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There are only 150 more days until kickoff against Appalachian State. That calls for an Ashley Schaeffer, "Woo!" I wrote only like it somehow won't be an excruciatingly slow crawl though summer until the start of the season. It will be, but at least now we have spring ball to tide us over. Right?

Including the two scrimmages and the Maroon and White game there are 15 spring practices in total. The former three events are the only ones open to the public. Those are our only opportunities between now and August to use our eyes to evaluate, scrutinize and analyze the team. Everything else that goes on will happen behind closed doors, with peaks through window granted to a precious few media members, some of which the average Hokie cannot stand because they don't hold the team as near and dear to the heart as the rest of us do. (That's neither fair or rational, but it's true.)

What we will learn/are learning from the other twelve practices will be barely enough to survive on for those of us obsessed with Hokie football. A steady diet of coach speak, served up with a couple morsels of sustainable information, chopped and re-chopped by the various media outlets over and over again. That's just how the Frankinator wants it: uneventful, calm and controlled.

Yup, I do believe Ashley Schaeffer's, "Woo!" has just the right amount of emphasis behind it. Even though I'm being fed, spring ball will end and I'll still be hungry.

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