Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments
Brewer isn't qualified. Hasn't made the requisite number of attempts due to missed games.
This should be one of the best midseason finales. We've got an overrun Alexandria, we've got Superman Glenn right outside the walls, we've got Daryl, Abraham and Sasha inbound with an RPG and a fuel truck, we've got Jeremy spoke in class today sneaking up behind Carl, we've got Carol finding out about all life is precious except the ones I'm endangering Morgan's hostage...
Gimple knows how to build the house of cards HIGH before he knocks it down.
So.... who the hell starts in his place?
Was anyone else shocked that Dadi wasn't ejected after that?
PeeWee all the way. Jambi for OC, Cowboy Curtis for DC.
On the one hand, Elliott is being a bit of a punk.
On the other, there some truth in what he says. Playcalling has been an issue all season, and they are really missing Herman.
Holy shit, our guys played their hearts out. Never quit. Very proud to be a Hokie today.
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal I think those maps just shade counties based on which program has the most preference. All that burnt orange doesn't mean the other Texas programs don't have any support at all in those areas, just that there's more Longhorns fans than there are fans of other programs. A county that was 51% Longhorns fans and 49% aTm fans would be shaded burnt orange on the map.
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal IIRC, after this season the NCAA is relaxing the restrictions on championship games, paving the way for the Big XII to host a championship game with less than twelve teams. II(also)RC, the other major proponent of that idea was the ACC, meaning we might be in store for a shakeup of how the teams who play each other in Charlotte are decided.
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal Consider the new math of the CFP era. While it's not set in stone, there's basically two major requirements to make the playoffs:
- Win your conference
- Have absolutely no more than one loss
You have to figure, which is the easier path to that? The ACC Coastal or either division of the SEC? If there was a single elite program in the Coastal, it would own the division. Then it's just a question of beating Clemson or FSU in the ACCCG. In the SEC, you've got Alabama, LSU, Florida appears to be improving, Ole Miss looks good, Tennesee might or might not be on the cusp. It's a much harder path simply because the top four or five schools are really good, and you're gonna get at least two of them regardless of which division you play in, and then another in the SECCG.
So the ACC offers an easier path on paper. Then it's a question of finances. Can the SEC outbid us? Yes. Can they do it by a wide enough margin to entice a coach to accept a much greater burden of stress and difficulty? probably not. Would you really give up $3.5 million in Blacksburg for $4.5 million at a program like South Carolina, where fans have ridiculous expectations? It could happen, but just looking at it from a rational perspective, it's unlikely. There are certainly stepping-stone positions in the P5, but we aren't one of them. We're going to be competitive in salary, on par with just about any facilities in the nation outside not bankrolled by a swoosh, and have a national reputation for one of the best fan bases in college football.
So long as Whit does his job steering clear of the obvious ladder-climber candidates, I think our next coach will be in Blacksburg for a while.
potential recruits ultimately get wise that the system won't teach them the fundamental skills needed to be successful in the National Football League
Building on this, do you believe this is a problem with spread/read-option offenses generally, or is it specific to RichRod's scheme? Should we be equally concerned if Fuente or Morris get the job?
During North Carolia–South Carolina, I second guessed his offensive decision making like he was Bryan Stinespring.
And just like that I don't feel so bad about dropping our opener...
I want him as QB coach but not co-OC. Or, if we get an honest to god offensive guru HC, Scot can keep the OC title so long as it's a situation like Morris at SMU, Meyer at OSU or (gasp) Johnson at GT, where the official OC position is more in name only.
The problem is, the film is prooving you wrong. Motley in the game = a stacked box, as opposing DCs are scheming against tendency, and the tendency with Motley in is QB keeper. The receivers are getting man coverage, the shoulder wiggle freezes the safety. The potential is greater now than it was when Motley was starting. Regardless of what Motley did when he was the starter, football is a reactionary sport. DCs are calling against the tendencies of the opposing offense, and against GT and BC, that meant crowding the box when Motley came in.
I agree with you in a general sense, DCs aren't going to forget that Motley can pass. But when Motley keeps on 100% of his plays since Brewer's return, that's what DCs call against. And that's exactly what they're doing, and that specifically is what is opening up the potential for a go route to be a real opportunity. It wouldn't be so much the opposing DC saying, "Oh snap, I forgot Motley could pass!" as it would be, "Damn it, I knew that was coming eventually."
