Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments
Oh man, that's a terrible soundbite. When did he say that? I wasn't aware that was out there.
Fun bit of trivia: this is the most requested piece of music for funerals in Great Britain.
It's not so much an issue of QP being one of Fuente's guys as it is QP being the guy. No knock on Hooker, but the hype around QP is that of being the anointed one. For better or worse, Fuente has tethered himself to Quincy's star. If QP is a bust, I think that will be enough to sink Fuente's career. If QP doesn't produce at Andy Dalton/Paxton Lynch levels, Fuente's seat will get hot quick.
Did you read the thread you're responding to the first comment of? UVA and NC State data was added after I commented that I didn't know what to do with the data without context. 4VPISU actually crunched the numbers for a couple other ACC programs (like a boss) and demonstrated that we actually are behind the curve on this metric.
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# | Buzzketball Central: Northeastern Huskies (2-1) at Virginia Tech Hokies (2-0) 11AM ESPN2 11/16/2018 Northeastern poked the bear.
Here's saying you have two seasons that are essentially identical (one extra win in one extra game played in 2016 vs 2017) and then a bad season this year. First of all, you can't derive a trend from there data points, but secondly, recency bias is influencing people to weigh the results of this season more heavily than the previous two and claim a downward trend to the program that isn't evident.
How in the world do you extrapolate from a comment about not having sufficient context for data that I'm somehow saying our offense is good?
Hard to argue otherwise. Didn't commit until March of 2016.
Well shit, I must have been tuned out on that one. Leg, Fireman.
I love winning easily while playing far from perfect basketball. Lots of teaching opportunities for Buzz.
It's got me wondering about a possible undisclosed injury issue.
#nosauces
Yeah I'm not one of those who froths at the mouth when a blue chip target goes elsewhere. Fuente and co. did literally everything they could to land Ford. If we consistently exhibit that effort toward our top targets, we're going to land a considerable number of them. At this point I'm just hoping that Keshawn King or Tahj Gary are criminally underrated
Oh I gotcha. Yeah, no doubt QB depth is vastly improved under Fuente. Still, in year three we have the worst QB out of three different starters. (Not worst by a mile, honestly JJ and Willis might be about on par, but still.) Fuente's scheme lives and dies by the QB's decision making, so I'm really not surprised to see the offense not firing on all cylinders under Willis. What will be concerning to me is if the offense sputters with QP, who was hand selected by Fuente to be his QB for his system. Like it or not, every QB we've had since Fuente got here has been a stopgap in one way or another (Evans a JUCO transfer, JJ Lefty's recruit, Willis a walk on transfer.)
As for RB, I'm high on Peoples this season, but we really, really needed Devyn Ford and we just couldn't close the deal. Hopefully we can find a viable replacement for Peoples next season, but McClease's disappearing act this season hasn't been encouraging.
Merryman is that way.
I can't agree we're seeing improvement at every offensive position. Definitely OL and WR. We haven't really upgraded RB, despite Peoples playing balls out the season. At QB, Jerrod Evans >> JJ ≥ Willis.
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# | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: BALL STATE CARDINALS (1-1) AT VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (1-0) 1130AM ACCNE 11/15/2018 Don't worry, he's only gotta take the ACT six more times before the NCAA is satisfied.
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# | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: BALL STATE CARDINALS (1-1) AT VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (1-0) 1130AM ACCNE 11/15/2018 Anyone that feel like the team just collectively shit their pants when Robinson went down and settled back down when he came back okay?
You can only get a medical waiver if you lose large portions of 2 seasons to injury.
Ixnay.
Nice! Thanks for the correction.
I'm hopeful this is indicative of the mindset of the team.
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# | Tech Tidbits: Tech's Bumbling, Battered Defense Readies for Miami's Inept, Unstable Offense Can we just appreciate for a moment the shopkeeper's tenacity to stay in the shot?
You can count two FCS wins toward bowl eligibility, you just can't be selected over another 6 win team that only has one win over an FCS team.
I never said you weren't entitled to your opinion or allowed to criticize. I said if you weren't a Hokie Club member, you weren't a part of the solution.
Money isn't going to fix the situation we're in this season. But a lack of it will ensure we never get to where we want to be.
The biggest problem with this offense isn't in the booth, he's behind center.