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# | "Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler seeks more balance in his life" 
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# | "Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler seeks more balance in his life" Manuel was the one to lead the winning drive. That makes me nervous.
Engrave this on a plaque, hang it above the door at TKP world headquarters.
VT Football's Snapchat has moved to sideline level filming, which makes it much more difficult to get anything of value in terms of full personnel groupings or formation.
Think that's intentional?
This is what happens when you establish a culture and identity within a program. I want to see Searels establish this with the OL and Zohn with the receivers.
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# | "Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler seeks more balance in his life" TCU wasn't a rebuild. We were. That's a valid point to make.
By and large I tolerate the Loeffler Sucks crowd, but what is really getting old is the resorting to hyperbole and straw men in response to specific examples. Show me anywhere on this site where the consensus on Loeffler is more than cautious optimism, but the Lefty critics like to paint the picture that this place is the Scot Loeffler Admiration Society.
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# | "Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler seeks more balance in his life" The problem is, the criticism of Loeffler is exactly in the same vein as politicians who approve a 5 year road construction project, then bitch a blue streak 3 years in about wasteful spending because the project isn't competed yet.
You have to give a rebuild time. In my book, and I feel comfortable guess in most people's books, that's 3 years. 3 years is sufficient to get your scheme established and get some of your own recruits into the depth chart.
Loeffler's first two seasons have been statistically disappointing, and if this is his average level of output, he should be fired. But I'm not gonna call for his head before he's had his fair shot to do what he is trying to do. That's counterproductive. You make a change and give the change a fair chance to work.
We see another year of this same level of output, no one will sound the horn for a change louder than me.
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# | "Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler seeks more balance in his life" For realz. This conversation has been going on all off season like a broken record. And the deal is, basically no one is singing Loeffler's praises as an offensive savior. It's basically one side calling him awful and the other side saying we don't have enough data to draw meaningful conclusions about Loeffler as an OC.
One thing almost everyone agrees on is this is the make or break season for Scot. He has to show marked improvement in offensive production or he will (rightfully) be out of a job. That seems to be a fairly entrenched consensus. So it isn't a situation of Pro-Loeffler vs Anti-Loeffler, but more a situation of Anti-Loeffler vs Let Loeffler Install His Scheme.
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# | "Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler seeks more balance in his life" Okay, 2003 Stiney to 2011 Loeffler at Temple. Lefty turned in the 39th scoring O and 7th rushing O in the country. That's what he's capable of with a roster suitable to his scheme.
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# | "Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler seeks more balance in his life" The point still stands. Look at the talent Stiney had when he was turning in offensive output identical to what Loeffler has managed with bare cupboards and an eviscerated OL. That's the difference between leaning on talent to win ISO battles and actually having a scheme.
Give Lefty the talent Stiney had in the Tyrod years, then make a valid apples to apples comparison.
Like it or not, this will be the reaction should we lose on Labor Day. Our win last year will be dismissed as a fluke, and an OSU win would be perceived by some as restoring cosmic balance to college football. It fits the narrative that a national champion isn't supposed to lose to a 7-6 also ran.
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# | "Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler seeks more balance in his life" Totally depends, IMO. There's the non-blowouts like FSU had last season, where they were winning games at the wire, and were clearly the beneficiaries of good bounces on more than one occasion. But if we are clearly in control of our games and don't run up the score to win by 28, I don't think pollsters are going to hold that against us.
Also, realize that there is a not-small faction of college football illuminati that would like to see Frank get a national championship before he retires. I'm betting if we field a team that's in the conversation, there will be some pollsters who lobby hard for us just because of that.
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# | Hokies RB Trey Edmunds Ready for a Season with "No Limp, No Gimp" After Several Injury-Filled Months Read title, immediately thought...
Really poor brand consistency, I will give you that. I've eaten at some that are terrible.
Their spicy chicken and biscuits are a weakness of mine.
Also, there are basically two divisions of that chain: the locations in and around Nashville, and those everywhere else. The latter are good, the former are great.
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# | Bitter blog - Hokies' search for backup WRs continues, but Burden more confident in group I don't know about putting it all together. I don't think Knowles will ever be the X receiver in our system. But his 2013 performance was enough to show that he could definitely be a Dyrell Roberts type player, never the feature receiver but someone who can come through with a spectacular play when needed. He lost his speed, and therefore his game, last season, but if he's healthy there's no reason to think he won't be a viable third option at receiver.
We saw Blues Traveler play Burruss Hall late 2001. Maybe a few weeks after 9/11? Anyway, John Popper opened the show with a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner on harmonica that will in my mind forever rival Jimi Hendrix's national anthem performance at Woodstock for sheer American badassery.
Anyway, there was this girl at the concert...to this day we call her the Swayer. Whatever she was on, she was dancing to a whole different music than what was being played onstage. Arms in the air, unceasing lateral movement whether standing still or moving, and just plain bowling people out of the way if she wanted to be dancing where you were standing.
Good times.
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# | Bitter blog - Hokies' search for backup WRs continues, but Burden more confident in group I look for Knowles to contribute this season. A lot of people closed the book on his last year, which I thought was odd when it was revealed it was an ankle injury that was hobbling him. That's a debilitating injury for a speed guy.
The war chant is the college football equivalent of a vuvuzela.
Zaxby's is good Chicken. Legitimately my fourth-favorite behind Church's, Popeye's and Bojangles.
By all indications, that cohesion has set up pretty well. It's now a question of are we going to try to get the backups ready, or aren't we. If we are, the time is now. Then we can revert to our actual starting five for the last few practices before the season opens.
I think the important question is... IS THERE NOW A ZAXBY'S IN BLACKSBURG????
One of my personal favorites...
I saw Junior Brown when he played the Lyric. One of the better concerts I've been to.
This is like watching the whole movie in gif form. I'm just waiting for him to yell, "Give me a minute!"
Shhhh. Let's give him his moment with his hyperbolized straw man. They make a cute couple.