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Another thing nobody's mentioning, it doesn't matter who the coach is in Coral Gables until the administration decides to make a major investment in the facilities for the program. Having to play at a pro stadium is bad enough, but their entire football facilities have fallen so far behind the curve in the ACC. They haven't begun to rebound from the damage that Donna Shalala did to the program.
There's a reason GT makes it to the ACCCG about every three years. They'll make a run again when they have a stable of senior A and B backs.
But I guarantee you it's a word Hoos associate with it. They're douchey and delusional. They're...
DOUCHELUSIONAL.
Not really. They were a respectable program under Welsh, and a lot of people thought Groh would continue the trend. Instead Groh put the program into a decline, and London has now bottomed it out. I think a lot of people within the program still think they have gravitas from the days of George Welsh, but they're sorely mistaken.
One asset in the hire is that Richt comes in already thoroughly familiar with CPJ's scheme.
I think Littlepage is in for a rude awakening of just how far down the ladder of college football hierarchy UVA has slid. They are going to have a hard time keeping pace in this coaching carousel.
So what you're saying is, it's the perfect time to be bringing in a coaching staff with connections in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi?
Check.
Yeah, except for once it won't be a race to see who wants it least.
The other side of the coin, though, is that if Cornell (or any other coach that finds out he isn't being retained) gets a job offer, but the school extending the offer wants him to report immediately, what is the incentive to stick around for the bowl game? I get loyalty to Beamer by the staff, but that's over now. No reason not to go if an offer is extended.
If be surprised if the entire coaching staff coaches the bowl game. At least one coach is sure to get an offer and leave prior to that.
Excellent. Now to get Patterson back onboard or flip Ellis.
Good lord can you imagine how much success we might have had if we had run a rocket screen with Strohman this season? The defense would have been completely flatfooted, thinking it was a jet sweep.
Absolutely. WR blocking is fundamental in Fuente's spread (as is true in most spread offenses, to be fair). But I also do not believe 40 could have made that block if the throw went to the sideline. The timing of the play is as important as the blocking, because the timing allows the blockers to be in the right position.
I've thought that since he decommitted. If he liked what we offered under Frank on offense, there is no reason he would not like what Fuente offers. But I do think what interests him most is being coached by Burden.
Agreed, part of it is Brewer's arm. But even then, Brewer still threw it a farther distance to Malleck than what's in the play above. Tempo is going to be a big change, not just between snaps but in how quickly a play develops.
God, look at how much more quickly Fuente gets the ball into the receiver's hands on his screens. I've always hated the way we run WR screens, throwing all the way to the sideline. The ball takes FOREVER to get into the receiver's hands, and that's time that the defense is crashing toward the play. Works so much better with a quick toss to the slot.
This is why I want to keep Burden on staff. His coaching mindset of producing well-rounded receivers who contribute as blockers seems to be a great fit for Fuente's spread. Plus Lynch has thrown for over 6,700 yards the last two seasons, so it isn't like Fuente never passes it. Burden has established relationships to the primary recruiting hotbed in Virginia, which I really think Fuente needs. When we were in dire need of wide receivers, Burden went out and got verbals from four of them. (I know one has since decommitted, and Deablo seems to be opening up his recruiting a bit, but that's all because of Frank's retirement, nothing Zohn did.) It seems like a great fit, and I could see Zohn Burden being Justin Fuente's Billy Hite, if that makes sense. I really, really hope he stays.
This. Our recruiting game will be completely different now. Just like Foster knows the recruits that will fit his defense, Fuente knows the recruits that will fit his offense. He turned Memphis into an offensive juggernaut with a roster of 3-stars. Our recruiting rankings might stay the same or even drop, but if we're getting the right kids for Fuente's offense, watch out.
I interpreted OP's reference to "the Beamer clan" as being more inclusive than just Shane's spouse and children. Obviously Frank is in a position to help Shane ease any financial burden incurred by a change of employment status. I never got the vibe that the implication was that Shane could retire on his own salary, but rather that Shane, if he wanted to, could become an "employee" of his father.
There's exactly zero chance this happens. Shane enjoys coaching too much. It's in his blood. But I do think the original assertion that money is essentially a non-issue for Shane during this transitory period in his life is accurate.
I think he's a fan of PineSol if he gets desperate enough.
Frank Beamer has a net worth of $10 million, and Shane has spent the last several years with a salary well into the six figures. It stands to reason that Shane and his family can weather the storm, given that with Shane's resume he's basically guaranteed to do no worse than another position coach job at a P5 school.
Would the hiring of a new HC affect Foster's recently extended contract? Foster was just recently given something like a five or six year extension, which I assume he will continue to work under.
I don't see Scot going back to being a position coach after having been an OC at two P5 programs. I don't think he's going to get another P5 job based on his performance at Auburn and VT, but I think he'll land as an OC at a G5 or FCS school.
Excellent article. I don't know about anyone else, but with all the coaching search whirlwind, it's been impossible to follow these games with my regular mindset. I'm always thinking about what the future holds. One way or another, we'll be a completely different animal next season.
One question. When you said:
There's certainly issues to be taken with that line of thinking — after all, those aforementioned protection issues blossomed under Loeffler's watch, just as the long passes did.
Are you saying you think pass pro has gotten worse under Loeffler? That's not an impression I got. Don't get me wrong, we aren't good by any stretch of the imagination, but we averaged over 34 sacks allowed per season between 2008-2010. We got better in 2011, but mostly because Tyrod was untouchable his senior year. By and large, the sacks allowed under Lefty have been about on par with what we saw under Newsome's tenure. I always saw it as more of just an inability to fix what was already wrong rather than a decline.
To assume that Sakerlina would have reacted this way to a Spurrier retirement announcement is, at best, an uncertain proposition. Right or wrong, the consensus among the Cocks fanbase was that the Visor had failed to live up to the assumed promise of his hiring. He never got them to the heights they had dreamed. (Whether any dream that has USCe atop the SEC East is realistic is another debate.) So while there might have been some recognition of the twilight of a hall of fame coaching career, I think it's much more likely that an announcement of an end-of-season retirement would have actually created more apathy about the current season, as an already disengaged fanbase would have just waited out the rest of a lame duck season in anticipation of what the future held. And I think it was specifically this lack of a "Spurrier Farewell Tour" (and I do believe Steve knew exactly where he stood in the minds of the fans) that led him to a hasty and unceremonious exit.