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12 years 11 months
# | Wright Thompson (the best writer in sports, IMO) showing us some twitter love this morning He's clearly so excited about Hokie football that he can't type correctly!
Leave it to Alabama fans to include the word Hate in their VT related hastags..
Yea just like players aren't supposed to get paid, yet every major program pays their players outright. I'm talking reality here, not outdated rules; they can't regulate the internet and monitor/trace every tweet. Besides, that rule is intended for fans with power (money), not average joes like me - like I said, reality here.
If tweeting at players is a violation then expect every major program to be on probation in the next coming years, fans of every team do it.
So if Mom wants their son to go to a specific school, they automatically become a booster and are in violation? If thats the case, then every coach in CF is a booster.
Is that addressed in the article? Haven't had time to read it yet.
I like the whites in this case. Getting in their heads early!!
Looking for reason to hate Va Tech? They are the home team and wearing white, thus not allowing us to wear our all-whites. #VaTechHateMonth— Hunter Johnson (@HunterLJohnson) August 14, 2013
Totally agree with my fellow CPA
What just happened??
And why did i notice that the dog is using a tie clip, that's classy!
It is in fact a violation. Read the following article: http://www.sportsgrid.com/ncaa-football/tweeting-recruits-ncaa-violation/
As soon as you contact a recruit and try to persuade them to come to your school, you automatically become a booster because you are helping a recruit come to a specific institution, [Oklahoma State assistant athletic director of compliance Ben] Dyson said. Boosters arent allowed to recruit prospective student-athletes.
That's a solid projection for our season given what we know right now. A five day preparation week for GT... and we play them in Atlanta.... that's not good. Miami will be tough to win on the road too. But besides GT, I think the toughest ACC game is going to be UNC even though we get them in Lane. The diehard VT fan inside me says we are going to play hard against Alabama and pull of a huge upset (given we are due for one, especially one of these big openers). But, the rational side of me is saying that even if we play well, Alabama still has more talent and more depth. If we play Alabama hard and don't make stupid mistakes then I will be somewhat happy. But like anyone else, I'm looking for Tech to win and will be upset if we fall short for another big opening game.
I pretty much agree with everyone on this. 9-3, hopefully either win the ACCCG or the bowl game and get us back to 10 wins (winning both would be awesome too)
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12 years 11 months
# | Wright Thompson (the best writer in sports, IMO) showing us some twitter love this morning Is it just me, or am I reading these tweets wrong? "The hair is standing on my air?" "If after this video, you are digging around the basement for pads and a helmet, you've got no pulse?" Best writer in sports?
The best writer in sports is a hokie fan that doesn't know how to spell! Oh No!
Why is it a bad idea as long as you keep things respectable? There's definitely no violation in fans tweeting at players - no violation whatsoever. I tweet at some from time to time; I don't continue to tweet at the same one over and over but when I hear of a new target, I'll send him a quick #hokienation tweet and I don't see what's wrong with that. It's cool to be able to gauge where we stand based off their reactions.
Brady Taylor even indicated "twitter love" played a role during his recruitment.
And Seinfeld of course.
FWIW, usually the uniform is picked by the team during game week. So I'll temper any expectations of what they will wear. Still plenty of time for that. And for a game this big, they will make an announcement of some sort so visiting fans can wear the same color.
The NCAA is going to have migraines trying to keep up with social media, especially these self-destructing Snapchat things. I don't know what all the rules are, but I think there are limits on contact between people representing schools (coaches, etc) via Facebook, Twitter, texting, etc. How does one then trace and account for messages that disappear in seconds?
usually in these cases, wang will swell.
I guess I can live with that. When you said the players liked orange, I started to get really scared we would actually wear orange against Alabama. At least we know that won't happen
Our last Wang was bigger.
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12 years 11 months
# | Wright Thompson (the best writer in sports, IMO) showing us some twitter love this morning 16 days....
Yeah I'm no NCAA rulebook expert but I'm not real big on this
I bet mama giraffe is convulsing over the fact that Miami isn't ranked but the Hokies are.
I love our defense. LOVE IT. And by that time, Antone will be back. But Miami will score a lot of points this year.
Man, I can tell ya that nothing stings worse than a sore Wang.
I honestly don't have a problem with all white, I think those jerseys look sick, and this way it doesn't give the players the opportunity to wear orange
Just my $0.02, but I'd prefer to leave the recruiting to the professionals....