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went to the Pitt game in 2016(the year I made every game (including the ACC championship game and the bowl game-except @Syracuse which I'm glad I missed).
Cons-PITA to get from our hotel south of downtown cause of the bridges and construction going on- got lost on 'wrong part of town' and had to figure out how to get where we needed to ; minimal atmosphere in (then Heinz) stadium
Pros-ticket cost $5 on Stubhub (plus $15 'service charge, ugh); pretty much could have entire rows of seats to yourself due to crowd of about 15k; the few hundred Hokie fans were louder than the 14,000 Pitt fans(though likely not as loud as Narduzzi's rants saying our DBs committing PI every play; best of all we won that day in that house of horrors; n'only' about a 5-6 hr drive from Richmond
Ohio has fired Brian Smith for "engaging in serious professional misconduct and participating in activities that reflect unfavorably on the University."
That's a lot of what excited us about Fuente, the potential to mix an exciting, productive offense (like he oversaw at TCU and Memphis) with Bud Foster's defense. God, we were salivating over that!
Oh well. =^/
Rio's central control system by IBM is amazing to see in action. Went there as part of my MBA program. They have a warroom that controls all services across the city, including sanitation trucks, construction vehicles, emergency and police resources as well as locations of favellas emergency responders. They are able to reroute traffic in the city so effectively. Got to watch them in action before during and after a major soccer match downtown.
Their ability to watch/anticipate weather and its effects for mudslides and other events was interesting to see in action. The National Guard that are assigned to the city for emergency response have set evacuation orders that have all residents in their sectors with disabilities or other mobility issues identified and they routinely do drills on assisting evacuations.
It was impressive to see how tied together everything was and how quickly they could effect change.
Sr. been acting a little too much like baby gronks dad. just gotta let Jr. show out on the field and not post so much on twitter
If we added anyone, I wish it would be WVU. I hate those bastards, but I loved beating them when it mattered.
If it gets Erin Andrews talking about us, I'll be ecstatic.
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go above and beyond the call of duty.
I dunno about that, didn't the MoH creators start up the CoD franchise because of EA meddling?
I suspect you are right about what Beamer wanted. But you do not need an exciting or high flying offense to be good. You can play ball control smash mouth football mixing in play action passes and be very good, It's just that Stinespring's offenses so often were awful, especially relative to some of the RBs and QBs we had. And, as was mentioned above by another, if we had a good offense - not great, just above average - we could have been so good paired up with Foster's units. Boring offense that is good is fine. Boring offense that is bad is, well, just boring and bad.
You left off getting rid of the STUPID penalties. Late hits after a big stop and false starts on 2nd and 5.
And Overton Sr posted something else in support of the new coach
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts Miami would have an ACC championship.
Say what you will about Stiney (most of us here have) but at least he's doing way better at Roanoke than Corn did at the high school level.
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I agree re: traditions, but I can't convince my friends to all travel to Lane to watch 6 win VT team play a 3 win BC team. Taking 5 days in Ireland, one of which is to watch Hokies, is much more appealing to us.
Totally get that. It's been a few years since I've even kicked the tires on a Blacksburg game weekend trip myself. If VT announced a game somewhere fun, it would at least warrant a group chat to gauge interest I'd think
my thoughts exactly.
The only other consideration for me on crappier away games is difficulty to get there. Pitt is a meh away game but easy enough to get to (from Nova) that I could reasonably do it if I was motivated (i.e. i personally have a free weekend and we don't suck). Compared to SMU or Cuse that there's no world I would ever travel to.
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Unfortunately, I don't think Frank ever wanted a high flying offense. It seemed he liked ball control/TOP games. I'd be interested to see what type of offense he runs at Roanoke College.
Or you could say that they will go above and beyond the call of duty.
Pretty confident the GT guy norval is just not announced yet, he was out at dinner with the Overton's over the weekend...he's also tagged in the post.
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Criminally underrated movie. Came out a decade and a half too early.
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This so much. Love beating the cousins. It's a damn shame we don't play them much anymore. I hate them far, far more than Miami or UVA.
We should either go back to playing them regularly OOC, or get them into the ACC.