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Been 24 hours now. Any rumors or leads on potential candidates?
Everything looks like this could be a great hire.
Well sounds like he understands functional strength over beach build.
RIP Gunny.
Something about that guy makes me think he crinkles water bottles. Loudly.
I don't think Loeffler could communicate what was in his brain to get anybody else to understand what he wanted them to do. I think he knew it, but he couldn't teach it.
Also, just to give you a hard time, is doing Skoal kind of like taking pot?
In another universe where Fuente didn't run VT football into the ground and spent the last 10 years successfully coordinating offenses somewhere else, I could get behind it. Knowing what I know now, no way. Absolutely not.
Embrace the suck!
"I'd bring Stiney back ..."
Not that I dislike him personally or think he is a bad human being or anything like that. But good God no! I don't ever want to see him having anything to do with our offense again. Even if his main focus were recruiting, which as Bar noted above seems far from a strength at this point in time.
That dude could ball. 2001 bowl game where they came back from 38-8 halftime against ECU he was slinging it. Outside of Keenan Thompson he's my #1 choice for live action Fat Albert.
his time at Camp Lejeune
I wasn't clear, Loeffler never seem like he watched tape of our opponents
Training Marine Special Operators... Our guys are going to get lessons on building practical strength and endurance that they might not enjoy.
I think last time Byron was here was when he was QB for Marshall. We had a dickens of a time stopping him slinging the ball, and they couldn't slow down our offense.
I appreciated the effort that he put in while here and an happy that he is elsewhere succeeding now.
In regard to the moving thing. The average tenure of P4 OC is 2 years. (I should find the source for that stat, but that's what I remember.) I think any big-name OC can reasonably expect 2 years, and should get a 2-year or 3-year contract (depending on how experienced). Pry hiring a big-name OC would buy him 2 years (unless 2025 implodes).
Would a Dave Clawson want to stay retired for fear of a 2-year stint? If he wants to coach, I doubt he would be super concerned. He probably still lives in Western NC and has grown kids. He could even feasibly never "move out" of his home and just get a second home in the NRV, and easily transit between the 2.
For others like Moorhead and Rahne, there are more considerations, but if they want to get back to P4 OC, 2 years in Blacksburg would be expected. Moorhead spent 4 years at Fordham (HC), 2 years at PSU (OC), 3 years at MSU (HC), 2 years in Eugene (OC), and currently at 3 years at Akron (HC). Rahne has been much less nomadic, but his OC stint was also only 2 years.
while I get the conspiracy theory that Pry is a lame duck and no one wants to come here,
It's going to be a deterrent for some coaches, but absolutely not all.
I also don't know why people think the DC search went poorly. Did they miss on anyone that ultimately didn't get a better pay or position?
I agree. I think it's pretty obvious that she wasn't our first choice, but I think it's also pretty obvious he was in our top 3-5. I don't think it went poorly.
And the hot-seat issue does not affect any "big-name" coordinator that would come here. They all have their own track record that stands on their own.
This part, I do disagree with. like I said it's notp all coaches, but many coaches (or at least coaches wives/families) don't want to move someplace just to have to move again in one year if they can avoid it.
per his wiki he was OC + WR, then Co-OC + WR, and now OC + WR again
Loeffler couldn't see the forest for the trees. He would get really hung up on certain concepts or formations (remember an interview with Shane where he said he came into the office early one morning and Loeffler had been up all night doing skoal and watching footage of the 49ers run game), but he couldn't put any of those great concepts together into a coherent offense.
Hire him!!
Guy looks like a straight out quarterback whisperer. What could go wrong?
Byron Leftwich is intriguing to me, but I'd need him to say "Hey Hey Hey" at least once a game.
Loeffler watched tape. Probably too much of it. Problem is he was playing Axis and Allies, when our players were a checkers level.
If my time in South Bend and Eastern Tennesse taught me anything, it's that fans complaining may be the very foundation upon which college football exits. We aren't special in that regard.