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Why would a bunch of skill guys leave next window?
Also this deadman walking thing is silly. Assistants aren't afraid of that. John David Baker, who was in the top group with Taylor, went from Ole Miss to ECU last year and his head coach was hired halfway through the season
Good- I think we should take maryland's basketball approach. Mark Turgeon was a pretty good coach- that's not good enough at MD. So they canned his ass. I say we raise the bar even higher for Pry- no fucking excuses. Unless you think 6-6 is good enough for VT football.
13-0 baby! Yeah!
Well of course. The SWAC champ with a NET of 321 will get in if they win the SWAC tourney. That's how this works.
Ssshhhhh
Yep, the losses to Syracuse and uvalol at home will keep them out of the tournament now, unless they finish strong and win a couple games in the acc tourney. Need to stay out of the 8/9 slot, which is at best one and done.
Last I heard from my sauce inside the department (was before OC left) was that Pry had to win 7 games or he was gone.
Hurley at UCONN is also an ass.
When Young gets the right players, they would die for him on the court.
If they win the tourney the numbers don't matter. Regardless, for a cobbled together team with a new coach to Tech they have done well. A couple of close losses to good teams, but more worryingly was the bad losses to bad teams.
At the end of the day, these hires to me signify that Pry has been given assurances he is here past next year. There was - literally- no urgency with the DC hire- none, and we settled for a guy only his family knows. There was no urgency when Bowen left either it seems. This screams that Pry knows he's not getting canned and can take a flier on guys he hopes works out 2 years from now. That's what I see here.
Yeah that's the flip side of what a lot of people are pointing to as an upside of both of these hires. They've run multiple schemes and fit schemes to the players they have which is great for quick success but are we going to be able to settle into an identity and recruit to it in the long run (big assumption that the staff has a long run)
"I'm not sure our roster is worse" - I am sure of it - 100%. We had 5 guys at the senior bowl/invited to the combine and multiple guys portal to the SEC. We have - not that- coming in from the portal.
I have what he is drinkin' but make it a double
If Beamer ran the exact offense post Vick that Harbaugh ran at the end with Michigan with McCarthy and that line - 1. Beams would have been happier than a pig in shit, and 2. He would have won a natty with some of Bud's defenses. That is what he wanted- power football, good QB that doesn't make mistakes. Harbaugh won with that offense in the modern game, he beat Saban with that offense in a very conservative gameplan. If Pry wants that, he MUST recruit accordingly. anything else is throwing spaghetti against the wall. If Pry wants a spread air raid... cool. Same thing applies- WRs that caught a ton of balls in HS, a QB that ran it in HS, an OL coach and OC that are on the same page, etc. We have been a hodgepoge for way too long
Translation: It's okay, because it's the offseason. But if you're late with your analyses during the season, I will rage.
;^)
It's fascinating to examine top level college basketball coaches the past 40 years. The 2 most successful were the absolute most task master asshole types- Coach K and Knight. You won't meet a bigger asshole bully than Jim Calhoun as another example. John Thompson literally would not let his players talk to the media until they were juniors. That is one- and arguably - the best way to build a program- even today. Find guys that want to be coached hard or can handle criticism. If they are good enough at basketball, they will always be tougher than the opponent. To contrast that, absolute clown player coaches like Bill Self and Calipari (who is tough on players for about a week, then backs off) have also won championships. Going further back in history, Tark and Guy Lewis were notorious player coaches that had different rules for stars, etc. I think it boils down to finding actual good players that also fit your coaching. Roy Williams was kind of a mix- he was soft and cuddly with his guys most of the time, but he would get on your ass for not hustling or playing Carolina ball. I think for CMY to win more games here in the ACC than he loses, he needs to find the right guys - tough guys - for his system. He's old school.
Yeah we could easily run a pass heavy or run heavy offense and skew the total offense stat a lot. If we run the ball every play and average 200 yards per game but control the clock and win thats a success to me. Like you said situational football and the only stat that matters number of wins.
Some court just ruled that schools don't pay NIL- it's separate of course and based on market. So I don't know what is holding Mike Young back there, since VT has nothing to do with paying NIL- its all the individual player. According to a judge. lolololololololololololol.
I would love the athletics department to flip the script this offseason: reward MBB & WBB for doing more with less by giving them more than their share of the financial resources for '25-26, and keep the purse strings tight on football...challenge them to show they can do something with less. Football took a lion's share last season and produced something between a tightly-coiled pile and "meh".
Well the SP+, pre-bowl, has VT at 24th with the 33rf best offense and 37th best defense. (35th ST).... this alone is why you should never look at that stat again, especially if you like to bet on sports. Save your money.
Yeah I think both of them will be graded purely on the eye test unless they're miraculously top 10 in some big metrics.
I think total offense is a -decent- indicator to winning. Yes. If we are top 30-40 at VT in offense in that stat, we throw parades and give extensions.
Which is fair there isn't one good way to look at this. For a non-advanced stats I would use scoring which we were 67th. A FG more a game makes us 40th. And if you pair that with total yards and we are still 88th then you know the DC is good too because we are getting more points with less yards so most likely short fields.
Taylor was a hot OC name a couple years ago. Almost landed the OC job at Miami that ended up going to Gattis. The Athletic wrote a feature piece on his offenses. Just because YOU haven't heard of him doesn't mean he isn't well regarded