I personally do have a lot of faith in the coaching tandem of Fedora and Chizzik. I think that pair at a school committed to football excellence could have sustained success. To me, it's more a question of UNC just not investing enough to keep them when bigger programs come calling.
I do believe there will be dropoff when Marquise Williams graduates, but that's true of most programs. But you're right, they haven't even proved anything yet.
My thoughts exactly. If this same coaching tandem was at Miami and having the same success, I'd be worried. UNC football is something to pass the first half of fall semester until basketball begins.
This season is just brutal with irony. Daryl, who told Rick point blank to his face he thought it was a mistake to not invite more people to Alexandria, gets robbed at gunpoint by people he extended an invitation to.
Also, Abraham is awesome. It's a shame he isn't more of a central character. I hope he becomes more of a focus.
Also, looks like we've started the arc that will lead to the introduction of one of my favorite characters.
I'm not sure why you're having such a time conceptualizing this. The whole idea is, when Motley comes in, the opposing defense keys on the QB keep. They have since Brewer returned against Duke, increasingly so with each passing game. There is film out there now that pretty much dictates, if Motley's in, he's going to keep. So on the second or third time we bring him in for his Wildcat package, a shoulder wiggle into a bomb to I. Ford (whom Mot developed good chemistry with over the course of his starts) could catch an opposing defense flatfooted, much more so now than when Motley was running the full offense.
All right. Let me just say, I had a feeling this would happen, and while I'm very disheartened by the decision, I am not surprised. ESPN has turned college football into something larger than it has ever been before. In the process, they are also robbing it of its identity. I am not a purist, but historically, college football has been a different animal than pro football. Not so much anymore. With its coast to coast coverage, ESPN has actually turned college ball into a more national affair than the NFL. Typically speaking, you see the pro team either closest to you geographically or the most dominant within your television footprint. Hence the ongoing thread tracking who will be able to watch Tyrod play for the Bills. Yet ESPN will show the same college game from Maine to California.
ESPN cornered the market on college football a long time ago, and they've done a hell of a lot to promote it. It's way more lucrative now than it's ever been. But the coverage is also now 100% focused on the CFP and who will win the playoffs. While I agree that this is a step forward from the BCS, it's important to remember that for decades, any national championships in college football were purely mythical things. For a long stretch of history, it was the rivalries and the storylines that drove college football. There was a time when the retirement of a hall of fame coach like Bear Bryant or Bo Schembechler would have been THE headline in college football coverage, regardless of what the standings or the polls looked like. But we live in a different world now. The twilight of Frank Beamer's career will take second fiddle in coverage to the race for the playoffs, because in nationalizing college football, ESPN has turned it into basically every other sport.
This is not a lament. I believe what ESPN has done for college football is a net positive. But it has diminished some of the characteristics that have driven college football since the day Rutgers first played Princeton. On Saturday, it's up to us to remember what the most important storyline is in college football. Because ESPN just doesn't get it. They never have, and they never will.
I was with you right up until the point you said you put ribs on a grill...
J/K, I'm with you.
UNC will never pony up to keep Fedora if/when bigger programs come calling. Football will always be second fiddle in Chapel Hill. They will never be a perennial contender in the Coastal, because as soon as they get a coach who could make them one, they lose him to a football school.
One continuing trend I've noticed, our communication sucks. It takes too long to communicate a play from the booth to the QB. And then, once the play has been called in, pre-snap adjustments get lost on at least one skill position player every snap. I can't calculate how many times I have seen a receiver with his hands in the air looking at either Brewer or the sideline two seconds before the snap. Now this could possibly be a came of rope-a-dope, where Lefty is intentionally having his player feign confusion the same way Jim Brown use the feign injury, but my gut tells me there are so many variables in a Loeffler play, not everyone can keep track of everything going on.
If you're a defender and you see your cover assignment throwing his hands up right before the snap, you have a pretty good idea the ball is most likely not coming his direction, seeing as though he has no idea what the hell is supposed to do.