VT shout-out/kudos in TMQ

By: Hokieshibe on September 24, 2013, 2:05 PM | 14 comments

Awesome shoutout in the TMQ article (it's about mid-way down, by the picture of Beamer)

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9714002/as-49ers-go-awesome-awful-wish...

Just thought I'd share.

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Pierson Booher's picture Pierson Booher | 12 years 9 months #

Good link Shibe.

Excerpt for those unwilling to give ESPN traffic:

Because much of the book is critical, I also wanted a positive example. Your columnist spent most of the 2011 season with the Virginia Tech football team, a season that culminated in a BCS bowl game. Virginia Tech has big-time football in perspective -- 20 consecutive winning seasons coupled to a football graduation rate of 77 percent, versus 55 percent for Division I as a whole. Perhaps you think, "That's because Virginia Tech has Frank Beamer, a decent human being. Decent human beings are in short supply in coaching." Beamer is a factor -- but so is the way the Virginia Tech football experience is structured. "The King of Sports" shows that what the Hokies do to combine victory with players throwing their caps into the air at commencement could be done at any university that meant what it said about the term "student-athlete."

VPIhokieME's picture VPIhokieME
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| 12 years 9 months # ^

Maybe that's why ESPN hates us. We're making all of their media darlings look bad by comparison. You can either have great graduation rates but sub par football(which doesn't sell) or great football(which makes E$ECPN salivate) but sub par graduation rates. Or you can go to VT and get good, solid, exciting football AND an education. Tough choice.

Onward and upward

HorseOnATreadmill's picture HorseOnATreadmill
| 12 years 9 months # ^

I've always gone with SECSPN. Flows off the tongue.

VPIhokieME's picture VPIhokieME
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| 12 years 9 months # ^

Eee Ess Eee See Pee Enn (E$ECPN)

Ess Eee See Ess Pee Enn (SECSPN)

hmm

agree to disagree?

Onward and upward

HorseOnATreadmill's picture HorseOnATreadmill
| 12 years 9 months # ^

The C of SEC provides the E for ESPN. SEC-SPN

Agree to battle for all eternity! Garrr!

VPIhokieME's picture VPIhokieME
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| 12 years 9 months # ^

naaay?

Onward and upward

vtfly's picture vtfly | 12 years 9 months # ^

I smell a dance off coming

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

HorseOnATreadmill's picture HorseOnATreadmill
| 12 years 9 months # ^

Be warned....

VPIhokieME's picture VPIhokieME
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| 12 years 9 months # ^

Bravo!

yeah I can't dance. Here's a leg

Onward and upward

wisec4g's picture wisec4g | 12 years 9 months # ^

I watched that for waaaaay longer than I should have. haha!

VT '10--US Citizen; (804) Virginian By Birth; (979) Texan By the Grace of God.

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DBU's picture DBU | 12 years 9 months # ^

For reference the book being referred to is The King of Sports by Gregg Easterbrook

"The King of Sports: Football's Impact on America," which is published today. The book's core theme is how to change football so the sport is "just as exciting and popular, but no longer notorious."

Wiley, Brown, Russell, Drakeford, Gray, Banks, Prioleau, Charleton, Midget, Bird, McCadam, Pile, Hall, Green, Fuller, Williams, Hamilton, Rouse, Flowers, Harris, Chancellor, Carmichael, Hosley, Fuller, Exum, Jarrett

nubinile's picture nubinile | 12 years 9 months #

Beamer is the man.
MFW giving the thumbs up after hitting on girls via Peer Counseling.

Tweedy can run like a dadgum antelope or whatever. I like to use scalded dog. Do antelopes lumber? Cheetah, OK. He runs like a cheetah. He's fast. - Bud Foster

scVTfClemson's picture scVTfClemson | 12 years 9 months #

I can't believe I am the first to say this,

I love Beamer, but there are some faaaaar better pictures in that article than Frank...

zomfgbbqhax's picture zomfgbbqhax | 12 years 9 months # ^

I wasn't going to click the link due to the excerpt posted above, but I did because of your comment. It was worth giving them a page view.