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Thankfully that's only about two months away, thanks to the early signing period.
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# | Tech Tidbits: Picking Up the Pieces, And Adjusting Expectations, After Notre Dame It was a bad day for double passes by underdogs.
Wow, I did NOT think Bryant was a senior.
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7 years 9 months
# | Tech Tidbits: Picking Up the Pieces, And Adjusting Expectations, After Notre Dame Look, it's damn near inexcusable that we never got back to the national championship game. For everything that Beamer did for VT football, the one thing he failed to do was take the final step and establish VT as one of the elites of the BCS era. Beamer took Kevin Rodgers leaving personally, which was a bad decision. He circled the wagons and valued loyalty over ambition. That's why Beamer doesn't have the coaching tree a hall of fame coach typically has. The result was an empty trophy case.
That's the past, and there's no changing it. You are correct, we are not in a better place as a program than we were 20 years ago. But we're in a much better position than we were five years ago. That's getting lost, I think.
Fuente immediately got us out of the rut we were in. And now it feels like a lot of the angst from circa 2000-2010 is getting carried over to Fuente. That's not fair to do, because while it is certainly true that the program feels like it hasn't progressed beyond where it was circa 2008, we had to climb our way out of a ditch to get back to this point. The angst only becomes justified, in my opinion, if Fuente fails to take us any higher than this. I don't see anything that makes me think that this is Fuente's ceiling, and any talk about Fuente possibly not "lasting" another 2-4 years seems completely baseless to me.
Doesn't he have to sit out two years if he transfers to an ACC school?
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7 years 9 months
# | For Virginia Tech, Scheme Can't Overcome Personnel in 23-45 Loss Against Notre Dame I mean, I can't think of a better synonym for mediocre than "hit or miss." I'm not trying to disrespect French, just saying I don't take his player evals as gospel the same way I do his film analysis.
Not sure what good a position by position breakdown does, but since you asked, I'm much higher on Dylan Rivers than French seems to be. He's consistently been in good position and has displayed proper tackling form. I think he's on the right track to anchor the middle of this front 7. And for a redshirt freshman converted wide receiver, I think Farley is playing above expectations.
But again, my larger point is that I'm okay with disagreeing with French when it comes to player evals, and I didn't mean that in a disrespectful way.
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# | Tech Tidbits: Picking Up the Pieces, And Adjusting Expectations, After Notre Dame Well I mean it's the same distance the RB is running either way. Just takes the handoff sooner in shotgun. He still will have run about 5 yards by the time he gets to the line.
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# | Tech Tidbits: Picking Up the Pieces, And Adjusting Expectations, After Notre Dame But the same momentum by the time he gets to the line of scrimmage.
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7 years 9 months
# | For Virginia Tech, Scheme Can't Overcome Personnel in 23-45 Loss Against Notre Dame Double post .
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7 years 9 months
# | For Virginia Tech, Scheme Can't Overcome Personnel in 23-45 Loss Against Notre Dame Well to be fair, French has proven himself to be world class in breaking down film, and mediocre at evaluating talent. I respect everything he's saying about the breakdowns we're seeing on defense, but disagree with him about his outlook on the prospects of these players' development.
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7 years 9 months
# | Tech Tidbits: Picking Up the Pieces, And Adjusting Expectations, After Notre Dame I've heard this a lot and I don't get it. Do people forget where the program was three years ago? Fighting tooth and nail in the 12th game of the season for bowl eligibility had become the norm in the waning years of Beamer's tenure. Forget winning statement games, we were struggling to finish seasons at .500.
Enter Fuente. We win 19 games in 2 seasons. We get back to the ACCCG in year one, and barely miss out in year 2 with a true redshirt frosh QB. How in the world are people spreading the narrative that nothing has changed? We have immediately returned to basically the same level of success we had throughout the 2000s, when the slump the program had fallen into from 2012-2015 could have easily continued or worsened. But it seems like instead of breathing a sigh of relief that the ship seems to have been righted, it seems as though the most vocal segment of the fanbase is stuck on the idea that the current state of the program isn't good enough.
Let me be clear, we are outrageously lucky to have returned to this level of success this quickly. For everyone claiming VT shouldn't settle for being an ACC championship contender, please realize that contending for ACC championships is a huge improvement over where this program was the year before Fuente took over.
I'm not saying we should all be satisfied with the current level of success in perpetuity. But people are also acting like we've had this level of success in perpetuity. Being where we are right now is a return to form, not the status quo. And honestly, I'm starting to feel like I'm in the car, on my way to vacation, with the kids asking from the backseat if we're there yet every five minutes.
We're gonna get there, people.
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7 years 9 months
# | Tech Tidbits: Picking Up the Pieces, And Adjusting Expectations, After Notre Dame Thanks for that. Fixed.
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# | Tech Tidbits: Picking Up the Pieces, And Adjusting Expectations, After Notre Dame The play calls at the goal line were fine. We score on first and goal if Peoples takes a step to the left around Keene's tackle.
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7 years 9 months
# | For Virginia Tech, Scheme Can't Overcome Personnel in 23-45 Loss Against Notre Dame Forget it. The GT game is on Willis and the offense to win. I fully expect the Jackets to run all over our defense.
I'm now kicking myself for having never thought to substitute avocado for cream cheese on a lox bagel.
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7 years 9 months
# | For Virginia Tech, Scheme Can't Overcome Personnel in 23-45 Loss Against Notre Dame I want to see our young defenders learn how to fit their gaps and play their assignments before I evaluate their playmaking ability. Hard to know which younguns will be good for us when they're out of position to make a play.
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# | For Virginia Tech, Scheme Can't Overcome Personnel in 23-45 Loss Against Notre Dame On 1st and goal, if Peoples cuts to the left and steps around Keene rather than running into him and slowing his own momentum, he's in the end zone. I really like People's, but vision isn't his strong suit. The crease was there on two carries in a row for him to find the end zone, and he didn't adjust.
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# | For Virginia Tech, Scheme Can't Overcome Personnel in 23-45 Loss Against Notre Dame Edit: never mind, just found him.
Sorry, message lost in translation between brain and fingers. What I mean is, it would be interesting to see how Evans would do with this roster compared to JJ and Willis, for a sake of comparison. It's hard to gauge offensive improvement when you have three different starting QBs in three seasons.
My man crush on Vance Vice is yuge.
Double post.
True, but now you're getting into "what if the opposing QB had a different skill set?" From everything I saw Saturday night, Book doesn't have a deep ball. (I said exactly that in the live thread.) It seems to be one of his limitations, and it's that limitation specifically that gave us a chance to win this game. Against a QB who can step into the pass rush and throw an accurate deep ball, this defense is going to get torched. But ND didn't have that. All the stuff kylebr2 mentions are actually addressable issues. Suddenly giving a QB an accurate deep ball isn't.
Gotcha. Yes, that context does make a big difference.
There's a difference between saying "we should have won" and saying "these are the things we need to address to improve going forward."
Hmm. So loluva finally beat a 16.