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Think about it though, how many people would go to a women's soccer game on a Wednesday night? Even if it is just to scan in and leave. The only ones I can think of are the ones who really want to get basketball or football tickets.
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Apparently I still didn't get to everybody... Some still seem to want to focus on the negatives. I think if we take these positives and build on them, our team won't be great -- heck, maybe not even that good -- but we should be able to pick it up. Starting Saturday.
I don't believe that all these high-powered offenses operate with absolute precision drive after drive, game after game. I think they just have a simplified effective system that allows for a greater margin of error.
My brother went to UMD, literally would walk in, scan for his points, and walk out. Is that really a better system then the lottery?
Please take this down it wont help anything and will only be a distraction from a coach who has a lot on his hands right now.
One redeeming thing I can say about the lottery is that its completely unbiased. Totally random. If that's not fair, what is? Almost every system that you'd implement would favor Upperclassmen. Maybe that's not a bad thing, but who are We to make that call? I never had to deal with the lottery because I cheered, but imagine if you didn't get to go to a game until your Junior year. From what I hear, they were giving away tickets to the Austin Peay & Bowling Green games the Thursday and Friday before those games.
In the end, I don't think the lottery system is the problem. Give students a better product on the field and they'll show up/stay.
As far as basketball goes, unless something has changed, you can go right after tip off and show your student ID and they'll let you in on the side of Cassel.
The young guys will make mistakes, but they'll also give 100% effort all the time. There's simply no excuse for seniors like Roberts and Davis to be dogging it on the field.
Do you honesty think that calling up Curt Newsome on his office phone or e-mailing him with your two cents while he's trying to prepare his line to play on Saturday is going to change anything?
If so, then you're an idiot.
In just about any offensive system, if you have a guy blowing an assignment it's going to mean trouble. Maybe if he's on the other side of the field from where the play is being run, it doesn't matter. Or if your QB, RB or WR is athletic enough to make the free defender miss, the play can still succeed. But by and large, for an offense to be effective you have to have everyone doing their job a very high percentage of the time. It's really not going to make a whole lot of difference what system you're running.
That said, I do think French makes a great point about some of our blocking schemes being too difficult. I hope we simplify those going forward as well as employ more straight man-on-man blocking at times.
"lack of marquee big games" . . .Listen up ya spoiled whippersnapper . . . it is only in recent history that one could even use "marquee" and Va Tech in the same sentence. And, that is the problem. Class of 2014 . . . so I am guessing you were born approx. 1992. So, your entire Va Tech exposure has been with Beamer as the coach. Several of us here are reminiscing about the time before Beamer and his first year or so (see comments that include the use of the terms "quarters" and that is not in any way relating to a drinking game . . .). At that time, nobody talked about "marquee" games. We worried if we would win homecoming. We camped out for tickets to the games . . for a team that wasn't necessarily winning. There were only 2 sides to Lane Stadium (no end zone seats), a mediocre press box. There was no "Enter Sandman" (which debuted about the time you were born). There was "all dirt roads lead to Va Tech" (a jest used by UVa students to Tech students, the standard retort being "all white lines lead to Charlottesville"). No one was choosing Tech because of prominence in a particular sport, you chose Tech because that was where your family had gone, or the campus was spectacular in October; it sure wasn't about "marquee" games.
A fan is a fan regardless of the success of the team and certainly, most definitely, without regard for "marquee" games. Stop being some sort of elitist looking for a reason to support your team and support your team simply because they are your team. And, if you can't find any friends who want to go regardless of the opponent, the time, the weather or whatever other pansy-ass reason you can conjur, then find new friends.
I save my unfounded, conspiratorial speculation for conference realignment/SEC expansion anyway.
A lot of sour grapes lately. its football. Its the Hokies. We'll love em.
I try to look at it from the ACC's point of view as a whole, not just Tech's. Also, I know a lot of people don't go to games, or all of them, but as a season ticket holder, I'd rather play Marshall at home than Syracuse on the road.
Also, don't just think of the schedule negatively. It could also turn out to be BCS opponent, Notre Dame, ECU, and Liberty some years. And when you schedule a BCS opponent, they require a return game. That is hard to pull when you also have 5 away games in conference. I'm just personnaly a fan of 4 home 4 away. Same every year.
Gotcha! Thanks for the response. #ALLMAROONEVERYTHING
Except TCU has gone to a more up tempo spread than Baylor. I picked them for a reason. They maintain the integrity of the run game without it being pure spread option like most of the Big 12. And they've worked a system around turning average players into great teams. Sound familiar? Also, if you want pro-style with spread looks, Texas just got Boise State's old OC. But this was supposed to be realistic, so I didn't mention him above.
VT Football Equipment tweeted that they got some new gear but can't say what it is. We can only hope for #ALLMAROONEVERYTHING since we know they are wearing Maroon Saturday for UNC's White Out.
Sorry if I'm missing something, but what do you mean by "new gear?" I just searched all the usual hokies sites and I didn't see anything about new gear.
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I never understood the fascination with Bilson.
I'm too bitter to look on the bright side. If you want to hear all the positives just watch Beamer's post game interviews, theyre full of em'. We need to fix our inconsistency before we move forward as a football team in my opinion.
And yea Rachel Bilson is very hot, Ted should definitely marry her instead of her roommate.
Sorry for the HIMYM reference.
I really like Jarret at safety just because he's been making a lot of plays for us there. I'd leave him and Fuller where they are. If anything I'd switch Bonner and Exum, and we may see some of that this week, Bud mentioned Bonner was getting reps at corner to build depth. We've played a lot of man-to-man coverage, and the experience just isn't there.
I think Cole's played hard, but he's been a liability in coverage. I think the Nickel look, but why not keep the base personel and just use RVD and the extra guy in coverage? He's got a good sense of what's going on around him, and has the skills to fly around to support the run, after he's dropped back in coverage.
in the 12-game setup, we're playing (all) 5 division opponents and 3 cross-division opponents (1 fixed, 2 rotating through the other 5).
When the league expands to 14, I'd like to see us play 5 of 6 division opponents and 3 cross-division opponents (1 fixed, 2 rotating through the other 6) each year, rather than 6 of 6 division opponents, and only 2 cross-division teams. Ideally we'd see a simple 5-3 split but about the only thing the ACC press release said clearly was that cross-division rivals will remain the same.
I'd be willing to sacrifice one blowout of UVA every 6th year to play FSU, GT, Clemson, UMD, NC State, Wake Forest, and Syracuse more than once per 6 years.