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I took my cousin (a UGA fan) to this game when I lived in Atlanta. They were all quiet after the first half, but obviously that changed.
Yep that wait in the MARTA station after the game with barking adult men was an experience.
Kaleb Spencer is OK... he's slow, doesn't have a burst at all.
Leg for the Bill Dance pull. I almost posted a similar Dance gif but couldn't bring myself to do so based on that god awful hat he is wearing. 😂😂
I like turkey legs and love posting funny gifs, however that was a bridge too far 😂
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Neither are Aiden Greene's... lets hope he improves.
so you don't get it confused with CU Denver or CU Colorado Springs? You know, the other major football brands in the state.
Wasn't Lane the Head Coach IIRC? Gave him the family discount.
I never really thought so. I think that would have been a very poor hire overall. Just not enough college coaching/recruiting experience. Again take the name and former Hokie status off the resume, and people would be outraged at that hire.
Yea, I agree.
There were significant number of people that thought the hire of Sorensen for DC was strange and premature. He really doesn't have that long history of coaching. His first major position job was in 2017 as secondary coach for 4 years in Seattle (with Kam Chancellor). In 2021, he was special teams coordinator for 1 year (with Tyler Bowen). Then went to SF and had the following titles: Defensive Assistant in 2022; Defensive pass game specialist & nickels coach in 2023; and Defensive Coordinator in 2024.
He's a jack-of-all-trades defensive and special teams coach, but never really held down a position coaching job except for in Seattle for 4 years.
And I'm not against hiring Sorensen, but I don't have the same enthusiasm as others on here do. And I don't think there is another top-level P4 school that would really consider hiring him as DC because he really hasn't proven he's DC material and has zero college experience. I would imagine most outside of the Hokieverse would see it as a weird hire.
I do think it would be an interesting tidbit to have two coordinators that coached on the 2021 Jaguars fiasco with Urban Meyer.
The Sean Glennon INT bowl is the exact reason that I hate Georgia fans. Holy shit I wanted to disappear some of those people in the 2nd half.
Monte Kiffin at Tennessee, they got beat by the hokies in a bowl game.
Yeah that's true. Even among the LBs, Star seems like it might have fit him a bit better. I can't remember if Pry/Marve ever tried him there. But he played multiple positions between offense and defense and nothing ever stuck for him. I think ultimately he is a better athlete than he is football player. If he had a calling to be an elite player at some position at the P4 level, somebody would've found it by now.
On that note, Pene turning into a serviceable DL is an underappreciated coaching job and kudos to him for sticking to it. I would have bet a down payment after 2022 that he needed to be a "hard conversation".
This is all fair but in the world of recruiting if you've already got an in with the immediate recruiting area then you can spend time building relationships further from that area. Everyone in VAHS knows an respects Dex....you bring in a guy from Montana and it's more of a hill to establish those initial relationships.
In the world of scheming and play calling I agree with everything you said, we have no real idea if Dex's play calling will cut it. ASFAIK he only was calling plays at UCONN nearly a decade ago, does he have what it takes to be the guy at VT? I hope we get to find out
it was also a staff that was trying to get somethinganything to stick on defense -- remember when Wilf Pene was a tight end? Keli Lawson was a WR? They recruited a bunch of athletes who were hella rough and undefined as football players and then tried to port them directly into positions of need and it didnt work
Torrian Gray was a jumpscare for me. we're still talking about him?????
But hiring Todd Washington, an unemployed former assistant position coach would have been a home run?
Im not a violent person, but If I encountered a grown man pretending to be a dog on a leash barking at me because his life evolves around UGA football, I'd punch him in his fucking face. Society failed you bro... seriously.
Not knocking Sorensen whatsoever, but he has only been a coordinator for one season (this year) and is being demoted. That doesn't scream "super respected NFL coordinator." Frankly, if you took away the fact that he's a former Hokie, this hire would be seen as very random/weird. Zero college coaching experience/recruting experience either.
I moved to the Great Commonwealth of Virginia when I was 8 to live with my dad in Fredericksburg. I stayed there until after i graduated VT. I love Virginia. It's a great state, a magical place. Having said that- the "virginia" thing with regards to everything encapsulating the VT program is fucking overrated. We aren't winning. If we actually signed the top 5 players in virginia every year I would shut up. But we don't, so can we let go of that a little bit?? please? Can poindexter actually coordinate a defense that can get critical stops? If so, who gives a fuck state he is from? If the logic is the glory days of VT were coached by a virginian with great virginia players, those days are over. We are losing to ODU and Liberty now.
This. Hiring a DC that has coached in a recent Super Bowl would be an absolute coup. Big swinging dick move.
Can you think of a CFB program that has done something similar in the last decade? I can't. Because it doesn't happen.
All you had to do was watch ESPN Gameday a few times last season, or have attended the Sean Glennon INT bowl, to know that Georgia is rated at way too low a spot on that list.
1) Anthony Poindexter- Virginia ties, great recruiter, been passed up twice for the DC job at PSU (although for two well regarded DCs in Mario Diaz and Tom Allen). Negative, limited DC experience
Tell me more about this Mario Diaz guy /s
If Whit/VT could hire Nick Fucking Sorensen- a super respected NFL coordinator who has coached multiple positions- we should throw a fucking parade. That hire would have a huge impact. An NFL DC? you fucking kidding me? this is not Tyler Bowen or Todd Washington.
I don't disagree that others might be found or are already there that can do components of his game but there is a lot to be said about having the flexibility of a Swiss-Army type player that did so much so well.
(After re-reading your opening two sentences, I guess we may be saying the same thing.)