Comments on: Black Thursday 11/03/09 http://www.the-a-line.com/2009/11/black-thursday-100309/ It is what it is, unless it is not Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:31:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim http://www.the-a-line.com/2009/11/black-thursday-100309/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Jim Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:57:36 +0000 http://www.the-a-line.com/?p=1155#comment-820 Everybody is off their game, me included. Everybody is off their game, me included.

]]> By: Greg http://www.the-a-line.com/2009/11/black-thursday-100309/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Greg Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:42:01 +0000 http://www.the-a-line.com/?p=1155#comment-819 Hey Jim, BTW, I think you need to correct the date at the top of your post. Back on 10/03/09, things were a lot more positive. Hey Jim, BTW, I think you need to correct the date at the top of your post. Back on 10/03/09, things were a lot more positive.

]]> By: Greg http://www.the-a-line.com/2009/11/black-thursday-100309/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Greg Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:34:37 +0000 http://www.the-a-line.com/?p=1155#comment-818 John, I suspect the bigwigs over in the VT bean counting dept are already worried about those reduced contributions. I usually send mine in about mid December. This year, for the first time, I received a nice letter from those fine folks telling me that if I don't pay, or reduce my givings, I'LL BE MOVED!!!!! Interesting. I was a SH when I got my SEZ seats. Then, I increased my donation level to GH. I plan to drop back to the bare minimum of SH for 2010, both from my company likely not giving us a pay raise and maybe no bonus this year AND the poor performance of the Hokies. My question - if I got SEZ tickets as SH, then moved up to GH without changing seats and now back to SH, which whas the level I was when i got those seats, then how the hell are they going to move me??????? On a personal note, I really have trouble turning over my really hard earned dollars at a higher level when the product being provided by the VT football staff is not worthy of those dollars IMHO of course. I'm really tired of hearing the continual drum beat of 10 win seasons when all the while those 10 win seasons are accompanied by marquis losses to the USCs, LSUs, Georgia's, Kansas' Bama's even ECUs and now 114th-ranked offense UNCs of the world. I love the Hokies. My heart bleeds O&M, but I am finally saturated completely with the never-ending propaganda from Merryman, only to be followed by results inconsistent with that propaganda. Time to let the bigshots know it by my reduced contributions. Maybe small, but if repeated by the thousands of Hokie fans out there, maybe it will get somebody's attention.. Ok Jim - now tell me how Polyanna I am. :-) John,
I suspect the bigwigs over in the VT bean counting dept are already worried about those reduced contributions. I usually send mine in about mid December. This year, for the first time, I received a nice letter from those fine folks telling me that if I don’t pay, or reduce my givings, I’LL BE MOVED!!!!! Interesting. I was a SH when I got my SEZ seats. Then, I increased my donation level to GH. I plan to drop back to the bare minimum of SH for 2010, both from my company likely not giving us a pay raise and maybe no bonus this year AND the poor performance of the Hokies. My question – if I got SEZ tickets as SH, then moved up to GH without changing seats and now back to SH, which whas the level I was when i got those seats, then how the hell are they going to move me???????

On a personal note, I really have trouble turning over my really hard earned dollars at a higher level when the product being provided by the VT football staff is not worthy of those dollars IMHO of course. I’m really tired of hearing the continual drum beat of 10 win seasons when all the while those 10 win seasons are accompanied by marquis losses to the USCs, LSUs, Georgia’s, Kansas’ Bama’s even ECUs and now 114th-ranked offense UNCs of the world. I love the Hokies. My heart bleeds O&M, but I am finally saturated completely with the never-ending propaganda from Merryman, only to be followed by results inconsistent with that propaganda. Time to let the bigshots know it by my reduced contributions. Maybe small, but if repeated by the thousands of Hokie fans out there, maybe it will get somebody’s attention..

Ok Jim – now tell me how Polyanna I am. :-)

]]> By: John http://www.the-a-line.com/2009/11/black-thursday-100309/comment-page-1/#comment-817 John Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:20:28 +0000 http://www.the-a-line.com/?p=1155#comment-817 Had a bad feeling when I saw the schedule in August - classic let-down game, only we also got deflated the week before. "Wheels coming off" game? Tech just isn't that good, year after year. We're actually a perennial top twenty team (bottom half), it seems to me, which isn't bad at all, but it's a long way from the touting and weaufxing that started after the Vick coming out party. Keeping expectations low might have been a better plan, in retrospect, but it doesn't build new stadium facades and enable re-seat auctions to the better-heeled bandwagon set at the expense of the long-faithful, who actually knew how to cheer. One day, probably next season if the economy continues to nose-dive, we will see a mostly-empty SEZ, and good seats available along the fifties. Had a bad feeling when I saw the schedule in August – classic let-down game, only we also got deflated the week before. “Wheels coming off” game? Tech just isn’t that good, year after year. We’re actually a perennial top twenty team (bottom half), it seems to me, which isn’t bad at all, but it’s a long way from the touting and weaufxing that started after the Vick coming out party.
Keeping expectations low might have been a better plan, in retrospect, but it doesn’t build new stadium facades and enable re-seat auctions to the better-heeled bandwagon set at the expense of the long-faithful, who actually knew how to cheer. One day, probably next season if the economy continues to nose-dive, we will see a mostly-empty SEZ, and good seats available along the fifties.

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