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Getting more predictions our way now. I think him taking his time may work in our favor, since other holes will fill. OSU is tight on scholarships, FSU is loaded at DT (per previous post), so PSU may be our biggest challenge now. I think if walker jumps our way, we could snag Nnadi and have a nice D front. Nnadi is getting a lot of props, he could move up a star by Feb.

Looks like Brown had a good visit at OSU, lots of predictions have him heading to play for Meyer. We may have lost him.

Looks like Stroman may be in at UVA.

nah that aint exum's number that is Macho Harris' number...wink...wink.

i work for dish and this is definitely correct. its easy to say that the ala carte system would be better and for a select few it would be, but they avg person wouldnt end up saving anything in the long run and would sacrifice the variety that they currently enjoy

I have worked for DirecTV for a little over 10 years now and the a la carte idea was kicked around about 3-4 years ago and it was squashed by the big 3 (direcTV, dish and comcast) for several reasons. One of the biggest would obviously be that they all would probably go out of business or the selection of channel options would decrease dramatically.

The providers pay BILLIONS of dollars for the programming that they distribute and make that money back from you paying your $70-100 a month for your programming. If you decided to go a la carte you would pay $15-20 a month for a basic package with QVC, the weather channel, and your terrestrial channels (local channels) and pay a service fee for each additional channel, pretty much making every channel like HBO. The providers would still have to pay the huge broadcasting fees to each network to make sure they stayed competitive with the other providers but they would lose their asses for channels like the Game Show Network, where 99% of us would not pay for that channel if given the option. This would either cause the channel to go off the air, providers to go belly up or pass those charges for the BS channels through other means- charge you a little more for ESPN or NFL network to pay for Discovery Health.

These channels would in the beginning start out at a few dollars a piece and would possibly go to a "pick 5" type package. Sounds great in theory right? If you currently have HBO think about how much extra it was 10 years ago..like 6 or 7 bucks. Now I think it's up to $16-$20 a month depending on the provider, and there hasn't been a new Real Sex episode since like 1995! This is what would happen for every single channel that starts to pick up a larger volume of customers- demand dictates the individual pricing increases. ESPN wouldn't give a damn about you personally they would just try to raise their asking price to the service providers which of course is passed along to you and I...before you know it to have your 5-8 precious channels you would be paying just a few dollars less than you are now and having a huge variety to chose from.

One last thing this would do is prevent the new upstart channels from forming. Everyone on this board has probably watched something on Spike! and thought about how great of a channel it is. Spike! would have never been created under this model because no one would pay for a channel they know nothing about and a provider isn't going to pay millions of dollars for a channel that no one is buying.

Sorry I know this was long winded and a little all over the place but I hope you get the general idea of what I was trying to say.

the only place i want foster to even possibly take over is this place. would be a sad sad day in blacksburg if we ever lost him

i enjoy river mill a lot. bull and bones isnt really my scene either just because im on the younger side of people on here i think at 25. most of the times that ive been to bull and bones its been mostly people over 30 not a problem with that at all just not where my friends end up. river mill, pks, big als, hokie house those are my main stops

no no no there must be some mistake (make coy look at ms kensington) danger is my user name.

Here are some pictures I got of the new supports. It's hard to get a good angle because I can't get onto the practice field.

yeah i've never brought it up because everybody on here loves tots but i'm with you, frat city. not that i have anything against anyone who's been in a frat, just not my scene when it's en masse. give me the rivermill or bull and bones. my wife likes macados so we go there a lot. we go to the underground a lot of times if we're barhopping on gameday mainly because you can usually get a seat pretty easy. i suspect that may have something to do with the shitty service.

NO WAY! My friends are going to Avon, I think Sept 14-21. I'll be a few weeks into the fall semester at that point, but still might make it down for a long weekend.

This is why I avoid many of the downtown bars in State College. Someone asked me if I wanted to go to this one dive bar the other day and I responded with, "I think I'm too old for that place".