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Even moreso if we are moving to a 3-high safety defense. Based on some quick reading last night, that middle safety especially really needs to know what they're doing.
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#f*@ckYouACC
Maybe a good hire, maybe not. I'm not even gonna try and speculate. Bring on baby beams and those arcade chickens and let Sam show us what he can do.
I thought it was the World Poker Tour
Definitely- a teammate on my league pool team developed pneumonia complications from flu and was hospitalized and died within just 1-2 weeks(heart stopped and couldn't restart it). He was only 52 years old too.
Cocaine is one he'll of a drug
STRANGER IN THE ALPS
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# | VT Officially announces Sam Siefkes as Defensive Coordinator The Flu this year has been brutal. It hit me like a Mack truck yesterday, high fever and major chills the whole day. No real breathing or sinus issues with what I had but that fatigued feeling with the fever was the sickest I have been in a while.
At the collegiate level, Siefkes built a reputation for coaching elite defenses. As a collegiate coordinator at Wofford (2018-2020), his defense ranked first in total defense and rushing defense two years in a row, leading the program to consecutive Southern Conference Championships and FCS playoff appearances.
Ah there it is, the traditional VT coach's pipeline - Wofford.
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# | VT Officially announces Sam Siefkes as Defensive Coordinator I have yet to find out his Cake/Pie allegiance for instance.
Dex really needs to get some significant coordinator experience under his belt before an HC job.
Does he? Shane Beamer, Sam Pittman, Brian Kelly, Urban Meyer, Dabo, Cristobal, and many others have all been (relatively) successful HCs without ever being play callers.
Dex really needs to get some significant coordinator experience under his belt before an HC job. I know he's a great coach and widely respected in VA, but I can see why UVA went with Elliott over him last time since he was a really strong OC for years at Clemson. Dex only has three years of DC experience from UConn which wasn't great, and has been a co-DC for years since but no playcalling or overall coordination involvement. I like Dex and was interested in him as our DC, but I totally could acknowledge the risk.
But yeah...Huff at UVA would be scary. He's a very good coach and very, very good recruiter. I think he would be a nightmare situation at UVA. Dex I could see having a big learning curve being a first-time HC.
My understanding is that Bud would have to coach Linebackers to do things that were not instinctual (that's one of the reasons we could never land a big time recruit at that spot), but other than that, the scheme was pretty simple to pick up. Players had to get really good at their job, and trust that teammates were also good at their jobs.
I think it's a talent issue - Defensive talent has been down since 2017. Even the 2019 defensive roster was better than anything Pry has had since arriving at VT.
Now, I obviously believe that despite being less talented, the Marve defenses have underachieved. Still lots of room for improvement. But I don't think the scheme being complex is the issue.
I try not to compare the two because so much in college football has changed in 30yrs, but the parallels between last season and the 1992 season are hard to ignore.
Oh, yeah, it was no good. And it was not a situation you'd expect to see replicated. The end of the season was a mess in Huntington though.
The Huff thing was wild though. He complained to the press that Marshall didn't have enough NIL support, then the Administration/Boosters got offended and he had to apologize. Bridges were burned.
People are talking about Poindexter going back to UVA, but I'd be more afraid of Huff going there. I think he's a good coach.
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# | VT Officially announces Sam Siefkes as Defensive Coordinator It's all good, he was discharged late in the evening, just hooked up to oxygen at home and has some people stopping by every day just to check on him til the weekend
You want a hot take? Everyone in Severance is already dead. Lumon brought them back to life.
Damn, best wishes to your family, man
Charles Huff at Marshall this year. He then left at the end of the season, their whole team transferred and they had to drop out of a bowl game.
I've been thinking for quite some time, that Bud's scheme and adjustments always had a steeper learning curve than the average college defensive scheme. In today's game, with transfers and NIL, you just don't always have the time that Bud had to develop many of his star defenders. You need your best athletes to fit right into the scheme and pick it up quickly. So I think it'll be focused on a scheme that has the gap/fit flavors of Bud and Pry, but Siefkes bringing his experience coaching and teaching a wider variety to help expediate the learning curve and simplify things.
The fact that so many of the press release quotes mentioned "teacher(ing)" has me thinking this is the focus. I think it'll be a blend of things. Ideally, in this age...you have a scheme where it is easy to learn the first 85% and that is enough to go out and have a servicable defense that can win some games and allows players to play fast. And the remaining 15% that takes a little bit longer to learn and incorporate enhances the defense in ways that make it tough to attack and plan against and that focuses on generating pressure and turnovers and confusion for the quarterback.
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# | Report: VT Targets Arizona Cardinals LB Coach Sam Siefkes as DC Especially since his apparent reason for leaving OSU was he didn't have autonomy of the defense
Yeah I 100% agree here. Since it is plainly obvious at this point that we don't have the cash to compete for hires/recruits on a P2 level, I've been thinking lately that VT has to hire the best innovative/schematic coaches it can for its budget. They may not be big household names, but identify really good coaches at the lower levels or NFL positional coaches who want to make the jump. If they hit and are really good, we may not be able to retain them long term. But that has to be our strategy at this point.
JMU has continually reloaded with great coaches year after year. We need to see if we can emulate some of that.
mean, Marve was supposed to be cerebral (so innovative?).
Although Marve was an intellectual, he was brought in to be groomed and developed to be Pry 2.0. So I don't know how innovative he was supposed to be in terms of developing novel schemes. It seems Siefkes may be hired to be his own DC, working. alongside Pry and Bud, and bring in his own defense or at lear his own wrinkles. Idk, I guess we'll see.
I agree – when your program building (or business building) you have to always ask yourself "what's your unfair advantage?"
Do you have more money? Is there something about your program or your brand that's incredibly attractive? Do you run something that's super innovative?
You look at how Beamer one here, it was by innovating on special teams. You could say that Beamer was to special teams with Chip Kelly was to offense.
That's where I immediately went to. Ariens probably knows this guy. Pry mentioned getting help from Ariens. This may be him watching young guys and getting him experience at a DC/play caller level with VT.