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# | Bitter blog - Mailbag: Oh-so-many OL questions, helmet designs and offensive wrinkles 1) I love the Fab5 moniker. I'm not worried that they're not all highly rated. The moniker brings with it expectations, and I hope they'll work to maximize the meaning of Fab5 while they're here.
2) I don't agree with the point about Notre Dame. Alabama regularly destroys other teams when they have time to prepare for them.
Also, what happened with the receiving corps? I heard there was trouble but I haven't heard anything else. Apparently one WR is gone and Caleb is suspended for a game? What's going on our there?
We also need an exceptionally good gunner, like Tweedy.
Right on. Very cool you guys have them! Be sure to hang that flag right in front of the WVU flag. Haha! :)
Absolutely. It feels like some our kicks that got "blocked" were really bad snaps or under par execution by the punter than a true block. (Boise state is an exception)
I hope it blocks out the neers' flag! And those inflatable shelters are truly a step-up from what was used by GIs decades ago; many are now air conditioned.
I'd love to put a beat bama shirt up on that bama flag!
Horse I owe you many beers my friend, when I get back ill link up w you and we shall drink my friend!
I believe Kyle Fuller and Tony Greggory (close enough to a starter with last years rotation) were both on kick block teams in the last year or two.
I sure will!
Nope it's a tent gym
Yeah I see him too but I thought he was a TE or DE.
If that's true, that's bad news for those that make a bunch of copies of their tickets for friends to get into their section. The more tickets with your name on it, the higher chance your name makes it on the field. Guess some people would respond by saying, "Good, don't make copies and sneak people into your section then" but I've always been a fan of the 'sneak in, stand where you can and don't worry too much about the seat number on your ticket' plan.
Is this anywhere other than YouTube? All the sudden YouTube doesn't work over here, I'd love to see it to get hype!
I agree that SG doesn't deserve the heckling people continue to give him. He had the misfortune of being the guy competing with Tyrod, and since the backup QB is always the most popular player on the team (and that player happened to be a VT-Hall-of-Fame-level player), SG gets the short end of the stick.
While I don't trash him, I do enjoy the occasional joke about throwing a season-starting pick to ECU two years in a row, and I also enjoy the verb 'Glennoned' in reference to the second half of the ChikFilA Bowl against UGA.
Having said that, yeah, "History will look upon him more favorably," than we ever did when he was our QB. Underappreciated.
If we play a great game and play bama tough and still lose, that has to be portrayed as a win for a team that struggled so massively. On the other hand if we pull a Boise St. and let 17 stupid points go up in the first quarter...then comeback and come so close to winning, but still lose. Then, that will be a major kick in the mouth.
This thread:
...sometimes we just want to drink the Kool-Aid.
I haven't seen us put a starting RB or WR out there to go after a punt in awhile.
There was a day when David Wilson, Boykin, Roberts, and others would be on the kick block team and not returning them. I understand why we don't do it anymore and while I would love to see it again, I don't miss it too much.
Did you notice if players that left early are listed? If so with the class they would have graduated with or with the last class they played with?
I'd say the opposite is true, I think more programs are using more first-teamers on both the punting and punt return team, since we (among others) showed how much of an impact it could have. I know for a fact we still have a couple first-teamers going after punts.
Lines/crowds formed around the Cassell ticketing office. My freshman year was the last year they did that. There were issues with class attendance and in some cases (as I recall) blocking traffic, so the school put an end to it. The lottery sucks but so did camping out (though potentially somewhat fun). All we need is a reward system in place, as has been discussed to death on this site. Score points for going to games (ticket scan takes care of that), negative points if your ticket ends up as a paper airplane. Fun fact from a friend of a friend (hopefully true): anyone whose ticket is found on the field twice gets banned from the lottery or from buying season tickets.
Quick question for all of those who were in school when students camped out for tickets. Where were the tickets distributed/where did everyone camp on campus. Somewhere around Cassell?
Just to pour some salt in the wound, the person that got the ticket that you would've enjoyed immensely probably stayed for the first quarter and bounced.
Bring back the camping out for student tickets.
My Freshman year was in 2010. I only managed to get 2 tickets all year through the Lottery. They were for ECU and Central Michigan. I dropped 35 on a student ticket (the kid across the hall actually wanted 50 for it..)to see the whole JM.....huh? managed to get a Duke ticket from a friend, and dropped a good amount on the GT ticket.
The Lottery Sucks. A lot.
You da man Horse! Seth, please post an updated pic once the situation gets rectified
Agreed. A loss, while never being a good thing, wouldn't necessarly by that bad a thing in this case. We just can't let one game determine our confidence for the rest of the season. Sometimes it helpful to step back and realize it is just one game in a long season.