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Underrated reference. Take your leg.
Do a manta ray night snorkel if you can!
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# | The 2026 Hokie Hype Train is now boarding. Make sure to secure your seat before we depart! As if way too early rankings used to be meaningless now with the stupidity of the portal I think they truly are a fools guess anymore. That said im here for the hype and excitement so LFG
Just did a Durango/Moab trip with my parents - Mesa Verde was sadly closed due to the government shutdown, but Utah paid to keep the mighty 5 open. We all agreed that Canyonlands was a much better park than Arches.
You're thinking Valles Caldera near Los Alamos. Bandelier is right there, too. There's supposed to be a great pizza place in Jemez Springs, but I can't remember the name off the top of my head.
Judge already denied the TRO on him entering portal. Duke was required to enter him. The rest will get sorted later.
Oh and here is a "shocking" piece.
Mensah is represented by Darren Heitner.
/s
PF is ~3 hours west of ABQ
I'm based in Santa Fe and have been doing some 4 corners region exploring over the last year and a half, if you want any suggestions
Kind of a lose-lose for Duke.
If they win, they are gifted a pissed-off QB who doesn't want to be there.
If they lose, then Mensah and Miami get their way and Duke is essentially SOL and SNIL...
It almost seems like it was reasonable to have sit-out rules with transfers so that teams couldn't blatantly tamper with others, particularly in their own conference.
One "free" transfer seems reasonable...after that there should be some penalty for future transfers.
Going to quote myself here, because not to overstate things but I think it's one of the best things I've ever said on this site:
They never should've taken down the empty trophy case in Merryman. I know, I know - it was a source of ridicule within the fanbase as well as without. But I loved that shit. It took balls to put that there. It showed what the goal was. It showed what the expectations were. It said "Hey, we've been here before. We expect to be back."
Time to put the case back in.
Side note - I used to really like Bud Davis. But this was the laziest take I've ever seen:
People who follow analytics and recruiting have been completely baffled by it.
IDK if Lazy is even the right word. It's conspiratorial, unfounded, and just utterly stupid. It completely ignores that reality that:
- IU has top 10-15 NIL/House budget. They beat Miami out for Mendoza, so clearly they can land guys other teams want.
- Average age of IU player is 23.5 I think (I heard this on a podcast, have not verified). In most cases, a 23 year old day 3 draft pick is going to beat out the 19 year old 5-star. Everyone recognizes that this is a thing in college basketball. There's no reason it wouldn't be a thing in college football.
I personally love watching athletic shit shows go on at other ACC universities, this one is a nice distraction from the reality show that is UNC football
Duke is suing Mensah.
https://www.on3.com/news/duke-university-sues-qb-darian-mensah-to-keep-h...
I'd probably have thin skin too if they were talking like this.
Yea, I'm familiar with his semi-decade rankings. The move to make a new tier for Bama was heavily recency-biased IMO. I would also break his kings/barrons group up.
But same idea.
In fairness, our offseason started almost 2 months ago
"we fought the law and...The Law won"
Not even 24 hours into the offseason and we're already starting the "who's a blue blood" discussion. Never change, TKP.
I wrote before that VT was Indiana before (except we didnt finish the deal).
Our 1999 team was a remarkable story in its own right. We couldn't return because the system was still the system.
The difference is no one was looking at a VT model to copy because we were such an aberration.
Now, everyone is looking at Indiana because the system is destroyed.
(And throw in some karma that dumbass fsu and clemson sued their way out of relevance and a guaranteed share of BCS $$..... idiots.)
So, yes we have a shot.
That is what I want for our team.
< 50%
Stewart Mandel does this reordering every five years now on The Athletic, his most recent version was back in 2022. It had:
Emperors: Untouchably dominant
Alabama
Kings: Powerful entities
Clemson
Georgia
LSU
Michigan
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Texas
USC
New king: Georgia
Lost their kingdoms: Florida, Florida State, Miami, Penn State
Barons: Second-tier rulers
Auburn
Florida
Florida State
Iowa
Miami
Michigan State
Nebraska
Oregon
Penn State
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Wisconsin
New baron: Iowa
Lost their fiefdoms: Stanford, UCLA, Virginia Tech
Knights: Fighting for honor and glory
Arizona State
Arkansas
Baylor
BYU
Cal
Georgia Tech
Kansas State
Kentucky
Louisville
Minnesota
Mississippi State
Missouri
North Carolina
NC State
Northwestern
Oklahoma State
Ole Miss
Pittsburgh
South Carolina
Stanford
TCU
Texas Tech
UCLA
Utah
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Washington
New Knights: Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi State
Lost their knighthood: Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Syracuse, Virginia
Peasants: The working class
Everyone else in the P4
Keep in mind, this is from 2022. Some would've moved up, some down. His next article is in 2027.
Thoughts on who would be moving if he were writing it this spring?
I knew Shelton was Deablo Fan Account. I feel very validated.
What was Indiana's blue chip ratio?
I get holding a
playeremployeeperson receiving money to a contract but this has to be a really bad look to any player doing an NIL deal with Duke dragging this out like this. Again I get it but the fact that this is not happening everywhere suggests its the language in whatever he signed and either was ill advised on his part or a dirty move by Duke.