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Dude, I'll be 100% honest with you. Stiney is one HELL of a tight ends coach, and I'm gonna bet he could be the type of WR coach that would compliment Lefty's scheme. (Emphasis on blocking, crisp route running, helping sell the play action through releases, etc.)
Having said that, I DON'T think we go that route.
You pay based on ability not seniority. Aaron has proven himself and should be earning an average salary for his coaching position regardless of length of tenure.
Look at it this way. If we go out and get a proven coach with experience rather than another GA given his first shot at a full, official coaching staff position, we are going to wind up paying around the figure I was talking about anyway. Would you rather be paying that money for a gamble on a new guy, or on Moorehead, who we know is an excellent fit at VT and was building the program? That's a no-brainer in my opinion.
Length of tenure has nothing to do with it if you've proven yourself, and Aaron has proven himself.
If we had offered him $252,810 he would have been tied with Cornell and Shane as the lowest paid assistant salary.
I think Stiney took a $50K cut when he got demoted. It was a chunk, I know.
Keep in mind I'm not talking about going MILLIONS of dollars in the red. Let's assume Aaron makes $250K in College Station. Would it really be that hard to work the budget to find an extra $70K to match the offer?
My biggest fear isn't even losing Moorehead per se, but with Grimes last year and now Aaron, I'm worried about Frank reacting like he did after Kevin Rodgers followed Childress to the Vikings and making hiring decisions based more on loyalty than ability.
Yeah, let's not break out the torches and pitchforks. Aaron is resume building. I wish we could have kept him, and I hope to God Whit tried, but I can't blame Aaron for wanting to coach under Sumlin.
And that's ANOTHER idea.
Now THAT'S an idea.
I said yesterday, I think Moorehead is the one guy you go in the red for. He had the promise to be the coach we built the offense around like we built the defense around Bud.
That will serve us well when we hire him back as OC in a few years.
What's Antonio Freeman up to these days? Any interest in coaching?
A failure on Whit either way.
If a Whit decision, just the wrong decision.
If a Beamer decision, Whit should have thought about the future and overridden Beamer's choice.
Regardless of the process, blame falls on Whit's shoulders for this, IMO. I'm not saying grab the pitchforks and torches, but I AM saying Whit better make up for letting Aaron go with an absolute homerun hire.
This thread was worth it just for this response.
Can we pass a damn hat to buy a subscription and find out what the story is?
Fuck the bank account. We go into the red to keep Moorehead on staff. He's a program builder.
So this is pretty obvious in my book. If this rumor has legs, Whit matches the offer. Period.
What does the trendline look like over that eight year period? Just throwing all the data in a blender doesn't do much.
We're a bit of a longshot, but we should get Searels and Cornell on the phone with this kid TONIGHT. We're staring down the barrel at signing day but if we could get him down to Blacksburg we might have a shot.
Good lord that kid is HUGE.
That's what I've heard as well. He'll get his first look at DL.
Good lord with all the excitement about Settle committing, I had temporarily let Niman slip my mind. That kid is a beast. Things are looking up along the front 4.
That mindset is obsolete in 21st century college football. State borders no longer apply. You carve out your own recruiting borders and treat all recruits in your talent pool as potential targets. Then you sell the program to the recruits who aren't already sold on it.
We're lucky that our state is talent-rich enough for us to survive with a majority of in-state recruits. It keeps our recruiting budget down. But if you think we'll ever be successful having a team that's 90% Virginians who knew from day one they wanted to be a Hokie, you're wrong.
The expansion of territory is coming by necessity not necessarily by choice.
To a certain extent I agree with you, but I disagree that if we lock down the 757 again we'll abandon our expanded footprint. We aren't just expanding chaotically. We're expanding intO the territory that Aaron Moorehead has ties to, and that's building upon the foundation that Darren Evans' recruitment built. Once we build this bigger footprint then we cherrypick the nest recruits out of the entire footprint. We won't give preference to Virginia recruits just because they're Virginia recruits if there's an Indiana or New Jersey recruit that's better suited to our needs.
All were doing is broadening the talent pool we have to select from. Had we done that ten years ago, losing our hold on the 757 wouldn't have hurt us like it did.
Nicely stated.
Goddam, son, but if your optimism isn't infectious.