Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments

Or everyone on this site is losing their goddam minds over what, outside the insulation of the peculiar stability that Frank Beamer gave our program, is a completely normal occurrence in major college football, and this will be completely forgotten by everyone except the compulsive handwringers in a month.

Whichevs.

8 year olds, Dude.

The era of flippin' croots after the bowls is over. If you're gonna flip, it needs to be during November.

Honorable mention:

Minimal transition. This is a move for a 2020 run. I like it.

We need a home run CB coach hire.

We played our ass off for four quarters and never quit. Other than the outcome, it was the best Commonwealth Cup game I can remember in years, because both teams brought it and looked like they deserved to represent the Coastal. Our defense adjusted and shut down Bryce Perkins for two quarters. Unfortunately they adjusted to our adjustment. Our offense exploded in the second half. But unfortunately Hendon Hooker picked the worst game of his career to have the worst game of his career. (And he still wasn't bad, just turnover prone.) And despite what some others on here and in the Twittersphere assert, I felt it was a well called game by both Bud and Corny.

Considering we get basically the whole damn team back next year, I think we'll be fine as long as we make a good DC hire.

Turns out Corny's plays look really good when they're executed correctly, and the defense is dominant when everyone does their jobs.

I say this as the guy who staked his claim in Hokie blogdom by criticizing the shit out of Stiney's playcalling:

In 2019, people who blame offensive struggles on playcalling do not understand modern college football.

The advent of the RPO and the emergence of the zone read as the two bread and butter features of the modern offense means that playcalling has a significantly reduced effect on offensive production than it did around the turn of the millennium, when "pro-style" offenses were the flavor du jour. In a lot of ways, the reads required to run an offense have taken us back to something like the era of the wishbone and the triple option, in that having a QB who can quickly, efficiently make the right reads will have a much greater effect on how on offense performs than the individual play calls coming down from the booth to the field. Any given play call can go so many different ways that you could run the same play four times in a row and never know it, because one will be a jet sweep, one a QB keeper, one a pass to the flat, and one a deep post. Outside of screen passes, there really aren't a lot of plays that have a single predetermined outcome anymore.

These days, it's much more important for an OC to adjust the playbook to play to a QB's strengths and mitigate his weaknesses in regards to what reads he has to make. Now we can all argue that Corny did not sufficiently adapt to Josh Jackson's or Ryan Willis's skill sets, but that just as likely could be an instance of trying to force a couple of square pegs in round holes.

SHIT

Let's hope he's just Jim Browning it.

Fam-a-lam-a-ding-dong!

Show of hands: who predicted we'd win a game 45-0 after Duke?

Now put your hands down you fucking liars and let's just enjoy the rest of the ride.

I thought of Michigan before I even finished reading the title.