Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments
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9 years 9 months
# | Vintage Virginia Tech Performance Exorcises Demons in Win Against Boston College Our biggest weakness is struggling to convert 3rd and long? I'll take it.
I get what you're saying, and I agree that overall the offensive production under Fuente will demolish anything achieved in the Beamer years. However, I think you might be selling Evans short to just assume that his performance will be "obliterated" by his successor. Part of Evans' success is inarguably Fuente's scheme. But the scheme isn't faking out defenders with perfect play action motion, or putting perfect touch and placement on his passes. Evans seems to have all the tools, rather than being a product of the scheme.
*doughnut
And neither are on his face.
I don't want Lamar Jackson, goddammit. I'm a Michael Vick man.
Autocowrecked.
Fixed.
We're top 50 in scoring offense and total offense. And that's after facing what on paper might be the two best defenses we face this season.
Liberty.
This. Fuck the rivalry. I want the BooHoos to be the ass clowns of P5 football.
It was one thing when the ACC was a shitty conference. We needed everything we could get to earn respect and get out of the SEC's shadow. But those days are long gone. The ACCCG has been a play-in to the CFP the last two years for the Atlantic. If the Coastal rebuilds like it should with its quality of coaching, it could become a play-in either way.
Not to mention that the state of Virginia is about to have FOUR FBS programs. That's a lot of recruiting competition in a talent pool already heavily recruited by premier out of state programs. The best was to reestablish a stranglehold on top Virginia talent is to demonstrably prove we are the ONLY legit program in this state.
The worse LOLUVA is, the better it is for us.
Dude, how do you think I feel?
Okay, now you're just trolling.
Is that bizarre in context, though? I have no idea how other programs operate, but I have to imagine it's SOP to have all your ones in on "key" downs, regardless of what definition you use for those downs. We're seeing more rotation and targeting if the twos this season, which is a departure from Loeffler.
It's fairly obvious Frank realized too late that he had to field a competent offense to be competitive in the modern game, and didn't understand enough about modern offenses to know who he should hire. Loeffler knows football inside and out and sold Frank on his vision in the same way he sold recruits. Results failed to materialize, and after three mediocre seasons, Frank hung it up. Did he stay too long? Perhaps. But he also bowed out graciously, preserving his legacy and allowing us to revere him despite his decline in his last years. After the ignominious ends to the careers of legends like Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno, that was a refreshing change of pace. Frank loved VT football enough to walk away from it before he damaged the brand and fostered animosity from the fanbase. He didn't retire a moment too early, but he didn't hang on too long out of pride, ego or spite.
Lefty did what he could, limited at first by bare cupboards, then by his own overthinking. When his scheme worked, it was beautiful. But it required too many things to go right for it to work. Perhaps a place like BC will be the right environment for him to find success, as the lack of blue chip talent will probably force him to simplify his scheme. I wish him well in every game he coaches except when it's against us.
My anger doesn't lie anywhere. I don't take the glee in watching Lefty fail that others have seemed to. I said as much in the open thread. But I understand the psychology of those who are taking pleasure in the dismantling of Lefty's offense. For years, honestly for over a decade, it was the lack of an offense that prevented VT from winning a national championship. Dismantling our old OC represented symbolically turning the page on years of the offense failing to hold up its end of the bargain. And although that frustration would be better targeted at Stinespring, O'Cain, or even Beamer himself for holding on to outdated offensive philosophy, Lefty presented an easy target, and lots of Hokies fans took aim.
To paraphrase Chris Rock, I'm not saying it's right, but I understand.
Brown got into commentating as a move to stay visible while waiting for another coaching job. Now it's just getting sad.
I'm so freaking happy my local affiliate has picked up ACC Network games. Makes it much less of a PITA to watch.
You can scream into the wind all you want, and it won't change the prevailing sentiment. Lefty promised to make changes to our history of offensive ineptitude, and for the most part he failed to deliver. He was the Seth Greenberg of OCs, delivering good performances in our biggest games and duds in most everything else. But he did restock the cupboards by selling his vision, and that had left Fuente all the pieces to work with. I don't hold any animosity toward Lefty and hope that one day he simplifies his scheme enough to work at the FBS level. However, he was far from the man who "saved us." The men who saved this program are Frank Beamer for knowing when it was time to retire, and Whit Babcock for bringing in Fuente.
Never, ever go after Kuntz too early.
Lefty inherits the angst and schadenfreude that is rightly reserved for Stiney. It is what it is. We will never get the chance to vent our frustrations against Stiney, because he will never be an OC for an FBS program again.
There is no denying, we were a better program after Lefty than before. But this fanbase has a LOT of pent up rage that dates back to the early years of Stiney's OC career. We needed to vent that. Lefty is the scapegoat.
Good to know. Thanks Joe. I always really enjoyed Mason's stuff, and he was engaged and passionate in the comments without being a dick. Hope all is well with him.
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9 years 9 months
# | Hokies get "doughnut" on defense, offense breaks out in big way to blank Boston College I'd say those reps were responsible for getting Marshawn back to form. When he first came in, he looked a little rusty and timid. By the end of the third, he was the bulldozer I remember.
Does Mason still contribute here? Don't remember seeing his name on an article recently.
That is so odd. I could see it on multiple devices, including ones I wasn't signed into my imgur account.
I changed hosts. Let me know if that does the trick.