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Undoubtedly the best part of watching them lose the game I’ve waited 32 years to see them play was the two-hour drive home in complete silence.
Eric Hobeck retweeted
The slippery slope is just pattern recognition
They managed to embarrass people into denying obvious patterns by calling it a logical fallacy
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That is giving them too much credit. They think about how to use external unsolvable global issues to gain power for their cause. They don't actually care about those problems other then as a way to reshape the world through deception.
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This is such a banger post.
Yes - the left think about problems they can't solve while neglecting everything in their vicinity.. they volunteer local decline and death in the service of grand moral abstracts.
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This is the ultimate measure of how many redskins/commanders games someone has watched in the last 30 years.
Jayden is the best option we’ve had in my life. We are competitive with anyone when he plays.
The line is decimated. Our best receiver was cut by the Titans. Our defense is decimated. Our coaches are morons who can’t develop guys. Our FO sucks at evaluating. And yet we won last night and competed with the 49ers last week.
Absolute idiocy to think anything other than wanting to see where he can take us over the course of his career.
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On This Date in UVA Sports History...
November 2, 1995: It was thirty-one years ago tonight, before a sellout crowd and a Thursday night national TV audience, that @UVAFootball handed Florida State its first-ever ACC loss, 33-28, in one of the best college football games UVA has ever played in.
@TikiBarber runs for 193 yards, Mike Groh throws for 302, Rafael Garcia kicks four field goals, and Warrick Dunn is stopped inches from the goal line.
🔷⚔️🔶
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People who want other people to use public transportation for ideological reasons rarely appreciate how much basic competence would help their cause.
Washington commanders fans get locked in the metro.
It took so long for the train to get home that by the time it arrived at the final station, there were no employees there and all the doors were locked.
So tons of people were just trapped.
It normally takes like an hour to get home on the metro but today it took two hours. So everybody was already like frustrated.
Thank goodness the commanders won lol
Anyways, your final update, somebody showed up and let us out. The game ended at 11:27 PM and I got home at 1:59 AM.
I may never Metro again lol
Eric Hobeck retweeted
Washington commanders fans get locked in the metro.
It took so long for the train to get home that by the time it arrived at the final station, there were no employees there and all the doors were locked.
So tons of people were just trapped.
It normally takes like an hour to get home on the metro but today it took two hours. So everybody was already like frustrated.
Thank goodness the commanders won lol
Anyways, your final update, somebody showed up and let us out. The game ended at 11:27 PM and I got home at 1:59 AM.
I may never Metro again lol
Eric Hobeck retweeted
Play hop scotch if yall want. Lose to cal everyone gotta go. It’s simple. Win or go the hell home. Win or go back where u came from. Firing Des now only delays shit a week or so. If we can’t reach back to back bowl games pull the plug. Don’t even send it to the dashboard, rage quit and pull the damn plug.
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If you’re under 30, the most important thing you need to understand about Stevens’ endorsement is that, just 10 years ago, a candidate who (a) signed a letter urging the Muslim Brotherhood to eliminate pro democracy dissidents in Egypt, or (b) refused to disavow a surrogate who claimed America deserved 9/11 or an ad that claimed you can’t afford groceries because bloodthirsty Israelis love to kill children, or (c) said “hurt people hurt people” about a terrorist who tried to murder dozens of children, would not have polled above 2% in a Democratic primary, and that today a Democrat who says that supporting a candidate like the above is a bridge too far in the name of party loyalty is being called a traitor by the Democrat Senate Minority Leader.
Haley Stevens is a patriot who put country over party.
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Dianne Lane laughed about Charlie Kirk's murder.
Dianne Lane is ENDORSED by:
@MarkWarner
@RepSuhas
@SoniaVasquezLun
@DeshundraTweets
@pwcdanica
And Manassas & Manassas Park Democratic Committee / @ManassasCPCDems
Dianne Lane laughed about Charlie Kirk's murder.
Dianne Lane is @SoniaVasquezLun's mentor.
Sonia (giggles) Vasquez Luna is a Marxist.
@LarryOConnor @DailyCaller
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What makes it true is that people who actually work in college athletics, who would be in position to influence those decisions, have told me North Carolina and Virginia are the two schools they would want to add from the ACC
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This was practically unheard of until recently, and the fact that *PBS* is pushing this suggests that everyone on the left knows that massive cheating is imminent. Hopefully MAGA leadership is taking this seriously and coninc won't have the juice to run block.
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
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I love the UVA social chat. I’ve been a part of the community for 5 years. Here’s the deal; @VirginiaSports Top 5 in nation. Very healthy athletic program. UVA hoops super relevant, no reason why fb can’t be. Period. Resources abound.
The frustration with UVA football is real, but the core problem is larger than any player, coach or single individual. In my view, it is a business problem.
Charlottesville (where one of our Good Feet stores resides) is one of the smallest TV markets in the country. Athletics today run on multi-year brand deals, NIL collectives, and revenue flywheels from large alumni bases and proximity to major corporate HQs. UVA lacks the geographical advantages and lacks the scale and reach of Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, or Florida. That is a structural constraint.
UVA’s football fan base is more fragile (not a fault of fans) due to a lack of a winning tradition compared to the power programs—Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Michigan, USC. Those are the Amazon, Walmarts and Coca-Colas of college football. They can operate on tradition and confidence that their customers will be back even when they miss. UVA cannot afford many misses and has to be scrappy: more creative, more personal, and more deliberate about every fan, donor, and sponsor. Otherwise the support of the fan base erodes quickly. The football program would make a strong Darden case study on building without the giants’ natural advantages.
In 2021 we were early NIL partners with UVA. We started with Kihei Clark on TV spots, then expanded to other athletes in UVA-logo jerseys, attaching millions in Good Feet advertising to the UVA brand. We followed the university’s approach: not pay-to-play, but real marketing leverage, inviting players to conferences, networking, and speaking opportunities. We did the same for others in football, men’s and women’s basketball, and non-rev sports. We are not a major Fortune 500 brand but we have made meaningful investments and will match our heart with anyone.
Two years ago major money flowed into UVA football. Problem solved, or so it seemed! Emphasis seemed to shift to seven and eight-figure checks. Those are wonderful gifts but that is not a sustainable model. Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Walmart, built flywheels one customer at a time.
Is it possible that those generous donations muddied good strategic thinking? It seems there is need of a strategy that attaches value at every level: the single fan with family at a few games, season-ticket holders and lower-level donors, small businesses attaching to the brand, larger sponsors, mid-tier five- and six-figure donors, and the premium seven-to-eight figure donors. When you are customer focused, you are accountable to those customers. Is it possible, that greater accountability to customers up and down the ladder, could foster better football strategy?
Tradition and humility can go together; tradition and entitlement cannot. Academic excellence and history are strengths, not automatic equalizers to the football powers. Be accountable to the people paying the bills, make hard, strategic decisions, be creative, listen. Embrace being David because you will never be Goliath. Winning will come.