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Correct.

I freaking LOVED that helmet. Nothing could be worse than the ones we wore against UVA/BC

It's a slippery slope from a war memorial helmet, to a torgersen helmet, to a math empo helmet. The 2015 uni's will just be a campus map.

Jesse Aniebonam is announcing his decision tonight. Extremely heavy UMD lean but Hokies are in the top five.

See also also: "UVA still sucks"

Don't forget Stinespring vs.Loefller

As far as clipping goes, I don't think they teach their smaller athletes to illegally clip defender. I think that it's just a statistically inevitability that it'll happen more frequently when you ask your players to do it on basically every play.

It's a pretty simple rule. Don't cut block from outside the tackle box back towards the center of the field and don't cut block people from behind in any situation. The fact that these guys keep doing it is an indication that CPJ is teaching them to do it and instructing them to do it.

Here's a perfect example of illegal outside-in cut block from the 2009 game. At 2:53 watch #24 come outside-in and cut block Kam Chancellor to spring Nesbitt for a long run. This same gain could have been realized if Dwyer had blocked Chancellor straight up and #24 and straight up blocked the guy that Dwyer ends up screening out of the play.

www.youtube.com/embed/yLzYtczNfKY?t=2m53s

At 3:13 in the same video, you see a perfectly legal crack back where the WR comes in and blocks Chancellor high instead of illegally cut blocking him outside-in. Result? Another big gain (+TD) for Nesbitt. No illegal blocking needed.

The point is that CPJ teaches his players to play dirty and to break the rules and execute dangerous blocks when they don't have to in order to get in the head of defenders and make them hesitant - and/or injure key defenders to get them off the field.

If you can't win by playing within the rules you're a failure. If you break the rules in a way that causes repeated injuries to 18-22 year olds, putting their careers at risk, you're an asshole. Fuck Paul Johnson

Yep, I definitely almost got pneumonia after that one. In addition, my usual football game intensity + shouting against a hurricane = no voice for an extra few days. I was in the South that night, right near field level, so the wind and rain were in our faces the entire night. It was epic.

Wow, even my gutter-dwelling-thats-what-she-said mind found anything wrong with that statement. Now I can't unsee it.

3.) Photo Booth Beamer

What killed us in the game against Bama in '09 were mistakes on Special Teams. Yes, the saving grace that got things rolling was the long Kick Return for a TD to flip the game from 6-0 to 6-7 but there were two botched catches deep in our territory that Bama capitalized on. Ryan Williams was playing in his first game I believe, much like Edmunds will be so I think that should be considered a push.

Roc Carmichael / Stephan Virgil / Jayron Hosley vs Kendall / Brandon Facyson / Kyle Fuller: Roc, Virgil and Hosley were all studs, all had 6+ int seasons, and for this game only Hosley wasnt experienced yet. Kendall & Facyson may be very talented, but we've never seen them in a game situation. Everyones excited about Facyson for his recovery speed after missing his coverage, but what about when he faces a talented and experienced WR who he cant recover against? And as much as I love Kyle Fuller, he's probably better suited as a saftey at the next level and doesnt create a lot of turnovers.

Tyrod Taylor vs Logan Thomas: Logan might still have a higher ceiling athletic ceiling, but Tyrod was by far the better college QB. Logan put up better passing yards, but also had 150-200 more attempts per year. Tyrods YPA was better, Tyrod made fewer mistakes and gave a chance on every play to be a huge gain. Logan might be a more consistent runner, but hes not going to win a big game with his feet. Besides, most damning of all, Tyrod had to work with Stinespring as sole OC. And while Logan had to deal with OCain and OCainspring, both were an upgrade of Stiney alone.