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There is some truth to that. The alma mater is an early boost, for sure.
However, if you're smart and work hard, doors open, regardless of the alma mater. There is always room at the top.
Locksley has superior connections in the DMV. He knows every AAU coach there personally. He is going to land blue chip kids from DC/MD based on relationships alone. He can and does walk into living rooms and tell kids parents that he grew up where they did and he can relate to them. The B1G is no joke though and big business- pardon the pun. Locksley better win next year or he is out of there.
Ahhh, another hockey fan, right?
This is correct. Pry has rebuilt relationships in VA, and is more personable than Fu. Pry has added recruiting resources and the floor is improved. But having "solid" HS recruits and not total busts gets you back to back 6-6 seasons- it makes sense if you think about it. We have mid HS recruits- not bad ones- and we have mid results. If you want to win 9-10 games eventually- and there is no way around this- you have to sign better players- more 4 stars, more interior lineman that are better than what you have, etc. 12-12 the past 24 regular season games doesn't lie.
It was probably easier to raise the floor than the ceiling
Absolutely - by definition, there's only 32 five-star recruits and under 470 four-star recruits each year, so it's easier to raise the floor.
If you want to see someone who's done the opposite, look no further than Mike Locksley at MD - dude gets 2-6 blue chip recruits each year, and then the bottom of the barrel everywhere else.
And some of them OL folks.
Yeaaa... the thing about OL is that it's the position that's hardest to accurate grade out of high school and the position with the most potential for development... that means that it's the only place we can really out-scout recruiting services or be better at developing than other teams. But we need to get the right people (players and coaches) to do that.
OK, OK, it's easy to make fun of him, but he's a competitor. And I wish him well.
Somewhere ELSE.
I agree with all of this.
It was probably easier to raise the floor than the ceiling, and I'm glad Pry was focused, but we do need to get some of them blue chippers. And some of them OL folks. Again, I know it's hard, but this is the job.
Funny, every time I start one of these comments, it ends up being advice to Pry.
let's give our own portal entrants their own threads
Did anyone see this from Dwight Vick yesterday? I noticed that French reposted it. Interesting prospect for sure
https://x.com/vick757/status/1863741214584967641
None of you will ever convince me that Adam Dolan, transferring from Butler, is an actual college football player, and not the beat writer for the sports page of your local newspaper
https://247sports.com/player/adam-dolan-46153817/college-325253/
Think you misread where I said scheme and LB play.
Pavia, Earle, Henicle, Kalikmanis, Ward, Lamson, Castellanos, Philo, Mccord, Klubnik, Murphy, Muskett
Half of those guys were so bad they weren't starters or ended up being benched. Ward is probably the only "good" thrower on the list with McCord and Klubnik maybe Pavia next and then its literally nobody. I'm not putting any weight into our passing defense when this is the list of opposing QBs.
5 teams on our schedule had a positive EPA on drop back plays. 1 of them was GT which didn't with Philo. The others were Vandy - L, Rutgers - L, Clemson - L, and Syracuse - L.
I get the logic (though UVA did score on their previous possession); you are winning and have momentum, let's make this half last as long as possible.
But you also need to give Elliot a couple seconds to show a card. Is he going to wait to see if he can get a first down before using his TO's, or is he going to stop the clock and accomplish the same thing? There's 1:42 left at that point; Pry could afford a few seconds to find out.
If we didn't allow 200 completions maybe because our opponents threw less because there were fewer possession which mean fewer plays for both sides. and you don't limit possessions by being pass happy. However looking at data, we were 71st in opp pass attempts so didn't look like my hypothesis was correct
Haha! Leg. This is why I TKP, all the unexpected laughs I get.
I think you may be missing that this may be him getting while the getting is good type scenario, whether assisted by Pry in finding a landing spot or not. You don't want to be questioning the money or dream or something when the firing happens.
That's a reference to amount of opponent plays we defended against, unless your point is fewer possessions on our part should translate to more opponent possessions/plays per game, and still the pass completions were very low?
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Is Ricard playing defense now? As far as I know at DT in addition to Gilliam, Copeland, Perry and Laws, we have Hanchuck, Findlayter and Gerard Johnson.
That didn't work out so well for Oklahoma State. See Alan Bowman. My buddy is a huge OSU fan and if your dog was named Bowman, he would probably kick him.
Si.
I mean, yes. Consider him for other jobs.
I mean, I'm not the best at keeping track of this, but it seems like we come out in the second half and don't attack the line of scrimmage the way we do in the first half. We play our linebackers back some, a little cushion from our backfield, and just seem to play reactionary ball rather than trying to make stuff happen. It doesn't seem like an adjustment to what the offense did (since we often seem to have shut down what the offense was doing in the first), it just seems like we decide we're going to try playing a prevent defense to hold our lead, only it never has worked this year.
I can't blame the offense much. Bowen made adjustment for multiple quarterbacks and found things that work over the season. He had some bad games, but on average we scored at least 24 points.