I know Groh has no chance in the Tidewater area, and that as long as he is here/Beamer is in Blacksburg, that will not change.
However, Virginia Tech has not totally dominated Virginia over the past decade. Virginia is 3-7 in the past 10 contests against Virginia Tech, which is better than I, and probably you, believed. Total domination involves what Notre Dame has done to Navy not 1, not 2, but 41 straight times. That, my friend, is total domination.
Speaking of total domination, Virginia leads the overall series over Virginia Tech by a mere, scant 28 games. Until the mid-1990s, Virginia, and especially the George Welsh-led teams, really socked it to Virginia Tech. A telling fact: Virginia Tech is the one of the very few opponents with more than 10 meetings which Virginia has an overall winning record against. Sad, ain't it?
Wow, that's incredible. It will certainly offset our cupcake schedule for this year. Middle Tennessee State? UConn? Virginia Tech? (J/K, my fellow Virginians)
I will certainly come back for those games after I leave here for good on the 20th.
The only ways we stand a chance are:
A. Fire Groh and Sons coaching service immediately and replace with a competent coach who doesn't have a vast number of sons to recruit.
By the same token, how do you know that the mother is disgruntled, or let alone on his arm? My friend, it isn't sound reasoning to bash someone else for making a pointed comment when you do the same thing one sentence later.
Granted, yes, I don't believe many of us know the relationship Ahmad has with his child. If it's a good relationship, we should be happy to see a family which could survive the strains of long distance. If not, the child should receive fair compensation if Ahmad does not have sole custody of it. That's is as detailed as I will go on that.
The points are three:
1. He's had a child out of wedlock, which I am willing to say is not expected in the ballpark of 95% of the time.
2. He got kicked off UVA's football team two weeks into summer camp for a fairly serious police issue.
3. Marshall gave him a second (or third?) shot, and he stole a Playstation 2 from someone's room.
A good example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time is being in a crowd of friends when suddenly one of them pulls out a gun and murders someone. If you protect your friend much at all, you're an accessory to murder.
Ahmad's actions aren't an example of this. He made the conscious decision to do what he has done in life. He's got a rational brain. He should have KNOWN better. That's not circumstance, or being in the wrong situation at the wrong time, that's making a poor decision on your own, or ignorance.
I went to Graham earlier this decade, knew and have spoken with Ahmad, and he's a great person to talk with. He has never done me wrong, and I have nothing but good to say about how he's treated me. However, just because he's an exceptional athlete, don't give him a free pass with that trite "wrong place at the wrong time" spiel. I would guess that very few of us have made it to where we are by getting a free pass. Let's apply it across the board.
My opinion is sure to be in the minority, I'm aware of that. But I've tried to be as fair as possible using the tamest terms I can possibly be. Before I ramble much further, I'm off to play some golf.
Keep the faith...Mel Kiper has him second of his remaining overall players. I know time's growin' short, but it just might. If not, and if he work hards, keeps his nose clean next year, and avoids an injury, then he's nearly assured to at least go, given he didn't sign an agent.
I know it's late in the 7th round, and pick 243, but Ahmad Bradshaw is now Mel Kiper's 2nd best pick remaining, not out of running backs, but out of everyone. This looks interesting...
Possibly, but my gut tells me no. I've seen too many teams play with desperation to avoid the sweep, and I think finally Wade and O'Neal will click on all cylinders. However, that series will go absolutely no more than 5, when Chicago ties their napkins around their necks and starts feastin' on the poor Heat.
Exactly. This shouldn't even be a debate. It's JaMarcus Russell. Only if Al Davis has grown pathetically senile (which is a chance) would he pick Calvin Johnson, given the quarterback situation in Oakland. Six different starting quarterbacks since 2003: that's pathetic.
I honestly believe neither of those will even make the playoffs. NL: Mets. They're simply that good. For example, the Mets have scored twenty-one more runs than the Braves, their closest competitors, and have played one less game. AL: Red Sox. Going against the strategy which won them the 2004 World Series, they've basically become a copycat of the Yankees. However, unlike the Yankees, their batters aren't ready for the geriatric ward and their pitchers aren't still in diapers.
True, A-Rod is becoming the player the Yankees always hoped he would be. However, with a team under .500 at the moment, it begs me to ask exactly how much of an impact he has had, even over those first seventeen games.
If you strictly compare West Virginia football to Virginia football strictly on an A, AA, and AAA level, here's what I have observed would happen:
A: Talented West Virginia A squads would compare best to the top Virginia Division 1 and decent Division 2 squads. However, with an Elite Division 2 team, say Giles, I see little competition with West Virginia A squads.
AA: Here I believe is the closest match, honestly. I believe the 2004 Bluefield team had the potential to beat even Salem. Outside of once-in-a-decade teams (I do not knock the other Bluefield teams, but the 2004 squad was much better), I think the best West Virginia AA teams match up better with, and could perhaps beat many good Division 3 teams in Virginia, save Richlands. The better Division 4 Virginia teams would in most years have their way with much of West Virginia AA.
AAA: A top-level Virginia team, Division 5 or 6, would annihilate a top-level West Virginia AAA team. If Landstown played Martinsburg, the final score would be 56-0, or some other ugly score. There is no comparison. The elite AAA West Virginia teams would match up well with good Virginia Division 5 teams, but even so, the upper-level Virginia teams are better.
Conclusion: West Virginia A, AA, AAA teams could compete with their smaller counterparts on the Virginia side: Division 1, 3, and 5 respectively. However, when facing Division 2, 4, and 6 teams, I find that the West Virginia teams often cannot compete as effectively, save the exceptional extraordinary teams. Thus, this is my view on West Virginia football compared to Virginia football. Take it as you please.
We have a $1.5 million Fieldturf field in Charlottesville, and from experience with intramural sports, you can use either rubber cleats or metal-tipped cleats. It is a lifesaver when it comes to preparing the field for games: paint the field and you are ready to roll. At the beginning of the season, the field is slightly more forgiving than a natural surface, but as the season wears on, the rubber pellets (or fake dirt, as I like to call it) settle and compact, and the field becomes somewhat harder than a natural surface. It always looks sharp, and you never have to worry about mud. I hope this little rambling was helpful.
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Old School.
ACC or Big East?