Accepting Mediocrity in football and changing the definition

I have gone back 112 pages in editor articles for year end reviews, to the loss to Michigan, and through it all the idea of being mediocre is ok, but it seems we are always looking to next year as the better year. There's only so many times we can say next year is the year.

Here are some tidbits I copied from several articles over the last few years that made me think. I hope I didnt take them out of context nor do I mean to speak for the editors here or disrespect them. It to me simply shows a long repeating cycle that needs to end. I removed Names and years to get a general over feel of the last 4 years.

I will be frank. I almost did not do a film review this week. We have beaten the dead horses over and over again: the nonsensical running back rotation, poor offensive line leg drive and fundamentals, poor reads, throws, and pre-snap recognition by ---, abysmal effort by the wide receivers, poor special teams, linebackers who are limited in space, and defensive backs who are not gifted enough to lock down receivers in man.

Over different points of the season, we've suggested reasons on this site for Tech's struggles. A few in no particular order are: injuries to an already inexperienced secondary, offensive coaches struggling to grasp a foreign scheme seemingly over their heads, said scheme putting players in a position to fail, a randomly generated tailback rotation, and loafing among others

This staff has had several ugly moments where it seems that their highest level of concern is with ensuring continued employment rather than making the football program better.

Unlike every season since 1999, this year wasn't about returning to the national championship game, it was about returning to Virginia Tech Football. Frank Beamer made that clear when he turned over his staff and stressed words like "physical" and "tough" throughout the spring and August camp.

Five familiar faces returned in - to the OLine.
- struggled, but not nearly as much as anyone would have expected a true freshman to. With only (one senior) departing, a buzz around (2 Big OT recruits), and 5 promising recruits set to sign in February, the offensive line should become a team strength. For a long time Virginia Tech football won games because they were more physical in the trenches.

I might be the one who is blind, but I didn't see the vision for the future. It's unfair to be critical of a rebuild in year one, but it's reasonable to expect dividends in year two.

A group featuring four senior starters with talented depth behind them should be good, but not taken for granted. Now Tech must rebuild the o-line. Unlike during the beginning of --- tenure, the cupboard isn't bare and the players Tech is depending on to step up have been in ----s system.

Special teams were a liability this season, and that's on no one else but Frank Beamer.

Also not once in all of these posts did I see that Frank stepped up and said it stops with me. Saying something about my name is on the line. My job is on the line.

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I read a lot of articles not all may be copy paste from this list but all seem to say that next year is the rebuilding year/year we change

http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2012/november/6/moving-forward-uncerta...
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2013/december/1/reflecting-2013-regula...
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2012/march/20/hokies-must-rebuild-o-li...
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2012/november/20/create-narrative-bost...
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2013/january/1/happy-new-year-beat-ala...
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2014/january/3/rebuilding-hokies-futur...
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2014/january/1/sun-bowl-musings-and-pr...
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2012/february/6/looking-2012-defense-s...

And in all of that I found

I'm convinced the passing game will flourish under Scot Loeffer, but I'm not sure if that'll come at the expense of running the ball. After he was hired, Loeffler made it clear he likes to run the ball. Maybe he likes throwing it even more? Given that Loeffler's offense was built around Logan Thomas, I didn't get a sense for what a Loeffler offense would be moving forward.

So to those of you that think or don't think about HC changing the game plan there's that to consider