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Is this bad this makes me extremely mad? I hate being underestimated. Just makes me want #beatbama more than ever.
Am I suprised? No. Just more surprised that it took them that long to say, "Um, yeah, we committed major violations with Chip Kelly," and then I realized this is the NCAA who had to investigate themselves for the way they investigated Miami.
So I'll just say #goncaa.
I realize Louisville is seen as a rising program, but I cannot imagine The Frankinator and company backing away from a challenge against Alabama simply because of Logan Thomas.
I know we all like to bash UVA, but I couldn't help but notice this from UVA's equipment account:
Thinking of our friends at @vtfbequipment today #April16 #Anniversary #Lester— UVA Equipment (@UVAEquipment) April 16, 2013
As for 4/16/07 itself, I still remember exactly where and what I was doing. This has been an emotional week for me...New River Valley Mall where I take night class at New River's satellite site, then the Boston Marathon, and the anniversary of 4/16/07. It is sometime tough to keep things in perspective when my cynicism wants to take over.
Obviously that means the list only shows the top 38, and they had less than 1200. But we already knew that.
Mostly pulling it from asses, as far as I can tell:
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/4/16/4230980/spring-game-a...
UVA is not even mentioned.
Edit: Fun fact - if you Google "uva 2013 spring game attendance" the second result is this thread: http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2013/april/8/there-were-many-fans-uvas...
You know how to tell if a kid is damned good in highlight tape? No arrows pointing them out. They are every bit of the highlight. Lawdy.
Are they even going to have 50k seats open to the public? Much less 60k. I seem to remember large sections of Lane being roped off in spring games past.
Also, where are these numbers from? Usually they do attendance figures based on ticket sales, but there's no tickets to ours (unless I'm REALLY missing something). Nebraska sold tickets to their Red-White game for $10: http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=206194072
*anxiously awaits a hilarious Box photoshop of this*
I drove back to campus that morning from a weekend at home and getting back to my dorm room in Cochrane, looking out the window facing WAJ I noticed at least 5 cop cars outside parked on the grass outside the door. I thought nothing of it and went to eat breakfast at D2. I walked across the drill field and was walking into Pamplin when I first heard the police sirens. It was only 3 of us in the classroom in the beginning until other students in the atrium were forced into our classroom by other professors. It was then we found out we were on lockdown. We had to turn on the TV hanging on the wall to WDBJ7 just to find out what was going on. After spending 2 hours in lockdown I remember walking across the drill field and I explicitly remember it was an unseasonably cold and windy day. Maybe the last real cold day before the semester ended. Strange how you remember stuff like that.
Well the thing is, London's only been there since 2010 and they actually had a good (for them) season in 2011 going 8-5. London has been able to spark promise and potential because of that year, which has helped him recruiting. They went 4-8 last year and if they do that again, then he won't really have that promise/potential pitch to recruit with. Furthermore, he'll probably get fired if they have a repeat of last year.
I'd still be concerned no matter how poorly they play this year. Look at the season they had last year. And 2010. And 2009. And 2008. And then remember they still somehow bring in the recruits.
And for those who have never heard it, this is worth a listen as well. It's the Marching Virginians playing Amazing Grace, specially arranged to honor the victims of April 16th. There are 2 things you should note. The first is the 4 odd sounding chords you hear in the middle. Those are 4 chords of 8 different notes to represent the 32 fallen Hokies. The second thing is at the end is a baritone solo in honor of Ryan "Stack" Clark who was a tone in the MVs.
Nebraska has the biggest spring game crowd so far at 60,174, while Kentucky is second at 50,831.//U hear that #HokieNation?? Let's roll Sat— Shane Beamer (@CoachSBeamer) April 16, 2013
challenge accepted.
Let UVa's season speak for itself before you start to worry about kids going there.
London will get fired and loluva commits like Nnadi* will decommit and come to us.
*If he commits there
What got me through that time was the outpouring of support that the entire world had for us. I remember walking into Squires and just welling up at the sight of the gifts, cards, mementos that everyone had sent us. There was a card in GBJ written by a first grader that completely broke me down.
When I look back, I choose to remember how we came together as a community during this time and how the entire world embraced us. To me, this is what defines our university.
Yeah I have; I was posing it more as a rhetorical question. I don't know how your'e supposed to tackle him.
Best High School film I've ever seen. Bar none.
...and Columbine...and Oklahoma City. Unfortunately. April has become a month of tragedy.
Shouldn't be too hard of a decision: lose with your buddies and regress as a talent OR go to your pop's alma mater, win while further developing your talents under the best DC in the country, and play on what will be a FILTHY DL?
Even though I had long since graduated...I have a niece who was there in 2007 and I make sure to touch base with her every anniversary. I ran my 3.2 miles today for the 32...just like every year until I can't....
I was just thinking about that. Am I only person that gets pissed off about this? It's possible that our NC trophy case wouldn't be empty if teams weren't cheating. I mean i'm sure there are other schools that haven't been caught, hell who knows if we've done some things in the past or whatever. But it still bothers me knowing that it seems we've been doing it the right way and deserve a NC more than some of these other teams that are cutting corners.
I agree. Spring game attendance numbers are sketchy at best.
We just need to make Lane look as full as possible. That's what I take from this. Because the fuller it looks, the bigger "estimate" we get.
Also, UVA is not on that list because they "did not release attendance figures." Ha.
http://www.ukathletics.com/blog/2013/04/uk-second-in-early-spring-game-a...