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Brilliantly done article, Mason. Optimistic without drinking the kool-aid. There is reason to believe we can be competent on offense so long as the starting OL stays healthy. The struggles of the second string illustrate how little room for injury there is. As long as the starting five stay healthy, I think we're in for some pleasant surprises.
I'm late to the party, but to answer the original question... mostly spilled bourbon from the tailgate.
Absolutely. We had stagnated. Seth had hit his ISO ceiling. It was time to move on, on both sides. So the right thing to do would be not renew his contract, have a conversation in the Ad's office, and move on. I'm not sure how Seth, with his naturally abrasive personality, would have responded, but Weaver acted like a character from Mean Girls with the way he handled the situation.
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# | 2016 OT Zach Adams Builds on Lengthy Relationship with Stacy Searels, Hopes for Hokies Offer No argument. I'm just saying there is wiggle room if we oversign. Just because we send an offer out doesn't mean that our hands are tied if that target commits.
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# | Highlights of the Hokies' Second Spring Football Scrimmage of the 2015 Season You'd have to think our 1.5 DL is better than the majority of the DLs we'll face this season.
At this point I'm crossing everything I have two of and hoping that Scott Loeffler is successful, because I really like this guy.
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# | Highlights of the Hokies' Second Spring Football Scrimmage of the 2015 Season Was he throwing anything over the middle? My one gripe would be all the highlights seem to be between the hash and the sideline just like down the stretch last year.
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# | Highlights of the Hokies' Second Spring Football Scrimmage of the 2015 Season Holy shit Brewer looks good.
Thanks for the legwork. I would love to see this setup.
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# | 2016 OT Zach Adams Builds on Lengthy Relationship with Stacy Searels, Hopes for Hokies Offer We have no problem converting a commitable offer to a grayshirt offer, so its not like our hands are completely tied if we oversign.
If they're gonna allow this, I say let's embrace the hell out of it. Drop the divisions, dump us all into one fourteen team league and just go through the entire conference seven eight other members at a time. [EDIT: math is FUNdamental] Rotate home and homes throughout the conference, dropping one opponent off and picking a new one up each season. Two highest overall conference records face off in the title game. In a three way tie, look at head to head results as the first step of a tiebreaker.
FURTHER EDIT: Fleshing this out a little more since my first response was off the cuff...
Four home games, four away games in conference per season. Next season, the four home opponents from this season become the away opponents, the four away opponents from last season drop off, and we gain four new home opponents. I think we play everyone in the conference within three years doing it this way, if my math is right. There might be some wonkiness to the schedule working through thirteen other conference members eight at a time, but there has to be a rotation that would work. Honesty, the only reason we're in divisions now is because it was a requirement for having a championship game.
I hold no animosity toward Seth. I think during his time at VT he elevated the program. But I also think that by the time he was let go, it was certainly time for him to be let go. He and the program were stagnating. However, the way Jim Weaver handled the dismissal coupled with his penny pinching succession plan were inexcusable. Weaver undid every bit of progress we had made as a program under Seth, and that whole debacle is one of the big reasons I say Weaver overstayed his welcome by about five years. There are some people who hold a lot of animosity toward Seth, but when I hear their arguments, they strike me as the jaded girlfriend who still can't let go of a bad relationship because the breakup was messy. I wish Seth much success in life, but I wish it for him somewhere else. He did what he could here.
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Still no sign of Alston Smith?
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# | Hokies Tailback Trey Edmunds Looks to Regain Form, Joel Caleb Switches Positions 1) I'd love to see that article.
2) At any point in the year did we have more than three TBs in on plays in the same game? I got the feeling last year that it felt like we were seeing tailback by committee, but injury contributed to that. Like someone else said, it felt like there was a defined tandem backfield, but that tandem kept changing due to someone getting injured.
3) Why doesn't someone with press credentials ask Shane to clarify his everyone has a role statement? Other than the fact that doing so will take away something for us to nitpick during the offseason.
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Did MW and SM get the bulk of the carries early in the year? Absolutely. However, they were also taken off the field on passing downs and for specific packages.
How much of that could be attributable to the staff simply not trusting the freshmen tailbacks in blocking situations? While it might tip our hand a bit, having our best blocker in to block is probably the smart play. If Trey is fully good to go, we might see less of that rotation on passing downs since he's our best blocking tailback.
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# | Hokies Tailback Trey Edmunds Looks to Regain Form, Joel Caleb Switches Positions Granted, and we'll never know if this move would have been made if AMo was still on staff. I'm admittedly looking at this in a vacuum, but just putting quotes from AMo and Zohn side by side, I prefer what I have heard from Zohn thus far. That includes the fact that the First contact he had with our two returning star receivers was to tell them they have to get better in the blocking game.
That makes me feel much better. I thought that was during a run.
Absolutely fantastic work.
And on an unrelated note, went the hell is JCC holding the ball like that?
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# | Hokies Tailback Trey Edmunds Looks to Regain Form, Joel Caleb Switches Positions I would be inclined to agree with you if Zohn didn't have a track record of helping players switch positions to WR and be successful.
Put another way, AMo wanted to work with true receivers. It's easier to coach true receivers. It is way harder to help someone pick up the position at the college level. And Zohn publicly embraced that challenge even before he came to VT.
I'm not saying Zohn is a better WR coach, but I am saying when you compare AMo and Zohn on their mindsets of which players they want to coach, Zohn accepts a greater challenge than his predecessor.
Devil's advocate, the receiver gave up on the play as he watched Kendall bat the ball away. If Kendall doesn't make that play, the receiver is in halfway decent position to attempt an acrobatic toe drag. Kendall denied him that opportunity.
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# | Hokies Tailback Trey Edmunds Looks to Regain Form, Joel Caleb Switches Positions One thing that isn't really being discussed but I think is worth mentioning: Aaron Morehead basically said Caleb couldn't cut it at WR. Zohn is basically saying, yeah, I can make this guy a receiver. I like that juxtaposition.
Well, this season has started, so it'll be time to wait until next year any day now.
Did we see anything notable out of Jaylen Bradshaw on Saturday?
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Whatever it is today, it'll be completely different by the next scrimmage.