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When were they team mates? Or is anyone that played with Dwight, Mike, or Marcus a Vick teammate?
So the thing about both guys are that they are known for using their personnel and not being tied to scheme.
This seems like the old school he'd beat you will his guys and then take your guys and best his guys with them mindset.
I don't know how well whole sale changing the scheme will work year to year at the P+2 level. Sure OSU has the guys that could do that, but watching Hamilton have a defense that wasn't a bad match of two scheme I'm not sure it works well. Our guys barely know where to run as it is, change it up every year and it might be bad. Or they desgin the O and D so that everyone knows what to do innately.
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Who are all these "skill guys" that are supposedly leaving via spring portal dc keeps referring to?
There were just so many known quantities at OC that were seemingly in our price range and even though I knew it was coming I'm still disappointed we went with none of them.
Midvale School for the Gifted is probably my second favorite Far Side. #1 is the scientists in the lab jumping for joy as the ice cream truck drives up. This is so biographical for me.
And in other Hokie alumni news, former Vick teammate and quarterback Bryan Randall was just announced to join William and Mary as their new quarterback coach!
Funny, as somebody pointed out above, I remember reading the article Feldman wrote for The Athletic on Taylor/William & Mary in 2023 and thought that Pry should hire this dude.
Just went to the article link again. The third comment was 'Maybe Brent Pry and the VT offensive staff should drive over to William and Mary and get a clinic scheduled..."
Confirmed: Pry reads sports website comments!
Doesn't appear to be the case.
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That's 2023 AFCA National FCS Assistant Coach of the Year Christian Taylor to you!
I don't know how to break it to you, but the program was in the shitter before that.
Fuente just didn't succeed in getting us out. Yeah, we got a death rattle in his first year and it looked like success, but it was fool's gold.
As much as some fans and alumni might want it differently, Whit has an ice cold seat. If Pry doesn't win 7 games this year, Whit will be interviewing and selecting the new coach.
I disagree with you somewhat on this. Our program went in the shitter when Whit Babcock was hired.
"I want us to not get our ass kicked up and down the field by Pitt or lose to Syracuse in that hell hole of a stadium they have"
Especially in the cut throat pay for play recruiting world - which is where you get actual good players.
You keep ping ponging back and forth in every thread between two opposing ideas:
1. Its immoral to prioritize spending all this money on coaches and players. CFB has turned into an abomination.
2. VT refuses to be serious about winning games because we refuse (implying that we have the money and just don't want to) to spend enough money to hire A list coaches and 4-5 start players.
To quote Ryan Gosling....What do you want??
Hey I am good with innovative as well. And if hired he will be one of us and we will circle the wagons, however is innovative just a code word for "hasn't done it at this level"? Kind of like how you see a bunch of town signs saying Historic (fill in name of town) and it is just a code word for "old and nothing going on".
i dont think he gains much time -- the cynic in me sees these as "well at lease the buyout is cheap when we clean house" hires.
Defensive QC is just self-scouting. He's looking at defensive scheme and telling coaches "this is how i would attack what you're doing"
At San Diego State the running game averaged 2500 yards per season when he was running back coach.
As receivers coach in 2016-17 they averaged 2000 yards per season.
As QB coach, they averaged 2500 passing yards per year.
As OC, they put up 4400 yards in 2019.
Michigan (2011) Offensive assistant
Danny Coale caught that ball
All of the coordinator hires under Pry have seemed unnecessarily high risk. Sure, there are things you can point to as reasons for hope, and as a fan it'll be exciting and interesting to watch how these new schemes work out, but it's really hard for me to understand why Pry or Whit would want to take these kind of risks with their careers and a large fraction of the economy of the region depending on it when there appear to have been several safer options. Feels a bit like investing your life savings in start ups hoping to get rich when you have enough to live comfortably off of the average return from the S&P 500. Obviously I'll be hoping for the best but if next season doesn't go well these hires are going to be very easy to criticize and at that point I'm not sure what Pry or Whit would be able to do salvage the narrative.
Yeah, I like them.
High risk high reward type stuff. Not more of the same old....
Well, now you have my attention!