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Mine shoots Cookout gift cards.

I'm doing the snowman diet this year.
The pounds just melt away.

The dysfunction from within regarding the defense also started when Pry went to VT and ended up with a power grab from within to force out their staff fresh off a Final Four appearance. Seeing how long it took them to hire someone new, and how desperate they got at the end, there is some serious rot in Happy Valley that is going to impact them for a while.

I don't blame Franklin for immediately bringing Pry back and recreating what worked best at Penn St. Get back to basics with guys he trusts and move forward. We are assembling the best collection of talent we've had in Blacksburg in probably 15 years in a conference wide open for the taking. We should all be very excited about what is going on right now.

I'm sure it's changed but in my day grandparents in VA did not help at all. There were so many things to do that it became impossible in 4 years for me to do.

I heard from a #sauce that something big is coming for recruiting. I heard Whit and Franklin have been working on something related to a recruit and have been since last night. I didn't get more information than that, so keep on your toes TKP.

Yes but FCS schools are more likely to recruit a specific footprint that is relatively close to campus so requires shorter trips.

FBS coaches that are allowed to recruit off campus are forced to go on longer trips if they are recruiting nationwide so seems like having fewer to do it would be a bigger problem. The on campus stuff I agree that FBS has the major advantage with additional coaching and staff. Also seems odd to have them be a different number at all.

May want to look into declaring residency for your kids with the grandparents so then they would move to in state tuition. Not sure all the steps on that but knew a couple guys back in my time that did that.

It's the Olympic Regional Training Center associated with Tech. It is the vehicle for the majority of the NIL deals for wrestlers. It also supplements coach/staff salaries and pays in-house athletes like Bryce Andonian currently, James Green and Ty Walz in the past, and most likely Caleb Henson once he graduates. SERTC can also pay for expenses for Tech wrestlers to compete in freestyle over the off-season and chase Olympic/World medals. It is the most important vehicle for recruiting and retaining top talent like Bo Bassett and Melvin Miller.

Donations to the Hokies Club, designated for Wrestling, have more limitations around what it can be spent on. It helps the team in different areas.

Robie's strategy is to build out SERTC using in-house talent like BA, Henson, Bo Bassett, Melvin Miller etc. to have the strongest wrestling room possible and attract top end recruits. It is how Tech is going to jump levels from a Top 10 team to a Top 3-5 team.

Only problem with squirrel in a stew is the little bones and maybe a lead shot or two to avoid. A big thing in rural VA when I was young was "squirrel gravy", essentially the larger pieces floured and fried up then added to a gravy from the drippings to simmer a bit. Usually served on biscuits. Squirrel and venison kept us alive when I was living in Giles and finishing up at VT on the GI Bill. My daddy was a country boy from rural Tennessee and he wouldn't serve a stew without squirrel in it, starting a few rows with momma about shooting them out of the big oak in the back yard when none were in the freezer.

Maybe without the gun, lol! If we force him to sign this year, he'll just portal out next year!