When we created TSL Blogs, we envisioned it being handy for providing a repository of stats and facts that our readers could quickly and easily access — provided, of course, they remembered that they saw (something) in TSL Blogs. With that said, the purpose of this blog entry is short and sweet: Here is the list of VT’s ACC Championships as of 5/14/08. And I admit, I editorialize a little, as well.

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Why???

Let’s start on the easy side, where there is bound to be much less debate. If Furman played Duke, who would win? People who’s TV sets spontaneously explode? Yah; maybe. But I’d pick…
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As a VT fan, it’s easy to love defense. Over the last 15 years, defense has been a constant staple for VT’s rise as a college football power. Over those years, we have heard about the attacking 8-man fronts, funny position names like the Whip and Rover, and stud players like Cornell Brown and Corey Moore who actually played the Stud position. And we’ve learned that leverage is important and that losing it is a very bad thing.

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This one is all about the yin-yang. Some negative news, some positive news, some Swiss (or neutral news). Which makes analysis of such all the more interesting. So lets get started, and lets start at the beginning, with the Virginia Tech quarterbacks. The spring practice balance of work favors……….. Read the rest of this entry »

As those of you who read TSL regularly know, every article includes an opportunity to rank it from 1 to 5. I was going over some old article ratings this morning, and I noticed something very strange …

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Interesting spring, eventful, intriguing, even a bit surprising. This is what I’m getting, this is what I’m hearing, this is how it all stacks up.

Defense: In short, I’m becoming fond of our starting 11; but season ending injuries at two key positions could lower us to an 8-4 possibly even 7-5 seasonal floor. As we simply do not have adequate depth on the inside to stuff people right up front, if we get hurt. Read the rest of this entry »

We interviewed Tommy Edwards for almost an hour in preparation for the article “For Tommy Edwards, Things Come Full Circle.” We included a lot of the material from the interview in the article, but we thought you might be interested in reading the entire interview. Questions are not included, but Tommy’s responses are, in the order in which he said things. (In the article, we rearranged some of the order of the comments for better editorial flow.)

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I can not be there, so I’ll humbly ask that you guys, the good people of TSL.com, be my eyes and ears. But if the presence of my absence could be negated by my actually being there, here is what I’d be watching for……….. Read the rest of this entry »

(this write up is in response to Will and Chris and their poll on the pay MB, where they were wondering if Hokie interest was on the wain???)

Reads like sacrilege, right? Not quite, at least not in an Orange and Chicago Maroon intrinsic sense. I posit that this is an amalgam of several factors, and among them would be… Read the rest of this entry »

Virginia Tech is using Macho Harris at wide receiver for the first part of Spring Practice.  So far it seems to have been a successful move.  Harris has the natural athletic ability to play well at the position, and he’s certainly needed there.  But how much will he play there, and what is his overall role on the team?

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