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Thanks for the help. I like the new look. I could understand ncaa 14 missing that, but I can't understand why there are still numbers over the stripes on our orange jerseys and why our facemasks are gray.
I'd rather beat OSU in the title game. Yea, I left out the "t", do something about it.
It was the year after they had what I believe was the greatest college football team ever. So a lot of carry overs were still left. Just think about this, their tight ends that year were Kellen Winslow, Kevin Everett, and Greg Olsen. Three future NFL tight ends, two of which ended up being pretty damn good.
Can we beat TAMU instead in the NCG? I'd love to see the #LunchpailD annhiliate Johnny Football.
Considering the Hokie Bird is standing on an elephant, that shirt is predicting a party change for Obama as well. Who new the shirt was so political?
I didn't take it as a slight at Loeffler, but Cutcliffe and Lefty have developed many of the premier passers currently in the NFL. I think the debate is more than reasonable, (except for Cutcliffe not really being available) and I think both could completely enhance VT's stagnant offense. Just look how good Tenessee and Ole Miss were with Cutcliffe at the helm and how well they've done since. Duke was pretty much a doormat and now Cutcliffe has them respectable. My only concern with Cutcliffe would be that he has been so accomplished that he has reached a complacency. It's almost like he's retired and just happy to coach up a mediocre team.
I just hope Lefty is the answer VT needs for their offense. I have a feeling we're going to be pretty happy campers for the next few years.
love how he tosses the ball to the hokie bird after the TD.
Hahaha that one got me, I noticed too and thought who could hate on that
I'd rather #BEATBAMA, embarrass LOLUVA, destroy CLEMPSON (lets be honest, as of late, I dislike Clem more than I do FSU) in the ACCCG and win the NCG over an SEC opponent (preferably UGA)
That would be my dream season right now.
I dismiss the premise of the question. Losing is not an option.
I believe that was a casualty of them moving to the B1G. Unless we move one of the OOC games, we have a full schedule. I wouldn't mind us moving W&M or Western Michigan. But alas, it was removed.
Hokiesports.com does not show it any more. Full 12-game schedule, no Maryland.
money paid out to executives = expense, revenue - expenses = profit.
all a non-profit means is that they spend everything so they have no profit. It doesn't mean that you can't make money and pocket it.
sorry that was a typo, i meant expense. and exactly what 757hokie said, sure all profit gets donated but you get to control profit.
Again I think 757 is exactly right, same argument from 2 different sides. At any rate the NCAA makes a TON of revenue off these kids. If we you think a scholarship is fair enough compensation for that then fine. In most sports I would agree, but in football, it truly is a minor league system for the NFL. I think that adds a lot of weight to the pro compensating athletes argument. Either way its a MESS to figure out.
EVERY fan want to protect the house that night. It was magical.
I was a junior in high school and my uncle had tickets on the front row behind the Miami bench. The atmosphere was what every VT home game should aspire to be. There are three things I will always remember from this game:
1. Hall's strip for a TD (happened right in front of me)
2. Being cussed out by Sean Taylor (scared me, a 16yr old, to death)
3. This play...
However, you can pocket it through wages; there's creative ways around everything. If one categorizes work done towards something as "for the cause" then one can pocket that money and classify it as "for the cause." Like I said earlier, technicalities vs reality.
Edit: Not sure if this necessarily applies to the NCAA. Just speaking from experience - I worked non-profit before.
I agree. Losing to LOLUVA is not a option.
I miss the plain maroon jerseys that didn't have the stripes on the shoulders. Those were pretty solid
Oh man, I don't want to turn this into something not related to football...
But I can't help myself.
money paid out to executives = revenue, revenue - expenses = profit.
Money paid to executives = expense. Think about it this way, if you hire a secretary to answer your phones, is her salary an expense or revenue? It's an expense. Whether or not you make any money that week, you'll have to pay her what she's earned. Similarly, the salaries of the NCAA executives are expenses.
all a non-profit means is that they spend everything so they have no profit.
This is not true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization
A non-profit is an organization which uses whatever "profit" it had at the end of the year and donates it towards a cause, whether that be cancer research or college athletic programs. It has NOTHING to do with how much money an organization makes, but rather with HOW IT SPENDS the extra money at the end of the year. There are tons of business that lose money every year, but they don't get non-profit tax privileges.
In short
Profit sent to shareholders=For profit
Profit sent to "cause"= Non-profit.
It doesn't mean that you can't make money and pocket it.
Actually that's exactly what it means.
As long as both options include us beating UVA, I could handle either outcome.
Does our victory over Bama keep them out of the national title? Does it end the SEC streak? I may take some sort of sick glee in that...
I hate the first option more. But I'd hate to lose another BCS bowl. But I'd like to win the ACC and keep the streak alive.
I hate the first option more.
I think both of you are right in different ways. You're just debating about different things: technicalities and PR vs. reality and public perception. That's what I'm gathering at least.
If athletes are gonna be paid because they are in EA's NCAA games, i would like to be paid as well because the guy that sits in my seat in Lane Stadium, on that same game looks like me and has the same likeness, and makes the same repetitive movements i do.