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# | Bitter blog - Jeff Grimes names Hokies' starting offensive line 
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The author's main premise is that VT will have another down year like last year, due to several factors. I think he is short-changing the new coaching staff and that VT's offense will be a pleasant surprise, especially by the time October rolls around. Hope he is wrong and I am right.
Some folks just don't understand rugby...replaced your missing turkey leg.
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# | Housework Thread, or What you did on the last Saturday w/o Football Got fucked up.
I expected this...
Disassembled, transported and reassembled a universal workout machine that a friend gave to us (which made me too tired to actually use it, god DAMN those pullleys), pulled out a couple small trees and dead azaleas to prep for some grass and plants that I'm putting in in a couple of weeks and currently slow cooking some lechon asado pretty much just so I can make myself Cuban sandwiches the rest of the week. Oh, and I cleaned some toilets, which was, basically, the high point of the weekend.
My first downvote... how sad. On a side note, a hooker in rugby is generally someone shorter than the two props and thus will be on their tiptoes in a scrum and much like the center is responsible for starting the ball back towards their team, thus the comparison between Wang and a hooker.
No problem man. I can throw together a 2015 thread in the next couple of weeks. I'll make sure to create it as a forum topic.
Derrick Henry will be that guy, but not for our game
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9177943/derrick-henry-ala...
Enjoyed a day of vacation.
So many broken tackles by Upchurch & Ingram. :(
Went to a wedding. Drank copiously.
It was like training camp for my liver.
Ok, let's take away the argument of whether he is or is not teaching how to get away with illegal chop blocks. I believe he is based on my friend's first hand account and PJ having a history following him throughout his coaching career. You believe he doesn't.
What you and Mason are saying above is that due to his offensive scheme there is a natural byproduct of illegal chop blocks. As you say with the debate of whether he teaches kids to get away with said illegal blocking, you don't believe he does so. I say that I just do not believe that illegal chop blocking is a natural and unavoidable byproduct of his offensive scheme.
If you say that this is where the vast majority of illegal chop (high/low) blocks occur then you as a coach need to teach your players how to block legally in these circumstances. You are paid millions of dollars not to just say "oh well, that's just going to happen naturally" and let kids potentially end other kids career.
Again I am all for playing mean, aggressive football. But I am not for any type of play that may result in the ending of other kids career. There is a professional integrity you should have as a coach.
In an Era of Cut/Chop Blocking Redskins former coach, Joe Bugel, of the famed Hogs agrees:
http://www.chron.com/sports/solomon/article/Solomon-Cut-blocking-is-lega...
Legendary Washington Redskins coach Joe Bugel, whose Hogs were among the most renowned offensive lines in league history, still gets riled up when the topic of cut-blocking comes up.
"We weren't going to jeopardize a man's career by cut-blocking," Bugel said in a phone interview. "The guys I coached, guys like (Hall of Fame guard) Russ Grimm, wouldn't do that. And I wouldn't ask them to."
Bugel's aversion to cut blocks boil down to injuries and integrity.
"There is no way a guy can protect his knees against cut-blocking," Bugel said. "Keep getting cut; sooner or later you're going to be in a hospital having surgery. ...
"I think there is some integrity involved. In those days there was integrity."
I believe you can win without doing something highly dangerous to individual players and I believe you as a coach should have the integrity to not forgive such highly dangerous, illegal blocking just because it's a byproduct of your system. This is what defines a coach as legendary, Joe Bugel to a coach that should be forgotten, Paul Johnshon.
Interesting you can see former Hokie Duane Brown in that same article saying "We aren't the only team to do it." That gives me the sads.
No. Just no.
Agreed. Best pure football discussion so far for me as well.
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The face of sheer terror.
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# | Housework Thread, or What you did on the last Saturday w/o Football 
Golf and then this
Damn. I'm still having trouble finding the 4th one.
FYI: I went to sticky this to the top of the recruiting forum, but I can't because it was created as a blog post, not a forum topic. At some point I think I am going to kill off the option to create a blog post. At this point, there is no difference between a blog post and forum topic aside from the latter resides in a specific forum (which means it can be stickied). Either can be bumped to the front page.
Since the 2014 cycle is cooling down, this is fine. However, StinyFTL if you want to take the lead on creating the "Official 2015 Recruiting Cycle Thread", post it in the recruiting forum, and I will make sure it is stickied.
Sorry it took me so long to respond here, between work, house work, website work, and shipping shirts my life has been hectic.
I sticked this at the top of the forum topics list.
Not quite perfectly, there was a small section that was showing the wrong image. Hard to tell from a distance, but pretty obvious up close (read: band seats). It'll just take some tweaking to get it 100% accurate
theres nothing on the back yet. the video board is working perfectly though lacking paneling on the sides. it was playing highlight videos during the welcome back picnic this afternoon
I went and laughed my ass off at this guy.
Where did you see the Alabama star ranking break out?
