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fernleyhokie's picture fernleyhokie
🌏MAN OF MYSTERY🕵
| 12 years 11 months # | Second Public Scrimmage: Mason's Take

No worries man. I respect your opinion and respectfully disagree. I certainly understand all your points and agree with most.

It was a good convo though and lots of great points back and forth. Turkey leg for you good sir.

hokieViRUS's picture hokieViRUS | 12 years 11 months # | The First Uniform Hint of the Year

FUCK!

Matte maroon helmet white war logo. Right?

They had best NOT think it will be ok to change the helmet for #ame.

GAH!

Mason Naumann's picture Mason Naumann | 12 years 11 months # | Second Public Scrimmage: Mason's Take

they try to have the C or OG run past the DT toward the LB's, while an OT or the other OG does a cut block into the side of the DT's leg. Paul Johnson coaches his OL to execute that block regardless of whether the DT is engaging the man across from him, resulting in many more chop blocks than any other team.

Exactly this.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's flirty with the line of dirty at all. The defense doesn't get to dictate to the offense what blocking techniques they can deploy. If an olinemen has no intendtion to engage with a defender, but the defender hits him anyways, how is it the offenses fault when the defender gets cut block by a olinemen? The cutter knows his assignment pre-snap, and has to cut block the defender as quickly as possible. He simply doesn't have time to assess whether or not the defender is engaged with anyone else.

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.

I see why someone would consider Paul Johnson's tactics dirty, but I don't. If his players executed his game plan perfectly, then they'd never have any chop blocks on them. Of course, no team executes 100 percent perfectly, and when they screw it up they should be adequately punished.

2HokiesIn1's picture 2HokiesIn1
PICK 6 BIG SHOOTS
| 12 years 11 months # | The First Uniform Hint of the Year

Agreed. I love the idea of a War Memorial badge on the back of the helmet (it's my favorite/most important place on campus, even over Lane) but I shudder to think what a helmet featuring it would look like.

8300A_Hokie'12's picture 8300A_Hokie'12
🏝NO BAD DAYS🏖🤙
| 12 years 11 months # | The First Uniform Hint of the Year

Please. Make it stop. I'm ok with honoring War with the small logo. But all we need is the classic VT. Why must we keep experimenting with things...

HokiesFTW123's picture HokiesFTW123 | 12 years 11 months # | 2013-14 Hokies Basketball schedule released

I wouldn't be surprised if they get at least one upset over a team like UVA or Miami at home. But I think winning 14 games would be an accomplishment this season, unfortunately.

deathrow821's picture deathrow821 | 12 years 11 months # | 2013-14 Hokies Basketball schedule released

We have 8 winnable non-conference games. In ACC play I don't see us doing better than the 4 we had last year and wouldn't be surprised if we ended up with 1 or 0. These next few years are going to be rough.

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