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did someone steal the lights bulbs?

I'm all for delegating, but I hope Pry isn't pondering the majority of the things you listed while in the final minutes of the game! I'm just picturing him looking at the clock ticking down and wondering about the current recruiting budget. Gave me a good laugh.

In the end, sounds like he is surrounded by duds on the staff.

CK Special nymph or something similar. Dismal creek in Giles/Bland can be interesting. Wherever, personally I'd be fishing a nymph.

Typically, yes, the HC owns clock management. But Being a head coach has become such an all encompassing role - managing budget, game strategy, practice, recruiting, re-recruiting your roster, shmoozing donors, etc. The job is too big for one person. You gotta delegate something(s).

Go to little stoney creek at the cascades. Brook trout willing to hit dry flies (I don't think it's too late especially if it's warm next week?). Caddis and adams were the two dries that always produced but it's been a while since I fished there regularly... Caught a lot of nice brook trout on tiny red midges as a dropper too. There are also wild rainbows in the stream. You can fish as soon as you get to the parking lot. Or you can hike up a bit and start fishing. Always caught more/larger rainbows downstream and more/larger brook trout upstream.
This guy does a great write up:
https://flyfishingswva.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/little-stony-creek-giles...
Little Stoney is where I really learned to fly fish. I rarely ever saw anyone else fishing even though there were always so many people there to hike.
Also, I think they finally now have a credit card machine and it's still $3 to park.

I appreciate what JC did for the program after Fuente deuced by beating UVA, keeping our recruiting class from being 0 players, etc. I think if a new DC comes in, he's likely on the market for a spot in the G5 or smaller P4 school.

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Very true. But I also think he can demonstrate some introspection and growth by replacing his protégé with someone experienced.

Bottom line is that the team has underperformed this year, and often in maddening fashion. It would be insanity to run it back next year with the same staff and a less-talented roster and expect that formula will somehow produce better results. Some kind of change is needed. To me, at the minimum that's replacing Marve and some/all of his assistants. But I think the more extreme limits of what have been proposed on here could be justified. The in-game coaching has been so bad that it wouldn't be unreasonable to let Pry go. And if that's the answer then Whit shouldn't get the chance to hire a third FB coach.

that's what really concerns me. I think Pry can earn a mulligan by making coaching changes. But if he doesn't, for me, that will seal his fate as HC with no clue. He has looked like an absolute clown at the end of just about every half of football we've played this year. If he's doing it himself, he needs to seriously consider hiring someone who can manage that side of things and make him look good. If he's already hired someone to do that, he either needs to listen to that person or fire them and replace them with someone who can do better.

At the end of the day Pry is responsible for putting a competitive football team on the field and he's failed in many respects. Everything we've seen to this point suggests that he's not right for the job. If we go into 2025 with largely the same mix of coaches as we have on staff right now that will only confirm that he has no clue.

This is Pry's year to save face. Fire Marve, hire some time-management assistants, help Bowen find a better OL coach and I'll shut up and listen for another season or two. Maintain the status quo and I'm checked out on the Pry era because it'll end like Fuente's.

It's actually incredibly eerily similar to Fuente's tenure. Fuente was an "offensive minded" "QB whisperer" who came in and immediately improved our offense (through the help of some transfers) before nose-diving off a cliff. By the end of year 3 it was clear that his OC had no f-ing clue and needed to be fired and replaced by someone who knew what he was doing and we didn't have a single QB worth anything on the roster. Pry came in as a "defensive minded" "LB expert" and our defense was immediately better in his first year than it was under Hamilton. Fast forward to the end of year 3 and it's clear his DC has no f-ing clue and needs to be fired and replaced by someone who knows what he's doing and we don't have any real LBs on this team. The parallels are kinda scary.

In 2018 I said Fuente could save face by firing Corny and starting fresh on offense. He didn't and ultimately he ended up failing badly. I'm now saying exactly the same thing of Pry/Marve. Let's see if he's cunning enough to learn from his predecessors mistakes.

Good.

He's a quality sports writer.

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