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I think this is just the same contract Bud negotiated with Whit after the 2014 season. I doubt Fuente would have been able to tinker with it and retain Bud.
I agree about our linebackers, but our defensive backfield did great. We were 20th in passing defense and 37th in pass efficiency defense, with a front four that consistently failed to get pressure without blitz help.
The D line just wasn't very good this year, without pointing any fingers at other positions.
I sense some homerism and a bit of xenophobia about all these "newfangled" coaches coming in and making a lot of money while a couple of established coaches have taken a pay cut.
Fuente's payroll looks good to me, with the exception that I think Burden should be making $260K. But I also don't think Fuente is sold on Burden and originally didn't intend to retain him. So Fuente is saving $60K of payroll by giving Burden a test run.
Position coaches make the same. I can get behind that so long as Fuente expects the same output and production from each coach. Coordinators and the Assistant HC make more. I don't see the problem here.
I think the idea of an Assistant HC position is exactly how a coach builds a coaching tree. You groom one member of your staff to take the next step. I think part of the problem here is that 1) that idea is counter to the culture VT had under Beamer, where up until the very end, staff attrition was met with hostility (Hello Kevin Rodgers), and 2) the Assistant HC isn't a Beamer legacy. We wouldn't hear a peep about this if Fuente tabbed Gray as Assistant HC.
So just to get this in bullet point form, your argument against Galen Scott is:
- He has no 4 or 5 star recruits at a G5 program and his five days at VT.
- He was not instantly successful in his ONE SEASON as a defensive coordinator, in which he lost eight starters.
- You don't like the way he interviews.
Sorry, but your entire argument just sounds like butthurt.
I dunno, but I think the DL coach should get a pay cut over it...
I would hate facing Lefty every season. He knows our defense and was starting to get the better of them in practices. Not good.
It's seen now. He's the assistant HC. Fuente obviously considers this guy his protege. Obviously grooming him for something greater.
Why are we manufacturing drama over this?
The boss sets the payscale. Those who aren't satisfied may look elsewhere for employment opportunities.
And we don't even know what Fuentes's staff incentives look like.
This is a modest payroll for a P5 program.
Princess Peach was the bomb with her hoverjump. Only way I could defeat Birdo.
Mario 2 holds up. I like the difference in game play, and it introduced the mechanic of being able to pick stuff up and throw it as a weapon, which is carried over through the rest of the series.
Zelda 2 was just weird. Why they decided to make it a side scroller, I'll never know.
This. Herman is doing great things at Houston. The absolute best way to completely derail that is start throwing around ultimatums to recruits.
We are expanding the shit out of our recruiting footprint. I love it.
I'm still riding high from back to back ACC victories. But one thing is still nagging at me:
WE HAVE TO LEARN TO SHOOT FRICKIN FREE THROWS.
Honestly, UVA shouldn't have been a nailbiter. It seems like we have been an awful free throw team going back to Seth Greenberg. What gives? Why are so so bad at something that should be so easy?
I think the moment the "prophecy" was fulfilled was when Vader chose his son over his master, sacrificing himself to throw Palpatine down the reactor core of the second Death Star. Vader came back. That's not supposed to happen. I know the Jedi Council dealt in hyperbole (with their "certain point of view") but I don't think Yoda was lying when he said once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Anakin's return from the dark side opened a new path, and I think Luke followed it. Like you said, Luke could flirt with the dark side without being dominated by it: force-choking Jabba's palace guards while maintaining his calm, giving into his anger against Vader upon Leia being threatened only to reel it right back in as soon as he hears Palpatine's laughter. Granted, it's probably easier when you're a bloodline derived from the Force itself.
It actually isn't as odd as you might think. Lots of coaches shuffle through various positions on one side of the ball. The stability of the VT staff over Frank's tenure makes it seem odder than it is now.
Honestly, Shane is in great shape here because he worked alongside Stiney for several years, who is a very good TE coach.
PADDED KNEES: Because.
I know that's the common interpretation, but I've always had a problem with it. By that logic, Anakin was bringing balance to the number of Jedi vs Sith. He was bringing balance to the Force users, not the Force. The Force was still there, both light and dark, just as it had always been.
I really dislike that Lucas brought a prophecy into it in the first place. For one thing, it's a little too Harry Potter for me. For another, we get one line about a prophecy, and that's it. We don't know if the prophecy actually said there would be a person who "will bring balance to the Force," or if Windu was just paraphrasing a common interpretation of the prophecy. We also don't know how the Force was "out of balance."
When I hear "bring balance to the force," it seems like it would stand to reason that it would mean abandoning the entire light side vs dark side dichotomy and trying to realize that the problems arise when a person clings too tightly to one side and tries to entirely forsake the other. The Jedi were too Vulcan and the Sith were too emo. If there could be a third path that understands that anger, fear and aggression are natural impulses, and rather than be shunned they should be conquered, so they can be used as tools rather than allowing them to dominate you, that would be what I'd consider "bringing balance to the Force."
Tell me that's John Bonham in the front.
Sorrow and negativity are two completely different things.
Wishing you strength today.
Here's my take. I am perfectly comfortable with the fact that some people might find it a bit excessive.
Mark, Andy, et al: Shut the fuck up.
You want to complain about bad seats and long waits to pepper a coach with questions? You are journalists. You have a career that, so long as you meet your deadlines, is shielded by Constitutional protection. You can write whatever you want without fear of legal repercussion.
You also have colleagues in journalism who put their ass on the line every day, covering world events. You have colleagues who have literally lost their heads doing their job. Your biggest concern is if the coffee is too warm. You have it pretty fucking good.
Stop acting like children. When I see reporters act like you, it reminds me of my favorite Hunter S. Thomspon quote.
Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.
Seems to encapsulate Mark Berman rather perfectly.
or develop something new, like fusion
Speaking of, has anyone else been following the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator? The test run on December 10 successfully produced a helium plasma, and trials to produce a hydrogen plasma (the main objective of the project) will begin sometime this month.
Even if the Wendelstein 7-X never proves to be an efficient reactor (and it doesn't promise to be) if the trial is a success it will prove stellarator technology is viable and could lead to a breakthrough in fusion reactor technology. Stellarators show a lot more promise than tokamak reactors, but have historically been considered such an absolute bitch to construct (Wendelstein 7-X has one million construction hours) that they were considered essentially impossible to construct a short while ago.
We had to put ours down three weeks before Christmas. Condolences.
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Watch how quickly the ball gets where it's going in Fuente's offense. I'd imagine perfecting two protections gets the job done.
I honestly can't think of a bad one.