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This!!^^^ 1000%
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That is coaching.
Agree with all of that except this part. If he genuinely does not care, no amount of coaching can change that, and the coaches should make way for the next man up.
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Exactly.
"Exhibit A"
I think you need to have both. I fully believe that a great coach can elevate mediocre talent. I also believe that supreme talent can mask poor coaching (I think this was the case for our offense from about 2008 through 2011). That said, if I had to choose between which I could have, Talent vs Great Coach, I'll take the talent this day in age. We need some wins and talent gets you some wins. Right now, we have mid coaches and mid talent. That's why we're a mid team that wins 5 or 6 games every year for the last decade.
A bad coach can win with great players, but a great coach cannot win with bad players.
You give Dabo the budget to go big dick swinging on the recruiting trail and he wins a couple Nattys and runs the world in the ACC for 15 years. You give one of the all time greatest coaches in the game UNCs roster, and they get ass blasted by an unranked team at home on national tv.
If ever there was a moment where our own BoV and AD should know exactly where we should invest our money, it should have been watching UNC get trashed.
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To me this is the best way to spend money and everyone involved to work their ass off to gain the best possible outcome on the field. At the end of his contract, then decide to renew or move on. No buy out.
VT isn't old school recruiting anymore. Pry has hired experienced coordinators. He should continue to improve his staff at all times. I think we may witness the biggest improvement next season and will be higher on the Pry experiment after this season.
And his son is the DC.....
Man, that D is .... Bad...
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That's very interesting. I also think this weekend is a must win, currently winless against non-con P4 teams. That will be pretty damaging if he can't beat Vandy at home.
I don't think its necessarily one or the other.
Plus, I think when we're talking about "great coaches" we need to do a deeper dive into the entire Staff.
2 Lombardi's - including the GM that brought "70 new players" (most of whom look like they belong in FCS) and 3 Belichicks.
When you construct a Staff on nepotism, you're not exactly maximizing your potential.
"You guys keep talking about a 20 million dollar roster. If you don't pay the right guys, you'll be shit out of luck."
- Nick Saban
Everything I have heard out of the athletic department rumor mill was he is gone if he doesn't win 7. That was from before the pitch, and I don't realistically think anything has changed.
Do we know if he still can coach? I did not see any of the game or hear interviews with Coach B. Not asking as a challenge or disagreement, but as an honest question of do we think he can still coach? He's made some, how shall I phrase this, 'questionable' decisions recently. Having seen my own mom go downhill and my own mother-in-law before they each passed away, some people are just not all there at his age.
If he has lost a lot of his mental capabilities (which, again, I don't know) then I really do feel sorry for him and his family. Seems like the gold digger is just taking advantage of someone that used to be great and stealing what should be his career legacy and maybe financial legacy that should go to his family or maybe causes he would believe in donating to. I hope people don't celebrate if he is going mentally downhill. Would we want our father or grandfather to go through this?
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These days, you need both.
Then again, you always did. The tools are a little different now.
I'd rather spend more money paying players than buying Pry out. His latest round of coaching hires were an improvement, and the program overall seems to be improving. Just not as fast as we'd like.
It's not really newsworthy. More of a footnote, really.
It should just be a reminder that VT can't take any games for granted. It's just where VT is as a program.
Yet we're only getting 2.5. That should tell everyone something. This is not going to be a pretty or easy game for VT.