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Watching 0-12 Kansas play 0-12 UCF last year could have been one of the best moments of the season, those kids are absolutely as competitive as anyone else and they would have left everything on the field to get that one win.
I'd be onboard with this if the bowls would do away with putting the participating schools on the hook for a guaranteed allotment of (generally terrible) tickets. Bowl games offer programs diminishing returns as you slide down the bowl ladder, to the point that most schools actually lose money in the existing structure. Opening up bowls to more .500 and below teams is just going to carry that many more untenable mandates for athletic departments that probably don't have the extra cash to go around.
If Devin hadn't made first contact, the defender wouldn't have deflected the ball. Devin tips the ball onto the defender's hand. The ball would have sailed over the defender without Devin's tip.
My point still stands. This is great in man coverage, and a recipe for disaster with safety help. I hope Devin has the football IQ to recognize the difference in live game situations. If he does, he could be a beast with that kind of adjustment and flexibility.
My gut tells me you're right. Fuente turned Memphis' offense around by catering it to Paxton Lynch's skill set. I don't expect our offense to be a carbon copy of what Fuente did at Memphis, because we have different players with different skills than what he had at Memphis. And I think Fuente wants to keep all his new wrinkles under wraps until the season starts. Fuente isn't playing his cards close to his vest, he's playing them under his vest. Once opposing conferences have a full season of game film to study, any element of surprise from closed scrimmages and untelevised spring games is lost.
This is the point that's being missed in a lot of the conversation surrounding this. The problem was there was undeniably a ton of recruiting going on at these camps, but the setup skirted recruiting guidelines. The trips weren't out of the recruiting budget and didn't count as recruiting visits for the coaching staff.
Under the new setup, coaches from B1G schools can still attend camps held at other locations, they just can't run the camps and have to attend under the auspices of being a recruiter. That's specifically what the coaching staffs at Michigan and Penn State were trying to avoid, and that's what prompted other members to object.
Hyperbole much?
Fans love the spring game, but its purpose is to actually gauge player performance and development in a simulated game environment. Televising it is great for displaced fans, but it also makes scouting that much easier. This way, we're forcing other ACC programs who want a look at what has been successfully installed to devote time, money and personnel to a scouting trip. It also guarantees any video recorded at the game will be of decidedly lower quality than what would be readily available with a streamed or televised game.
I doubt this becomes a recurring theme, but I completely support the decision not to televise or stream the game this year.
I've got a Zerolemon 9000 mAh tricell battery. That 6% is good for like 8-12 hours.
OK seriously, what is it about Tennessee's jerseys that make the players look fat? Look at the difference in his midsection. He looks fucking beast mode in our jersey and like he just put a Golden Corrall out of business in the Vols jersey.
Gotcha, and agreed. It was a pretty tangential question I was asking, but the clearer the line is, the easier it is to abide by it (and enforce it).
In much the same way that we didn't know about Seal Team Six until after the fact, there will be no previews of the new Offuentefense.
Just a question. Would this hold true if a reputable news source (ESPN, RT, RTD, WaPo, etc) ran a story that the University had not yet commented on?
This is a broader question than this particular circumstance. I'm asking because if a reputable news source (as opposed to a paid access gossip forum) reported something about a player's private life, I'd feel comfortable commenting on it here. If that's unacceptable, I want to know now before it happens.
TKP is one of the few communities I'd rather ask permission than forgiveness.
The lack of associating "Tech" with Virginia Tech is partly because we have done such a good promoting the VT brand.
This isn't a play, this is a man coverage drill. Our receivers will be targeted on throws like this against a variety of coverages. It's awesome that we have walk ons with the talent to make a catch like this. Equally important on live game situations is having receivers know when it is and isn't okay to attempt tipping the ball to yourself like this.
Then again, this was such a quick progression that Wilson might have just been trying to tip away an interception, then realized, we'll shit, I can still come down with that.
Only concern is, if the corner had safety help over the top, that's a long interception return.
That being said, I want to see this kind of fight (and ability) in practice.
Well, for one thing, outsiders have been taking "our" kids for years. Frank lost his stranglehold on the 757 years before he retired. However, if we are going to lose them to other programs, it's going to be because we get out-recruited, not because of some bogus camp that's really a recruiting conference. Other programs can compete with us, and we're damn well going to make them pony up a significant portion of their recruiting budget to do so.
These satellite camps were a loophole, plain and simple. And we used every ounce of leverage we could to close the loophole. You seem to be pretending that closing down these camps means the B1G can't recruit in Virginia anymore. Now they just have to actually play by the recruiting rules to do it.
Well, personally I think you're bass-ackwards on this one. These satellite camps were a gimmick to allow major programs to recruit without it coming out of the recruiting budget or falling under recruiting guidelines. It wasn't a "recruiting visit," it was a "camp." The SEC and ACC saw them for what they were and banned them, while the B1G, probably realizes their own backyard isn't exactly fertile soil for the type of high school recruit that championship-level P5 football targets right now, and was all about getting into recruiting hotbeds.
The reason it was unfair is that it can't work in reverse. Sure, we could do satellite camps in Texas and California, but we don't need to. We are already located in close proximity to a recruiting hotbed. And nobody is going to be knocking down doors to set up a satellite camp in Indiana or Iowa. The B1G was in a position to gain everything and lose nothing from this practice. Literally every other conference stood to lose from this setup. It is absolutely a no-brainer to ban them.
Yeah, they'll have to settle for attending mid-major programs like VT. /s
The ACC was equally vocal in objecting to this practice.
In my mind, the narrative on Lawson is one of patience, perseverance and dedication. Lefty obviously thought he brought the goods. While I'm not speculating whether they was any talk of early playing time, he basically burned a redshirt year for something like a dozen snaps from scrimmage. If TKP is any indication, the fanbase (or at least the portion that pays attention to recruiting) fawned over him as much or more than we fawned over Austin Clark's commitment. The question then becomes, did Lawson begin to think of himself as an heir apparent, and if so, does he have the grit to fight for and earn something he might have thought was going to be handed him?
To be clear, I'm not besmirching nor even questioning Lawson's character. He might be 100% all in on earning a starting spot here regardless of how long it takes. But when I look at his trajectory since joining our program, it seems that the biggest obstacle to him eventually becoming our starting QB might be completely in his own head and heart.
Wow. Decisive action on the part of the NCAA to address a practice that gave certain conferences a decided advantage over other conferences.
I...do not know how to process this information.
I know Lefty like to tinker with unusual formations, but I don't think I can recall anyone lining up with their end on the ground.
Now there have been plenty of times (especially in the Newsome era) when someone along the OL has had their end on the ground two seconds after the snap...
Attrition was a regular theme of Buzz's tenure at Marquette, yes? Seems like turnover is a component of his formula for success.
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# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver Oh, well, I disagreed with you at first, but I guess if you're putting your foot down like that...
Honestly, it is a change of tone from the previous regime. "Coach-speak" is just a term for when a coach speaks in generalities rather than specifics, but you can derive an overarching philosophy even from generalities. If you take Fuente's responses in this article and compare them to Beamer's responses since circa 2011, it's clear that there is a bit of a culture shift transpiring within the program.
Been giving a presentation at work all day. Jumping on here and seeing this is an excellent way to end the day.
There's always a couple of bowls that become defunct every year. By doing a three year ban, this will allow the natural progression of things to walk the number of bowls back a bit, without forcing any of the organizing committees out of the bowl business if they want to stay in. Then in three years they can revisit where things stand and decide to continue the moratorium or allow expansion again.