of a genius than I thought.
The saddest thing about the Mike Leach firing is not getting to see this all the time.
Nice use of "red herring." I had to look up what that meant.
Yea, Rutgers wouldn't scare me with their lack of playmakers. It's UNC, Miami, and Clemson that would scare me with their ability to take a quick slant or WR screen 80 yds like Demaryious Thomas against Baltimore. But, maybe, as you suggest, this was all about giving the opposing OCs and QBs one more thing to think about.
Oh. /humble
Can't believe nobody has wiped the dust off this recent one:
I usually wait to anoint anyone until game 6s are in the books. Too many early season byes, FCS teams, overmatched mid-majors, and the like. Some teams get to November before taking on a challenge.
Have you seen Northwestern?
Heh, my friends and I all moved south after graduating from VT, so our calibration of "hot" has changed. The temp and humidity on Saturday were perfect, it was warm in the sun, but with proper precautions as you've outlined it was fine.
I like a mix of weather in my football season, if I can wear shorts to the first couple of games and have to wear a down jacket to the last couple then I am a happy man.
Plus a million for Theory of Organization. Best class I've ever taken. Glad it was in ISE so I got first look at enrolling. It was like sitting around listening to your grandfather tell stories of the olden days. Except it was all behind the scenes VT stories from the former president of the university.
That is really nice facility. I remember when I was in HS, it was one of 2 indoor tracks at the collegiate that was raised and banked (circa 2000). Of course, Oregon had the other. I'm sure by now it is standard at all major universities with a decent track team.
Hot? Hot?!? Saturday was *nice* out. Hot is the humidity ridden hellscape that is Columbia SC in the summer. 95 degrees, 60% relative humidity. At night. Saturday in Blacksburg was damn near perfect. It was warm in the sun and it was prudent to stay hydrated, but the only complaint I had about the weather is that the pleasant breeze wasn't consistent enough in the East Stands.
Agueroooooooooooo!!!!!
Second that.
Really love the GIF competition here.
Someone should post at the top, look at all the GIFs, vote for 2. May the best GIF win
Who do you think is going to hold it up?
FTW, I guess. That one gas station I used to stop at on 522 is now closed, which sucks, because you don't see another gas station until Breezewood. I was seriously worried I'd run out of gas last time I came back up from NOVA. What the hell, Warfordsburg?
I AM REALLY GLAD THAT EVERYONE IS AS EXCITED AS I AM THAT THE TRACK TEAM GET'S TO TAKE OVER RECTOR FIELD HOUSE NOW
Sold! You better not have video of my filly...
I've been reading "These Guys Have All the Fun" which is a collection of interviews from various contributors and managers that have been at ESPN from its founding through to today. Some of it is pretty scathing stuff (like the Mike Tirrico finger bang assault or any story involving Olberman) but a lot of the book deals with the business, and how ESPN rakes in money by the bushel (and how they are really, really cheap when it comes to its talent).
ESPN's declining standard of journalistic integrity is what turned me off. The whole affair with Mike Leach and Craig James was a disgusting abuse of their position as a news organization. ESPN has also been very busy making news in conference re-alignment space for a while which I don't like. They've become big enough to dictate events and not just report on them, which is a little creepy, or at least it should be.
The quality of their broadcast product has slipped a little, in part because there are only so many A-teams of talent and they broadcast so many games now that dipping into the minors is unavoidable. But they are still leading the pack here.
Hopefully FS1 can actually start to eat into their mind-share a little. That's going to take a long time though since ESPN is sitting behind an awfully big moat backed up by even bigger walls. And their revenue structure (where much more money comes in from subscriber fees than advertising) makes them relatively insensitive to ratings swings. To really affect ESPN's business will take *years* of sustained ratings growth at the expense of ESPN's audience - that will start to improve the value of competing networks to close the revenue gap. Right now ESPN gets something like $2.50 per sub per month; FS1 is something around $0.15-0.30. It's going to take a while.
That subscriber+advertising revenue model is the secret to ESPN's success and the amount of money they make is incredible. So incredible that, for a few years, ESPN was the *only* profitable part of the Disney company.