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That's why I'm hopeful to see things out of the offense like the OSU game, the ECU comeback, the BC game, etc. It feels like although we're seeing it in fits and starts, the difference between Lefty and Stiney is that Lefty's offenses can answer the bell. A lot of Stiney's offenses performed worst when we needed them most. There a "rise to the occasion" quality in Lefty's body of work that hasn't been present in a while.
Well, let's look at those six losses. Offense takes 100% of the blame for Wake Forest and I'll give you Pitt. I'll say the offense gets most of the blame against Miami even though the defense had no answer for Duke Johnson. ECU is a team loss. The GT loss is 100% on Brewer's three picks. You can call that loss on the offense, but the game plan and play calling were legit. And BC is on the defense.
Saying if the offense pulled its weight we wouldn't be 7-6, you're right. We'd be more like 8-4. There were some losses that weren't on the offense.
If a Fortune 500 company offered you a VP position in your field, but their logistics system was fundamentally different than the one your current employer utilizes, would you decline the offer? Not many people I know would.
I don't get this comment at all. How was he supposed to utilize Air Raid talent? He doesn't run an Air Raid. He tried to install his system with Malzahn's players. He adapted his scheme as best he could but it was just too big a transition to make in a year. In a lot of ways I'd say it's similar to what Buzz is dealing with on the basketball team this year.
Whole program, really. I've heard people criticize the defense when the O managed to score ten points.
"Then the D should've held the other team to nine!"
To me it's not so much about the ranking as it is the contribution to the program. I felt that Stiney's offenses didn't pull their weight when it came to controlling the game. Too many 3 and outs with small leads, etc.
To me, the offense I want to see is what the offense did in the last touchdown drive against OSU, or the field goal drive that look like seven minutes off the clock. Or how the offense contributed to clawing our way back to tie ECU after both offense and defense had a wretched first quarter. Or how the offense carried the team against BC all day. Or against LOLUVA and Cincinnati, which were just good all around program efforts.
As long as I can say the offense is carrying its weight, the rankings aren't that critical to me. Granted, the offense didn't pull its weight against against Wake, just like the defense didn't pull its weight against BC. And in general, you gotta do better than the bottom quartile of offenses. But let's see what the rankings look like once we can rely on a balanced run/pass gamelan. I think a lot of our ranking struggles have coincided with our struggles to reestablish the run game.
This. Auburn was about as messed up of a situation possible. Malzahn leaves to be a great coach. The defensive-minded Chizzik, who is already on the hot seat, thinks transitioning to a pro-style offense is a good idea, so he hires lefty to install one. Running a pro style offense with players recruited for the air raid has predictable results. The head coach is subsequently fired and the entire staff dismissed. Malzahn returns to the offense he had built and has unsurprising success with it. So really, it wasn't year one, it was a return from a sabbatical.
Right now the jury is still out. Lovers will point to the improved positional recruiting and the uptick of the rushing game the last couple of games. Haters will point to our offensive rankings during Lefty's tenure. And both sides have a point.
2015 will be the year the lot is cast for Lefty. There are some who will never be satisfied without a top ten offense, and there are those who will always make excuses for why a lack of performance is understandable. But after 2015 I feel we will have a better grasp on whether or not Lefty can compliment the VT football formula.
So there were pieces from the '13 team that could have developed and had been in the same system.
And under the old offensive mindset of seniority rules, that's what we would have seen. But those other receivers weren't arbitrarily passed over. Ford and Phillips usurped them. (With the exception of Yoshi, who could have been the anchor of the receiving corps this season.)
We're putting our players with the most upside on the field on offense. There's not really ant excuse built into that statement, it's just what we're doing. So to say they're were pieces from '13 that could have developed, in the coaches' minds the new guys were the better prospects to start. Meaning they came in ahead of where the returners were after developing last season.
There's a difference between making excuses and understanding what's going on at various positions on the team. It doesn't excuse Lefty's offensive rankings, it's just a discussion of the issues we face as a program. It's Lefty's job to address those issues that affect the offense.
VTGM isn't excusing Lefty's performance, he's saying he buys into the three year rule. A new coordinator gets three years to install his system and get his guys in place. I ascribe to the same philosophy. In my mind, Lefty's been playing with house money the last two years. 2015 will be the year when I can feel comfortable saying, okay, this is what Scot Loeffler brings as an OC. Does he pass muster? A lot of people have already made that judgment call, but to be at least, it's premature to do so.
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# | Nate Lee Gets Introduction to the Hokies From Teammate, Tech Commit Logan Byrd In such an occurrence you must answer me these questions three:
- What is your name?
- What is your quest?
- What is your favorite color?
Yes, that option was there on desktop but wasn't there on mobile. Set up with monthly recurring now. Go buy yourself something...
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TBD how Clemson transitions to a post-Morris future. If they get the right OC they are very well perched with Venables finally clicking on defense. If they become the Atlantic equivalent of us, Louisville has a good shot.
Aight. To the desktop!
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# | Hokies Football Recruiting: Watch Dwayne Lawson's Announcement and Recruit Reactions Holy shit you just blew my mind. I never for a second thought about her calling people carnies! Mamaw just got a little more badass in my mind.
How do you set up a recurring donation and is it doable on PayPal's mobile site? I wanna be in monthly but when I did my donation on my phone I didn't see any option to make it recurring. Is that an option on the full PayPal site?
Can we switch your tag from COLUMNIST to KNOW IT ALL ASSHOLE?
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# | Nate Lee Gets Introduction to the Hokies From Teammate, Tech Commit Logan Byrd By a newly adopted rule concerning double posts, you must now edit this post to be a line of dialogue from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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# | Nate Lee Gets Introduction to the Hokies From Teammate, Tech Commit Logan Byrd You shouldn't order seafood this far from the coast in a small town and expect to get anything other than frozen, farm-raised fish.
Try living in the frickin Midwest sometime. *sigh*
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# | Hokies Football Recruiting: Watch Dwayne Lawson's Announcement and Recruit Reactions My grandmother used to say, and I'm totally guessing on the spelling here because I've never seen this word written anywhere, "quarney." It sounded like kyar-nee. It meant troublesome, difficult, frustrating, good for nothing. If a group of people had a reputation for trouble, she'd call them a "quarney outfit. "
Jimi will never not get a leg.
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# | Hokies Football Recruiting: Watch Dwayne Lawson's Announcement and Recruit Reactions 
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# | Hokies Football Recruiting: Watch Dwayne Lawson's Announcement and Recruit Reactions And rinse it out with a mouthful of worter.
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# | Bitter blog - Re-stocked QB pool could lead to interesting competition down the line Ditto. The whole situation was effed up a d tragic. Worst part of all was thinking what would this young man have been like had he benefited from 4-5 years of our coaching staff as positive role models.
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Also, tangent. How do I make my donation recurring? I'm on moble and didn't see an option for recurring.
I agree for the most part, but there were some absolutely critical long sustained drives this season that secured some wins. The 7 minute drive against OSU in the 4th quarter springs to mind. A lot of the uptempo teams lose close games because they can't seal the win by getting time off the clock. I don't want to see us be that team.
But I think that problem will self-correct as we get the O line and running game figured out.